IU Jacobs School of Music appoints violinist, composer and conductor Joseph Swensen to faculty

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April 17, 2013

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of violinist and conductor Joseph Swensen as visiting professor of music (violin). He will join the faculty in the fall of 2013.

"A musician with immense breadth, global experience, significant artistic achievement and a passion for arts advocacy, Joseph Swensen will have an immediate impact on the education of our students and upon the environment of our school," said Jacobs Dean Gwyn Richards.

"I am thrilled and profoundly honored to be joining the illustrious faculty of Indiana University, and I look forward so much to making Bloomington my home," said Swensen.

Swensen currently holds the post of conductor emeritus of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. His wide-ranging career recently included the position of principal guest conductor and artistic adviser of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris.

As an exclusive recording artist with BMG Classics, his recordings of the major violin concerto repertoire with conductors like Andre Previn and Jukka-Pekka Saraste received high acclaim.

He is a chamber musician, composer and founder of Unity Hills Arts Centers International, an organization that brings together artists who apply their creative talents to long-term community service projects.

"Joseph Swensen comes to us with a world-class professional profile. This is an exciting hire, and the faculty is very pleased to know that he will be with us soon," said Stephen Wyrczynski, chair of the Jacobs String Department.

Born in Hoboken, N.J.., and raised in Harlem by a Japanese-American mother and a Norwegian-American father, both of whom are musicians, Swensen enjoyed a highly successful career as a solo violinist and chamber musician before turning to conducting.

He attended Juilliard as a student of renowned pedagogue Dorothy Delay and studied chamber music with Robert Mann, Leonard Rose and Felix Galimir. He studied composition with David Diamond and Vincent Persechetti, and studied privately with Isaac Stern over a 10-year period.

A winner of the Leventritt Foundation Award, Swensen appeared as soloist with orchestras such as Cleveland, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Montreal, Pittsburgh, Minnesota and Baltimore, and performed in recital and chamber music concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center, and in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston.

A passionate chamber musician, Swensen performs in recital with pianist Jeffrey Kahane, and with his newly formed trio -- alongside Kahane and cellist Carter Brey -- appears in summer 2013 at the La Jolla, Chamber Music Northwest, Music@ Menlo, Ravinia and Orcas Island festivals.

Swensen was principal guest conductor and artistic adviser of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris from 2009 to 2012, principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra from 1996 to 2005 (during which time he received an honorary doctorate from St. Andrews University), principal Conductor of the Malm? Opera from 2007 to 2011 and principal guest conductor of the Lahti Symphony and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

As principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, he and the orchestra toured extensively in the U.S., U.K., Europe and the Far East, appearing at such prestigious venues as the Mostly Mozart Festival, Tanglewood and Ravinia festivals, the BBC Proms, the Barbican and the Concertgebouw.

Swensen and the orchestra recorded a highly regarded series of CDs for Linn records on which he is featured as violin soloist as well as conductor.

As principal conductor of the Malm? Opera in Sweden, he was widely recognized as the driving force behind the Malm? Opera's transformation into one of the most important opera companies in Sweden.

As an active guest conductor, Swensen has worked with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Toronto, St. Louis, Rochester, Colorado and New World symphonies, among others in North America. He has also worked with the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra (London), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, Oslo and Stockholm Philharmonics and the Orchestre du Capitole deToulouse (where he recently completely his first Mahler Symphony cycle) and the Finnish and Swedish Radio Orchestras, among many others in Europe. Among his numerous appearances as guest conductor and soloist during the 2013-14 season will be an appearance as guest conductor of the London Philharmonic.

As a composer, Swensen's works include "Mantram" (1998) for string orchestra, "Latif" (1999) for solo cello with chamber ensemble, "Shizue" (2001) for solo shakuhachi and orchestra, and the recently premiered "Sinfonia-Concertante for Horn and Orchestra" ("The Fire and the Rose") (2008). His orchestration of the rarely performed 1854 version of Brahms' Trio Op. 8, a work Swensen titled "Sinfonia in B," has been performed widely by orchestras in Europe and the U.S. since its premi?re in 2007. In early 2012, the world premiere recording of "Sinfonia in B" was released on Signum records, along with orchestrations by Swensen of works originally for violin and piano by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

Swensen is the founder and artistic director of Unity Hills Arts Centers International (home base in Townshend, Vt.). The organization was established in 2011 to bring together artists of all kinds who are committed to applying their creative talents primarily to long-term community service projects in the U.S. and abroad.

