Federal Economic Stimulus
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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An Indiana University School of Optometry researcher and the IU spinout company she formed to develop a new diagnostic camera have both received grants from federal agencies to advance work toward preventing vision loss in diabetes patients.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana University School of Medicine scientists have received more than $12 million in grants funded by the federal economic stimulus legislation, funding that has bolstered both research initiatives and research employment on the medical center campus.
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Indiana University has announced the creation of a Web site -- www.stimulus.iu.edu -- to provide information about federal grants the university has received through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Through Aug. 31, IU has received $16,980,925 as a result of the federal economic stimulus act.
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Ilan Levine, associate professor of physics and astronomy at Indiana University South Bend, was awarded $217,365 of a $1.44 million total award from the National Science Foundation. The award is for continued research and engineering for constructing a large scale version of the Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics (COUPP) dark matter detector in the U.S. National "Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory" (DUSEL). DUSEL is being constructed in the decommissioned Homestake gold mine in Lead, S.D.
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A neuroscientist in Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences has received a two-year $683,736 grant from the National Institutes of Health for a project aimed at understanding how certain parts of the brain learn to predict the outcome of one's own actions. Assistant Professor Joshua Brown says his research could one day lead to a better understanding and better treatment for substance dependence.
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