The American Academy of Arts and Sciences boasts members such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King Jr. and Georgia O’Keefe. This year, two IU professors are joining their ranks.
IU will stage a conference on May 9 to look at big data’s expanding role in health care and its opportunities for life sciences companies as well as consumers, according to a press release Monday.
After almost a year-long search, Andrea Ciccarelli has been appointed the new dean of the Hutton Honors College.
Health & Vitality — an IU “news-you-can-use” blog about health, fitness, sexuality, sociology and psychology written by University experts — has released its April issue, which discusses research and tips about heart disease, animal memory and yoga practices.
IU theoretical nuclear physicist Jinfeng Liao will receive an award of $440,000 from the National Science Foundation.
Awards of up to $10,000 are available for the 2014-15 academic year for graduate students interested in developing research programs related to sustainability, according to an IU press release.
Even after being washed, a sex toy, such as a vibrator, can retain traces of the Human Papilloma Virus, according to a study by the IU School of Medicine.
Late professor of biology Carlos Miller bequeathed almost $4.2 million to the IU Department of Biology, the largest donation ever made to the department.
Next year's Themester will be “Eat, Drink, Think: Food from Art to Science.”
An IU study says health communicators have a short time frame for educating the public after a public figure dies.
Emilio Ferrara at the IU School of Informatics and Computing hopes to aid police in crime prevention by predicting individual cases of criminal activity through mapping out criminal social networks.
Google Glass, a wearable technology that works similarly to any smartphone, may be revolutionizing health care.
Catarina Vales and Linda Smith led a study that used a series of “I spy” games to determine how language shapes children’s minds.
An IU professor has designed and built technology that could help doctors diagnose early signs of vision loss due to diabetes.
The IU journal will feature undergraduate student research from the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and pre-professional schools.
Adrian Matejka, an assistant professor in the Department of English at IU-Bloomington, is the only IU faculty member to win the 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship this year.
Professor Kenneth Nephew in the medical sciences program and professor Yves Brun in the department of biology are two IU faculty members who received grants from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute last fall.
YC Bioelectric, founded by IUPUI and Purdue faculty, is a privately-owned biomedical research company, and was just awarded $307,787 of funding
IU is the first public university to secure a coveted internship slot with the Smithsonian and, beginning in 2015 and continuing for the following five years, the museum will be host to at least one undergraduate or graduate student from the IUB School of Public and Environmental Affairs’ Arts Administration Program.
