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(02/27/13 4:26am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU and Purdue University will compete once again.Beginning at midnight Thursday an online race to raise the most money against Purdue University for this year’s Relay for Life will commence. The competition is sponsored by IU’s Colleges Against Cancer Executive Board. The school that receives the most online donations between Thursday and Friday will be the winner.The losing school will face several consequences. During their own Relay for Life, the loser will have to dedicate a lap to the other university while the fight song of the winner plays, IU’s Colleges Against Cancer Executive Board President Kelly Glass said. Also, the losing executive board must present the winning executive board with the “Oaken Luminaria” while dressed in apparel of the winning school. “There’s always been an unwritten competition,” Glass said. “But this is the first year we are doing something big and official.”The “Oaken Luminaria” is a reflection of the “Oaken Bucket” that is presented to the winning football team after the annual Bucket Game. The ceremony at the end is also a mirror of the Luminaria ceremony that takes place at each Relay for Life, she said.The 10th annual charity fundraising event, IU’s Relay for Life will take place April 6-7. Students can register as individuals or team members to walk laps around Gladstein Fieldhouse to raise money for the American Cancer Society.Participants can purchase and decorate their own luminarias that are lit around their walking area to honor those with cancer.“The competition is foremost obviously about raising more money for American Cancer Society,” Glass said. “But, it’s more than that. At IU our biggest fundraiser is the Dance Marathon, at Purdue theirs is Relay for Life. We want to spark more interest. It’s a rivalry thing.”In close to 10 years, IU has raised approximately $385,000 for Relay for Life, said Erica Meyers, American Cancer Society representative for IU. “This year, the goal is to raise $35,000,” Meyers said.Before kicking off the competition, the executive board invites all Relay for Life team captains and team members to join them at a meeting at 8 p.m. today in the Kelley Business School 109. All members in attendance are encouraged to wear IU spirit apparel. During this meeting, the Purdue Executive Board and its team members will Skype in to finalize the rules. “The IU Relay community is really excited to compete with Purdue,” Meyers said. “We are leaps and bounds ahead of where we were last year, and feel confident in the challenge. If Relay is anything like basketball ... we should have no problem defeating the Boilermakers.”
(01/23/13 4:56am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Peace Corps will make a special visit to campus this week for service week. Laura Fonseca, regional recruiter for Kentucky and southern Indiana, said the Peace Corps is “a federal agency that sends paid volunteers to areas of high need.” “We work in a variety of these areas and provide much needed assistance,” Fonseca said. “We share American culture with the areas abroad and bring the cultures from abroad back home to the United States.”The first event on campus was Monday, a service discussion where Peace Corps representatives discussed what qualities make a great Peace Corps volunteer. A panel in which students can interact and ask questions to a group of representatives followed the discussion.Students can visit the Peace Corps booth today at the Career Fair in Willkie Auditorium and talk to the representatives personally about starting a career and the application process. Thursday evening, the Peace Corps will have an information session to teach more about the Peace Corps volunteer’s specific job description. The session will also include information and tips about how to apply. To finish up the week, students can meet one-on-one with a Peace Corps representative Friday during the on-campus office hours that will be 9-11 a.m. in the Career Development Center.IU currently ranks No. 27 among all large universities in number of alumni serving in the Peace Corps, said Jessica Mayle, Chicago’s regional office’s public affairs coordinator. Since the agency was created in 1961, 1,549 IU alumni have served in the Peace Corps. With 51 IU students currently serving abroad, the school is the No. 13 all-time producer of volunteers, she said.Those interested in applying for the Peace Corps can begin by applying online at peacecorps.gov. The entire application process generally takes between nine and 12 months, Fonseca said.“What we’re trying to make sure is the applicant has an understanding of the core values of the Peace Corps and that we’re matching them with their best fit,” Fonseca said.The Peace Corps looks for the most dedicated applicants to join, Fonseca said. “It’s important for people to know that if giving back and international development is at all something that you are interested in, coming out to an information session is a great start,” Fonseca said. “While the Peace Corps is looking for a certain type of individual, even if you are not sure, come out and find out as much as you can. It is an opportunity of a lifetime. So come and find out if this is a good match for you.” A complete list of the events and descriptions can be found at peacecorps.gov/meet/events/?state=16&keyword_search=Bloomington.