Swensen is the proud father of three sons and has residences in Copenhagen, New York City, Florida, Vermont and soon Bloomington, Ind.

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IU Bloomington names Provost Professors, Sonneborn Award recipient

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April 17, 2013

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- K. Anne Pyburn, a professor in the Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected to receive the 2013 Tracy M. Sonneborn Award, which honors an Indiana University Bloomington faculty member for outstanding research and teaching.

Also, Pyburn and Christoph Irmscher and Stephen Watt, both professors in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, have been named IU Bloomington Provost Professors.

Pyburn, an archaeologist who studies ancient Maya cities and the ethics of heritage conservation, will deliver the annual Sonneborn Lecture during the fall 2013 semester. The award and lecture are named for the late IU biologist Tracy M. Sonneborn, who was one of the leading geneticists in the country and was highly regarded for his teaching. Watt received the Sonneborn Award in 2011.

"As this year's Sonneborn Award winner, Professor Pyburn will have an additional opportunity to support student research under her mentorship," said Provost and Executive Vice President Lauren Robel. "I am delighted to recognize her outstanding work uncovering not only insights about ancient societies, but also the sociopolitical frameworks through which they are viewed today. Her Sonneborn lecture this fall is sure to be a wonderful occasion for the campus."

The designation of Provost Professor recognizes faculty who have achieved local, national and international distinction in both teaching and research. The position was created in 1995 and was originally called Chancellor's Professor. The name changed in 2009.

"Professors Irmscher, Pyburn and Wyatt are exemplars of deeply invested scholarship and teaching at IU Bloomington," Robel said. "This award will enable them to further pursue projects that demonstrate that excellent teaching and research are mutually reinforcing."

K. Anne Pyburn

Pyburn has directed major excavations of three ancient Maya cities in Central America, where she discovered a previously unknown style of water conservation and irrigation technology, developed a new perspective on ancient political economy, and has proposed an alternative explanation for the Maya "collapse." Most recently she has collaborated with colleagues in Central Asia promoting grassroots development of projects for cultural preservation.

Through her work she has inspired students, introduced curricular reforms and promoted the rights of indigenous communities. Pyburn has conducted numerous archaeological field schools in Belize, where she emphasized collaboration with the local community in the context of rigorous scientific research. In Kyrgyzstan, she has worked with archaeologists and citizens' groups to develop projects for cultural resource management.

"Anne is a major international scholar and educator on the leading edge of archaeological and anthropological thought," said Catherine Tucker, chair of the Department of Anthropology. "Her energetic leadership has helped redefine archaeology as a discipline that involves living people as much as those of the past, one that empowers indigenous and minority populations to become active participants in interpreting their cultural heritage."

Pyburn has taught popular undergraduate courses on the scientific method, the ancient Maya and women in prehistory, as well as seminars on research methods, ethics and gender. She was principal investigator for the National Science Foundation-funded Making Archaeology Teaching Relevant to the XXI Century project, founded the Archaeology in Social Context Ph.D. program at IU and directs the Center for Archaeology in the Public Interest. She has chaired the Ethics Committee of the American Anthropological Association and is vice president-elect of the World Archaeological Congress. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Reed College and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.

Christoph Irmscher

Irmscher teaches and writes about 19th- and 20th-century American and Canadian literature, and he has a longstanding interest in the field of eco-criticism, specifically early American nature writing.

His recent biography, "Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science," was selected as Editor's Choice by The New York Times Book Review and has also been praised by Nature, the Christian Science Monitor and other publications. He is also the author of "Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200"; "Longfellow Redux"; and "The Poetics of Natural History"; and the editor of the Library of America edition of "John James Audubon's Writings and Drawings."

"His scholarship is sweeping; it has substance and true significance," said Werner Sollors, the Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature at Harvard University. "His contributions have been meaningful to, and will hopefully affect, the future direction of literary studies as well as environmentalism in the United States and abroad."

