Mathematics
Indiana University Bloominton's newest science building, Simon Hall, has won high honors in R&D Magazine's 2008 "Lab of the Year," an architecture competition for research facilities. Madison, Wisc.-based Flad & Associates, which designed Simon Hall, submitted their contest entry in January. Flad architects worked closely with IU architects to design a 141,000-square-foot structure that encourages interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers in fields as disparate as biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics.
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Indiana schools that need qualified math teachers will benefit from a nearly $500,000 grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Scholarship program to Indiana University Bloomington.
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Talented students make fine lobbyists for higher education in Congress. In fact, they can accomplish some things there that professional lobbyists can't, as three Indiana University undergraduates recently discovered. The students spent a day in Washington, D.C., meeting with staff members of Indiana senators and representatives in support of funding for the National Science Foundation.
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Indiana University Bloomington juniors Elizabeth Adams and Robert Koffie have been named Goldwater Scholars for the 2006-07 academic year. The third student nominated by IU for this prestigious award, Bryan Schmidt, received an Honorable Mention. Adams and Koffie were among 323 scholars selected by the Goldwater Foundation from a field of 1,081 mathematics, science and engineering students nationwide.
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Prospects for peace in the "Math Wars" are brighter, following a conference here funded by the National Science Foundation and Texas Instruments and hosted by the Mathematical Association of America.
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A noted Colombian anthropologist is among several experts who will share their views about the globalization of information and communications technologies at an upcoming conference hosted by the Indiana University School of Informatics. Arturo Escobar, distinguished professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, is the keynote speaker at "Informatics Goes Global: Methods at a Crossroads," March 3-5, at IU Bloomington.
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