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(03/12/09 6:56pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>An IU student was arrested Wednesday for stabbing another man March 6.Eric Sponseller faces a preliminary charge of battery resulting in a serious bodily injury, a class C felony, said Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada.On March 9, the Indiana Daily Student reported that officers were called at 3:16 a.m. on March 6 to East 19th Street in response to a call that a 22-year-old man had been attacked by two or three men and had been stabbed twice. The man was taken to Bloomington Hospital.Police received an anonymous tip on March 10 from someone who had not been at the scene but identified a witness, Canada said, reading from a police report. Officers began an investigation and contacted the witness, who said he had seen Sponseller that night, with blood on his face and a broken knife in his hand. Sponseller told the witness he had gotten into a fight with someone and stabbed him, according to the police report. The handle of the knife had broken off, Canada said, reading from the police report.The knife used was a Showtime Six Star steak knife, nearly three and a half inches of which stuck in the victim, Canada said, reading from the police report. Police later found the remainder of the steak knife set Sponseller allegedly hid outside of his residence, and arrested Sponseller.Sponseller is currently out on bond. The victim is in good condition but still recovering from wounds, Canada said.
(03/11/09 1:57am)
Check to see what happened in Bloomington Tuesday through Bloomington Police Department reports.
(03/10/09 7:17pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Two men were taken to Bloomington Hospital after an automobile crash Tuesday afternoon.At 12:14 p.m. officers were called to the accident near Bloomington High School South, said BPD Lt. Bill Parker. A Cadillac was heading north on South Walnut Street as a truck attached to a trailer bed carrying an ATV vehicle was heading south. Witnesses told police they saw the Cadillac weaving on the road and heard honking, which was coming from the same car. The Cadillac swerved over the center line, hitting the truck, Parker said.The Cadillac driver appeared to be impaired and officers had to restrain him, Parker said. He was given a sedative taken to the hospital along with the truck driver. Officers do not know yet what kind of injuries each driver sustained, Parker said, but police are investigating the Cadillac driver’s possible impairment.
(03/10/09 7:15pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Police are searching for a man who robbed a CVS store Tuesday morning.Officers were called at about 11: 30 a.m. to CVS Pharmacy on South Walnut Street in response to a call about a man taking money from a cash register, said Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada.The man walked into the store and started to purchase a beverage. When the clerk opened the cash register, the man indicated he was robbing the store and reached over the counter to take money from the register, Canada said. No weapon was shown.The suspect was described as a black male with a goatee. He was wearing dark shoes, khaki pants and a gray hooded sweatshirt, Canada said.
(03/06/09 3:10am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Bloomington Police Department is searching for a man who robbed a bank on Bloomington’s east side Thursday morning.Officers were dispatched at 11:31 a.m. to The Peoples State Bank at 525 S. Clarizz Boulevard in response to a call that the bank had been robbed, Sgt. Jeff Canada said.No customers were in the bank at the time, and two tellers were working along with other bank employees, Canada said. A man walked up to a teller and told her to put money in his “Dollar Tree” bag. Canada said he did not display a weapon.Once the bag was full, the man ran out of the bank’s north entrance and kept running north toward a nearby apartment complex. Canada said the man was described as black with light skin, wearing a black hoodie and black sweatpants.
(02/13/09 3:44am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Charges are pending for a Bloomington man who allegedly exposed himself to a woman near First and Washington streets on Wednesday.Bloomington Police Department Officer Jill Acres was dispatched to the area at about 12:43 p.m., said BPD Sgt. Jeff Canada, reading from a police report. The victim, a 24-year-old woman, said she was walking south on Washington Street when she looked up and saw a man walking toward her. She noticed the man was walking with his pants down, fully exposing himself, Canada said.BPD Sgt. Scott Oldham arrived in the area, and he and the victim identified the subject at the corner of Second and Washington streets. The subject was also carrying his belt in his right-hand coat pocket, Canada said. When police asked the man if he’d exposed himself, he replied he was only tucking in his shirt and did not recall exposing himself.