Irmscher has curated exhibits on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Charles Darwin and IU Distinguished Professor Emeritus Scott Russell Sanders. His undergraduate courses are highly rated by students, and graduate students describe him as an outstanding mentor. He also has taught two summer seminars on Audubon at IU's Lilly Library, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has doctoral and postdoctoral degrees from the University of Bonn.

Stephen Watt

Watt is a scholar of dramatic literature, the Irish literary tradition, modernism and mass culture. He is also known for writing and speaking about the state of higher education.

His most recent book, "Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing," won the Robert Rhodes Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies. He is the author or editor of 11 books on topics ranging from 19th-century theater to the "cultural politics of 007." With Cary Nelson, he has written two debate-changing books about higher education, "Academic Keywords" and "Office Hours: Activism and Change in the Academy." He is working on a book that examines cultural interactions between Irish-American and Jewish-American immigrants in the U.S.

"He has had a powerful impact as a teacher, in the classroom and as a peerless and generous advisor of graduate students, and also as the co-author of textbooks and editions designed for undergraduate use," said Jonathan Elmer, chair of the English department.

Watt twice received IU's Teaching Excellence Award for undergraduate teaching, and former graduate students praise his judgment, generosity and attention to their academic and professional growth. He has been chair and director of graduate studies for the English department and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. His Ph.D. is from the University of Illinois.

"The presentation of the Sonneborn Award and the selection of Provost Professors are reminders that exemplary teaching often goes hand in hand with outstanding research and scholarship," said Tom Gieryn, vice provost for faculty and academic affairs. "Professors Pyburn, Irmscher and Watt are to be commended for their outstanding work in both areas."

Provost Professors receive an annual award of $2,500 for three years and a $5,000 grant for a project to demonstrate that teaching and research are mutually reinforcing. The winner of the Sonneborn Award receives $3,500, and another $1,000 is awarded to support the research or creative activity of one or more students.

A reception to honor Irmscher, Pyburn and Watt will be scheduled in the fall 2013 semester.

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Five IU Bloomington professors awarded 2013 Guggenheim Fellowships

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April 16, 2013

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Five Indiana University Bloomington professors in the College of Arts and Sciences are recipients of the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013. Poet Ross Gay, Polish translator Bill Johnston, biologist James Bever, linguist Robert Fulk and religious studies professor David Haberman are among the fellows notified earlier this month.

"The five Guggenheim Fellows this year represent the extraordinary breadth and depth of the creative and academic excellence on this campus," IU Bloomington Provost Lauren Robel said. "Whether our students are interested in poetry, the evolution of plants, translation of Polish texts, the philology of early English, or South Asian religions -- or some combination of these -- they will have the opportunity to learn from the faculty who are recognized as experts in their fields."

"This is an important and happy moment in the College," said Larry Singell, executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. "These fellowships will allow our accomplished scholars to pursue freely their research interests. This experience will advance their scholarship and benefit their colleagues and students. Thus, the impact of a Guggenheim is felt across multiple generations of scholars."

Gay is assistant professor in the Department of English and associate director of the Creative Writing Program. He is author of the poetry collection "Against Which," and his poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review and Columbia: A Journal of Poetry and Art, among other publications. He plans to use his fellowship to explore new forms of writing and poetry, as well as interview African American farmers from across the nation for a book project.

Johnston is chair of the Department of Comparative Literature. Known as one of the leading translators of Polish literature in the English-speaking world, he served as director of IU's Polish Studies Center until 2008. He has held fellowships from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He will use his fellowship to work on a new translation of "Pan Tadeusz," an epic poem in rhyming verse by Polish Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz that was first published in 1834. While the poem has been translated several times already, Johnston said most people agree the existing translations are inadequate in various ways.

Bever is professor in the Department of Biology. A former Fulbright Fellow and a Bullard Fellow, Bever was elected an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow in 2012. His research focuses on the areas of ecology, evolution, microbial interactions and pathogenesis. He will use his fellowship to write a book that builds from the forces driving plant-microbe interactions to a general framework for understanding the dynamics of plant communities.

Fulk is Class of 1964 Chancellor's Professor of English and adjunct professor in the Department of Germanic Studies. With a particular interest in the ways in which linguistics and language study intersect with the analysis of medieval literature, his research areas include early Germanic, Celtic, Old English and Old Icelandic languages. His current project, supported by his fellowship, is "A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages." The last complete grammar in English devoted to the topic was published in 1939.

