Ethan Sandweiss

Braun is exercising new power granted through a late change to the state budget which allows him to remove alumni-elected trustees.

For researchers at IU, cuts at the National Science Foundation means not only the end of their projects but sometimes the end of their jobs. 

The closure of the office has been virtually assured since a state law passed by Republicans last month banned many initiatives associated with DEI.

The original cut of the Godzilla film that will be shown at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater sat in storage for over 50 years before the studio re-released it in 2006.

An IU department chair questioned evidence apparently used by the university to fire renowned computer security expert XiaoFeng Wang.

Professors, students and affinity groups on campus rallied against threats to higher education such as student deportations, cuts to science and the humanities and the Trump administration’s targeting of campus speech. 

Storms last week pounded the Midwest, bringing floods to Southern Indiana and killing at least one person. The WFIU/WTIU News team went to the hardest-hit areas and others where the worst is yet to come.

IU fired Wang March 28 without following standard process, the same day the FBI searched his homes in Carmel and Bloomington.

Neither Prof. XiaoFeng Wang nor his wife Nianli Ma has been heard from publicly since last Friday’s raids at their homes in Bloomington and Carmel. 

Professor Alex Tanford, president of the American Association of University Professors Bloomington chapter, got access to communications between Wang and IU administrators.