(02/06/09 4:04am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Police are looking for a man who allegedly broke into a house Thursday morning.Bloomington Police Department Officer Kyle Abram was dispatched to the 300 block of North Jefferson Street at 12:16 a.m. Thursday to respond to someone breaking and entering a home, said Sgt. Jeff Canada, reading from a police report. The resident said when he returned home and opened the door, he heard someone inside speak, Canada said.The man noticed someone trying to get out of the kitchen window, which appeared to be broken, Canada said. He went across the kitchen and tried to grab the intruder’s jacket, but the person started hitting him. The man hit the suspect in the ear right below the temple, but the intruder pulled away and got out through the window, Canada said.After the suspect left, the man ran out the front door toward Eighth Street, where he saw a dark-colored Chevy Silverado speeding away, Canada said. The man described the suspect as a thin white male with short, light or sandy brown hair, Canada said. The man was also clean-shaven with a noticeable jawline and was wearing a denim jacket and sock hat, Canada said.No property was missing from the home, and the man sustained a minor laceration on his arm for which he did not seek medical treatment, Canada said.
(11/19/08 5:16am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Technology will have a chance to grow and hatch at IU, thanks to the groundbreaking of a new “incubator” and a $15 million grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc.IU President Michael McRobbie announced the hefty grant Tuesday at a groundbreaking for the new $10 million Bloomington Incubator, which will sit on the corner of 10th Street and the 45/46 Bypass. The incubator, part of IU’s new Innovate Indiana initiative, will house new start-up companies relating to technology and the life sciences, according to an IU press release. It will essentially act as a technology “think tank,” IU spokesman Larry MacIntyre said.The grant, which will be distributed over a five-year period, will go toward creating the Pervasive Technology Institute, one of the first programs to be housed in the incubator, MacIntyre said. “It’s important for IU because this is one of our cutting-edge initiatives,” MacIntyre said. “The labs that are part of this are nationally known. It’s a step forward for us.”The institute will be made up of three different research areas. A Digital Science Center will work to create a more usable network infrastructure. For example, it will enhance supercomputers to make them more useful to scientists. The Data to Insight Center will work with new tools to make sense of large amounts of digital data. The Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research will work to protect users’ privacy on computer networks, according to an IU press release.“In addition to inventing things and ideas, they’re also responsible for thinking up policy-type questions and answers, such as how we handle individual privacy in a computer age,” MacIntyre said.The institute is based on success from the Indiana Pervasive Computing Research Initiative, which was created in 1999 with funding from the Lilly Endowment, according to an IU press release. The initiative helped create the Pervasive Technology Labs and the School of Informatics, MacIntyre said.Other companies housed in the incubator will likely include those involved in life sciences, MacIntyre said.
(11/06/08 4:38am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Deep in the recesses of the chemistry building, Don Garvin is equipped with ovens, lathes and other tools to make glass objects for researchers in the classrooms above. Garvin is one of only three university glassblowers in the state and the only one for the IU system. Notre Dame and Purdue have staff glassblowers as well. Garvin serves the chemistry, biology, psychology, physics, geology and other departments on all eight IU campuses.“The research side, they may have some experiment that they’re wanting to run and they need a piece of glass that doesn’t exist,” Garvin said. “It’s kind of like building a puzzle and solving a puzzle. You kind of say, ‘OK, we’re at step A, we know we need to get to step D, but we have no idea what B and C are.”As he walks from a work bench to a lathe, Garvin’s sneakers scuffle across the floor. In one corner, air whooshes through vents and in another water gurgles through pipes. The shop appears relatively quiet, but Garvin said students, faculty and friends stop by throughout the day.