Psychological and Brain Sciences Department
The National Institutes of Health has given $1.2 million to Indiana University researchers to build the ultimate international epidemic research tool. Principle investigators Katy Börner, Steven J. Sherman and Alessandro Vespignani will oversee the project, EpiC, which they hope will make the sharing and re-using of epidemics datasets and algorithms as easy as sharing videos via YouTube.
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Chen Yu, assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, received the International Society on Infant Studies' Distinguished Early Career Contribution Award.
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New research from Indiana University and Yale suggests that college-age men confuse friendly non-verbal cues with cues for sexual interest because the men have a less discerning eye than women -- but their female peers aren't far behind.
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Byron Gipson has always been a "science kid," participating in science fairs as a youngster and then conducting research in biochemistry, molecular and marine biology, molecular genetics, and cancer at universities in Mississippi, Nebraska and Indiana. Gipson brings this love of science and a "ferocious curiosity" inherited from his mother back to Indiana University, where he began studying this semester as the first Adam W. Herbert Graduate Fellow.
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U.S. News and World Report magazine has chosen three programs at Indiana University -- including its School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) -- as top 10 among their peers. Three others, including its School of Education and Kelley School of Business, are among the magazine's top 20.
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In January's Living Well, Indiana University experts in fitness, cognitive science and health discuss tips and research involving cold-weather exercise, language learning through data mining and New Year's resolutions.
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