 The Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands at Indiana University, with the School of Public Health-Bloomington, the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies, and the Department of Environmental Health, is pleased to announce that the Symposium on Parks, Public Lands, and Public Health in Indiana will be held on Sept. 25 in the Indiana Memorial Union at IU Bloomington.
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 The National Science Foundation has awarded over $999,000 to three Indiana University faculty members for a unique effort intended to shed light on how children best learn about complex systems and how new technologies can best serve that learning. The project will develop electronically enhanced puppets, or "e-puppets," that allow students to simulate biological phenomena such as honeybees collecting nectar or ants scavenging for food.
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 The International Committee for the History of Technology has awarded the 2013 Maurice Daumas Prize to Nathan Ensmenger, an associate professor at Indiana University's School of Informatics and Computing. The prize was announced at the 2013 ICOHTEC Knowledge at Work Symposium in Manchester, UK.
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 Harold Hongju Koh, the Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and a renowned expert on international law, has been named the George P. Smith II Distinguished Visiting Professor-Chair at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and will deliver a lecture at the school at noon Friday, Sept. 13, in the school's Moot Court Room.
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 Actress Glenn Close and former CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson will both speak at Indiana University Bloomington this fall as part of the College of Arts and Sciences' Themester 2013, "Connectedness: Networks in a Complex World," which focuses on the role of connection as a force in society and in people's lives.
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 Award-winning microbiologist Margaret McFall-Ngai, an expert on host interactions with rare bacteria, on Wednesday will present the 2013 Joan Wood Lecture. The lecture is part of a series designed to provide a forum for undergraduates to interact with women in science-related careers.
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 The Indiana University Board of Trustees will hold a brief special meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 11, to delegate one or more persons to act as spokesman on behalf of the trustees in discussions with Indiana University Health. The meeting will convene at 3:45 p.m. in Room 500 of the Informatics and Communications Technology Complex on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
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 Civic engagement with a special focus on service learning is the theme of the second biennial Indianapolis Women's Philanthropy Conference on Friday, Nov. 8 in Indianapolis. Open to the public, the event offers a day of philanthropic exploration, education, and networking among leading nonprofit professionals and volunteers. The conference will take place at the Campus Center at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
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 Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie this week became the first IU president to visit Ghana, meeting with senior officials at the nation's oldest university, the University of Ghana, to explore ways to expand one of IU's most productive and successful international partnerships.
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 U.S. National Security Agency efforts to overcome encryption of online data weaken American security, undermine the government's duty to protect its own cyberinfrastructure and suggest intelligence agencies may not be cooperating at nearly the levels they promised to in a post-9/11 world, says Indiana University legal and cybersecurity expert Fred H. Cate.
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 Eileen Julien, professor of French and comparative literature in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, has been appointed the new director of the Institute for Advanced Study. Julien, who joined the IU Bloomington faculty in 1992, has a distinguished career in research and writing that explores the connections between Africa, Europe and the Americas.
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 Indiana University Bloomington personnel representing various departments and offices across campus will participate, with 16 county, state and federal agencies, in a tabletop exercise Sept. 10 sponsored by the Monroe County Local Emergency Planning Committee. The exercise will focus on a train derailment adjacent to the IU Bloomington campus.
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 Indiana University will dedicate the prow of the World War II battleship USS Indiana in an invitation-only ceremony before IU takes on Navy at this weekend's football game. The university will also publicly celebrate the dedication in several ways, including a performance by The USO Show Troupe by the prow at Memorial Stadium's west entrance.
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 World-renowned Indian classical music maestro Amjad Ali Khan will visit Indiana University Bloomington as a guest of the Madhusudan and Kiran C. Dhar India Studies Program and as the first School of Global and International Studies Artist in Residence.
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 For the fourth year, the Hoosier to Hoosier Community Sale exceeded previous sales records, earning $32,800. Sale organizers were concerned a new off-campus location would deter shoppers, but early bird attendance increased, with more than 700 people entering within the first hour and a half of the sale.
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 IU will honor the GlobalNOC's past and future at a 15th anniversary celebration Tuesday, Sept. 10, in the Informatics & Communications Technology Complex on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus.
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 The Indiana University Office of Sustainability has established an innovative partnership between Indiana University Bloomington and the Local Growers Guild that will allow local farmers and community organizations to collect pre-consumer food waste from campus dining facilities for off-campus composting.
