Indiana University's Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs has announced the winners of the Fran Snygg Endowment Fund and the Fran Snygg Grant for Artistic Collaboration. This year's recipients are Joseph Galvin from the Jacobs School of Music, and Gwendolyn Hamm, Elizabeth Shea and Selene Carter from the Department of Kinesiology in the Indiana University School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.

The two-story atrium in Indiana University Bloomington's Jordan Hall, home to the Department of Biology, is usually filled with displays related to scientific explorations. During ArtsWeek 2010, the atrium will form the backdrop for "Dancescience Lab," a contemporary dance performance designed specifically to relate to the architecture of the atrium and the content of the cases displaying life forms in varying stages of development.

The first pirate's cannon recovered in the Caribbean is resting in a Hoosier underwater science lab at Indiana University Bloomington under the watchful eye of archaeologist Charles Beeker and other researchers and students. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, the world's largest children's museum, announces its partnership with IU to provide funding for the transport of the 17th century relic.

Organizers of an Indiana University Haiti relief effort say the response from the IU and Bloomington communities already has been strong. As their monetary fundraising efforts continue -- just this week each member of the IU women's basketball team donated their pre-game meal money -- they have shifted the focus to a material aid drive, encouraging donors to help "Cram the Container!" a 1,280-cubic-foot container provided by the university.

Indiana University dancers will bring history to life during the "The Legacy of Graham," the annual guest artist/faculty concert presented by the IU Dance Theater.

Gary Sailes is a sport sociologist in Indiana University's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation and its Department of Kinesiology. His research has tracked Tiger Woods' impact on American golf during the past decade. Of Woods' current controversies, Sailes says, "If sport has taught us anything, it is that sports fans are very forgiving of their superstars."

CSX Transportation and ergonomic experts from Indiana University have extended a three-year partnership focused on improving the health and wellness of thousands of railroad workers in 23 states. With the new three-year agreement, CSX continues to have access to IU's ergonomic expertise along with nutrition and fitness experts in the university's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.

Dozens of researchers from Indiana University are attending the American Public Health Association's annual meeting in Philadelphia, Nov. 7-11. This release discusses research involving education for people with intellectual disabilities, the reasons people use lubricants during sex, how support for smoking bans can encourage smokers to consider quitting, the use of stability balls for office chairs, a program that increases mammograms for African American women and a program that helps people become active.

The Indiana University Contemporary Dance Program will restage Martha Graham's "Panorama" in January with the help of a $10,000 award from Dance/USA and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The U.S. Navy has extended for a second year a unique partnership that allows fitness and exercise science experts from Indiana University's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation to help sailors get into better shape and to maintain healthy lifestyles.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $203,549 to a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Indiana University and North Carolina State University. The project focuses on using virtual worlds to support business processes, such as product development, involving team members often spread over corporate campuses, multiple time zones or even different continents.

Paul M. Pedersen, associate professor of sport management in Indiana University Bloomington's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, has been named a 2009 Research Fellow of the North American Society for Sport Management.

Dozens of Indiana University researchers are participating in the American College of Sports Medicine national conference in Seattle this week. This media tip sheet discusses some of the studies presented, including research involving detecting and preventing the symptoms of exercise-induced asthma, a new bias in elite swimming, and how to maximize the benefits of high altitude training.

A prehistoric, water-filled cave in the Dominican Republic has become a "treasure trove" with the announcement by Indiana University archaeologists of the discovery of stone tools, a small primate skull in remarkable condition, and the claws, jawbone and other bones of several species of sloths.

Indiana University researchers, former IU swimmers -- including Olympians Gary Hall, John Kinsella and Alan Somers -- and other IU-affiliated competitive swimmers plan to take care of business this week at the U.S. Masters Swimming 2009 Long Course National Championship in Indianapolis.

Joel Stager, director of the Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming at Indiana University, says it's about time elite swimmers come around to the idea that high-tech swimsuits are bad news. "Finally the athletes are getting it into their heads that their efforts are being devalued. It's not about who wins or loses, but what suit they're wearing. It's disappointing."

Indiana University Bloomington faculty and faculty teams seeking large grants from external funding agencies are being assisted by more than $1 million in seed funding provided by IU's Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR).

Key faculty in the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Indiana University Bloomington will meet on Thursday (June 4) with representatives of the Batey Relief Alliance to discuss how they can work together to boost public health resources in communities in the Dominican Republic. Faculty and students can learn more about the project -- and how they might become involved -- at open sessions at 9 a.m. and 10 a.m.

Dozens of Indiana University researchers are participating in the American College of Sports Medicine national conference in Seattle this week. This media tip sheet discusses some of the studies presented, including research involving detecting and preventing the symptoms of exercise-induced asthma, a new bias in elite swimming, and how to maximize the benefits of high altitude training.

Indiana University has been asked by the Chinese government to help it implement new national guidelines requiring the country's 1.6 million schools to provide students with daily physical activity. The move is an attempt to reverse a burgeoning obesity problem in China. Reporters and the public are invited to learn more about the plans on Friday during a presentation at IU Bloomington.

In response to long-standing public health needs in Indiana, Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie today announced a plan that calls for the formation of two schools of public health, one at IU Bloomington and the other at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Indiana University will conduct a Teach In on May 5 to share with the campus and Bloomington community the latest information about Human Influenza A (H1N1), also known as swine flu.

In the April IU Health & Wellness, Indiana University experts in qigong, ergonomics and sexual health discuss office qigong and a new public opinion survey that asked Hoosiers questions about classroom instruction involving the correct use of condoms.

Senior Chinese and U.S. government health, education and physical activity authorities and Indiana University faculty are meeting in Bloomington next month to craft an ambitious and far-reaching plan -- a blueprint for implementing Sunny Sports China, a directive by Chinese President Hu Jintao to provide daily physical activity for China's 270 million school children.

The Indiana University Bloomington Contemporary Dance Program and Jacobs School of Music Student Composer Association have teamed up for the fourth year in a row to create the "Hammer and Nail" concert. This year's event will feature 14 new works created by a group of 30 student artists.