Indiana University has announced the creation of a Web site -- www.stimulus.iu.edu -- to provide information about federal grants the university has received through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Through Aug. 31, IU has received $16,980,925 as a result of the federal economic stimulus act.

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie today (July 16) announced that Informatics Dean Robert B. Schnabel will serve as interim vice president for research while a search continues to permanently fill the position. Schnabel will continue as dean of the School of Informatics while also assuming the leadership role for pursuing and broadening new opportunities for research activities at Indiana University's eight campuses.

Indiana University nuclear physics professor Mike Snow's investigations into the weak interactions of low energy neutrons will advance using equipment funded by the IU Office of the Vice Provost for Research and then put into use at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

A $4.15 million, four-year National Institutes of Health grant will enable researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine to conduct the first health study of teenage boys using cellular telephones. The researchers, led by Dr. Dennis Fortenberry, professor of pediatrics in the Division of Adolescent Medicine, will use text messaging to follow 72 males, ages 14-17 years, for three years. The adolescent males will be provided with cell phones and unlimited, free text messaging as long as they remain enrolled in the study.

Three finalists for the vice president for research position at Indiana University will visit the Bloomington campus as well as IUPUI during the next two weeks. Finalists will meet with faculty, staff and representatives from IU's regional campuses. Following those visits, the university search committee that identified the finalists will meet again and make further recommendations to IU President Michael McRobbie.

More than 75 scientists, students and university administrators celebrated the opening of the Indiana University Research and Teaching Preserve's new Field Laboratory, an ecology and environmental sciences research station and classroom facility on the Bloomington campus. The field lab dedication was timed to coincide with Earth Day, April 22.

The William T. Patten Foundation, under the auspices of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, announced the Patten Lecture Series for 2009-2010. Lecturers will be Henry Louis Gates Jr., Andrew H. Knoll, and W. J. T. Mitchell.

An Indiana University School of Optometry faculty member's company is nearing completion of a diagnostic camera that could aid in saving the vision of millions of people worldwide. Dr. Ann Elsner, director of IU's Borish Center for Ophthalmic Research, believes screening to prevent one of the most devastating aspects of diabetes -- vision loss and blindness from diabetic retinopathy -- could be expanded to millions of underserved people if a more affordable diagnostic camera were available.

Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, M.D., who oversaw dramatic growth in research at Indiana University School of Medicine and excellence in children's health care at Riley Hospital for Children, has accepted the top leadership position at the University of Michigan Health System. Pescovitz has been named executive vice president for medical affairs at Michigan and CEO of the U-M Health System. She will be assuming her new posts at the Ann Arbor campus on May 11.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Faculties and Academic Affairs announces the winners of this year's Fran Snygg arts awards. Two awards were established in honor of Snygg, professor of modern dance in the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, associate dean of the faculties, and founder of Arts Week. In recognizing her contributions, an Endowment Fund was created in 1998 and an annual Grant for Artistic Collaboration was created in 2002.

Informatics professors Steven Myers and Alex Vespignani recent work on WiFi malware spreading has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials.

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie announced today (Jan. 26) that he has appointed a 17-member committee of faculty members, administrators and graduate students to begin a nationwide search to fill the position of vice president for research, a position held by McRobbie until his appointment as president in 2007.

If you're looking to commemorate Inauguration Day 2009, head to the lobby of the Herman B Wells Library Jan. 20. Students can view the inauguration in the Herman B Wells Library from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and visit Yes We Can, an interactive art project in the Wells Library lobby.

While most analysts thought the numbers would plateau, the figures released today (Dec. 23) by the National Center for Education Statistics and the U.S. Department of Education, show another rise in the number of home-schooled students in the U.S. In addressing this continuing trend in education, IU professor Robert Kunzman has developed a new Web site to provide a centralized resource for journalists, educators and the general public to consider the new data in context.

A new study involving health care systems in 21 countries -- and the prospects for change in response to such common pressures as rising costs and aging populations -- casts doubt on the possibility of major overhauls of any of these systems because of the history and traditions that created them.

A new study involving health care systems in 21 countries -- and the prospects for change in response to such common pressures as rising costs and aging populations -- casts doubt on the possibility of major overhauls of any of these systems because of the history and traditions that created them.

A new grant program at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs will provide opportunities for faculty members and students to develop externally funded research related to environmental sustainability. SPEA Dean John Graham announced the Sustainability Research Development Grant program, which is an outgrowth of a broad-based initiative created by the IU Task Force on Campus Sustainability.

Faculty members of the Indiana University School of Medicine have been awarded research grants from Susan G. Komen for the Cure. John Foley, David Gilley and Hiromi Tanaka are among recipients of an unprecedented $100 million in grants Komen awarded to American and international scientists.

Indiana University scientists, students and administrators gather today to celebrate the construction of the 6,000-square-foot Research and Teaching Preserve Field Laboratory, the university's newest science building.

A Biocomplexity Institute team led by Indiana University Bloomington biophysicist James Glazier with collaborators András Czirók, Randy Heiland, Charles Little, Herbert Sauro and Santiago Schnell is set to receive $2.7 million from the National Institutes of Health to expand studies of early animal development, addressing age-old problems in developmental biology.

Four Indiana University Bloomington faculty members have been awarded a $150,000 grant to develop a model interdisciplinary approach that prepares graduate students to be reflective practitioners who base their teaching on appropriate learning theory and revise it based on evidence of student learning.

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.

A federal award to fund the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute validates Indiana's position as a biomedical research leader, and citizens across Indiana and beyond will benefit, say Hoosier life sciences leaders. The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year grant of $25 million to the IU School of Medicine to fund Indiana CTSI activities at Indiana and Purdue universities.

A total of 16,049 graduates will be eligible for degrees from Indiana University during May commencement ceremonies at eight campuses. IU commencement week begins in Bloomington on May 3 (Saturday) and concludes at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne on May 14 (Wednesday).

In the first large scale national study of escalator-related injuries to older adults, researchers led by Dr. Joseph O'Neil and Dr. Greg Steele of the Indiana University School of Medicine, report that the rate of these injuries has doubled from 1991 to 2005. The results of the study are published in the March 2008 issue of the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention.