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(06/19/11 11:15pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Almost two weeks after 12 Hoosiers were named All-Americans, the IU track and field team will have a chance to defend that honor.IU will compete at the 2011 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships from June 23-26 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.This year, the event will feature athletes who represented IU at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa.Senior Devin Pipkin and junior Kind Butler will compete for a qualification in the 100-meter run event. Pipkin and Butler are part of the IU quartet that broke the school record, earned All-American honors and finished seventh in the 4x100 meter relay at the NCAA nationals.The women’s shot put will feature senior Faith Sherrill, who finished fourth at both the indoor and outdoor 2011 NCAA nationals.The men’s 3,000 meter steeplechase will have juniors Andrew Poore and De’Sean Turner, who finished third and sixth, respectively, at the NCAA national championship. Poore also qualified for the 5,000 meter run and the 10,000 meter run.Senior Sarah Pease will defend her chances in the women’s 3,000 meter steeplechase. Pease finished ninth in the event at the national championship.Both senior Vera Neuenswander and sophomore Kelsie Ahbe, who took fourth and sixth, respectively, at the NCAA nationals in the pole vault, will jump for a world championships qualification.The top three of each event earn a ticket for the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea from Aug. 27 to Sept. 4.The 2011 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships will be broadcast on ESPN 2 and NBC.
(06/13/11 1:04am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU finished the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship with nine All-Americans and nine top-10 finishes. The men finished with 11 points as a team, taking 20th place, while the women scored 13 points, taking 23rd place.IU coach Ron Helmer said the team competed well in the championship environment.“We acted like we belonged there and we performed well under pressure,” he said, “and this is promising.”Thirteen IU athletes competed in the four-day meet in Des Moines, Iowa at Drake Stadium.All the IU athletes beat first-day jitters and made it to the finals. The 4x100 meter relay team, composed of freshman Tyler Sult, junior Kind Butler, sophomore Chris Vaughn and senior Devin Pipkin, ran its best time of the season.They also beat the school record by half a second, posting a time of 39.12. The previous record was set by the last Hoosier group to make it to the NCAA finals in 1992.By successfully completing the relay in the final, Sult, Butler, Vaughn and Pipkin will also become All-Americans in the event for the first time since 1971. In the men’s 3,000 meter steeplechase, juniors Andrew Poore, De’Sean Turner and Andy Weatherford, also qualified for the finals.Poore and Turner placed fourth and fifth, respectively, in their heats in 8:44.56 and 8:49.32 and earned automatic qualifications for the final. Weatherford finished seventh in his heat and also qualified with 8:49.34.Pease punched her ticket to the final on the 3,000 meter steeplechase. She ran a season-best of 10:05.89, finishing eighth in her heat. The third day, four IU athletes earned All-America honors, and Poore took third place in the 3,000 meter steeplechase.Poore and Turner respectively finished third and sixth in the 3,000 meter steeplechase, and senior Vera Neuenswander and sophomore Kelsie Ahbe took fourth and sixth on the pole vault.In the 3,000 meter steeplechase, Poore took third-place in 8:36.40, his best time in an NCAA meet. Turner finished sixth in 8:39.12. Poore and Turner both beat the best finish ever in the steeplechase by an IU athlete, beating the seventh-place finish by Mark Gibbens in 1968. Weatherford finished 10th in 8:47.72 and earned second-team All-America honors in the event.In the pole vault, Neuenswander and Ahbe finished fourth and sixth, respectively. They both cleared 4.30 meters. Neuenswander cleared the 4.30 meter bar on her first attempt, while Ahbe cleared it on her third. Ahbe beat her personal record by an inch and a half. Neuenswander and Ahbe are the only two Hoosiers to clear 14 feet and earn All-America honors in the women’s pole vault.Nine IU athletes competed on the last day of the meet. In the women’s shot put, senior Faith Sherrill took fourth place, equalizing her finish at the indoor championships in March. Sherrill launched a throw of 17.54 meters on her fifth throw. With this fourth-place finish, Sherrill is the 17th All-America Hoosier in the history of women’s shot put. Junior Monique Riddick took 21st with a throw of 15.81 meters.In the final of the men’s 4X100 meter relay, Sult, Butler, Vaughn and Pipkin finished seventh in 39.63, earning All-America honors for the first time since 1971 and for the third time in the event for IU.In the final of the women’s 3,000 meter steeplechase, senior Sarah Pease finished ninth in 10:11.94 and earned second-team All-America honors.The last Hoosier athletes represented were Ben Hubers and Poore in the men’s 5,000 meter. Hubers finished ninth and ran his career best with a time of 13:43.06. After taking third place in the 3,000 meter steeplechase on Friday, Poore finished 18th of the 5,000 meter, with a time of 14:02.49.
(06/02/11 12:03am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Throughout the three-day competition in the NCAA East Preliminary Round from May 26 to 28, at IU’s Robert C. Haugh Track and Field Complex, a total of 13 IU track and field athletes qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships. The championships will take place from June 8 to 11 in Des Moines, Iowa.“Overall, every athlete that we had that I thought had a chance to score the national championships finals advanced,” IU coach Ron Helmer said. “We did not get any surprises, but the top-level athletes that we have are rock-solid. They did a great job, and I think we are set up to do well at the national championships.”Women’s shot put throwers, senior Faith Sherrill and junior Monique Riddick, and pole vaulters, senior Vera Neuenswander and sophomore Kelsie Ahbe, were the Hoosiers’ first national qualifiers.Sherrill was the top-ranked East thrower entering the prelims, and she upheld her status by winning the competition with a 17.51-meter toss. Teammate Riddick placed 12th with a 16.24-meter toss.In the pole vault competition, Neuenswander cleared both 3.85- and 4.00-meter heights while Ahbe cleared the latter. Neuenswander and Ahbe became IU’s first pole vault duo to reach the NCAAs in the same season.The Hoosiers scored qualifications on the track as well. Four IU athletes placed in the top-four of their respective 3,000-meter steeplechase heat to punch tickets to Iowa.Junior De’Sean Turner won the third men’s heat in 8:39.40, scoring the third-best time in IU history.Turner’s teammates, juniors Andrew Poore and Andy Weatherford, also advanced to the NCAAs. Poore placed second in the first men’s heat, running in 8:51.32 while Weatherford finished fourth in the second heat with a time of 8:46.62.On the women’s side, senior Sarah Pease also qualified for the national meet, finishing third in her heat with a time of 10:09.14.Senior Devin Pipkin was unable to qualify in the men’s 100-meter event, but bounced back with freshman Tyler Sult, junior Kind Butler and sophomore Chris Vaughn in the men’s 4x100-meter relay.The quartet finished first in its heat and ran its best time of the season, posting a time of 39.68 seconds. The time is just .06 second behind the school record.By winning their heat, the team became the first IU squad to qualify for the NCAAs since 1992.“This is an indescribable feeling,” Butler said. “We worked so hard for this. It’s like waking up Christmas morning and expecting a present.”IU associate coach Jeff Huntoon has seen constant effort and support in his national-qualifying team on a daily basis.“This is a group that just stuck together from day one,” Huntoon said. “They never had any downs with one another, and they’ve just been so supportive with one another. Collectively, they’ve all done the job and they did it so well and before you know it, you get something like that.”Juniors Poore and Ben Hubers were the last Hoosier athletes to make the NCAAs.Hubers and Poore placed fourth and fifth in their men’s 5,000-meter heat, earning an automatic qualification. Hubers finished in 14:08.30 and Poore in 14:09.37 to advance to the national championships for the second straight year.“I felt like there was a little pressure on me today because we had three steeplechasers qualified last night, and I was getting really excited and it was my turn,” Hubers said. “I was a little nervous, but I wasn’t really worried about today, I was just trying to relax; I knew if I raced like I’ve been racing all year, that would do the job.”Both Hubers and Poore agreed they had been working toward this goal ever since they arrived at IU.“I think it’s the kind of program we’ve been striving to have since we both came here,” Hubers said. “I came to IU because I knew we had a bunch of really strong recruits in my class. We’ve been saying for years we’ve got a lot of potential, we’re going to be good, and I think hard work is finally starting to pay off.”After a weekend of qualifications, Helmer and the team are looking forward to the NCAA meet.“We pride ourselves at being as good away from home as we are at home, and I think we are,” Helmer said. “It was great to be able to do this at home and in front of our crowd, and our athletes performed well, so they took advantage of the positives that are here for us and made it a good weekend for us.”
