
Love of nature drives this Burgess winner
Josie Sparks, one of the 2024-2025 Burgess Award winners, loves and works in national parks. They were the topic of not only her winning essay, but others, too.
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Josie Sparks, one of the 2024-2025 Burgess Award winners, loves and works in national parks. They were the topic of not only her winning essay, but others, too.

IU Libraries Undergraduate Scholar Cristina Cruz shares her appreciation for the scholarship, her work at the library, and exploring her coursework.

This is the profile of one of the 2025 Burgess Award Winners, Wesley Kopis.

This article announces the 2025 IU Day campaign of digitizing the IDS.

IU Libraries Undergraduate Scholar Devyn Thorton shares his experience of receiving this scholarship.

Indiana University Libraries Undergraduate Scholar Lyndzie Nale suggests that getting out and meeting people has enhanced her college experience.

Indiana University Archives was able to issues of the Indiana Daily Student from the 1930s and 1940s because of the generous gifts of donors

Indiana University Libraries Undergraduate Scholar Rylie Corcoran talks about the skills and advantages she has by working at IU Libraries.

Sabrina Kellams is the inaugural recipient of the Sarah L. Luckay Fellowship. This article delves into her research with the Wylie German letter collection.