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1. Jordan Hall __________ 2. SPEA’s new name

4. Kirkwood __________ 5. What’s outside the psychology building? 6. What is Michael McRobbie’s middle name?

7. Museum that lights up 10. IU museum on Indiana Avenue

11. Gym on Law Lane

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3. Intersection of Seventh Street and Woodlawn Avenue?

8. IU Jacobs professor that started rock ‘n’ roll history classes, retired this year 9. IU alum considered the modern founder of Steak ‘n Shake

12. Herman B Wells sits in the _________. 13. One of the two orange-red brick buildings on the Bloomington campus

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Prominent minds of IU

By Ben Price

beprice@iu.edu | @bbenpprice54

Herman B Wells — IU’s president (1938- 1962) and chancellor (1962-2000)

During his time as president, Herman B Wells fought to end racial segregation at IU. He also helped advance academic freedom at IU, especially regarding IU professor Alfred Kinsey’s studies in human sexuality, which were taboo in the 1930s and ’40s, according to the American National Biography Website.

Wells also taught economics at IU and then became the dean of the School of Business Administration, now named the Kelley School of Business.

Wells was born in 1902 in Jamestown, Indiana. He graduated from Lebanon High School in 1920 and enrolled at the University of Illinois.

Before his sophomore year in 1921, Wells transferred to IU. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business in 1924 and a master’s degree in economics in 1927.

Two years after being named dean of the business school in 1937, Wells became president of IU at age 35. At the time, he was the youngest state university president ever. He was president until 1962.

In 1962, the IU Board of Trustees created the position of university chancellor for Wells. He held this position until his death in 2000.

Alfred Kinsey — founder of the Institute for Sex Research at IU, now the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction

Kinsey was one of the fi rst major fi gures in American sexology. He explored human sexuality and developed a scale measuring sexual orientation known as the Kinsey scale, according to the Kinsey Institute.

Kinsey joined the IU faculty in 1920 as an assistant professor of zoology, according to biography.com.

In 1947, Kinsey and IU’s research staff founded the Institute for Sex Research, located in IU’s Biology Hall, now called Swain Hall East.

Kinsey published two studies explaining sexual behavior in men in 1948 and then another book about sexual behavior in women in 1953. Th ese books became known as the “Kinsey Reports.”

Kinsey was born in 1894 in Hoboken, New Jersey, according to the encyclopedia Britannica.

He graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College with degrees in biology and psychology. He continued his graduate studies at Harvard University’s Bussey Institute and graduated in 1919.

Elinor Ostrom — winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2009

Elinor Ostrom was the fi rst woman to receive the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in 1999. In 2009, Ostrom became the fi rst woman to earn the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Ostrom and her husband founded IU’s Workshop in Political Th eory and Policy Analysis.

She was born in Los Angeles, according to encyclopedia Britannica. She graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1951.

Ostrom attended the University of California Los Angeles and received a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1954. In 1965, she graduated with a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA. Th e same year, Ostrom and her husband Vincent moved to Bloomington.

Vincent accepted a job as a professor, and Elinor joined IU’s staff as a visiting assistant professor, where she taught American government.

Her approach to public policy became known as the institutional analysis and development framework. Ostrom was an active member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and president of the American Political Science Association.

Ernie Pyle — war correspondent in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner

After leaving IU, where he studied journalism, Ernie Pyle took a job writing columns that were published in more than 400 daily newspapers during World War II, according to the Indiana Historical Society. Pyle earned a Pulitzer Prize for his work in 1944.

Pyle was born in 1900. He left IU before graduating to take a job with the LaPorte Herald, a newspaper in northern Indiana.

Pyle then got a job working at the ScrippsHoward newspapers as a columnist, according to the Indiana Historical Society. Pyle and his wife traveled around the U.S. while he wrote columns describing what life was like for Americans during the Great Depression.

In 1940, Pyle traveled to England to cover the Battle of Britain. In 1941, when the U.S. joined World War II, Pyle became a war correspondent.

He wrote about what it was like to be a soldier fi ghting in the war and soldiers’ struggles, according to the Indiana Historical Society. Pyle traveled with soldiers to North

Top right Marcellus Neal was the fi rst African American to graduate Indiana University in 1895.

IU ARCHIVES Top left A photograph of Frances Marshall, the fi rst black woman to graduate from IU, taken from page 92 of the 1919 Arbutus yearbook.

Bottom right Late IU professor Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009.

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TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Bottom left Ernie Pyle works on an article March 18, 1944, while visiting the Anzio Beachhead.

Africa, Sicily, Italy and France.

In 1945, Pyle was killed by Japanese sniper fi re on the island of Ie Shima. Ernie Pyle Hall was built on IU’s campus in 1938 to commemorate him.

Marcellus Neal and Frances Marshall — fi rst black students to graduate from IU

Marcellus Neal and Frances Marshall were the fi rst black man and woman to graduate from IU, respectively, according to IU’s website.

Neal graduated in 1895 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, and Marshall graduated in 1919 with a bachelor’s degree in English.

Th e Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center was established in the late 1960s to commemorate the two. Th e mission of the center is to support teaching, research and service missions of the university and also off er a positive social environment for African American students and staff at IU.