(05/30/11 6:12pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>It was two-for-two for IU on Saturday in the men’s 5,000-meter event.Juniors Ben Hubers and Andrew Poore earned their qualifications for the NCAA Outdoor Championships on June 8-11 in Des Moines, Iowa with fourth- and fifth-place finishes, respectively, in the NCAA East Preliminary Meet at IU’s Robert C. Haugh Track and Field Complex.Hubers finished in 14:08.30 and Poore in 14:09.37 to advance to the national championships for the second straight year. “Ben and I especially work together in every single race, either he feeds off of me or I feed off of him,” Poore said. “And today the race play was I take it out early. I just position us, make sure we’re in the place we need to be, but ever since last night, maybe Ben was going to feel a little better leading the race, so he took it over."Poore will be competing in two events at the NCAAs since he also advanced in the 3,000-meter steeplechase on Friday.“I felt like there was a little pressure on me today, because we had three steeplechasers qualified last night, and I was getting really excited and it was my turn,” Hubers said. “I was a little nervous but I wasn’t really worried about today, I was just trying to relax, I knew if I raced like I’ve been racing all year, that would do the job.”IU coach Ron Helmer expresses his feelings after the qualification of Hubers and Poore.“I was excited,” Helmer said. “Ben and Andrew out there, they put the exclamation point out, they needed to be in the top-five, they ran tactically a great race, they made the top-five.“Every day, if somebody came out wanting to root for Indiana, they had something to be excited about, to be proud of and that’s important. That makes me proud of what our athletes went to accomplish.”Both Hubers and Poore agreed they had been working toward this goal ever since they arrived at IU.“I think it’s the kind of program we’ve been striving to have since we both came here,” Hubers said. “I came to IU because I knew we had a bunch of really strong recruits in my class. We’ve been saying for years we’ve got a lot of potential we’re going to be good, and I think hard work is finally starting to pay off and what we wanted when we came here.”Hubers said that with Derek Drouin and Andy Bayer out for injuries, the team trophy at the NCAA Outdoor meet seems to be out of the picture, but he said the ones who qualified still have strong goals and look forward to competing in Iowa.“Without those two, it will be hard to get a team trophy, but at the same time, we have been doing pretty well, and we’ve also managed to maintain a pretty balanced track team as well,” Hubers said. “It will be kind of cool to go out there as a distance team and try to beat a lot of these sprint schools and big time track programs.”Hubers and Poore agreed being at home represents an advantage, and also brings an extra motivation to perform well.“All the families are here, not just your teammates, but also athletes around the team, administrators, friends that you see every day in Bloomington, they’re all around,” Poore said. “It’s definitely a comfort advantage, a relaxation advantage.”Helmer added that the IU athletes have the ability to perform well at home as well as on the road.“We pride ourselves at being as good away from home as we are at home, and I think we are,” Helmer said. “It was great to be able to do this at home and in front of our crowd, and our athletes performed well, so they took advantage of the positives that are here for us and made it a good weekend for us.“The national meet is such an incredible competition, and I think we’re up to it, so we’ll see what happens.”