Haberman is professor in the Department of Religious Studies. His research interests include South Asian religious traditions and, more recently, the intersection of religion and ecology. He's involved in this emerging field and serves on the advisory board of the Form on Religion and Ecology based at the Yale University School for Forestry and Environmental Studies. He plans to use his fellowship to work on a book project focused on the worship of Mount Govardhan, one of the most distinguishing features of the sacred landscape of Braj, the region in northern India associated primary with Krishna.

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IU East Center for Leadership Development hosts Management Series on Conflict April 4

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The IU East Center for Leadership Development is hosting a Management Series workshop on Managing Conflict. The public is invited to attend the workshop from 9 a.m. to noon on Thursday, April 4, in the Whitewater Hall Community Room. Registration for the event is online.

It is estimated that as much as 40 percent of a manager’s time is spent dealing with conflict. Conflict is costly to organizations in other ways as well. For example, poorly managed conflict often increases turnover, with replacement costs between 75 percent and 150 percent of the annual salary for each position. This course offers techniques and approaches to enhance conflict management skills and lower the cost of conflict for individuals and organizations.  

Managing Conflict is an overview course that introduces methods to proactively and effectively manage the disagreements encountered in manager/leadership positions. It emphasizes proactive approaches and building long-term positive relationships. Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:

Explain the business and personal case for effective conflict management.Identify the main factors in a situation that are contributing to the conflict.Use the EDGE model to plan appropriate approaches for managing conflict.Leverage self-awareness of their preferred approaches to conflict toward improving relationships with others and achieving results.Incorporate effective conflict management skills into their management practice.Identify opportunities for personal development to support the business imperative for effective conflict management skills.

Participants will leave with a beginning set of practical strategies and tactics that can be immediately applied to the disagreements that arise in their daily work lives.

The cost is $75 per workshop. See the website for information about discounts for multiple participants from the same organization, discounts for Wayne County Area Chamber of Commerce members and certificate options.

Please register online at iue.edu/leadership.

The workshop will be presented by Fredricka Joyner, associate professor and director of the IU East Center for Leadership Development and the Master’s in Management program. Joyner has over three decades of business experience, providing leadership, organization, and community development consulting services to a diverse client list that  includes manufacturing and service organizations, professional practices, health and education coalitions, non-profits, government departments, and social service agencies.

Over the past five years, Joyner has provided training and consulting services related to managing across the generations. She has also designed and delivered a four-day leadership development curriculum to almost 2,000 managers in a global Fortune 500 company. Most recently, she has been providing intensive executive coaching to high potential managers who have been tasked with expanding into international markets.

Joyner earned her Master’s in Organization Management from Antioch University and her Ph.D. in Community Formation from the Union Institute.

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University Celebrates 2013 Award Winners

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April 16, 2013

Fort Wayne, Ind. – Indiana Tech celebrated the accomplishments of several students at the university’s annual Honors Luncheon on Saturday, April 6.

The following individuals won awards given by the university:

Erica Shwering of Greensburg, Ind., was the student winner of the Kekionga Feather Award. This award is given for outstanding service to the student body of Indiana Tech. She also was selected to Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.Clea Endres of Fort Wayne, Ind., won the Hayashi Award. The Hayashi Award recognizes a senior athlete who has done the most to promote athletics and academics at Indiana Tech. She also was selected to Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.Kathryn Rettich of Germantown, Ohio, won the Outstanding Humanities Student Award. She also was selected to Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.Darius Darling of Detroit, Mich., won the Alumni Association Scholarship.Matthew Hansen, from Fort Wayne, Ind., was named the Volunteer Networker of the Year.Aubree Reichel of Puyallup, Wash., was named Tutor of the Year. She also was selected to Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges and was inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma, the National College Athlete Honor Society.Amanda Northup, from LaGrange, Ind., was named Student Ambassador of the Year. Nathan Whetstone, from Fort Wayne, Ind., was named Computer Lab Monitor of the Year.Andrea Check, director of student life, was the staff winner of the Kekionga Feather Award.Indiana Tech’s student chapter of the National Society for Black Engineers was named Student Organization of the Year.

