Seven Indiana University Bloomington faculty have received 2009 Summer Instructional Development Fellowships from the offices of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs to develop specialized and innovative courses. They are Sonya Atalay in anthropology; Colleen Ryan-Scheutz and Kelly Sax in French and Italian; Beth Samuelson in literacy, language and culture education; Kalpana Shankar in informatics; Kay Connelly in computer science; and Rex Sprouse in Germanic studies and second language studies.

Little more than a week after election as a fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science Douglas Hofstadter has been elected a fellow of the American Philosophical Society. With the honor Hofstadter becomes the first faculty member in Indiana University history to hold fellowships in the two prestigious societies and to have won a Pulitzer Prize.

Pulitzer Prize winning author and Indiana University distinguished professor of cognitive science and computer science Douglas Hofstadter has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

WIC Week, a string of events tonight (March 9) through Thursday -- organized by Indiana University's Women in Informatics and Computing -- will focus as much on the social aspects of securing success in technology fields as it will on talking technical applications. WIC Week is but one outgrowth of an organization founded in 2002 to increase opportunities for women in computing and information technology.

Not even an ocean could stand between them and success. The "ClusterMeisters," a team of students from the Indiana University School of Informatics and Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) were awarded first place in the SC08 Cluster Challenge, an international collegiate competition for leading-edge, energy-efficient high performance computing.

Featuring lectures and speakers on the Bloomington campus, including NPR's Michele Norris, recognizing the dangers of Facebook and "Confessions of a Cha Cha Feminist."

Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research is seeking ways to combat information security challenges. As part of its efforts to improve cybersecurity in higher education, the center will host the Indiana University Higher Education Cybersecurity Summit on Thursday and Friday (April 28-29) on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Indiana University School of Informatics researchers will present new work this week at the "DIMACS Workshop on Theft in E-Commerce: Content, Identity and Service" at Rutgers University. The workshop is the first scientific conference devoted specifically to phishing and related e-commerce issues.

Administrators, faculty and staff in Indiana University Bloomington's College of Arts and Sciences, the IUB Department of Computer Science and the IU School of Informatics have agreed to move computer science from the College of Arts and Sciences to the School of Informatics.

Indiana University President Adam W. Herbert announced that the Lilly Endowment Inc. is giving IU Bloomington $53 million to broaden and intensify its life sciences research, retain its distinguished scientists, attract new world class scientists and contribute to the state's economic development by transferring technology to new and existing life science businesses. The grant is the largest IUB has ever received.

The world's largest society of computer experts has named Indiana University Bloomington computer scientist David S. Wise one of its fellows, the Association for Computing Machinery announced this week. Wise and several colleagues also expect to receive a pair of powerful new computing machines for scientific research next week.

Indiana University researchers were notified this week they will receive more than $4.5 million in new grants from the National Science Foundation to improve weather modeling and develop software that will gird "grid" computing.