(05/30/11 6:02pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU 4x100-meter relay had one goal coming into the NCAA East Preliminary Round: qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships from June 8-11 in Des Moines, Iowa.On Saturday, in front of their home crowd at the Robert C. Haugh Track and Field Complex, freshman Tyler Sult, junior Kind Butler, sophomore Chris Vaughn and senior Devin Pipkin finally accomplished what they have been striving for.“We were just trying to get our ticket to Iowa. We’ve been working on this all season, we got our hand off swipe, finally,” Butler said. “We opened up our shame zone, and we wanted it so bad that we got it.”They earned their ticket for the national championship, and they did it with the manner.The quartet finished first in its heat and ran its best time of the season, posting a time of 39.68 seconds. The time is just .06 of a second behind the school record.By winning their heat, the 4x100 team automatically earned their qualification for the national meet, being the first team to accomplish this performance since 1992.“This is an indescribable feeling,” Butler said. “We worked so hard for this. It’s like waking up Christmas morning and expecting a present.”IU’s track and field program has been more recognized for its distance performance throughout the years. Thus for the 4x100 team, it meant a lot to qualify in an event where they have not been expected as much.“We’re just trying to put IU sprint back on the map,” Sult said. “We’ve got a lot of sprinters around here, so we’re trying to make a name for IU.”IU coach Ron Helmer agreed the qualification proved IU sprinting is developing a reputable program.“Schools become known for being good in a certain event area. IU has a great history, and a very lengthy history, and for the 4x100 to run the second fastest time, to almost break the school record...in a program like this, it sends a message that we’re not just interested in one area,” Helmer said.“For a school in a kind of cold weather country, to have that level sprinters, I think more than anything it gets our program and our athletes respected because they are performing well against very good athletes, in multiple event areas.”The 4x100 athletes described the team’s close relationship as their key to success.“We’re like brothers,” Butler said. “We hang out, we play video games, we eat the same food, and we just became a family.”IU associate coach Jeff Huntoon has seen that in his national-qualifying team on a daily basis.“This is a group that just stuck together from day one,” Huntoon said. “They never had any downs with one another, and they’ve just been so supportive with one another. “Collectively, they’ve all done the job and they did it so well and before you know it, you get something like that.”Another key has been their hard work and the confidence they have had in themselves.“Every day, we’re coming out here to practice, telling each other, we got this, we’re getting it,” Sult said. “We’re making outrageous claims that we’re going to be the best in the world, and we were pretty confident.”Huntoon expressed hope that the team would end its run in Iowa the way the 1992 qualifying unit did: place.“There’s no question that the world is out, and it’s neat now, because all the events are clicking,” Huntoon said. “It’s a special group, and that group placed at nationals, and that’s the goal for us now.”
(05/06/11 3:34am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Jason Jackson, IU associate professor of folklore in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of the annual Faculty Mentor Award.He received the award April 28 at the annual IU Graduate School Awards Ceremony in recognition of his “outstanding commitment and mentorship to graduate students at IU Bloomington,” said Graduate and Professional Student Organization coordinator Angela Jones.The annual Faculty Mentor Award is presented to one professor by the GPSO and the University Graduate School. All graduate and professional students are invited to give their support to faculty members who they feel deserve special recognition for exemplary behavior.“Receiving this award was a huge surprise and very moving and meaningful to me,” Jackson said, who is also editor of Museum Anthropology Review, an open access journal that he and his colleagues founded in early 2007. “The news came just as I was beginning to shake off a difficult period in my work, and it was a tremendous reminder of all that is amazing about the job that I have the good fortune to do.”Jackson also said this award is a great opportunity to highlight the commitment of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology to leadership in the areas of teaching and mentoring.“Teaching in general is an honor and a privilege,” Jackson said. “But studying with, and learning from, graduate students of the caliber of those with whom I work is a rare and remarkable thing.”With this recognition, Jackson hopes to call campus-wide attention to the excellence of the students associated with the program. He raises the issue of economic funding to be able to pursue better research, highlighting the “doing more with less” ideology that he says his department has been pursuing for many years.“While academically excellent, I also have in mind the remarkable degree to which the graduate students manage to create both community and careers out of very, very scarce resources,” Jackson said. “These students are entrepreneurs and bricoleurs. They would be that much stronger if we could offer them additional faculty and financial support.”In addition to being a faculty member in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Jackson is an adjunct associate professor of anthropology and an affiliated faculty member in the American Studies Program and the Cultural Studies Program at IU. He works with students in all of these areas.Jackson emphasized the idea that he and his colleagues tend to work with each student as they pursue a highly individualized course of study and research. Many of his students pursue fieldwork projects on diverse topics around the world in places as different as Kazakhstan, Israel, Japan and Canada’s Northwest Territories.“Quality, quantity and diversity are our key words,” Jackson said. “Sometimes exhaustion is one too.”Jackson said he is appreciative of the unique opportunities to work with students that he is given on a daily basis. “The graduate students that I work with are amazing people from whom I learn daily,” Jackson said. “They are kind and smart and they really care about fostering community, both among themselves and in the wider world. These students are seeking to prepare for the human challenges of the 21st century, and I am thankful for all the ways that they enrich my life.”
