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(07/09/08 5:34pm)
IU and international researchers have created a map of a core center of the brain that might be important to the workings of both hemispheres, according to an IU news release.\nThe study involved looking at the brains of five human participants, culminating in the first high-resolution map of how fibers for higher-level thinking in the brain communicate with each other. Researchers from IU, the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and Harvard Medical School worked on the study, according to the news release.\nPrior to the research, functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to measure activity in the brain – but it didn’t show the role of anatomy in creating the activity. The new research used fMRI as well as diffusion MRI, a noninvasive technique other scientists can use in the future to look at the brain at greater resolution, according to the news release.\nThe researchers plan to study more brains in the future, looking specifically at the effects of age and disease, according to the news release.\nThe results from the research were published in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS Biology on June 30, according to the news release.
(07/08/08 7:19pm)
Tickets for hip-hop performer Lupe Fiasco went on sale today for his performance during this year’s Welcome Week, according to an IU news release. The concert will be held at 8 p.m. August 30 in the IU Auditorium. Tickets are $26.50 for IU-Bloomington students with a student ID, and $34.50 for the general public, according to the news release. Ticket sales will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation, according to the news release.\nFiasco is known for his collaboration with hip-hop artist Kanye West on West’s “Touch the Sky,” and also for his own Grammy-nominated “Kick Push.”
(07/08/08 7:17pm)
Students in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Summer Scholars Institute will receive a visit Wednesday from IU’s first lady, Laurie Burns McRobbie, said Jack Schmit, assistant to the vice president for institutional development and student affairs.\nLaurie Burns, along with Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs Ed Marshall, will visit the students’ research labs in Jordan and Myers Hall. Her visit will give her an idea of the kind of fundraising needed for the program in the future, Schmit said.\nThe program, which started last year as an initiative by then-IU President Adam Herbert, works to provide research opportunities for and increase the number of African-American students in science and math disciplines, according to an IU news release. \nThe students in the nine-week program are from 11 historically black colleges and universities around the United States, including Morehouse College in Georgia and Xavier University in Louisiana, according to an IU news release.\n“Part of the partnership is to hopefully get those students coming to IU for graduate work,” Schmit said.\nSince it began, enrollment for STEM has doubled to 22 students who are juniors, seniors and graduate level, Schmit said.\nStudents who are chosen for the program are paired with faculty members on the IU-Bloomington or IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis campuses who have similar interests, Schmit said. During the program, students stay in campus apartments and receive a $4,000 stipend, he added. \nAnyone who is interested in the program and is thinking about going for their Ph.D. can apply online. Schmit said although some students go through the program and wind up attending graduate school somewhere else, they have a greater chance of coming back to teach at IU when they’re done getting their master’s degree.
(07/06/08 11:51pm)
A high-school student working with a professor in IU’s On-campus Precollege Enrollment-Nondegree Program will get a chance to play piano with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in late July, according to an IU news release.\nJingxuan Zhang, 15, won the orchestra’s Young Musicians Contest and the Michael Ben and Illene Komisarow Maurer Award with $1,000, according to the news release. On July 18 and 19, he will play the piece he won the competition with – the first movement of Schumann’s Concerto in A Minor.\nZhang, originally from China, started taking piano lessons when he was 5 years old. His family moved to the United States in 2001, and in 2002 they moved to Carmel, Ind., according to the news release. Zhang now studies with music professor Arnaldo Cohen, and has won awards in the Young Artist Division of the World Piano Competition put on by the American Music Scholarship Association, according to the news release. Cohen said being able to play with the symphony was a culmination of his student’s talents.\n“This is the result of Jingxuan’s hard work,” he said in the news release. “He is a delightful young man, smart and with a wonderful sense of humor. At 15, he already has an outstanding musical maturity which predicts a very bright future ahead of him.”
