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The May/June 2010 issue of Indiana Alumni Magazine features a story on trees planted as living memorials on the IU Bloomington campus.
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This image shows two Daphnia dentifera that are infected with the fungus Metschnikowia bicuspidata (from the top, first and third), and one in the center that is uninfected. The darker areas of infected Daphnia (body and head) are where fungal spores have collected.
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"Dynamic Mechanisms Regulate Steroid-Dependent Transcription: from Single Cell Measurements to Understanding Cell Population Behavior"
May 25, 2010
Noon-1 p.m.
Room 326, VanNuys Medical Science Building, IU School of Medicine, Indianapolis
Ty Voss, a staff scientist at the Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute, will present this research seminar at the IU School of Medicine.
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Scientist at Work: Michael Muehlenbein
Everybody wants to hold the cute baby monkey, at least until Michael Muehlenbein informs the travelers who've paid thousands of dollars to get close to orangutans, macaques and other primates on the island of Borneo that all but one of the top dozen serious emerging diseases on the planet are zoonotic -- that is, diseases that originate from nonhuman animals. You can believe that Muehlenbein, an assistant professor with Indiana University's Department of Anthropology, is doing you a favor when he kindly scolds, "There is rarely a good reason to hold a monkey."
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Research conducted in a virtual world by Indiana University Bloomington and Arizona State University scientists, including recent IU Bloomington Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom, shows how common-pool resources -- such as fisheries, forests, water systems or even bandwidth -- can be managed effectively by self-organized user groups under certain conditions. The findings were published April 30 in the journal Science.
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A field study of the relationship between testosterone and natural selection in an American songbird, the dark-eyed junco, has defied some expectations and confirmed others. Scientists from Indiana University Bloomington, the University of Virginia, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and the University of Southern Mississippi report in the June issue of The American Naturalist that extreme testosterone production -- high or low -- puts male dark-eyed juncos at a disadvantage in both survival and reproduction outside their semi-monogamous breeding pairs.
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If it is to ensure a bright future for Campeche farmers and the tropical forests surrounding them, the Mexican government must institute new policies that are more responsive to economic and ecological realities, an Indiana University Bloomington geographer argues. In a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Rinku Roy Chowdhury says this diversity is not addressed directly or indirectly by Mexico's laws or policies in the region, calling into question whether those policies are effective.
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Science is detective work so it was not unexpected that new questions would follow old ones as Indiana University Bloomington nuclear physicist Hans-Otto Meyer's work progressed on testing a fundamental symmetry of nature that could lead to understanding the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. But while searching for a non-zero separation of positive and negative charge inside a neutron (the symmetry-violating nEDM), Meyer ran into another mystery scientists have yet to explain.
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Indiana University Bloomington anthropologist Emilio Moran has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The announcement was made April 27 during the business session of the 147th annual meeting of the Academy.
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First-year Department of Physics graduate student Daniel Salvat has received a three-year, $151,500 award from the U.S. Department of Energy to further his education and research involving ultra-cold neutrons.
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The April 20, 2010, issue of Discoveries, features the Hoosier Oncology Group, a network of clinical researchers that was originally conceived as a way of bringing the newest cancer drugs and treatments to all Indiana residents. Also featured are stories about a new human ancestor, antimony mines in China, carbon-based solar cells, measuring forest productivity from space, relativistic wormholes, and ancient sunflowers.
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Some recent titles by IU researchers
"Measures of hearing threshold and temporal processing across the adult lifespan," Hearing Research, Volume 264, Issues 1-2, June 1, 2010, by Larry E. Humes, Diane Kewley-Port, Daniel Fogerty, Dana Kinney.
"Confluent operator algebras and the closability property," Journal of Functional Analysis, Volume 258, Issue 12, June 15, 2010, by H. Bercovici, R.G. Douglas, C. Foias, C. Pearcy.
"A cross-sectional comparison of the effects of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density on word learning by preschool children," Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 63, Issue 1, July 2010, by Jill R. Hoover, Holly L. Storkel, Tiffany P. Hogan.
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What's it like to be a graduate student at IU Bloomington? Get insider information from current graduate students as they discuss their experiences in academia and in community life in Bloomington and at IU.
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