(04/26/11 2:08am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The head of the Government Information and Kent Cooper Services Department in IU’s Herman B Wells Library, Lou Malcomb, was honored with the 2011 Documents to the People Award.The award was presented by LexisNexis, Government Documents Round Table, or GODORT, and the American Library Association.GODORT is an American Library membership group whose mission is to provide a forum for the discussion of issues and for the exchange of ideas by librarians working with government documents.Malcomb was honored for “commitment, creativity and dedication to the principles embodied in the phrase ‘Documents to the People,’” the organization wrote in a statement.“As government information librarians, we take pride in being sure that we provide access to government information and that information are equitably distributed,” Malcomb said. “Our work has represented an effort to further the goal of making government information readily available to students, faculty, citizens, so that’s very much of an honor to receive this award.”During her 40 years with the IU Libraries, Malcomb’s methods of finding information have expanded from frequent phone calls to government agencies and “knowing where to look” in books to the addition of web searches, emails and live online chats with library patrons.“During the time that Lou has been here, there have been phenomenal changes in how government information is delivered,” said Carolyn Walters, executive associate dean of the libraries at IU. “So to have her recognized by her peers is very special, and it is a wonderful recognition for the service that she provides here at the library to students and faculty.”Malcomb facilitates access to government information by helping faculty in their research and students with figuring out how the library works.“I really like working with Lou and having her involved in my classes because of her energy and excitement about doing research,” said associate professor of journalism Mike Conway. “She is trying to show students what a great resource the library is, and she does a great job in demystifying the process and helping to understand where things are.”Recently, Malcomb and her working group have formed the basis of the Indiana Light Archive for Federal Documents, a partnership among various libraries in Indiana whose goal is to preserve one print copy of historically significant documents in Indiana.“Over the past 15 years, Lou has been instrumental in many creative projects that recognize the value of government information to the citizens of Indiana as well as Indiana University,” Walters said. “So all of those demonstrate how Lou has led transformation from print to electronic.”Currently, Malcomb staffs the web-based service Government Information Online: Ask a Librarian. Launched a couple of years ago, the service enables the public to ask librarians from federal depository libraries nationwide questions related to any federal agency through live chat or email.“It is one place where citizens throughout the U.S. can come in, ask a question, and they will get the reference librarian to answer it from a government perspective,” Malcomb said. “I think that is a marvelous service that makes our expertise available to anyone throughout the nation.”Malcomb said thanks to this award she hopes to call attention to how easy it is nowadays in the digital environment to get access to federal historical documents.The way she wants to do it is through the HathiTrust, a collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries where documents are digitized and put on the Internet.“We want to put as many federal historical documents up on the Internet so that citizens can get to them without barriers,” Malcomb said. Malcomb explained the advantages and disadvantages to online information.“The development of the Internet and online searches has radically made government information much more findable, discoverable and easy to use, but a lot of it is still very intimidating,” Malcomb said. “That’s why I think librarians are critical in this area of operation to make sure students and faculty are not put off by the quantity of information. That’s where the IU libraries can help.”