“People come in and are either picking up jobs or dropping off jobs or are inquiring about things,” he said. “So there’s always somebody coming through the door.”IU’s decades of glassblowingGarvin has been at the glass shop since 1986, and the IU Glass Shop has been around since the late 1930s, according to the IU Archives.According to the “Development of Chemistry at Indiana University in Bloomington 1929-1991” by Harry G. Gay, one person had the most influence on the shop.“It arose in one man,” Day wrote. “Earl Sexton.”Sexton, who is about to turn 93 in February, still lives in Bloomington with his wife. His home is filled with glass vases, figurines and even a couple of glass spider webs. He said he remembers working at the glass shop when it first began.The shop made equipment including cannulas, or medical tubes, for animals, Sexton said.“I guess we made them a little bit better than the factory was making them,” he said.And it’s true. Both Sexton and Garvin said objects made at the glass shop have been patented and put in catalogues throughout the years.Paper plans to glass piecesThe glass pieces can take from a day to a week to make, Garvin said. He has various scraps of paper with rough sketches of objects, which researchers and faculty members bring to him. After looking at the drawing, he decides what kind and size of glass tubing to use as well as how he’ll go about making the object. The process can involve spinning the object on a lathe, working manually over a burner and even setting the glass pieces in an oven. Garvin has worked with temperatures up to 1050 degrees.As Garvin took out a handful of laminated photos and flipped them, he described a particularly memorable glass. About eight years ago, a member of the Mohican tribe came to IU to give a concert. When the man arrived with a glass flute, he had a bit of a problem. He went to Garvin and they opened the flute case.“It was in a hundred little pieces,” Garvin said.Over the course of several days, Garvin went to work reconstructing the flute and finished just in time for the concert.Because university glassblowers are relatively rare, both Garvin and his adviser Dan Mindiola said the service is a great recruiting tool for both students and faculty.Glass making and repair costs are more expensive at universities that don’t have glassblowers, Mindiola said.The chemistry department and University subsidize the shop’s costs, he said. Equipment costs are rising, Mindiola added, which means if the shop loses customers, it could be discontinued in the future. However, he doesn’t think that will happen any time soon – Garvin receives requests not only from people at IU, but also from other universities around the country and even overseas.“This facility is highly regarded outside of the University,” Mindiola said, attributing this to Garvin’s glassblowing skills.Professional glassblowingWhile one would think an inherent love of glass would draw a person to blowing glass as a career, Garvin said he simply heard about the position while working in the chemistry building stockroom. The glassblower before him, Don Fowler, was looking for an apprentice, so Garvin decided to give it a go. Garvin said Fowler’s guidance ignited Garvin’s interest in glassblowing.Sexton experienced a similar job path – he also heard about the position while working in another area of the chemistry department. But after explaining how he arrived at the glass shop, he sat quietly for a moment and began to tell a story about going to a carnival when he was a child.“There was a glassblower there,” Sexton said. “I can still see and still think about that ... my mother could hardly get me away from that booth. Now, whether that had any impact on me, I do not know. But I still think about that, though.”The career path for a glassblower is not the average one, Mindiola said, adding that the career is like those passed from generation to generation. He said he jokes about Garvin being a “dying breed.” In fact, Garvin, who is about 10 years from retirement, said he is thinking about asking the department for an apprentice.“It’s not one of these careers you take a couple courses in at a technical university and get a degree in,” Mindiola said.Garvin usually makes scientific tools, but sometimes fine arts students come to him for help, and he himself made a few artistic pieces. On a shelf next to his “25 year service” certificate rests a glass swan.“We’ve made some things in the past, you know, some ships, some little figurines, and put some things in bottles and just kind of dabbled and played around with it a little bit,” he said.The future of the glass shop remains to be seen, but Garvin said he enjoys the companionship with clients and variety that being a glassblower brings.“What’s fun is you get to establish a relationship with faculty members,” he said. “And then students, you see them come in their first year (of grad school) and then by the time they get their doctorate, you’ve spent hours with these people.”
