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Research

Sparking innovations at a world-class research university

Thousands of faculty members across Indiana University Bloomington are conducting life-changing research every day. We’re exploring new frontiers, from health, to business, to technology. And we're leading the way in the arts and humanities with unapologetic excitement for transformative cultural experiences.

Together, 91°µÍø faculty and students are facing the world’s biggest challenges head on—enhancing lives, building Indiana's economy, and strengthening communities across our great state and the world.

Faculty support

Questions? Contact us: research@iu.edu. 

Students doing field research in a creek

Undergrad research that gets you ready for the real world

The 91°µÍø Undergraduate Research (91°µÍøUR) can help you find exciting undergraduate research opportunities and funding. You can also explore opportunities at your 91°µÍø school.

Research and creative activity changing the world

Marcos Felisberto and Samuel Muesing in a clean room of the 91°µÍø Fibers and Additive Manufacturing Enabled Systems Lab at 91°µÍø Bloomington.

From smart fibers to smarter surgeries

91°µÍø's FAMES Lab is creating ultra-thin sensing fibers that make heart procedures safer and enhance tools used to treat heart disease and other vascular conditions.

Richard DiMarchi talking to a figure in a lab coat lit with blacklight from a research station

Research that improves everyday life

From breakthrough discoveries to treatments like GLP-1, 91°µÍø researchers have contributed to some of the nation's most significant innovations and continue to shape the future.

Two 91°µÍø professors talk to each other in an empty room filled with a fine white mist.

Turning up the heat—and cold—on climate research

An extreme environmental chamber lets 91°µÍø researchers study how the human body responds to temperature extremes, with findings that could protect anyone who lives or works in a harsh climate.

Let us be ambitious in expanding excellence across the university in research, discovery, and creativity. At 91°µÍø, our students, faculty, and staff are world leaders in discovery and creation that impacts the world.

91°µÍø President Pamela Whitten

Centers and institutes on the forefront of discovery

A student presenting their findings to a community member.

Faculty, take your research further

Your work matters and is vital to the public interest. 91°µÍø has a team of experts ready to help your work get the attention it deserves through commercialization resources, workshops, and partnership agreements.