(01/09/13 4:16am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Hannah Smith returned home from teaching English in China in 2010 and began what would become BANGS shoe company.Inspired by the olive-green, army-style shoes worn by native Chinese construction and field workers, Smith founded a “social enterprise,” or a for-profit organization, of shoes. IU junior Meredith Katz is BANGS’ campus leader at IU and said her definition of for-profit is “a company whose goal is to maximize profits, as well as to maximize improvements of our world.”“This improvement can be environmental, economical, related to human well-being, truly anything,” Katz said. “Think about it as combining a for-profit organization with a non-profit’s goals.”BANGS shoe company sells blue, green, khaki and red shoes. The colors represent different non-profit causes. “Part of the proceeds from each sale are donated to one of the four non-profit organizations,” Katz said. “Blue shoes support clean water, green shoes support development initiatives, khaki shoes aid in alleviating hunger, and red helps in disaster aid.”The four companies that receive the benefits of this partnership are Drop in the Bucket, SOUL Foundation, CHOICE Humanitarian and Global DIRT. Katz began working with BANGS through a family connection. As the company’s representative at IU, she’s responsible for spreading awareness of BANGS across campus by working with other student organizations to hold promotion events and working with Bloomington stores to sell the company’s shoes. Katz works closely with the Kelley Institute of Social Impact, which seeks to involve students with social entrepreneurship and economic development work.“I inform IU’s students about ways to make a sustainable change, and, by just simply one purchase of BANGS shoes, one is making a difference,” Katz said. “I am showing IU students that there is more to this shoe than appears to the eye. By wearing these shoes, you show your desire to alleviate harsh global issues by standing with BANGS to help others.” In just three years, Smith’s idea has become something bigger, Katz said. “My favorite part of the job is honestly speaking to people about BANGS,” she said. “Whenever people see and ask about my own pair of BANGS shoes, I instantly smile and explain why I wear these shoes.”This company stands not only to make a profit but also to promote social awareness of those in need and show people they can make a big difference by simply buying a pair of shoes, Katz said. She said BANGS has already positively affected her life.“It is companies like BANGS today who are erasing the line dividing non-profits and for-profit businesses and combining it into one,” she said.“BANGS Shoes shows me, personally, there is a way that I can have a career that can truly make a global difference.”Katz is currently working to build a larger team on IU’s campus. She said she feels the company’s presence at IU will continue to grow. “With IU’s globally-conscious culture, I have faith that BANGS will soon be a popular trend here at school,” Katz said.
(10/17/12 4:44am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>As technology becomes a more important part of education and research, IU seeks resources to keep up with the trend.The University has recently acquired the fastest university-owned supercomputer, named Big Red II. This machine is appropriately named after Big Red, the University’s current supercomputer. The first supercomputer was a part of the University for seven years, outliving the average life of a supercomputer by three years, Vice President of Information Technology Brad Wheeler said.“The old supercomputer will barely make it to the finish line,” he said. “We have absolutely extracted all the value out of that machine.”This is evident in the $253 million in research contracts and grants that were secured through the use of Big Red. Big Red II was purchased from a United States-based supercomputer company called Cray, including installation and maintenance for an estimated $7.5 million, Wheeler said. “The purchase of Big Red II will mean IU will be increasingly attractive to some of the best faculty in the nation as it gives them the tools to compete at the front edge of education,” he said.Big Red II is scheduled to arrive in April and be housed at IU Bloomington’s Data Center. This technology will be available to everyone at IU. Faculty and graduate students can use it any time. Undergraduate students can use it with a faculty sponsor.Through the advanced technology researchers will be able to create and study models of several subjects, including medical uses such as biology and chemistry, as well as other sciences.The new supercomputer will be able to function at a much faster rate than Big Red.According to the University Information Technology Services Knowledge Base, one measure of a supercomputer’s compute capacity is in terms of the number of “FLOPs”, or floating point operations per second.A teraflop is one trillion floating point operations per second.The higher the number of teraflops, the greater the number of operations can be performed within one second.To compare the old and new systems, Big Red was 40 teraflops, whereas Big Red II will be 1,000 teraflops.“I think the main importance of Big Red II is that it just continues to make IU and the State of Indiana very competitive in research and jobs,” Wheeler said. “Without it, we wouldn’t have the tools that we need for further economic development.”