(10/14/08 4:12am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In a discussion held Monday night in Whittenberger Auditorium, Jordan’s Prince and Ambassador to the United States Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein emphasized the need for negotiations to solve issues in two main areas in the Middle East – Iraq and Israel.The auditorium was filled for the talk, during which the Jordanian ambassador to the United States sat at a table with Feisal Istrabadi, a former Iraqi U.N. Ambassador and visiting law professor. The talk focused on a range of topics, including Jordan’s position in ongoing conflicts and actions Zeid thought the United States could take.The first topic, which Istrabadi described as “the most important issue in the Middle East,” focused on Iraq, which Zeid has connections to – his father was head of the royal house of Iraq. Many people have misconceptions about members of the Shiite and Sunni sects of Islam, he said, noting that the two groups have lived relatively peacefully with clashes arising from other nations. The groups shouldn’t be separated because of recent conflicts, he added.“They can live together,” Zeid said. “What we should be doing is showing them it’s entirely possible.”Because Jordan is politically even-handed with many surrounding countries, Zeid said half a million Iraqis have emigrated there, which is the equivalent of 30 million Iraqis coming to the United States, he said. The country is open to those seeking refuge as a service and a duty to Iraq, he added.“We hope the situation in Iraq stays such that they’ll be able to go home,” he saidOn the issue of Israel, Zeid said the reason no agreement has been reached is because of the belief that there is an alternate route. But, he said, there’s “no other way.”“Having a wall there simply won’t solve your problems,” he said of to the wall under construction that partly divides Israel from Palestinian settlements in the West Bank. “The problem has to be solved through negotiations, settlement.”The situation tends to draw other countries in, so it will fall upon whoever wins the presidential election to keep relations with Israel a priority, Zeid said.Senior Stephanie Pollack said she enjoyed the talk. Pollack, who has visited Israel and has friends there, said Zeid’s comments about Israel were especially interesting to hear after having traveled to the country and seeing the country firsthand.The Student Alliance for National Security co-sponsored the talk with the IU School of Law. SANS Director Miles Taylor said audience members told him how surprised they were at how even-keeled Zeid was in answering questions about divisive issues, which Taylor said he thought spoke to Jordan’s fairness in political affairs in general.“It was a good talk,” he said. “It’s not enough to say he’s extremely eloquent.”Pollack said she liked that the talk had more of a discussion than lecture format and thought Zeid and Istrabadi “played off of each other very well.”
(10/13/08 3:19am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>This winter, many Hoosiers will qualify for part of a record amount of government assistance to help them pay heating bills.Indiana’s $103.7 million share of the Energy Assistance Program and $2.5 million kept in a contingency or reserve fund will be allocated to various Community Action Programs across the state, according to a press release from the Office of the Governor.The increase was due to rising heat costs, according to the press release.The Community Action Programs began accepting applications on Oct. 6, when Gov. Mitch Daniels announced the amount. Families with incomes up to $31,800 and individuals with incomes up to $15,600 can apply, said Mark Young, chief operations officer of the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority, which oversees the Energy Assistance Program.Last year 160,000 people qualified for assistance, Young said. This year the agency expects to serve more people because of increasing heating and utility costs, he said.About $320 was given to each household last year, according to the release. That amount is expected to rise 30 or 40 percent to about $416 to $448 per household, Young said. The assistance is only meant to be a supplement for those who qualify. However, if someone using the program gets behind on his or her payment, the heat will not be turned off.Each CAP agency has a different way of taking applications, Young said.Generally, however, anyone interested needs only to provide a current energy bill and proof of income, Daniels said at a press conference.For more information, contact the local South Central Community Action Program at 339-3447.
