Four technology-based businesses led by Indiana University students will receive funding from the inaugural Building Entrepreneurship in Software and Technology, or BEST, competition. Full Story

On the global social media stage, it's not so much the message but rather network structure and competition for attention that determine whether a meme becomes popular and shows staying power or whether it falls by the wayside, research led by Indiana University has determined. Full Story

Indiana University School of Informatics Dean Bobby Schnabel has been appointed to the National Science Foundation advisory committee responsible for providing strategic planning and policy formulation recommendations in the area of computer and information science and engineering. Full Story

Eden Medina, an assistant professor in the Indiana University Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing, has received a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Full Story

Through a joint effort between its Data to Insight Center and IU Libraries, Indiana University has been selected as a partner institution in the Council on Library and Information Resources/Digital Library Federation Data Curation Fellowship Program. The program is made possible by a $679,827 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Full Story

In the April 1, 2012, issue of IT Matters @ IU, Indiana University announced that Brad Wheeler, IU vice president for information technology and chief information officer, had received a pair of honors for his leadership in higher education from two notable publications. In other news, a new report distilled the discussion from the Workshop on Experimental Support for Computer Science at SC11 into a consensus on the state of the field and directions for moving forward; and it was announced that Mary L. Gray, a scholar who studies how people use digital and social media and an associate professor of communication and culture in Indiana University's College of Arts and Sciences, had been invited to join Microsoft Research's laboratories in Cambridge, Mass., as a senior researcher. Full Story