WE SAY Inherently discriminatory traditions have no place within civil society.
In a ruling with potentially far-reaching implications for the patenting of human genes, a judge on Monday struck down a company’s patents on two genes linked to an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
Discussion and results from the Sweet 16 round of our TV series bracket.
Somewhere on the west coast of Florida tonight, the Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay sleeps.
Somewhere on the west coast of Florida tonight, the Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay sleeps. When the sun rises over the Gulf of Mexico in the morning, the rhesus macaque resumes his search for others of his own kind, cutting his way through the urban jungle of swimming pools and pastel condos, dodging paparazzi camera flashes and trackers’ tranquilizer darts.
IDS Opinion and WEEKEND Columnist/Writer Chad Quandt spoke with Conan O’Brien writer Brian Kiley. Kiley is speaking at 7 p.m. today at the Indiana Memorial Union Alumni Hall.
The organization that owns the Murat Temple in downtown Indianapolis has filed a lawsuit over a deal putting a bank’s name on the century-old building.
Former IU basketball player Todd Leary will stand trial July 20 on charges stemming from an ex-business partner’s multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.
The world’s largest atom smasher conducted its first experiments at conditions nearing those after the Big Bang, breaking its own record for high-energy collisions with proton beams crashing into each other Tuesday at three times more force than ever before.
Results and discussion for the Sweet 16 pairings of our directors bracket.
Journalist John F. Burns saw his name on a marquee for the first time on Monday. However, he said journalism shouldn’t be about becoming famous or seeing your name on a marquee. Instead, he said, people going into the profession should stay true themselves and their reasons for going into journalism.
IU President Michael McRobbie announced Jorge José as the selection for the University’s vice president for research Monday. The selection will be subject to approval by the IU board of trustees and the board will decide by May 8.
With curly brown hair and a smile, Abbey Stemler was difficult to distinguish from any other student sitting at Starbucks in the Indiana Memorial Union. A graduate student at Maurer School of Law and the Kelley School of Business, Stemler has been fully involved in administrative decision-making procedures since she was appointed by Gov. Mitch Daniels as student trustee last year.
The IU softball team (6-19) travels to Indiana State (11-12) today, looking to end its current 10-game slump. The Hoosiers last played and defeated the Sycamores 5-4 on March 26, 2009.
Hopefully those of us making predictions for this weekend’s Final Four matchups will fare a little better than we have up to this point. According to ESPN, roughly 200 out of 4.8 million brackets in the network’s bracket challenge correctly selected all four teams playing this weekend. Keeping our fingers crossed, let’s take a look at the games slated for Saturday.
Coming off an undefeated home stand and with Big Ten conference play right around the corner, the Hoosiers (12-10) will get another shot to take down one of the best teams in college baseball as they face No. 8 Louisville (20-3) at 3:05 p.m. today at Sembower Field.
Anya Peterson Royce, Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology, was named Faculty Member of the Year, and Jeanne Madison, director of the Lifelong Learning Program at IU-Bloomington Continuing Studies, was named Professional Staff Member of the Year.
Spring is here. The chipmunks are coming out of their burrows, crocuses are pushing their fragile heads into the pale March sunlight and IU’s gardeners are ready to get their fingers green. That’s because Residential Programs and Services has just opened its campus garden allotments to students. The plots, located near the water tower on the East State Road 46 bypass, are part of the office’s strategy to create green spaces. Forty plots are available, each measuring 11” by 11”, at a cost of $25.
Purdue University won first place in the solar car category this weekend at the Shell Eco-marathon Americas competition.
A petition for injunctive relief regarding the IU Student Association Funding Board will be heard by the Student Body Supreme Court at 12:30 p.m. Friday. The location will be posted on the court’s Web site prior to the hearing.
