Nate Feltman: Dolson-Cignetti partnership is rewriting IU football history
The Dolson–Cignetti partnership is far from complete, but it already stands as a case study in modern leadership.
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UPDATE: IU locks up football coach Cignetti with huge new contract
Under the new eight-year pact, Curt Cignetti becomes the third-highest-paid coach in college football, behind only Georgia’s Kirby Smart and Ohio State’s Ryan Day.
Cignetti taking business-as-usual approach as IU football reaches its highest ranking
Amazingly, with basketball season beckoning in Bloomington, around campus all anyone wants to talk about is football.
Retired IU faculty sue to restore involvement in university government
Recent changes to state law specify that only members of a faculty governance organization who are employed by a state educational institution can vote on pending matters and that these organizations are advisory only.
Former IU basketball player arrested on charges of fraud, theft in Hamilton County
The former Indiana University guard was arrested this week by the Carmel Police Department on one count each of theft and fraud of amounts between $750 and $50,000.
Nonprofit law firms could help address Indiana’s lawyer shortage
Students and faculty at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Kelley School of Business are testing a nonprofit law firm model that could help serve clients of modest means.
Indiana’s public universities report fall enrollment gains
But international student enrollment dropped more than 14% at Indiana and Purdue universities—the state’s two largest public university systems.
IU group among finalists for up to $160M to develop musculoskeletal health hub
The goal of the National Science Foundation’s Engines program is to grow regional innovation ecosystems.
At TEDSports, screenwriter Angelo Pizzo lauds the long shots
Thirty-two years after “Rudy,” Pizzo continues to praise the University of Notre Dame walk-on football player as an inspiration.
Big Ten university faculties push for defense compact against Trump
Several faculty and university senates have approved resolutions asking their leaders to sign a NATO-like agreement to pool resources in case President Donald Trump’s administration targets one of its members.
IU announces initiative studying health, performance of female athletes
The Female Sports Performance and Research Initiative, in partnership with Pacers Sports & Entertainment and the Indiana Sports Corp, aims to generate data to support evidence-based guidelines using women-centered research.
IU Indianapolis festival celebrates Ray Bradbury, stokes imagination
The name of Festival 451 Indy, which begins Saturday and runs until Oct. 5, is inspired by Bradbury’s best-known work, “Fahrenheit 451.”
IU med students get to work in new $230M education, research building
The 326,000-square-foot building is just south of the IU Neurosciences Research Center on 16th Street and next to Indiana University Health’s 864-bed, $4.3 billion downtown hospital complex.
IU, Cook Medical announce 5-year agreement to advance research and innovation
The IU Launch Accelerator for Biosciences, or IU LAB, based in Indianapolis, will serve as the coordinating organization for projects launched as part of the initiative.
IU Athletics inks $50M naming-rights deal with Carmel-based bank for Memorial Stadium
The sponsorship deal will put the bank’s name on Memorial Stadium’s playing field for the next two decades, IU and bank officials announced Thursday.
IU lands $16.5M grant to advance Alzheimer’s research using 3D brain modeling
The grant will fund a new center at the medical school which will be one of only two in the U.S. dedicated to developing stem-cell-based models of the brain to better understand Alzheimer’s disease.
Mark Montieth: Sportswriter Bob Hammel wasn’t a paragon of objectivity, but he remained true to his kind nature
Bob Hammel might qualify as the biggest homer of all sportswriters in Indiana, if not beyond, during his 30 years as sports editor of the Bloomington Herald-Times (which was named the Daily Herald-Telephone the year his tenure started).
Federal judge dismisses professors’ lawsuit against IU, Purdue over new intellectual diversity law
The law states that faculty are required to teach scholarly works “from a variety of political or ideological frameworks” within their purview of instruction.
Komen Tissue Bank hosting breast tissue donation drive ahead of WNBA All-Star festivities
The event, a partnership between the tissue bank and the city’s WNBA All-Star 2025 Host Committee, seeks 500 women to donate breast tissue for cancer research.
IU still dealing with weekslong website outages
Reports indicate the outages have been affecting sites across the Indiana University system for more than a week.