English alumna Lucy Lawrence (’21) believes good medicine begins with holding space for people’s stories. As she prepares to enter her first year of medical school, she shared why studying art and literature is an invaluable foundation for a career in healthcare.
Exploratory students in IU180 head to Red Feather Lakes to explore the natural world, relationships with others and themselves through a horse packing trip.
Sociology Professor Prabha Unnithan spent more than three decades researching the behavioral and theoretical aspects of criminal behavior and the criminal justice system.
The Department of English is delighted to announce award-winning journalist and acclaimed writer Vauhini Vara will join the faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor for the 2023-2024 academic year.
The author and poet had a very specific plan for how her Guggenheim Fellowship for her next book was going to go. Then 2020 happened and a new idea bloomed.
“My Communication Studies degree has really given me an edge when it comes to trial work,” Schenk says. “Some of my favorite classes were Studies in Persuasion and Advanced Public Speaking, which taught me both the psychology and practical skills behind being a great presenter. Understanding what persuasive techniques work and why, and appreciating the ethical implications behind our speech has given me a level of comfort in court and in front of juries that I know I wouldn’t have without my degree.”