Indiana University Bloomington
| Indiana University Bloomington | |
|---|---|
| motto | Lux et Veritas |
| founding | 1820 |
| Sponsorship | public |
| place | Bloomington |
| president | Michael McRobbie |
| Students | 43,710 (2017) |
| Employee | 2,149 (2014) |
| Annual budget | $ 2.229 billion (2017) |
| Networks | Association of American Universities |
| Website | www.iub.edu |
The Indiana University Bloomington (IUB), founded in 1820, is a state university in Bloomington in Indiana . In 2007, 38,990 students were enrolled.
The university is the most important location of the Indiana University System , which in addition to the main campus in Bloomington also has locations in Richmond , Kokomo , Gary , South Bend and New Albany . In Indianapolis and Fort Wayne there are joint locations with Purdue University .
The college is one of the best state universities in the USA and is home to the renowned faculties of the Kelley School of Business, Jacobs School of Music and the Maurer School of Law. It is a so-called Public Ivy and a member of the Association of American Universities , an association of leading research-intensive North American universities that has existed since 1900.
Sports
The university also has an abundance of sports teams, all bearing the Indiana Hoosiers name. The sports teams play in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and are incorporated into the Big Ten Conference . Sports on offer include: basketball, volleyball, football, baseball, soccer, athletics, golf, tennis, swimming and diving , rowing and many more. The IU basketball teams in particular are traditionally quite successful. Numerous swimming & diving titles have also been achieved in the history of the university.
Personalities
Professors
- Salvador Luria - molecular biologist, Nobel laureate Physiology / Medicine 1969
- Hermann Joseph Muller - geneticist, zoologist, Nobel laureate Physiology / Medicine 1946
- Elinor Ostrom - political scientist, Nobel Prize winner economics 2009
Other current and former professors / research assistants
- Ousseina Alidou - linguist
- Emil Artin - mathematician
- Peter Boerner - literary scholar and Goethe researcher
- Fritz Breithaupt - Germanist
- Robert Daniel Carmichael - mathematician and discoverer of the Carmichael numbers
- Frank K. Edmondson - astronomer
- Douglas Hofstadter - author
- David Starr Jordan - peace activist
- Hildegard Elisabeth Keller - Germanist and filmmaker
- Alfred Kinsey - sexologist, founder of sexology
- Daniel Kirkwood - astronomer
- Bob Knight - basketball coach
- Charles M. Reigeluth - educational researcher
- Fritz K. Ringer - historian
- Katrin Sieg - German theater scholar, author and university lecturer
- Jost Delbrück - German international lawyer
- BF Skinner - psychologist
- Sheldon Stryker - sociologist, social psychologist
- Diether Thimme - art historian and archaeologist
- Stith Thompson - English and folklorist , co-developer of the Aarne Thompson Index
- Violet Verdy - ballerina
- André Watts - pianist
- Max August Zorn - mathematician
Graduates
- James D. Watson - discoverer of the structure of DNA, Nobel Prize in Medicine / Physiology 1962
Arts and humanities
- Kenny Aronoff - drummer
- Joshua Bell - violinist
- Meg Cabot - author, The Princess Diaries
- David Chalmers - philosopher
- Suzanne Collins - author, The Hunger Games
- Robert Coover - author
- John M. Ford - poet and science fiction writer
- Ranveer Singh - Indian Bollywood actor
- Andreas Katsulas - actor
- Kevin Kline - Actor (Oscar Winner)
- Paul Michael Lützeler - literary scholar
- Daphne Marlatt - writer
- Lee Majors - actor (without degree)
- Kristin Merscher - pianist, university professor
- Jack Welpott - photographer
- Jerry Uelsmann - photographer
Politics / government
- Michael D. Higgins - Ninth President of Ireland
- Steve Driehaus - Member of the US House of Representatives
- Michael Badnarik - 2004 Libertarian Party presidential candidate
- Evan Bayh - Former Indiana Governor and US Senator
- Oksana Markarova , Ukrainian Finance Minister
- Paul O'Neill - Former Secretary of the Treasury
- Wendell Willkie - 1940 presidential candidate (Republican)
- Robert Gates - United States Secretary of Defense
- Nikiforos Diamandouros - European Ombudsman since 2003
- John Bessler , lawyer
economy
- John Chambers - Chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Mark Cuban - owner of the Dallas Mavericks
- Jimmy Wales - founder of Wikipedia
Science and technology
- Vesto Slipher - astronomer
- John T. Thompson - officer
- Reva Kay Williams - astrophysicist
- Dag Kittlaus - founder of Siri
ethics
- Donald Bagley Marquis - Professor at the University of Kansas
Sports
- Robert Hoernschemeyer - football player
- Pete Pihos - American football player
- Bob Zimny - football player
- Uwe Blab - basketball player
- Scott May - basketball player
- Victor Oladipo - basketball player
- Isiah Thomas - basketball player
- Eric Gordon - basketball player
- Cody Zeller - basketball player
Web links
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Official IU athletics site
- Campus map (PDF file; 306 kB)
- Chronology of Indiana University History
- Indiana University Factbook
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Indiana University Bloomington Welcomes Freshmen . Indiana University Bloomington. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
- ↑ US and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY2016 to FY2017 . National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund Institute. 2017.
- ^ Indiana University Athletics - Sports
- ↑ Stith Thompson short biography on the pages of Indiana University Bloomington ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 39 ° 10 ′ 36.5 ″ N , 86 ° 31 ′ 10.9 ″ W.