(10/03/08 2:31am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Good-natured debate filled a room in the Monroe County Public Library Thursday night as Bloomington residents and a few IU students pored over potential changes for Bloomington Transit routes.For the first part of the meeting, consulting representative Dennis Fletcher gave the results of a survey conducted after a similar meeting in April. Fletcher then presented three options for changes to routes and let everyone split into groups to discuss the options and write down suggestions. At the end of the meeting, members of each group presented their opinions to the room, which will be used to formulate a “preferred service action” to be approved and started within five years.About 30 people attended the first meeting in April, said Bloomington Transit General Manager Lewis May. The meeting provided the basis for which Fletcher’s firm created three options for changes to Bloomington Transit: a radial, grid-like or corridor system. Fletcher joked that the systems were fairly similar.“The differences between these are pretty subtle,” he said.All options would increase services on weekends, make routes more direct and mostly increase the frequency of buses, Fletcher said. The radial and grid-like systems would involve 27 buses – about the number of buses Bloomington Transit already has on routes – with an increase in service hours. The corridor-based system would be the cheapest, Fletcher said, with 26 buses and a smaller increase in service hours.As he wrote down suggestions on a sheet of paper, Buff Brown became animated about one suggestion from his group member.“I love it. I love it,” said Brown, who founded Bloomington Transportation Options for People, which promotes the use and funding of alternative transportation.Brown mentioned that none of the options presented took into account the presumed merging of Bloomington Transit and Campus Bus Services in the near future.Another idea for Bloomington Transit, Fletcher said in his presentation, would be a “park and ride shuttle,” which would allow people who don’t like riding the bus to drive to a location, park and ride a shuttle downtown.“Park and ride makes the system more attractive to choice riders,” Fletcher said.He added that another option may be a $1 to $2 million “signal priority” system for buses, which would coordinate traffic lights with bus arrivals to make trips easier to make and a little faster in riders’ minds. This could also include changing certain streets to have specific bus lanes – an option Fletcher said he didn’t think was feasible in Bloomington.But Brown’s opinion differed - he said he thinks certain streets could probably be split into car and bus lanes.May said he was glad to see a variety of people at the meeting who were serious about having their opinions heard.“Whether it be folks from IU, city planning… you’ve got a different mix of representatives from different public agencies,” he said.
(09/18/08 4:04am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>“Teach, reach, feed, lead.”A group of students outlined this motto Wednesday at a call-out meeting for one of IU’s newest student groups – the Campus Kitchens Project.Five members of the group’s executive board explained the project to about 20 students who came to the meeting. Through the program, students use kitchen space on campus to prepare extra food left from dining halls as well as donated food. They then deliver it to individuals and groups in the community.Before the meeting, junior and co-founder Kelly Childs said she has been planning the program for IU since her freshman year.“It’s exciting now because we’re starting to get a name,” she said.The national Campus Kitchens Project, which will fund the startup of the IU branch began in 2001. It began as a collaboration between two community kitchens said junior Steve Mendenhall, who is vice president and treasurer for IU’s Campus Kitchens Project.Now, 11 participating colleges and one high school across the country operate campus kitchens, including Northwestern University and Minnesota State University. And the organization won’t just stop at making meals. Childs said the group will offer extra services, such as tutoring, hosting health fairs and teaching people how to cook.Freshman Rebekah Niedner, who went to the call out meeting, said an e-mail she received about the Campus Kitchens Project stood apart from other groups – it seemed to have a clear goal and some variety.“I think it’s cool that they’ll sit with kids or the elderly – that’s a neat aspect,” she said. While the group is still talking with Residential Programs and Services to find a location on campus to operate from, Childs said the group will start sending members to volunteer at various area agencies such as Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, 1010 S. Walnut St. and Community Kitchen, 917 S. Rogers St.Childs said IU’s kitchen will probably serve 20 to 30 meals each day the kitchen is operating. She added the group will also work with local organizations, including Hilltop Garden and Nature Center, to provide organic and locally grown food.But creating a branch on campus isn’t easy, said Indiana Memorial Union General Manager Steve Mangan, who advises the group. The process for creating a kitchen, he said, involves an application process with the national organization and obtaining funding, space and support from University officials. But, he added, the experience will be worth it.“These things can be life-changing and career-changing,” he said. “It’s a huge project to pull together.”Mangan said he talked with Childs and the rest of the group about talking with similar organizations in Bloomington to make sure the kitchen would complement those organizations rather than simply perform the same function.Community Kitchen Executive Director Vicki Pierce said she spoke with Childs a while ago about the project and said Childs wanted to make sure the project would work to address needs that might not already be met by other agencies around town.“If they do what we’re doing and leave the gaps, they’re not ahead,” Pierce said, adding that “gaps” could mean people who are homebound or live in a certain location in town that’s hard to get to.Along with getting students involved through the call-out meeting, the group also plans to set up a booth at Timmypalooza this Sunday, Childs said.“We’re hoping we’re appealing,” she said. “We’re not requiring weekly attendance, and you can come for an hour a week.”
