Throughout my association with Indiana University Bloomington, I have always taken great pride in the campus’s place as an academic leader. The scholarship and accomplishments among members of the faculty and staff is to be admired and celebrated. To that end, this series will highlight the achievements of our colleagues.
When one of us earns recognition, it reflects positively upon that person, their home unit, the campus, and all of Indiana University. We all benefit from the success of our colleagues, and For the Glory provides us a place to celebrate achievements that place IUB among the top public universities in higher education.
-David A. Reingold, Chancellor
Paige Andersson and Rachael Jones McAfee
Please join me in congratulating Paige Andersson and Rachael Jones McAfee, who co-chaired the IU Bloomington Carnegie Steering Committee, creating the submission that led to IUB earning the 2026 Carnegie Community Engagement Classification.
Please join me in congratulating our Indiana University football team on winning the 2025–2026 College Football Playoff National Championship and bringing the trophy to Bloomington.
Please join me in congratulating Pete Kollbaum, professor and associate dean for research at the School of Optometry, on receiving $442,000 in funding from CooperVision, one of the world’s largest contact lens manufacturers with which he has partnered for nearly twenty years.
Please join me in congratulating Michel Chaouli, professor of Germanic studies and comparative literature in the College of Arts and Sciences, on his recent election to the esteemed German Academy for Language and Literature.
Please join me in congratulating Julia Kelson, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, on receiving the Young Scientist Award—known as the Donath Medal—from the Geological Society of America for her research on paleoclimate, carbon cycling, and stable isotope geochemistry.
Please join me in congratulating Jeremy Siek, professor of computer science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, on receiving a $449,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to protect data privacy in software.
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Please join me in congratulating Philip Shushkov, assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, on receiving a $700,000 National Science Foundation award for his project, “CAREER: Non-equilibrium Quantum Dynamics of Molecular Qubit Ensembles.”
Please join me in congratulating Monica Nesbitt, assistant professor of linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences, on receiving a $666,000 National Science Foundation grant to create the first digital atlas of African American Language (AAL).
Please join me in congratulating Kevin Zumbrun, distinguished professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences, on receiving the prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Please join me in congratulating Amar Flood, professor of chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, on receiving patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for his innovative work involving cyanostar molecules—ring-shaped molecules that bind well to charged particles.
Please join me in congratulating Bernice Pescosolido, distinguished professor of sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, on being named the inaugural Jim Irsay Mental Health Champion by the Indianapolis Colts and its Kicking the Stigma initiative.
Please join me in congratulating Ore Koren, associate professor of political science in the College of Arts and Sciences, on receiving the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.
Please join me in congratulating Dean Abra Bush and the Jacobs School of Music for their role in the performance of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay at the Metropolitan Opera of New York.
Congratulations to Paul Wright, Professor and Director of Communication Science in The Media School, on his election this August to the American Psychological Association Fellows.
Please join me in congratulating , assistant professor of philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences, on receiving the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdocs from the .
Please join me in congratulating David Crandall, Luddy Professor of Computer Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, on receiving a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the development of a depth estimation method to reconstruct 3D images.
Please join me in congratulating Roger Innes, Distinguished Professor of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, on his election to the National Academy of Sciences as a member of its 2025 cohort for his “distinguished and ongoing achievements in original research.”
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