Celebrating the people who move IU forward
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Roberto Rodriguez 
Congratulations to Roberto Rodriguez on receiving a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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Rita Patel
Congratulations to Rita Patel for receiving a $3.7 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for research on paradoxical vocal fold motion.
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Christoph Irmscher and David Polly
Congratulations to Christoph Irmscher and David Polly for receiving fellowships from the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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Brea Perry, Bernice Pescosolido, and Kosali Simon
Congratulations to the leadership of the Irsay Institute on advancing research at the intersection of health and social sciences and improving people’s lives.
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Indiana Daily Student and Arbutus
Congratulations to the Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ journalists at the Indiana Daily Student and Arbutus yearbook on receiving awards at the National College Media Convention.
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AAAS Fellows
Congratulations to the IU Bloomington faculty members who were elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) 2025 fellows class.
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IU Debate Team
Congratulations to Indiana University’s debate team for winning a national title at the American Debate Association National Championship in March.
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Dana Habeeb
Congratulations to Dana Habeeb one receiving an award of over $310,000 for her ongoing work to help Indiana communities strengthen resilience to extreme heat.
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Distinguished Professors
Congratulations to our five IU Bloomington faculty members recently named Distinguished Professor appointees for 2026.
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Sarah Commodore 
Congratulations to Sarah Commodore on receiving a $2,167,000 award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
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Brian Yanites
Congratulations to Brian Yanites on receiving a $15 million award from the National Science Foundation to fund the Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH).
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Brad Fulton
Congratulations to Brad Fulton on receiving a $5 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to oversee research for a National Storytelling Initiative projects.
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Michael Wasserman
Congratulations to Michael Wasserman on receiving a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to trace pesticide exposure in Uganda.
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Jingjing Zhang
Congratulations to Jingjing Zhang on receiving the prestigious 2025 Mid-Career Award from the Association for Information Systems (AIS).
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Pete Kollbaum
Congratulations to Pete Kollbaum on receiving $442,000 in funding from CooperVision, one of the world’s largest contact lens manufacturers.
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Indiana University Football
Congratulations to Indiana University Football on winning the 2025–2026 College Football Playoff National Championship.
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Paige Andersson and Rachael Jones McAfee
Congratulations to Paige Andersson and Rachael Jones McAfee, who co-chaired the IU Bloomington Carnegie Steering Committee.
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Michel Chaouli
Congratulations to Michel Chaouli on his recent election to the esteemed German Academy for Language and Literature.
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Julia Kelson
Congratulations to Julia Kelson on receiving the Young Scientist Award—known as the Donath Medal—from the Geological Society of America.
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Jeremy Siek
Congratulations to Jeremy Siek on receiving a $449,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to protect data privacy in software.
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Philip Shushkov
Congratulations to Philip Shushkov on receiving a $700,000 National Science Foundation award.
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Monica Nesbitt
Congrats to Monica Nesbitt on receiving a $666,000 National Science Foundation grant to create the first digital atlas of African American Language (AAL).
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Kevin Zumbrun
Congratulations to Kevin Zumbrun on receiving the prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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Amar Flood
Congratulations to Amar Flood on receiving patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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Bernice Pescosolido
Congratulations to Bernice Pescosolido on being named the Jim Irsay Mental Health Champion by the Indianapolis Colts.
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Ore Koren
Congratulations to Ore Koren on receiving the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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Jacobs School of Music
Congrats to Dean Abra Bush and the Jacobs School of Music for their role in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay at the Metropolitan Opera of New York.
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Paul Wright
Congratulations to Paul Wright on his election this August to the American Psychological Association Fellows.
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Bridger Ehli
Congratulations to Bridger Ehli on receiving the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdocs from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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David Crandall
Congratulations to David Crandall on receiving a patent for the development of a depth estimation method to reconstruct 3D images.
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Roger Innes
Congratulations to Roger Innes on his election to the National Academy of Sciences as a member of its 2025 cohort.