(09/21/12 4:34am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU’s Office of Archives and Records Management collection of Charles Cushman photo slides is complete, thanks to the nearly 2,000 slides discovered by Rich Remsberg.An IU alumnus, Cushman was famous for his Kodachrome photographs of 20th-century America. It was a portion of these photo slides that Remsberg, another alumnus, found in the office of a former professor.Remsberg came across the slides while helping a soon-to-retire professor clean out his office. He said he noticed the high quality of the photos when he viewed them on a slide projector with a friend.“I was struck by how good they were,” Remsberg said. “I didn’t know anything about the photographer, but I knew that this was uncommon.”After debuting some of the slides at a poetry reading, Kathy Parker, former development officer at the IU School of Journalism, approached Remsberg. She identified the photos as Cushman’s and gave Remsberg contact information for Cushman’s widow, Elizabeth.Remsberg said he learned how popular Cushman’s work was when he spoke with Brad Cook, photograph curator at the archives.When Cook casually mentioned Cushman’s name in reference to an archive collection, Remsberg said his “head spun around.”The archives house about 12,500 of Cushman’s colored and black-and-white slide collection.It also includes the notebooks Cushman left behind, which describe the circumstances and environment of every photo. Cook explained that when Cushman died in 1972, his wife sent the majority of his photograph collection to the archives. She later found more photos and sent them to the IU Foundation. Unsure of what to do with the slides, the foundation gave them to a professor — the professor whose office Remsberg found the slides in. While the slides are in cold storage in the archives and rarely brought out, all of Cushman’s colored photos can be viewed online at this link.The digitization of the photos was made possible by a grant given to the library by the Institute of Museum and Library Services in 2000. After receiving the grant, Kristine Brancolini and several other team members worked for three years to publish the photos online. Cushman’s work remains in demand today.“There is not a week goes by that I don’t get a request for a publication or a print of Cushman’s work,” Cook said.
(09/17/12 2:35am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Calling all artists. As a link between the student population and creative arts, the Union Board student committee produces a magazine each semester featuring the talents of IU students.From now until Sept. 21, the committee will accept submissions from undergraduate and graduate students to be considered for the next publication of Canvas Creative Arts Magazine.The style or genre of submissions is unlimited, Canvas Editor and Inside Magazine Social Media Director Dianne Osland said.“If it’s well written and/or can fit into the magazine, it will be considered,” Osland said. Submissions can include — but are not limited to — poetry, short stories, formal essays, paintings, drawings or photos of other artwork.After the submission deadline, the committee will spend the rest of the semester reviewing each piece submitted and select the best pieces for publication. “If it’s something that really connects with the group, or we think ‘oh wow, we really like the way this sounds,’ it doesn’t matter what it is,” said junior Jared Thomas, committee director. “We’ll find a way to fit it in.” Committee members said they hope to debut their next issue and celebrate the magazine at their premiere party.The magazine committee was awarded the title of “Best Literary Magazine” by the Indiana Collegiate Press Association in spring 2011.Until the next issue is published, students can pick up a copy of the current issue free of charge at the Canvas Creative Arts newsstand located in the Indiana Memorial Union Starbucks.Students can submit up to six pieces for the upcoming issue. To submit a piece, visit the magazine’s website at ubcanvas.com and click on the submission tab for further directions. There is no application process.