(07/31/08 1:07am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A Bloomington man was arrested Wednesday afternoon for trespassing Tuesday in Woodburn Hall, said IU Police Department Sgt. Craig Munroe.Bloomington resident Bruce Anderson faces a preliminary charge of trespass.At about 2:10 p.m. Tuesday, IUPD officers Phil Delay, Deborah Delay and Martin East were dispatched to Woodburn Hall 210, Munroe said, which is where the IU Political Science department is located. Anderson, who had been in the building about a month ago, was reported to be in the office again, Munroe said. When officers arrived, the man was not causing any trouble and was responsive but appeared to have mood swings, Munroe said. Munroe added that he didn’t know why Anderson was in Woodburn Hall.Tuesday was the second time Anderson was reported to have come to that location, Munroe said, adding that the last time Anderson came in was June 20. On that day, no officers were dispatched to the building but Anderson was identified and sent an advisory that he was trespassing and should not come back, Munroe said.On Tuesday, officers were unable to locate the previous trespass advisory and did not arrest Anderson, Munroe said. A warrant was sent out Wednesday for his arrest, and Anderson was arrested a little while later at his residence off campus, Munroe said.Political Science Chair Jeff Isaac acknowledged in an e-mail that Anderson was in Woodburn Hall, but declined to say more.“Yesterday there was an incident in Woodburn Hall,” he said in the e-mail. “It was handled in a professional manner by the IUPD and all other responsible parties.”
(07/23/08 11:53pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>His name has been cleared with the University, but Keith J. Sampson is still unsure of how to proceed after being accused of racially harassing coworkers last fall.Sampson, an IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis student and employee, received a letter July 11 from IUPUI Chancellor Charles Bantz apologizing for a letter Sampson received in November from former IUPUI Affirmative Action Officer Lillian Charleston. In the letter, Charleston said reading an anti-Klan book in front of black co-workers after they asked him to stop “demonstrated disdain and insensitivity” on Sampson’s part. In a second letter Charleston sent to Sampson in February, she said because the Affirmative Action Office couldn’t “draw any final conclusion,” no disciplinary action would be taken.The book that spurred the controversy was Todd Tucker’s “Notre Dame Vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan.” The book depicts a violent fight in 1924 between the KKK and University of Notre Dame students.Although the harassment claim has been dropped, Sampson said the incident will follow him around in both his professional and personal life.In his letter July 11, Bantz said the letter from the Affirmative Action Office was misleading, and that it wasn’t inappropriate simply to read the book on campus.“Since no adverse disciplinary action was taken and no information regarding the investigation was placed in your personnel file, we, therefore, consider this matter closed,” Bantz said in the letter.In the letter, Bantz also noted that a recent column in the Wall Street Journal made him realize he’d apologized to the Indiana Civil Liberties Union and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, who argued on behalf of Sampson. But he hadn’t apologized to Sampson himself.Tucker said he sent a letter and a copy of the book to Bantz. He added that he’s received support in the situation from many right-wing activists.“People use this to trash affirmative action ... I’m uncomfortable with that,” he said.Bantz also sent a letter to three other people involved – the woman who filed the complaint and two other employees interviewed for the investigation, said Director of IUPUI Media Relations Rich Schneider.“In all of the letters, he expressed regret for the situation,” he said. “He said he believed the situation should and could have been handled differently.”Charleston recently retired, Schneider said, and her replacement started July 1. Schneider said with the new appointment, changes to procedures and policies within IUPUI’s Affirmative Action Office will naturally be made.If an incident like Sampson’s escalated to campus-wide awareness, Director of the Office for Diversity Education Eric Love said it would be ideal to first resolve the situation between the parties quietly. Along with the Affirmative Action Office, the Office for Diversity Education’s Racial Incidents Team would step in.“They would pursue the matter, investigate and interview all parties involved,” he said.If the situation began to garner attention on campus, Love said the IU Commission for Multicultural Understanding’s “Teachable Moments” committee would turn it into an educational opportunity.Former Black Student Union President Markisha Bates said she was surprised she didn’t hear about the incident earlier in the year but said a forum should be held in order to get the full story.Sampson said he accepts Bantz’s apology letter and plans to send him a thank-you note, he said in an e-mail. Other than that, he said he’s not sure what to do. He wanted to go for his master’s degree, but is now unsure whether he wants to stay at IUPUI. The issue of trying to find a job is also daunting, he said. “Who would want to hire someone who had this controversy?” he said.