In addition to the awards above, the following students were honored for being selected to Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges:

Allison Belcher of St. Charles, Mo.Caleb Bertsch of Bluffton, Ind.Jacob Hapner of Fort Wayne, Ind.Brittany Jenkins of Ossian, Ind.Nicole Johnson of Osceola, Ind.Nathan Pratt of Fort Wayne, Ind.Baily Tom of Monroe, Mich.Klaudia Velazquez of Pingree Grove, ILJarrod Williams of Fort Wayne, Ind.Fernando Zapari of Fort Wayne, Ind.Mitchell Burton of Danville, Ind.Kayla Foreman of Decatur, Ind.Daniel Haught of Fort Wayne, Ind.Jessica James of Indianapolis, Ind.Rebecca Kurtz of Farmersville, OhioChristopher Miller of Salem, Ore.Kelsea Nova of Toledo, OhioAbigail Torian of Cadiz, Ky.

Also, the following students were honored for being inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma, the National College Athlete Honor Society: 

Aaron Belcher of Camby, Ind.Steven Bohjanen of Kalamazoo, Mich.Dustin Boyd of Elkhart, Ind.Manuela Cabal Carmona of Cali, ColumbiaKelsey Cox of Flushing, Mich.Dora Culton of Columbus, Mich.Morgan Delagrange of New Haven, Ind.Nicolas Drewery of Spencerville, Ind.Darcie Faylor of Fort Wayne, Ind.Kendall Guthrie of Lake Oswego, Ore.Jeffrey Harter of Fort Wayne, Ind.Sriram Jegatha Aranganathan of Chennai, Tamiln, IndiaAaron Kimbrell of Muncie, Ind.Jamela Kimbrough of Columbia, Mo.Adrienne Kline of Calgary, Alberta, CanadaKelsey Kline of Ossian, Ind.Kori Liechty of Hobart, Ind.Traycie Linker of New Haven, Ind.Christina Mettert of New Haven, Ind.Eric Milner of St. Louis, Mo.Novric Reese of Fort Wayne, Ind.Amanda Regan of Elk Grove, Calif.Jordan Roell of Guilford, Ind.Ashlee Satterfield of Marengo, Ind.Craig Schaepkens of Davison, Mich.Jessica Sikula of Weston, OhioNatalie Zimmerman of Berkley, Mich.

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New professional staff join IU East

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Indiana University East welcomes new professional staff to campus. The continuous increase in enrollment for IU East requires additional staff members in order to further enhance the campus’ mission as a comprehensive bachelor’s and master’s degree institution. IU East has grown student enrollment for 15 consecutive semesters (including summer sessions).

Patti Jo Hicks is the human resources coordinator in the Office of Human Resources. She assists the human resources director with the day to day management of the human resource functions with particular focus on the development of job descriptions, recruitment activities of support staff positions, and budget preparation.

Previously, Hicks was the finance and payroll specialist at Hill’s Pet Nutrition. She received her Master of Science in Management and Leadership from Indiana Wesleyan University and her Bachelor of Science in Human Resources Management from Ball State University.

Susan LeGalley is the academic advisor for the School of Business and Economics. She provides academic advising and counseling for students as well as assistance to find information on courses, programs and services. She received her Master of Education from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich., and her Master of Business Administration from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Mich. LeGalley received her Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan – Flint.

Previously, LeGalley was the assistant director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Pennsylvania State University. Before joining Pennsylvania State, she worked for Creighton University as the assistant director of Student Activities for Greek Life.

Joy Maupin is the network administrator in the Office of Information Technology. She maintains all aspects of the campus network. This includes the campus servers, network switches, and wireless deployment.

Previously, Maupin was the network administrator for Dresser Roots, a GE Energy Services company. She received her associate degree in Computer Information Systems from Ivy Tech Community College.

Larry Scott is the disability services coordinator in the Office of Student Support Services. He develops and maintains guidelines, policies and procedures regarding disability services for students. He also coordinates reasonable academic accommodations for students with disabilities.

Previously, Scott was the assistant director of Disability Support Services for Ivy Tech Community College in Muncie. He received his Master of Arts in Political Science and his Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Ball State University. Prior to joining Ivy Tech, he was a disability determination bureau adjudicator for the state of Indiana.

Adam Stevenson is the assistant athletic director and women’s volleyball coach. He will oversee the volleyball program and will manage the advertising and marketing of all IU East athletic programs.

Stevenson received his Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Philosophy from Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Ill. After graduating from Olivet Nazarene in 2002, he was an assistant volleyball coach for the university.

Before joining IU East, Stevenson was the head coach at Saint Catharine College. While there, he was named the 2011 Coach of the Year in the Mid-South Conference.

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IU Maurer School of Law inducts Academy of Law Alumni Fellows

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April 19, 2013

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Four Indiana University Maurer School of Law alumni will be inducted today, April 19, into the school's Academy of Law Alumni Fellows. Induction into the academy is the highest honor the law school can bestow on its graduates.

The academy consists of an elite group that includes U.S. senators, federal judges, successful business leaders and distinguished practitioners. Each brings honor to the legal profession and enhances the Maurer School of Law's national and global reputation. This year's inductees include an accomplished entrepreneur, a distinguished employment lawyer, the longtime director of the Maurer law library and a successful investment banker.

"Our newest additions to the Academy of Law Alumni Fellows have achieved success in a wide array of fields," said Hannah L. Buxbaum, interim dean and John E. Schiller Chair in Legal Ethics. "They represent the values that the law school holds in highest esteem: intellectual rigor, continuous achievement and a commitment to the highest standards of the profession. We are honored to call them alumni of our school."

The 2013 Academy of Law Alumni Fellows are:

Stephen F. Burns

Stephen F. Burns, J.D. '68 (2012 inductee). A lawyer turned corporate executive, Stephen F. Burns has built a company from a small van line to a household name. Burns graduated from the IU law school in 1968, where he was elected to Order of the Coif. He initially went to work for his father's law firm, where he began working with Earnest S. Wheaton, who founded a small van line in 1945. Wheaton took Burns under his wing and coaxed him into taking the helm of the company in 1987.

Burns and his management team developed a five-year plan for Wheaton to reach $95 million in revenue by 2007. That goal was reached two years early in 2005. Wheaton's recent purchase of Bekins Van Lines makes the company the fourth-largest moving and storage company in the U.S.

Burns has received numerous honors for his industry achievements, including Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2006 (Indiana, Midwest and U.S. finalist); 2008 Lifetime Achievement award from the American Moving and Storage Association (the industry's highest award); and Wheaton's highest honor, the Extra Mile award, in 2010. He has also been an active volunteer, with a special emphasis on Give Kids the World, which helps children with life-threatening illnesses realize their dream of visiting Disney World. Burns stepped down as Wheaton's CEO in September 2008, but he remains the company's chairman, focusing on acquisitions and diversification.

Burns and his late wife, Jacqueline, have two children: Andy, an attorney in Indianapolis, and Katy, a vice president at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.

Robert P. Duvin

Robert P. Duvin, J.D. '61. Robert P. Duvin has enjoyed a successful career as a labor and employment lawyer for nearly 50 years.

After graduating from Indiana Law in 1961, Duvin was drafted into the Army. He left military service with a wife and child -- but no money or work plans -- and moved to New York, earning an LL.M. from Columbia University in 1964. He then joined Burke, Haber & Berick, a corporate law firm in Cleveland, which he describes as a wonderful experience. He spent seven years there and was named partner early, but he decided to strike out on his own in 1972.

That decision led to the formation of Duvin, Cahn & Hutton, which grew from a small firm specializing in collective bargaining to a 50-lawyer firm doing significant work for a very high percentage of the 100 largest companies in America. For the next three decades, Duvin and his colleagues traveled across the country representing large companies in high-stakes matters. The firm became part of Littler Mendelson in 2007.

Duvin has been recognized many times for his service to the community and his profession, including 20 consecutive years as one of the Best Lawyers in America. In addition, he has been frequently quoted, written about and profiled in numerous national publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and American Lawyer.