(07/06/08 11:50pm)
After two IU informatics students’ “Energy Challenge” saved the University money and carbon dioxide emissions in the spring, their creation is now in the competition for the Imagine Cup in Paris.\nGraduate students Will Odom and David Roedl are in Paris until July 8, when the winners in the sixth-annual competition will be announced, according to an IU news release. The Imagine Cup, sponsored by Microsoft, lets students across the world create technology-related projects that can make a difference in the world. \nThe two students make up one of six teams competing in the Imagine Cup’s final round, according to the news release. Throughout each year, online, local and regional competitions take place. The competitions culminate in the World Finals. Last year, 100,000 students participated in the competition, according to the news release.\nOdom and Roedl created the “IU Energy Challenge” through the School of Informatics Sustainable Interaction Design Research Group, which fit in with this year’s Imagine Cup’s environmental theme. In the challenge, residence halls on campus competed to see who could use less water and electricity, according to the news release. Briscoe and Teter quads won the competition, according to the IU Energy Challenge Web site. \nThe competition itself saved IU about $26,000 in utility costs and decreased carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to removing 67 cars from the road for a year, according to the news release.
(07/06/08 11:50pm)
Parts of two gravestones in Dunn Cemetery next to Beck Chapel were either broken off or stolen early Thursday morning, said IU Police Department Sgt. Rebecca Lucas, reading from a police report. No suspects have been reported.\nOfficers reported to the cemetery at 2:34 a.m. and spoke with a service employee in the Indiana Memorial Union who noticed the headstones were broken, Lucas said. The recently broken stones are in the second and third row from the IMU, she said.\nIf a suspect is found, Lucas said he or she would be charged with “cemetery mischief,” listed under Indiana Code Offenses Against Property as a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by a short-term jail sentence.\nLucas said while other cemeteries in Bloomington have problems with vandalism, gravestones aren’t usually broken or stolen at Dunn Cemetary.\nRachel Robertson, who works next to the cemetary at the IMU Biddle Hotel and Conference Center front desk, said most guests at the hotel just ask to view Beck Chapel, but some enjoy the peacefulness of the graveyard. She said she hasn’t heard of anyone damaging gravestones in the cemetery since she’s worked at the hotel.\n“I’ve been here since 2005, and I haven’t had anyone be that disrespectful,” she said.
(07/02/08 7:00pm)
Four faculty members on the IU-Bloomington campus are starting new administrative positions in the School of Education today, according to a School of Education news release.\nThe appointments include a new executive associate dean for the school, the associate dean for research, associate dean for teacher education and director of the Center for P-16 Research and Collaboration, which works to improve education through partnerships.\nDon Hossler, a professor of higher education and student affairs, was appointed for his second term as executive associate dean for the School of Education after his first term ended in 1997. Associate Professor of Instructional Systems Technology Tom Brush, who has chaired the Bloomington Committee on Teacher Education since 2006, is now associate dean for Teacher Education. Professor of Science Education Bob Sherwood, who was the program director at the National Science Foundation, is now the School of Education’s associate dean for research.\nCenter for P-16 Research and Collaboration Executive Associate Driector Ada Simmons is also now the director of the center.
(07/02/08 3:43pm)
Eugene R. Tempel will take over as IU Foundation president Sept. 1, IU announced today in a news release. IU President Michael McRobbie appointed Tempel, who is executive director of IU’s Center on Philanthropy, to the position after Curt Simic’s recent retirement.\nTempel was chosen after a 15-member search committee conducted a nationwide search, according to the news release. He will be the IU Foundation’s seventh president after the organization was created in 1936. \n“I am honored to have been asked to serve as the next president of the Indiana University Foundation,” Tempel said in the news release. “President McRobbie has created a bold vision for the future of Indiana University and has challenged the IU Foundation to build on what has been accomplished in the past to help bring that vision to life.”\nTempel is active in the Association of Fundraising Professionals and helped create the Center on Philanthropy in 1987, according to the news release. Last year he also received the James L. Fisher Award for his service to education.\nDuring Simic’s time as the foundation’s president, its endowment grew from $214 million in 1988 to $1.6 billion, according to the news release. IU is also one of the top 20 colleges in the country for support from the private sector.
