A series of collaborative research agreements between Indiana University Cyclotron Operations, Indiana University Health Proton Therapy Center and ProNova Solutions aim to develop advanced proton therapy technologies, including a new pencil beam scanning nozzle.

Brian Fischer, a senior at Jeffersonville High School in Jeffersonville, Ind., won the KeepRxSafe.com Public Service Announcement Video Contest, which is part of a growing effort statewide to address a rising problem affecting Indiana youth -- prescription drug abuse.

Dr. Jay L. Hess, currently the Carl V. Weller Professor and chair of the Department of Pathology and professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Health System, has been selected as the new vice president for university clinical affairs and dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine, subject to the approval of the IU Board of Trustees at its June meeting.

Ben Edmonds, Rasul Mowatt and Carwina Weng are the newest IU Bloomington members of the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET), an interdisciplinary organization composed of more than 500 of Indiana University's best teachers.

Beth Meyerson, health policy expert at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, said the new screening guidelines by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force represent an important shift in HIV testing and will result in more HIV screenings because they will now be reimbursable. But the availability of the tests remains a big unknown.

James E. Klaunig, professor of environmental health at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, has been appointed to serve on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board's Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee through Sept. 30, 2015.

Indiana University confirmed its leadership in high performance, data-intensive computing by unveiling Big Red II, a powerful new supercomputer with a processing speed of one thousand trillion floating-point operations per second (one petaFLOPS).

The IU School of Optometry will move services from its Community Eye Care Center on North Monroe Street and begin meeting those same patients May 6 at the centralized $3 million Atwater Eye Care Center that opened in 2009 on the edge of IU's campus at 744 E. Third St.

An international study found that despite widespread acceptance that mental illness is a disease that can be effectively treated, a common "backbone" of prejudice exists that unfairly paints people with conditions such as depression and schizophrenia as undesirable for close personal relationships and positions of authority.

A new study found that higher levels of mercury exposure in young adults increased their risks for type 2 diabetes later in life by 65 percent. The study, led by Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington epidemiologist Ka He, is the first to establish the link between mercury and diabetes in humans.

The Indiana Prevention Resource Center, part of the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a series of activities designed to raise awareness about bullying and provide educators with more tools to address bullying in their schools.

Indiana University Bloomington's 2012-13 Outstanding Junior Faculty awards will support the creation of innovative textile art and research on public investments in energy, the worldwide loss of coastal mangrove forests, the development of anti-malarial drugs, the relationship between vision and balance, and the appropriateness of cancer screenings.

As health care organizations restructure and merge, the role of a physician is growing to include more business and leadership responsibilities. To address the leadership needs of a rapidly changing health care system, Indiana University Kelley School of Business in Indianapolis has launched the Business of Medicine MBA to prepare practicing physicians nationwide to assume unprecedented leadership roles.

U.S. News and World Report again gave high marks to Indiana University programs in education, business, law and medicine in its annual Best Graduate Schools rankings. The School of Library and Information Sciences at IU Bloomington was rated eighth-best in the country, and the College of Arts and Sciences' humanities and social-science programs were among the nation's best.

Resources for creating and nurturing more effective community engagement have been brought together under a new umbrella office at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington. Local and international partners alike can now connect with school's students, faculty and staff via the Office of Global and Community Health Partnerships.

Indiana University students will have an opportunity to explore their possibilities in a wide variety of health care careers next week at the 11th annual IU Bloomington Health Programs Fair. The fair, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Tuesday, March 5, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Indiana Memorial Union.

WFIU/WTIU Newsroom will air a documentary, "Shadows of Innocence: Sexual Assault Among Indiana's Youth," that looks at the high rate of sexual assault in Indiana and efforts to address it. The documentary, airing at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, will be followed by a live roundtable session featuring questions from an audience of Indiana high school students.

IU research associate Jane Stout's stunning image of a dividing mammalian cell with chromosomes shown aligned on cell division machinery at the sites of attachment was announced as a winner in the international GE Healthcare Life Sciences' 2012 Cell Imaging Competition.

If you ask a rat whether it knows how it came to acquire a certain coveted piece of chocolate, Indiana University neuroscientists conclude, the answer is a resounding, "Yes." A study newly published in the journal Current Biology offers the first evidence of source memory in a nonhuman animal.

Dong-Chul Seo, associate professor in the Department of Applied Health Science at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, has been named a fellow as well as president-elect for 2013-14 of the American Academy of Health Behavior.

Finalists in the search for a new vice president for university clinical affairs and dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine will visit the Indianapolis campus beginning this week. The search committee, chaired by IU School of Dentistry Dean John Williams, has identified six finalists who will meet with faculty, staff, students and community members.

Indiana University faculty members and graduate students will take part in the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, taking place Feb. 14 to 18 in at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.

New research from Indiana University has found that machine learning -- the same computer science discipline that helped create voice recognition systems, self-driving cars and credit card fraud detection systems -- can drastically improve both the cost and quality of health care in the United States.

Spectator sports and food -- often high-calorie or low-nutrition -- have long gone hand-in-hand, yet FDA regulations geared toward calorie transparency at restaurant chains ignore this relationship. An Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington expert in sport and fitness marketing says this must be addressed.

American men and women rated sex as highly arousing and pleasurable regardless of whether condoms and/or lubricants were used, according to a nationally representative study led by Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington researchers and published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.