College of Arts and Sciences
Jeffrey Gould, Rudy Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington, has been selected as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., for 2012-13. Gould, whose research deals with Central American social movements, ethnic conflicts and political violence, will spend the yearlong residence working on a book about politics and grass-roots social movements in the Salvadoran revolution of the 1970s.
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As evening twilight fades during February, the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, will highlight the sky as they come into view in the southwest. The best time to observe brilliant Venus with a telescope will be during twilight. The brightness of the sky will reduce the planet's glare, and it will be higher above the horizon than when the sky is completely dark, so its image will be sharper.
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Studying self-replicating genetic units, called plasmids, found in one of the world's widest-ranging pathogenic soil bacteria -- the crown-gall-disease-causing microorganism Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- Indiana University biologists are showing how freeloading, mutant derivatives of these plasmids benefit while the virulent, disease-causing plasmids do the heavy-lifting of initiating infection in plant hosts. The research confirms that the ability of bacteria to cause disease comes at a significant cost that is only counterbalanced by the benefits they experience from infected host organisms.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner will speak at Indiana University at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 13, in the Fine Arts Auditorium (FA015). Kushner, who also won an Emmy and two Tony awards and was nominated for an Oscar, will deliver the latest in a series of lectures sponsored by the College Arts & Humanities Institute.
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Indiana University faculty experts address issues related to upcoming state primary elections, including the importance of paying attention to early contests, the possible role of poverty as an issue in several states, the likely impact of the Citizens United court decision and the rough-and-tumble fight for the Republican presidential nomination.
Marcia McNutt, the first woman to serve as director of the U.S. Geological Survey, will present two lectures Feb. 6 at Indiana University Bloomington: one on fossil fuel resources, the other on earthquakes and community resiliency. The lectures are free and open to the public.
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