Indiana University Bloomington

Indiana University Bloomington is the principal campus of the Indiana University system. It is popularly known as "Indiana University," IUB, or simply IU. It is located in Bloomington, Indiana, in Monroe County, Indiana.

Campus

IUB's 1,931 acres (7.8 km²) includes copious green space and historic buildings dating to the university's reconstruction in the late nineteenth century. The Works Progress Administration built much of the campus's core during the Great Depression. Many of the campus's buildings were built and most of its land acquired during the 1950s and 1960s, when first soldiers attending under the GI Bill and then the Baby Boom swelled the university's enrollment from 5,403 in 1940 to 30,368 in 1970.

Related Topics:
Works Progress Administration - GI Bill - Baby Boom

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The campus rests on a bed of Indiana limestone, specifically Salem limestone and Harrodsburg limestone, with outcroppings of St. Louis limestone. Many of the campus's buildings, especially the older central buildings, are made from Indiana limestone quarried locally.

Related Topics:
Indiana limestone - Salem limestone - Harrodsburg limestone - St. Louis limestone

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The "Jordan River" is a stream (and storm sewer) flowing through the center of campus. It is named for David Starr Jordan, Darwinist, ichthyologist, and president of IU and later Stanford University.

Related Topics:
David Starr Jordan - Darwinist - Ichthyologist - Stanford University

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