Civic, community and educational leaders, as well as IU faculty and staff, reflect on Michael A. McRobbie's vision, accomplishments, and impact as IU’s 18th president.
Read the reflectionsUpon stepping down as IU president and as university chancellor, McRobbie has received a number of distinguished academic honors, accolades, and awards from university, civic, and community leaders.
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University Chancellor McRobbie introduced the latest installment of the Michael A. McRobbie's Choice Series at IU Cinema. The spring 2024 series showcases the work of filmmaker Peter Brook, whose films, which were often versions of plays he had directed for the stage, embraced experimentation, innovation, and creativity.
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CENTRA stands for Collaborations to Enable Transnational Cyberinfrastructure Applications and refers to a partnership and evolving framework for collaborations among research centers, institutes, and laboratories across the world. McRobbie’s talk, "Developing Opportunities for Transnational Cyberinfrastructure Collaborations," will discuss some of the new global collaborative opportunities that are emerging and will share some of the forces shaping them.
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Architect, artist, and professor of architecture Silvia Acosta has been awarded the Michael A. and Laurie Burns McRobbie Bicentennial Professorship in Modern Architecture in the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University.
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University Chancellor McRobbie delivered remarks prior to the unveiling of the Michael A. McRobbie Presidential Portrait, which will be placed in the historic Presidents Hall inside Franklin Hall on the Indiana University Bloomington campus.
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University Chancellor McRobbie delivered remarks at an IU Health event, where it was formally announced that McRobbie and IU First Lady Emerita Laurie Burns McRobbie have made a gift of $500,000 to IU Health to support behavioral health services at the IU Regional Academic Health Center (RAHC). IU Health will match the gift, bringing its impact to $1 million.
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University Chancellor McRobbie received an honorary doctorate from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, for his “extraordinary contributions to international education, community, justice, and equal opportunity” in Australia and in the U.S. McRobbie spent time as a young researcher at La Trobe, one of Australia’s leading academic and research universities.
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In an op-ed for the Indianapolis Business Journal, University Chancellor McRobbie writes that Indiana’s long-term investment in optical fiber networks and sophisticated operations support for those networks, such as the Global Network Operations Center, or GlobalNOC, has positioned the Hoosier state to seize extensive opportunities opened up by the recently enacted CHIPS and Science Act.
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University Chancellor McRobbie received the President’s Award from the Indiana Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for his commitment to architecture during his 14 years as Indiana University president.
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The Mies van der Rohe Building, which realizes a rediscovered 1952 design by renowned architect Mies van der Rohe for Indiana University’s Bloomington campus, has been acclaimed in laudatory articles, including stories in many of the nation’s leading architecture publications. University Chancellor McRobbie was instrumental in the development of the Mies Building as an inspiring new “headquarters” for IU’s Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design and extraordinary addition to a campus renonwed for its magnificent architecture.
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