Psychological and Brain Sciences Department
Indiana University neuroscientist Karin Harman James is involved at both a state and national level this week in raising awareness about the role of handwriting in the learning process. Interest in her research in this area has gained attention as states and schools nationwide debate whether handwriting instruction, particularly cursive, still fits within the curriculum.
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Home-field advantage is real, says Ben Motz, who uses sports statistics to jazz up his research methodology courses at Indiana University. Analysis of National Football League stats between 1981 and 1996 show that the home team won 57 percent of the matches.
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More than 60 faculty members and graduate students representing 16 universities from four states will gather on the Indiana University Bloomington campus Saturday in an effort to develop regional networks in the Midwest tied to sustainable food systems.
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Just as the Occupy Wall Street movement has brought more attention to financial disparities between the haves and have-nots in American society, researchers from Indiana University and the University Medical Center Utrecht in The Netherlands are highlighting the disproportionate influence of so called "Rich Clubs" within the human brain.
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $172,000 to two Indiana University Bloomington faculty members through its Sawyer Seminars grant program. The award supports a seminar titled "Food Choice, Freedom, and Politics," to be convened by Richard Wilk and Peter Todd.
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Behavior 2011, the first-ever joint meeting of the International Ethological Conference and the Animal Behavior Society, is expected to draw more than 1,100 researchers from around the world for the July 25-30 conference at Indiana University Bloomington.
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