The largest anatomically correct sculpture of the human brain now stands on the corner of 10th and North Walnut Grove streets. The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences unveiled the brain sculpture as part of the department’s 125th anniversary celebration.
Moving images are more easily perceived by the eye than static images, according to a recent IU study. The study showed motion-generated images help improve image identification for people with low vision.
The West European Studies Center was renamed the
Institute for European Studies to fit its new agenda of providing a
wider array of studies that encompass all regions of Europe.
The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences will celebrate its 125th year anniversary Oct. 11. The celebration will include lectures, career luncheons and the unveiling of a 10,000-pound limestone sculpture of a human brain near the entrance to the Psychology Building.
IU was recently ranked 11th in the nation among 50 colleges advancing women in science, technology, engineering and math.
Environmental research in Morgan Monroe State Forest will continue through August 2015 thanks to a grant from the United States Department of Energy.
Lust, romantic attraction and attachment are the recipe for love, said
Helen Fisher, research professor of anthropology at Rutgers University.
She
discussed the dynamics in a lecture Tuesday night at the Whittenburger
Auditorium as part of the Themester 2013 lecture series titled
“Connectedness: Networks in a Complex World.”
The SoIC is one of the broadest and most extensive informatics and computing programs in the country, IU President Michael McRobbie said in his opening remarks at Friday’s ceremony.
Once only a graduate program, game design is now a track within the
Department of Telecommunications in the College of Arts and Sciences.
The coursework has evolved to provide students with hands-on experience in marketable skills, such as 3D modeling.
A psoriasis drug taken off the market in 2011 has been found to decrease negative effects of Type 1 diabetes.
Researchers
at IU School of Medicine recently published a report on the interaction
between the drug and the disease, and patients are all expected to have
completed the study by next spring.
IU faculty members are using puppets to study the way elementary students think. For the students, the wireless honeybee puppets on their hands represent a game. For IU researchers, they represent data.
IU Professor S.Y. Lee is set to receive an award for Lifetime Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology from the U.S. Particle Accelerator School.
The test would indicate whether or not a patient is at risk depending on how high the biomarkers register in blood work.
A new IU study has found that college students without loan debt are more likely to party and less likely to study.
The team examined the percentage of votes for political candidates in the 2010 and 2012 U.S. House of Representatives races, and found election results could be predicted by the percentage of tweets mentioning those candidates.
Earlier this summer, Purdue’s computer servers were hacked. Three former Purdue students are being charged with an assortment of crimes — among them, conspiracy to commit computer tampering and conspiracy to commit burglary — after a collective four years of unabashed grade-changing that elevated two students from straight F’s to nearly straight A’s.
IU Kelley School of Business’ Leading Index for Indiana moved up 0.2 points to 100.9, according to a press release. The Housing Market index, a component of the LII, continued to rise and the transportation component of the index fell.
ApeX Therapeutics recently received a Phase 1, Small Business Innovation Research grant for $240,332 from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, according to a press release.
In a recently released 50-school ranking by the College Database, “50 U.S. Colleges Where Art Programs Abound,” IU ranked sixth in the nation for the number of degree programs available in the fine arts, according to a press release.
IU Maurer School of Law Distinguished Professor Fred H. Cate said recent disclosures about widespread surveillance programs signal the erosion of society’s Fourth Amendment right, according to a press release.
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