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Letters from Africa: IU's Kenya Project

Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital

Inspiring and humbling is how D. Craig Brater, dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine, describes his experiences this summer in Eldoret, Kenya, working at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. Brater is providing weekly reports on his experiences in Kenya which are being posted on the IU School of Medicine Web site.   Full Story >>

Taking action against hospital-acquired infections

Brad Doebbeling

Patients enter hospitals every day for a variety of reasons but usually without the thought of developing a new health problem. Yet every year thousands of hospitalized Americans acquire infections during hospital stays, causing risk of complications, prolonged stays and an increased burden on the health-care system.   Full Story >>

Philanthropy Center's Tempel to head IU Foundation

Temple

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie announced today that he has chosen Eugene R. "Gene" Tempel to succeed Curtis R. Simic as president of the IU Foundation. Tempel will be the seventh leader of the nonprofit organization established in 1936 as Indiana University's fundraising partner.   Full Story >>

John Pont, IU's Rose Bowl coach, dies at 80

Pont

John Pont, who coached the Indiana University football team to its only Rose Bowl appearance, died today (July 1) in Oxford Ohio. He was 80.   Full Story >>

New map IDs the core of the human brain

Brain Connections

An international team of researchers has created the first complete high-resolution map of how millions of neural fibers in the human cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the brain responsible for higher level thinking, connect and communicate. Their groundbreaking work identified a single network core, or hub, that may be key to the workings of both hemispheres of the brain.   Full Story >>

Patrick A. Shoulders re-elected trustee

vote

Indiana University alumni elected Patrick A. Shoulders, Evansville, Ind., to a third three-year term as IU trustee today (June 30). Shoulders received 14,507 of the 32,552 valid votes cast.   Full Story >>