IU professor dies

Russell O. Salmon, IU associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, died Thursday after a career of work within the IU community and beyond.

Salman was a Latin American specialist in literature of Chile, Nicaragua, Mexico, Argentina and Peru and was also the editor of “Golden UFOs: Los Ovins de Oro. The Indian Poems” by Ernesto Cardenal and had worked on a book on Nicaraguan women poets.

Some of Salmon’s many roles include professor, former director of IU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, creator of academic and community exchange programs in Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua and Cuba, and planning committee member for the Indiana Humanities Council’s International Awareness Project on Mexico with a related yearlong project in Bloomington that involved exhibits, library reading groups, lectures, seminars and film series.

He was the recipient of several teaching awards, including IU’s Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (1999) and Teacher of the Year, Postsecondary Level, Indiana Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (1995). He was also the first recipient of the IU Distinguished Service Award (1987).

Check Thursday’s edition of the IDS for more information.