K. Anne Pyburn, a professor in the Department of Anthropology, has been selected to receive Indiana University Bloomington's 2013 Tracy M. Sonneborn Award. Also, Pyburn and Christoph Irmscher and Stephen Watt, both professors in the Department of English, have been named Provost Professors.

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.

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.

An Indiana University professor of mathematics credited by his peers with teaching the most diverse set of courses in the history of the department -- 38 courses with distinct catalog numbers -- has received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America.

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.

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.

A one-year study by an Indiana University School of Education assistant professor will help provide insight into how systems for recognizing skills and knowledge work well or need revision for use in online social communities.

Indiana University's Katy Börner began offering what is currently the university's only massive open online course this week, and just to underscore how globally connected education has become, this international leader in information visualization kicked off the class from Davos, Switzerland, where Börner is apparently the first person from IU to ever present at the World Economic Forum.

George Kuh, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Higher Education at the Indiana University School of Education, received the 2013 Robert Zemsky Medal for Innovation in Higher Education in a ceremony Thursday night in Philadelphia. The medal is awarded annually to honor individuals whose leadership in higher education has resulted in transformational change in colleges and universities.

For the second straight year, the American Association for the Advancement of Science has awarded the distinction of Fellow to a record number of Indiana University faculty members. The new Fellows, a dozen in total and two more than the previous record set last year, include 10 faculty members from the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences and two from the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

Hispanic Business has named Indiana University School of Education Dean Gerardo Gonzalez to its 2012 list of "Hispanic Business Influentials," which recognizes prominent U.S. Hispanics, nominated because of outstanding achievements in their respective professions.

The distinguished careers of two Indiana University School of Optometry professors have been recognized by the American Academy of Optometry. Dr. Sarita Soni, also vice provost for research at IU Bloomington, and Dr. Larry Thibos were recognized by the academy for their unique contributions to the field of vision science.

It started out as an intriguing footnote connecting two of Eden Medina's greatest interests -- technology and Latin America -- and then turned into a multiple award-winning book for the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing associate professor.

Indiana University researchers in public health, law, informatics/computing, sociology and other fields are participating in the American Public Health Association meeting in San Francisco. This release discusses findings involving access to fresh foods; sex and in-vitro fertilization; Hoosiers' support of workplace smoking bans; childhood obesity and schools; a student-developed mobile health app; and an assessment of parks in Indianapolis.

Indiana University sociologist Bernice Pescosolido will be the 2012 recipient of the Carl Taube Award, presented later this month in San Francisco during the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. Given by the Mental Health Section of the APHA in memory of National Institutes of Mental Health staffer Carl A. Taube, the award honors "those who have made significant contributions in the field of mental health services research."

William Pridemore, a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, has been awarded the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize for 2011, recognizing important scholarship in criminology.

Bernice Pescosolido, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, is the recipient of two prestigious awards, one from her alma mater, Yale University, and the other from the American Sociological Association.

Indiana University has renamed the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis to honor Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom, who founded the interdisciplinary research center in 1973. The name change was approved today by the IU Board of Trustees.

Eden Medina, an assistant professor in the Indiana University Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing has received a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Indiana University School of Optometry emeritus professor and former dean Dr. Gerald E. Lowther has received the National Academies of Practice's James A. Boucher Award of Excellence for his "exemplary contributions to the profession of optometry and health care field" and for upholding the NAP's mission to advance science and the concept of interdisciplinary health care.

Time magazine has named Indiana University Distinguished Professor Elinor Ostrom to the 2012 Time 100, the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded Indiana University mathematician Nets Katz one of its 180 fellowships in its 88th annual competition for the United States and Canada. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, Katz was chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants.

Indiana University School of Informatics Dean Bobby Schnabel has been appointed to the National Science Foundation advisory committee responsible for providing strategic planning and policy formulation recommendations in the area of computer and information science and engineering.

CEEP Director Jonathan Plucker will be sitting in as the guest blogger on the Education Week website this week, writing for the Rick Hess "Straight Up" blog.

Michael Wade's 2012 Distinguished Faculty Research Lecture "Nature, Nurture and the Nurturers," adds a new dimension to the "nature vs. nurture" debate. Wade is Distinguished Professor of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington. He delivers his lecture at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 5, in the Indiana Memorial Union, State Room East.