(07/17/08 1:26am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A rigger guides a leg that will support a $2 million magnet in Simon Hall’s Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility Wednesday afternoon. The magnet itself was lifted by a crane and placed in the facility around 5 p.m. IU purchased the instrument three years ago. Two weeks ago it was shipped to Chicago from England, said Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility Manager Doug Brown. Biochemistry researchers and graduate students will primarily use the magnet to look at proteins and other molecules, including DNA, Brown said. The magnet, which was funded by the Metacyte Business Lab through the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation, will take about two months to get up and running, he said.
(07/17/08 1:24am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU President Michael McRobbie announced Monday that he has appointed School of Law Executive Associate Dean John Applegate to the position of IU vice president for planning and policy, IU Spokesman Larry MacIntyre said.McRobbie recently created the position, according to an IU news release. While the IU Board of Trustees must officially approve the appointment, MacIntyre said he expects the board to do so at its next meeting in August.Applegate will divide his time between his position in the School of Law and his new position, said School of Law Dean Lauren Robel. Robel said she told McRobbie she thought Applegate was the best person for the job.“He’s got extraordinary judgment and great academic values,” she said.In his new position, Applegate will work on cooperation between various groups including faculty, state and other institutions, MacIntyre said. Applegate will also work with Purdue and other Indiana colleges in research and other educational collaborations, MacIntyre said.“There’s a number of initiatives that the president has started or wants to start,” he said. “Putting those together is fairly complex.”MacIntyre said Applegate has been in a similar temporary position with McRobbie for the past year or so.Applegate, who received his law degree from Harvard Law School, worked as a professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law prior to coming to IU in 1998, according to the news release. Along with being executive associate dean at the School of Law, Applegate is also a Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law, according to the news release.
(07/17/08 1:19am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Cambodia’s first pediatric eye surgeon will travel back to his country Saturday after training at IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis for two months.Dr. Phara Khauv has been training with Dr. Dan Neely at the IU School of Medicine on the IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis campus through a fellowship with ORBIS International. The ORBIS “Flying Eye Hospital” travels to developing countries to provide eye-care training and prevent blindness that could be avoided, according to the organization’s Web site.Neely, who is also a pediatric ophthalmologist at Riley Hospital for Children, said Khauv has been honing his skills in the U.S., including using different procedures and equipment as well as different ways to manage patients.“This was more to bring his skills and training to an entirely new level,” Neely said.Neely said he became involved with ORBIS through his mentor at Riley Hospital, ORBIS Ophthalmologist in Chief Gene Helveston.Khauv and Neely met while the two doctors were working in Hanoi, Vietnam. After that, the two began a project through ORBIS that involves collaborating on patient consultations over the Internet, Neely said. Last fall, Neely visited Khauv in Cambodia, where they operated on many of the patients they had consulted online. Khauv was then able to come to the U.S. through a scholarship sponsored by Fed Ex, which maintains the “Flying Eye Hospital” plane.Many doctors in developing countries don’t have many opportunities to collaborate with other doctors, Neely said. In Cambodia in the late 1970s, he added, members of the ruling political party, the Khmer Rouge, killed anyone who was or appeared to be educated – so Khauv’s training is particularly significant.Khauv said he misses his family, but he’s enjoyed his experience in Indianapolis.“I got a good feeling from American people,” Khauv said. “They are very friendly and very useful, especially my mentor, Dr. Neely.”
