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.

With privacy concerns addressed, Indiana University has re-released the free app Kinsey Reporter, a global mobile survey platform for collecting and reporting anonymous data about sexual and other intimate behaviors.

The Office of the Vice President for Research at Indiana University has awarded IU Collaborative Research Grants to 16 teams of faculty researchers. Now in its third year, the program will provide just over $1 million in seed funding to researchers from different departments, schools and campuses for transformative research projects that have a substantial chance of attracting future external funding.

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).

Indiana University's new supercomputer is expected to further advance international collaborations reliant on big data research at a time when the globalization of education, science and research is omnipresent.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann will keynote the next event in the Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series on May 10 in downtown Indianapolis. The theme for the conference is, "Public-Private Partnerships: Transferring Discoveries Out of Universities."

About 20 IU undergraduate women participated in a full day of tours and meetings at Argonne National Laboratory just outside Chicago as part of IU initiatives focused on science, technology and mathematics careers. Argonne employs 1,250 scientists, and also 650 graduate and undergraduate students, who work on some of the most advanced research topics related to energy, the environment and national security.

The difficult relationship between gender equality, the development of democracies, and constitutional design is the subject of Indiana University Bloomington's 2013 Distinguished Faculty Research Lecture, "Solomon's Daughters: Women as Law-Makers in Customary Systems." Susan Williams, the Walter W. Foskett Professor in the Maurer School of Law, will present the lecture on April 25.

Taking data from cosmic rays for the first time and moving closer to the day later this year when physicists can begin measuring neutrino energies, the international NOvA experiment -- with the fingerprints of Indiana University researchers all over it -- began recording its first three-dimensional images last week.

A recently published study ranks the science education faculty at the Indiana University School of Education as the second-most productive in research based on articles published in the first decade of the 21st century. The study "U.S. Institutional Research Productivity in Major Science Education Research Journals: Top 30 for 2000's" is published in the Journal of Education and Learning.

Google has funded an associate professor in the Indiana University School of Education to develop a "Big Open Online Course," or BOOC. Daniel Hickey will offer a free course in September focused on educators and titled "Assessment Practices, Principles, and Policies" for as many as 500 students, funded by a $50,000 Google grant.

Two researchers at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Informatics and Computing -- David Crandall and Apu Kapadia -- have each been awarded the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award in support of early career development.

In new research published last week in Physical Review Letters the professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Physics, reports that the most sensitive test ever conducted to identify a new force acting on neutrons as evidenced by a corkscrew motion of the neutron spin axis uncovered no such result.

The late Indiana University physicist Brian David Serot -- a four-time winner of the IU Trustees' Teaching Award still remembered for his calm rationality and encyclopedic knowledge of the field -- will be honored with a one-day symposium March 6 at IU's Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter.

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.

The media called it "The Twitter Predictor," and some scoffed at the idea that by analyzing activity on the social media tool one could predict economic markets like the Dow Jones Industrial Average. But today, Indiana University associate professor Johan Bollen's work received a rare form of validation: a United States patent.

Indiana University Rudy Professor of Statistics Karen Kafadar helped produce a 2009 report from the National Academies of Science that found most areas of forensic science analysis failed to meet the stringent criteria seen in other scientific disciplines. She updates that work at 2013 AAAS.

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.

April Sievert, senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington, has been appointed as director of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, a research center named after pioneering archaeologist Glenn Black, who spent nearly three decades conducting scientific excavations at the Angel Mounds site in southwestern Indiana near Evansville.

A team of biologists from Indiana University and Brown University believes it has discovered the mechanism by which interacting mutations in mitochondrial and nuclear DNA produce an incompatible genotype that reduces reproductive fitness and delays development in fruit flies.

Jason Jackson, associate professor of folklore at Indiana University Bloomington, has been named the new director of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. He is the Mathers' third director. With the appointment, Jackson comes full circle, having worked at the museum during his first year of graduate school at IU, studying cultural anthropology and folklore.

A team of chemists and biologists led by Indiana University chemistry professor David Giedroc has described a previously unknown function of a protein they now know is responsible for protecting a major bacterial pathogen from toxic levels of copper. The results were published Jan. 27 in Nature Chemical Biology.

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie has announced that former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, the longest-serving senator in Indiana's history and the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will join the faculty of IU's School of Global and International Studies. U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton will join Lugar as a distinguished scholar and professor of practice in the School of Global and International Studies. Lugar and Hamilton, whose senatorial and congressional papers are housed at IU, will also co-chair the new IU International Advisory Committee.