(06/30/08 8:57pm)
IU President Michael McRobbie is setting out for Israel with other leaders from universities around the United States today, according to an IU news release.\nMcRobbie, who will be out of the country until July 7, will visit Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The visit will promote a closer research and academic relationship between Israel and the U.S., according to the release.\nThe trip is sponsored by Project Interchange, which has worked to provide firsthand experience of Israel and its culture for more than 4,500 leaders around the world during week-long seminars, according to the release. This will be McRobbie’s second trip out of the country since he became IU’s president last July; he visited universities in China last winter.
(06/30/08 8:50pm)
Trustee incumbent Patrick Shoulders was elected to another three-year trustee term after receiving 14,507 of 32,552 votes IU alumni cast between May 8 and 1 p.m. today, according to an IU press release.\nShoulders is vice president of the board of trustees, chair of its external relations committee and a trustee liaison to IU-Southeast New Albany. This year’s trustee election received 2,999 more votes this year than last year’s election, according to the news release. About 45 percent ballots were cast online – this was the first year alumni had the option of voting on paper or online, according to the news release. \nTrustee candidate and Indiana attorney Kelly Smith received 11,306 votes, while Michigan consultant Samuel Locke received 6,739 votes.
(06/28/08 6:38pm)
About 1,000 faculty and staff members, friends, family and donors gathered Friday to celebrate the work of recently retired IU Foundation President Curt Simic.
(06/26/08 10:49pm)
Police officers and officers-in-training have the chance this week to drive at high speeds.\nFriday will culminate a weeklong Emergency Vehicle Operations Course training program for IU Police Department Police Academy cadets and IUPD, Bloomington Police Department and Monroe County Sheriff’s Department personnel, according to an IU Police Department press release. \nThe training, held on the west side of Memorial Stadium, lets officers and cadets learn how to brake, park and back up at normal and high speeds, according to the press release.
(06/25/08 12:58pm)
A group of students from the Southern Federal University in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, will visit IU this week through an IU exchange program.\nIU’s Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages will host a welcome reception for the group at 7 p.m. today in Willkie Quad, said Steven Franks, professor and chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.\nThe visit comes after a group of IU students spent two weeks in May studying public health in Rostov-on-Don, Franks said. He added that the ceremony will give the students a chance to mingle with IU students and get a taste for the University. \nThe exchange program is funded by a two-year $400,000 grant, which was awarded in 2007 to IU’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis School of Public and Environmental Affairs, according to an IU press release. The grant was awarded to help further Russian language ability and improve understanding of international public health policy, according to the press release.
(06/24/08 7:26pm)
IU neuroanatomy professor Jill Bolte Taylor will appear Wednesday on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” according to NPR media relations.\nTaylor, who was recently named as one of Time Magazine’s top 100 influential people, suffered a stroke in 1996. The stroke gave her an insight into her studies, Taylor said in a May 2008 Indiana Daily Student article. As an advocate of mental-illness awareness, Taylor gives lectures around the country, telling her story, she said in the article.\n“Fresh Air” airs at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday on WFIU, 103.7 FM.
(06/24/08 3:11am)
An IU student was arrested early Sunday morning for assaulting a man near the intersection of Eighth and Dunn streets, said IU Police Department Captain Jerry Minger, reading from a police report.\nMatthew B. Daspin, 20, faces preliminary charges of battery.\nAt about 2:45 a.m., IUPD Officer Stephen Luce was dispatched to the intersection of Eighth and Dunn streets, where someone was reported to be carrying a baseball bat around, Minger said. When officers arrived, a man walking by Bloomington Bagel Company was bleeding from the face, Minger said. A witness later told Luce he didn’t see anyone fighting, but he did see a large male swinging a stick or baseball bat and yelling at people, Minger said.\nBloomington Police Department officers were called to the scene and found Daspin in a nearby house, Minger said. Daspin’s shirt was clean, but his pants and shoes had blood on them and he matched the description of the person who assaulted the victim. Daspin didn’t admit to hitting or striking the victim, but said the two did get into a “friendly wrestling match,” Minger said. Daspin said the victim started the fight by speaking rudely to him and coming onto Daspin’s property, Minger said. Daspin also had bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and smelled like alcohol, Minger said.\nDaspin was arrested and transported to the Monroe County Jail.
