Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie will continue a 15-day visit to East Asia on Tuesday in Beijing, where he will renew a partnership agreement with one of China's pre-eminent research universities, meet with IU alumni and business and government leaders, and participate in a special event for newly admitted Chinese students and their families.

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie will kick off a 15-day visit to East Asia with meetings Monday with South Korean higher education leaders and a reception for new students in Seoul, South Korea.

A series of collaborative research agreements between Indiana University Cyclotron Operations, Indiana University Health Proton Therapy Center and ProNova Solutions aim to develop advanced proton therapy technologies, including a new pencil beam scanning nozzle.

Looking to further broaden Indiana University's international reach and to increase educational and research opportunities for its students and faculty, IU President Michael A. McRobbie will leave Saturday for South Korea, China and Taiwan.

Brian Fischer, a senior at Jeffersonville High School in Jeffersonville, Ind., won the KeepRxSafe.com Public Service Announcement Video Contest, which is part of a growing effort statewide to address a rising problem affecting Indiana youth -- prescription drug abuse.

Agricultural industries contributed $37.9 billion to Indiana's economy in 2011, according to a new report from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

As part of Indiana University's third annual Summer Festival of the Arts, the Jacobs School of Music will present Summer Music, an offering of more than 50 free and ticketed events from June 14 through July 23. Highlights this year include the triennial USA International Harp Competition.

Kelley Executive Partners, the custom executive education arm of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, has again been ranked among the world's best by the Financial Times in its annual survey of custom executive education providers.

Teams of Indiana University students who created a real-time interactive platform for sports fans and an Internet-based tuxedo rental business that provides online fittings have won IU Bloomington's BEST Competition. Each start-up company, founded by students from Kelley School of Business and the School of Informatics and Computing, will receive a $100,000 investment.

"Ghost Brothers of Darkland County," the southern gothic musical collaboration by John Mellencamp, Stephen King and T Bone Burnett, will rehearse for its debut tour in Bloomington and premiere its national tour at IU Auditorium at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10.

Lauren Robel, Indiana University executive vice president and provost of the Bloomington campus, has announced that she will recommend the appointment of Lesa Hatley Major as interim dean of the School of Journalism.

Indiana University Bloomington ranked among the top five schools in the country for water conservation in Campus Conservation Nationals 2013, a nationwide electricity and water reduction competition among colleges and universities.

Idalene "Idie" Kesner, an accomplished educator, administrator and leading researcher on strategic management, will head Indiana University's Kelley School of Business as its next dean, pending approval by the IU Board of Trustees.

"Eternal flames" fueled by hydrocarbon gas could shine a light on the presence of natural gas in underground rock layers and conditions that let it seep to the surface, according to research by geologists at the Department of Geological Sciences and the Indiana Geological Survey at Indiana University Bloomington.

With privacy concerns addressed, Indiana University has re-released the free app Kinsey Reporter, a global mobile survey platform for collecting and reporting anonymous data about sexual and other intimate behaviors.

Led by Indiana University Jacobs School of Music faculty member Kimberly Carballo and Mpingo Studios Director Diana Smith Nixon, five Bloomington musicians will join their counterparts in Nairobi, Kenya, this month for a three-week teaching and performance workshop at schools in the area.

Ben Edmonds, Rasul Mowatt and Carwina Weng are the newest IU Bloomington members of the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET), an interdisciplinary organization composed of more than 500 of Indiana University's best teachers.

The third annual Summer Festival of the Arts, which is quickly becoming one of Indiana University's most anticipated summer traditions, begins today. The festival began in 2011 as a way to support the creation of new arts events. It also showcases the many cultural offerings that help make the community such a vibrant arts destination for townies and tourists, as well as those attending the various camps, conferences and workshops held over the summer on the Bloomington campus.

Forty-three years, 661 major building projects. The legacy left by Indiana University Vice President Emeritus Terry Clapacs upon his retirement in 2009 is as cemented in Hoosier history as the classic limestone buildings that dot the university's celebrated landscape.

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie issued the following statement on the passing of former Indiana Gov. Otis R. Bowen, a distinguished alumnus and titled professor at IU.

Four students and an alumna from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music travel to Italy this month for the second annual four-week summer research project on manuscripts from the 18th and 19th centuries at the Greggiati Library in the city of Ostiglia.

One of the leading international harp competitions in the world begins July 10 at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. The ninth annual USA International Harp Competition is expected to draw more than 50 harpists to Bloomington, the largest number of contestants since its inception. All events are free and open to the public.

With the U.S. Congress is debating immigration reform, it's instructive to look back to the beginnings of federal immigration law and enforcement in the late 1800s. Historian Hidetaka Hirota finds re-examines the genesis of the 1882 Immigration Act in the latest Journal of American History.

Beth Meyerson, health policy expert at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, said the new screening guidelines by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force represent an important shift in HIV testing and will result in more HIV screenings because they will now be reimbursable. But the availability of the tests remains a big unknown.

The Office of the Vice President for Research at Indiana University has awarded IU Collaborative Research Grants to 16 teams of faculty researchers. Now in its third year, the program will provide just over $1 million in seed funding to researchers from different departments, schools and campuses for transformative research projects that have a substantial chance of attracting future external funding.