(07/13/08 11:59pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Two graduate students in the School of Informatics recently won $8,000 and the chance to bump into actor David Hasselhoff.David Roedl and Will Odom won this year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup competition in the Interface Design division on June 8 in Paris, according to the Imagine Cup Web site. In the competition, more than 200,000 students from around the world competed in nine categories, including Software Design, Game Development, Short Film and Interface Design.During the week Roedl and Odom were in France, they also got a chance to sightsee, Roedl said. At one point, he said, they saw a fairly familiar face.“We saw David Hasselhoff on the streets of Paris,” Roedl said. “It was a nice bonus.”The theme of the Imagine Cup this year involved using technology to help create a more sustainable environment, according to the Web site. Odom and Roedl created the “IU Energy Challenge” in the spring to see which residence hall could use the least amount of water and electricity, according to the IU Energy Challenge Web site. That project took them to the Imagine Cup finals, Roedl said.The Imagine Cup, which is a culmination of a year’s worth of smaller competitions over the globe, involved students from Korea to Australia, according to the Imagine Cup Web site.The clincher in the Imagine Cup, Roedl said, involved being given a design problem with 24 hours to complete it. They first created a Powerpoint presentation, then presented their solution to the judges and answered the judges’ questions, Roedl said. Although the pair had a good feeling about the challenge, Roedl said they were still nervous to give the presentation because of the time constraint and the fact that they hadn’t slept in two days.Roedl said he will use his share of the prize money to go toward his move to Washington, D.C. in the fall. There, he’ll be working as a designer for Maptech, a company that creates navigation software.Although Roedl and Odom missed their flight to Paris and arrived just as the competition was starting, Roedl said the team was confident the entire time about their project.“We felt pretty good about our effort,” he said. “We were definitely excited and surprised that we had won.”
(07/12/08 11:10pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Two graduate students in the School of Informatics recently won $8,000 and the chance to bump into actor David Hasselhoff.David Roedl and Will Odom won this year's Microsoft Imagine Cup competition in the interface design division on June 8 in Paris, according to the Imagine Cup Web site. In the competition, more than 200,000 students from around the world competed in nine categories, including Software Design, Game Development, Short Film and Interface Design.While Roedl and Odom were in France, they also got a chance to sightsee, Roedl said. At one point, he said, they saw a fairly familiar face."We saw David Hasselhoff on the streets of Paris," Roedl said. "It was a nice bonus."The theme of the Imagine Cup this year involved using technology to help create a more sustainable environment, according to the Web site. Odom and Roedl created the "IU Energy Challenge" in the spring to see which residence hall could use the least amount of water and electricity, according to the IU Energy Challenge Web site. That project took them to the Imagine Cup finals, Roedl said.The competition, which is a culmination of a year's worth of smaller competitions over the globe, involved students from Korea to Australia, according to the Imagine Cup Web site.The clincher in the Imagine Cup, Roedl said, involved being given a design problem with 24 hours to complete it. They first created a Powerpoint presentation, then presented their solution to the judges and answered the judges' questions, Roedl said. Although the pair had a good feeling about the challenge, Roedl said they were still nervous to give the presentation because of the time constraint and the fact that they hadn't slept in two days.Roedl said he will use his share of the prize money to go toward his move to Washington D.C. in the fall. There, he'll be working as a designer for Maptech, a company that creates navigation software.Although Roedl and Odom missed their flight to Paris and arrived just as the competition was starting, Roedl said the team was confident the entire time about their project."We felt pretty good about our effort," he said. "We were definitely excited and surprised that we had won."