(06/22/08 7:39pm)
China’s 320 million children will have a chance to get physical activity at school every day, thanks to Lloyd Kolbe.\nOver the past year, the professor of applied health science in IU’s School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation has worked on a program the Chinese government created called “Sunny Sports China,” according to an IU news release. The program will require China’s 1.6 million schools to set aside a time during the school day for children to exercise, and will ultimately work to help alleviate health concerns, according to the news release. These mainly involve problems with children being either underweight or overweight and not getting the nutrients they need, according to the news release.\nKolbe was the founding director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Adolescent and School Health and has worked on health projects in China for about 20 years, according to the news release.\nAlong with a team of HPER administrators, Kolbe recently traveled to China and Taiwan to meet and discuss the project with government officials.
(06/21/08 8:50pm)
A proposed partnership between IU and Purdue University will enhance Indiana’s health and life-science industries, said Associate Vice President for Public Affairs JT Forbes.\nThe Indiana Innovation Alliance, which was announced today, would bring in various universities, businesses and other organizations to conduct research on creating new businesses and improving the health of Indiana’s residents, according to the release. At Indiana’s next General Assembly the two universities will request a total of $70 million – $35 million for the next two fiscal years, Forbes said. Each year, $5 million of the $35 million will go toward increasing enrollment at the IU School of Medicine by 30 percent, according to an IU news release.\nBefore being presented to the General Assembly, the plan must be approved by both IU and Purdue’s board of trustees during their meetings today and Friday in South Bend and West Lafayette, according to the release.
(06/21/08 8:50pm)
At a press conference Friday in South Bend, IU President Michael McRobbie will announce the completion of IU’s I-Light system, according to an IU news release. Through more than 1,000 miles of fiber-optic cable all over the state, the project will provide faster Internet connections to more than 40 Indiana colleges by the end of the year, according to the release.\nDuring the conference, Indiana House Speaker B. Patrick Bauer (D-South Bend) will speak, and examples of I-Light’s benefits for Indiana will also be showcased.
(06/21/08 8:50pm)
IU’s offer to house Hoosier families affected by recent flooding has been accepted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority, said Kirk White, IU director of community relations.\nAfter realizing the flood’s growing effect on Indiana residents, Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations Mike Sample asked White to see if IU could accommodate flood victims. Residential Programs and Services told White 30 housing units are available for flood victims until the end of July. As of yesterday, the plan was still being considered, White said. \n“We’re now working with that agency to make those units available for displaced Hoosiers,” he said.
(06/19/08 12:04am)
The IU Board of Trustees will give University project updates and discuss a new budget at its next meeting June 19-20 on the IU-South Bend campus.\nAn approval of IU’s 2009-2011 budget for state aid will be the most important issue during the meeting, said IU Spokesman Larry MacIntyre. IU-Bloomington’s previous budget was $1.1 billion, MacIntyre said, with $218.6 million of that coming from the Indiana government. The new budget, which will be a similar amount, will be presented to the state legislature in January, MacIntyre said. \nThe trustee meeting will be broken into different sessions and committees spanning over the two-day period, including Academic Affairs and University Policies, Facilities, Finance and Audit and External Relations Committees. The meetings will include various updates on all of the campuses, including presentations on building projects by University Architect Bob Meadows and a presentation on IU’s Information Technology Strategic Plan by Vice President for Information Technology Brad Wheeler.\nProjects on a few of IU’s eight campuses will also be up for approval. One project includes laboratory renovations in Jordan Hall, which would cost about $2 million and create three laboratories on the ground and first floors of the building. Another proposed IU-Bloomington project involves infrastructure changes to the IU Data Center, which houses IU’s Big Red supercomputer.