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High-speed Internet connectivity among 63 Indiana universities and colleges will be celebrated tomorrow (Nov. 3) when officials gather to recognize the approaching completion of a $35.8 million infrastructure project connecting 21 Ivy Tech Community College campuses to Indiana's I-Light network.
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Indiana University received a record $603.9 million in grants and awards for research and other sponsored programs during the 2009-2010 fiscal year, IU President Michael A. McRobbie announced today (Aug. 19). The new record amount surpasses the previous mark of $525.3 million set during the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
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A new report demonstrating the link between federally-funded basic research and economic growth highlights six Indiana University startup companies.
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First-year Department of Physics graduate student Daniel Salvat has received a three-year, $151,500 award from the U.S. Department of Energy to further his education and research involving ultra-cold neutrons.
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In a downtown St. Louis skyscraper a group of wounded U.S. veterans from Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam are cataloguing projectile points, pottery pieces and other prehistoric remnants from a southern Indiana archaeological site. In the process they are learning new and marketable job skills. The artifacts being processed in St. Louis are provided by the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology at Indiana University Bloomington. The materials are associated with both prehistoric Native Americans and the historic settlement of Indiana.
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Indiana University has received more than $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to collaborate on a $12.2 million, seven-university project designed to network researchers around the country.
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