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The spring 2009 edition of IU Music is now online. The feature story focuses on early music instruction for elementary school students.
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Saturn is easily observable this month as a bright yellow dot between the blue-colored stars Spica and Regulus. This summer, the IU Bloomington Department of Astronomy will make telescopes available to visitors as late as 11:30 p.m on Wednesdays. The department is also hosting an astronomy-themed film series. See our "International Year of Astronomy" story (right) for details.
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International Year of Astronomy - Bloomington
June 17, 24; July 1, 8, 15, 2009
7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Swain Hall 119
In celebration of 2009's International Year of Astronomy, the IU Bloomington Department of Astronomy is hosting a summer film series every Wednesday night through August 12th. These films will be shown prior to the start of each Kirkwood Public Open House, which runs 10-11:30 p.m. We offer an alternating program of classic feature films and recent, fun documentaries covering a wide range of astronomy and space themes. No charge for admission. Free popcorn will be provided.
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Scientist at Work: Beth Plale
Potato blight . . . air traffic safety . . . pharmaceutical development . . . forest sustainability. As one of the nation's leading computer scientists, Indiana University's Beth Plale has got her fingers on so much more than a mouse and keyboard these days. The titles alone are daunting: Director of both the Center for Data and Search Informatics and the Data to Insight Center at Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute, associate dean of research in the School of Informatics (until July 1), and finally, and of no less import, associate professor of computer science and informatics in the IU School of Informatics.
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Black holes are a common topic for scientific discussion today -- but to the astrophysicists, theoretical physicists and mathematicians attending Indiana University's Capra Conference on radiation reaction, predictions still outweigh proof when it comes to black holes and their interstellar antics. Hosted by IU for the first time in the event's 12-year history, the Capra Conference each year affords scientists an opportunity to compare notes on how much closer they've come to theoretically confirming Einstein's general theory of relativity.
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Bryan Schneider, assistant professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the Indiana University School of Medicine and a physician and researcher with the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, recently received a $5.8 million Promise Grant from Susan G. Komen for the Cure for his research that attempts to predict who will benefit from the powerful breast cancer-fighting drug bevacizumab (also known as Avastin).
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Free popcorn, the planet Saturn, mysterious shaving cream atoms and Australian sheep farmers should make Wednesday nights starting in June intriguing for families taking part in the Indiana University Astronomy Department's International Year of Astronomy Summer Film Series. The department, part of the IU College of Arts and Sciences, celebrates the International Year of Astronomy with 11 celestially framed film showcases designed to precede weekly public stargazing opportunities at the observatory.
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Indiana University Bloomington biologist Mike Wade has been selected to receive the American Society of Naturalists' 2009 Sewall Wright Award. Named after the influential population geneticist, the award recognizes a "senior but still active investigator who is making fundamental contributions . . . promoting the conceptual unification the biological sciences," according to the society. The award is widely respected by evolutionary biologists.
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In response to long-standing public health needs in Indiana, Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie 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. The new school at IU Bloomington is expected to be based on the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, the third-largest school on campus. It will focus more on rural health issues, general wellness and other areas that build on the existing strengths of HPER. The school at IUPUI will grow from the Department of Public Health in the School of Medicine and is expected to focus more on urban health issues.
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Indiana University Bloomington faculty member Amit Hagar has received a National Science Foundation Scholar Award of $144,000 for research related to quantum computing, a potentially revolutionary field whose development has excited scientists. Hagar, an assistant professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in the College of Arts and Sciences, will undertake a project titled "The Complexity of Noise: A Philosophical Outlook on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation."
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The May 19, 2009, issue of IU Discoveries featured IU Bloomington biologist James Goodson, who studies the interaction of neural clusters in bird brains, specifically, the centers of social cognition. Also featured are stories about language perception in children, the evolution of novel traits, the strength of star crusts, the resumption of a major physics project and new accolades for IU scientists.
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Some recent titles by IU researchers
"Chronic stress effects on dendritic morphology in medial prefrontal cortex: sex differences and estrogen dependence," Neuroscience, Aug 2009, by J.E. Garrett and C.L. Wellman
"Timing dysfunctions in schizophrenia span from millisecond to several-second durations," Brain Cognition, July 2009, by C.A. Carroll et alla
"A New Twist on Mud Deposition -- Mud Ripples in Experiment and Rock Record," The Sedimentary Record, June 2009, J. Schieber and Z. Yawar
"Is left ventricular noncompaction in children truly an isolated lesion?" Pediatric Cardiology, July 2009, by S.F. Tsai et alla
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The IU Bloomington Web site has debuted a new look. In addition to favorite components of the current site -- such as the A-Z Big List, news and events sections, and both topical and audience navigation -- the new site includes more photography, video as a regular feature, and a new and improved campus photo tour.
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