Duvin looks back on his distinguished career in amazement, noting that he still does not understand why major companies around the country made cold calls to an unconventional lawyer sitting in an office in Cleveland listening to rock-and-roll music. He says that perhaps the reasons for his success have always been right in front of him: his family (parents, wife and children); the values he learned growing up in Evansville, Ind.; and the education he received and intellectual curiosity he developed in law school. He wants to share his deepest gratitude to his wife, Darlene, and their boys, Marc, Louis and David, and of course their special Scott.

Colleen Kristl Pauwels

Colleen Kristl Pauwels, J.D. '86. Pauwels has devoted most of her professional career to the Law Library of the Maurer School of Law, which she has built into one of America's leading legal research libraries.

Born in Chicago, Pauwels spent her early years in Washington, Ind., before her family moved to South Bend. She received her A.B. from Barat College in 1968 and accompanied her husband to Bloomington where he attended graduate school. Working in the government documents department at what is now the Wells Library convinced her to pursue a career in librarianship. After earning a Master of Library Science degree from IU, she was named acting director of the Law Library in 1978 and permanent director in 1983. Concluding that a law degree was essential to success in her new role, she completed her J.D. in 1986 just three years after starting classes, while continuing to work full time.

Pauwels led the transformation of the Law Library from a facility that struggled to meet the basic needs of its faculty and student body to a shining exemplar of a legal research library. During her tenure, the Law Library's collection grew exponentially in size and strength, and its staff became counted among the best in the nation. Pauwels guided the library's migration from a wholly print collection to one dominated by electronic resources, and in 2004, it was named the "Best Law Library in the Country" by National Jurist.

As a longtime member of Indiana Law's Building Committee, Pauwels was equally vital in shaping the school's physical development. Her vision was integral in planning the 1986 addition and renovation of the law school, which transformed an outmoded facility into one suited for a new generation in legal education -- vastly expanding both classroom and collection space while enabling the school to retain its position at the center of the Bloomington campus, closely linked to the rest of the university. As the school matured, she oversaw three additional renovations of the structure as well as the addition of the Lewis Building and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge David Hamilton's chambers.

In addition to preparing the Maurer School of Law for its future, Pauwels has dedicated considerable effort to preserving its institutional history. She initiated the creation of the Law School Bulletin and was a frequent editor of the Bill of Particulars, and her academic research centers on the history of the law school and Indiana's early female lawyers. She has recorded numerous oral history sessions with law school faculty, staff and graduates and is a part of the University Oral History Project. Currently she is co-authoring a volume of biographical sketches and contributions of the trustees and officers of Indiana University from 1982 to 2010.

Beyond her many remarkable accomplishments at the Law Library, Pauwels has always been most proud of her family. Her husband, Gerry, is a retired attorney and accomplished actor. Her daughter, Erin, is completing her Ph.D. in art history at Indiana University, and her son, Matthew, works in the health care industry.

Glenn Scolnik

Glenn Scolnik, J.D. '78. Glenn Scolnik's career has taken him from the gridiron to the practice of law to the leadership of one of the nation's oldest and most successful private capital firms.

Scolnik graduated cum laude from Indiana Law in 1978, returning to law school after seven years as a wide receiver with the Hamilton (Ontario) Tiger Cats, the Calgary Stampeders and finally the Pittsburgh Steelers. Following law school, he joined Sommer & Barnard (now Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP) in Indianapolis, where he was named a partner in 1984.

In 1993, Scolnik joined Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Co. Inc., a New York firm founded in 1903 as a merchant bank. In the 1980s, HKW discontinued its merchant banking activities and began investing as the sole equity sponsor in management buy-outs. In 1998 Scolnik was named president and CEO in charge of all of HKW's operations worldwide. In 2009, he became chairman of the board of HKW but retained the responsibility for all platform acquisitions.

During Scolnik's 11 years as CEO, he led HKW into the private equity fund environment with HKW Capital Partners II ($100 million in 2002) and HKW Capital Partners III ($255 million in 2007); hired all 14 current investment professionals; and moved the operations of HKW from New York to Indianapolis. Scolnik has been involved in more than 70 change-of-control acquisitions by HKW, most of them as a partner.

Long active in civic affairs, Scolnik is a member of the law school's Board of Visitors, the Indiana University Foundation Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of the Conservation Law Center Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Meridian Street United Methodist Church in Indianapolis.

Scolnik and his wife, Donna, have two children, Douglas and Whitney. They live in Indianapolis.

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