Welcome to the 2025 Celebration of Student Writing at Indiana University East!
We are excited to share this annual publication that presents over 50 original student works. These pieces, from research essays to poems, designed brochures to personal narratives, business reports to literary analyses, capture the expanse of writing that students have done in Indiana University East courses in 2024-2025. Each student featured here, undergraduate and graduate, was nominated by a faculty member. With nearly 130 nominations from the Schools of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Education, Business, and Humanities and Social Sciences, it is clear that IU East’s instructors want to honor and celebrate their students’ work. As you explore this collection, you’ll need not only the students’ work, but also the praise offered by the nominating faculty member. Join us in celebrating and congratulating the hard work and insightful ideas of the students featured here!
In this collection, we also celebrate our keynote speaker, Rick McIntyre. As the red wolf is IU East’s mascot, it was an honor to invite a guest author with such rich expertise in gray wolf behavior. For nearly thirty years, Mr. McIntyre observed the wolves of Yellowstone. Drawing on his decades of field notes, he then captured the “biographies” of individual Yellowstone wolves and packs in a series of books, The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone. Mr. McIntyre’s talk can be found in the Guest Speaker section of this book. Each contributor to our Pressbook will also receive a signed copy of the latest book in the series: Thinking Like a Wolf: Lessons from the Yellowstone Packs. In this book, eight narratives capture the lives and survival strategies of different Yellowstone wolves–and offer insights into what we as humans can learn from wolf behavior.
Many thanks to Dean Margaret Evans of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, for her generous support of this event. Thanks to Dean Karen Clark of the School of Nursing; your support makes this event possible. Thanks also to the Library Foundation and Mindful Explorations for the ongoing support. Thanks to fellow editor, Kristie Marcum, and to the many people who helped edit this text, including Tanya Perkins, Laverne Nishihara, Brian Brodeur, Beverly Kauza, and Vanessa Billock. Thanks to the marketing and events team. Thanks to the faculty who stepped up to honor their students’ work. And thanks most of all to the students who continue to write for us, every day, and who make this community possible.
Enjoy the 2025 IU Celebration of Student Writing Pressbook!