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Eight new Jacobs Scholars and eight new Jacobs Fellows begin their studies this fall at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Selected from a large pool of incoming students, they are the recipients of the most prestigious and substantial scholarship awards in the school.
In a new book that Publishers Weekly says "puts a human face on Christian homeschooling," a professor at the Indiana University School of Education chronicles the stories of six conservative Christian families from across the country and analyzes the growing homeschooling movement.
Eighty-six Occidental students skipped the beach and Kerouac-style road trips this summer to spend 10 weeks doing research with faculty mentors on campus in disciplines ranging from biochemistry to literature to philosophy.
Did you know that the moment a raindrop hits surface water, the chemistry of the surface water changes?
Or that hosting a rodeo is so pricey, just the dirt can set you back $8,000?
Mixing personal experience with scientific research, Occidental College geology professor Donald R. Prothero's new book, "Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs," helps us better understand the human impact on global climate change by studying ancient environments, such as the greenhouse climates that prevailed during the reign of the dinosaurs.