(04/19/11 1:50am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Indiana Geological Survey, an applied research institute of IU, has been chosen as one of the U.S. partners in the newly created U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center.“It’s a wonderful opportunity for Indiana University researchers to collaborate with leading universities, national laboratories and corporations in both China and the U.S.,” said Senior Research Scientist John Rupp, who is leading the IGS participation in the project. “The fundamental value of this collaboration is that we are going to combine our knowledge with those in China with complementary knowledge to address some of the tough questions associated with coal utilization and environmental issues.”The CERC is an international research collaboration whose purpose is to facilitate joint research, development and commercialization of clean energy technologies for the United States and China.The CERC has three divisions: energy efficiency, electric vehicles and clean coal technologies. The IGS is involved in the Advanced Coal Technologies Collaboration, a program that addresses key research tasks in support of clean coal power generation and conversion, the development of new and low-cost products and waste capture technologies, and the development of geological sequestration practices.The research tasks under the CERC-ACTC will help to accelerate the development and deployment of clean coal technology in both the United States and China in support of economical and reliable electrical power, gas and liquid fuels.“This is a validation to us that our partners recognize the value of the skills and talents we bring to the collaboration,” IGS Director John Steinmetz said. “We are fortunate to be among the foremost carbon sequestration researchers in the U.S. and in China, and we are very pleased to play such a prominent role.”The IGS will work with geoscientists at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories, the Wyoming Geological Survey, West Virginia University, the University of Kentucky and the University of Wyoming to investigate the application of new technologies to evaluate geological carbon sequestration.“This partnership shows that we are very applied and very current and that we are investigating energy systems that have important consequences for world affairs and global environmental issues, such as climate change,” Rupp said. “We are very fortunate to have teams of researchers that can contribute to these contemporary topics, and I am pleased that we are fortunate to be in the right place at the right time.”This collaboration will also build a foundation of knowledge, human capabilities and relationships in mutually beneficial areas that will enhance clean energy usage in both the United States and China.Research about geologic carbon sequestration could help to reduce the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and have a positive impact on the environment in the future, Steinmetz said.“Our hope is that the IGS and IU can make a very real contribution in research in this area,” Steinmetz said. “Perhaps in the not-so-distant future, IU will be known as an institution that had a positive impact on affecting climate change.”
(04/13/11 1:46am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Brian D’Onofrio, an assistant professor in IU’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, received the 2011 Award for Early Career Research Contributions to Child Development. He received the award March 31 at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting in Montreal.The Society for Research in Child Development is a professional society for the field of human developmental psychology that focuses specifically on child development.D’Onofrio, one of the five recipients this year, was honored for his work in developmental psychopathology.His main research explores the causes of child and adolescent psychological and cognitive problems. He is interested in the mechanisms through which environmental risk factors cause children to have these types of problems.“I was really surprised that I was awarded since there are a lot of great researchers within this area of child development,” D’Onofrio said. “It is a great honor for me to receive this award as an individual as well as for the department.”The SRCD is the largest association devoted to basic science research on child development, with a membership of approximately 5,500 researchers, practitioners and human development professionals worldwide.“This is a very large and cross-disciplinary organization, and there is a lot of people they could have given this award to,” said Linda Smith, chairwoman of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at IU. “So to be identified by them is a big deal, and it’s a remarkable achievement for an early career in science.”D’Onofrio’s SRCD award is presented to students and young professionals who are within five years of receiving their graduate degree.“I think it just illustrates the fact that the research we’re doing in my lab is very rigorous and we’re in a department that is incredibly supportive of junior faculty,” D’Onofrio said. “And we’re quite well-known for being interdisciplinary, so we do cutting-edge research that cuts across boundaries.”D’Onofrio, who joined the faculty of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in 2005, was also awarded the IU Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in 2010.Recently, D’Onofrio has provided new insights on early risk factors for children and adolescents.Smith said. “He is accomplishing his research in ways that are innovative and pushing the field forward, so he really is a major young researcher.”