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 This year's incoming freshman class established new highs for academic quality, and its members are part of the largest group of students ever to begin an academic year at Indiana University, according to census figures released today by the university. A record 107,132 students are enrolled on seven Indiana University campuses, which also set a record for credit hours of 1,225,281.5.
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 Experts on foreign affairs, cybersecurity, military intelligence, diplomatic history and related topics will gather this week at Indiana University Bloomington to discuss the classified documents released by Edward Snowden and their implications for national security. "Can You Hear Me Now? A Panel Discussion on Edward Snowden and the NSA Surveillance Program" will take place at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, in room 123 of the IU Maurer School of Law, 211 S. Indiana Ave.
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 Independent filmmaker Ava DuVernay will visit Indiana University's Bloomington campus this month, where she'll screen seven films and deliver a Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Lecture. A writer, producer, director and editor who received the best director award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012, DuVernay is also widely known in independent film circles for the 2011 launch of her film distribution venture, the African American Film Festival Releasing Movement.
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 As a result of a partnership between Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, Kalypso and CollegeFashionista.com, a new quarterly index will measure consumer sentiment towards fashion trends in the apparel, footwear and accessory industry.
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 An Indiana University graduate-level course with a service-learning focus has worked with a local group of conservationists and concerned citizens to promote the use of native Indiana plants in landscaping. Students collaborated with Monroe County Identify and Reduce Invasive Species to create educational materials for the Go Green, Grow Native! initiative.
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 Glenda Ritz, state superintendent of public instruction for Indiana, will speak about her experiences during her first eight months in office during the next Education Policy Chat by the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy at Indiana University.
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 A team of physicists at IU Bloomington is hunting for nuclear magnetic resonance frequency shifts 100 billion times smaller than those in a single hydrogen proton as part of a search for new particles in nature that are very weakly coupled to matter.
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 Findings from the 23rd Annual Survey of Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Use revealed that marijuana use in grades 6-12 continues to decrease. This reduction followed a peak in marijuana use from 2008 to 2011. While marijuana use is down, it remains more popular than synthetic marijuana.
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 For 20 years, Indiana University Bloomington has been an active supporter of the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival. This year, IU will help kick off the five-day event with a concert Sept. 26. IU and the new School of Global and International Studies are teaming up with Lotus to present a free world music party featuring Chicago-based Funkadesi, Montreal's Nomadic Massive and Bloomington's own Pan-Basso.
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 Four local growers and 14 restaurants will take place this month in Indiana University's Big Red Eats Green Festival, a celebration of local food and locally owned businesses. Big Red Eats Green was created in 2011 to raise awareness of local foods among IU students, faculty and staff. This year's event will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, at the IU Art Museum.
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 During a week in two of South Africa's largest and most dynamic cities, an Indiana University delegation led by President Michael A. McRobbie signed a new partnership agreement with the country's top-ranked business school and agreed to further explore a number of other areas for collaboration and cooperation that could form the basis of partnerships with some of South Africa's premier teaching and research institutions.
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 Ground-breaking new research from a team of evolutionary biologists at Indiana University shows for the first time how asexual lineages of a species are doomed not necessarily from a long, slow accumulation of new mutations, but rather from fast-paced gene conversion processes that simply unmask pre-existing deleterious recessive mutations.
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 Classified budget figures and successes and failures by American intelligence agencies, exposed for the first time this week by The Washington Post, show a massive bureaucracy with misplaced priorities, according to an Indiana University cybersecurity and privacy expert Fred H. Cate.
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 The U.S. Particle Accelerator School will present S.Y. Lee with its USPAS Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology. Lee, professor in the Department of Physics at Indiana University Bloomington, will receive the award at the 2013 North American Particle Accelerator Conference held Sept. 29 to Oct. 4 in Pasadena, Calif.
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 Christoph Irmscher, Provost Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named director of Indiana University Bloomington's Wells Scholars Program, which provides scholarships and academic opportunities for some of the campus's most promising students.
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 An international group of leading arms control experts, including the IU Maurer School of Law's David P. Fidler, has filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the federal legislation that implements U.S. treaty obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention. This group includes David P. Fidler from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.
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 Dazzling white Venus will come into view low in the west-southwest as evening twilight fades during September. On Sept. 8, about 45 minutes after sunset, the crescent moon will be just below Venus with the bright white star Spica less than 2 degrees to the lower right (west), forming a lovely trio as darkness falls.
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 Provocative Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn will visit Indiana University Cinema this fall, where he'll screen four of his films and deliver a Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Lecture.
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 Indiana University professors on two campuses have been awarded grants for a new initiative on philanthropy in China. It will include research projects, workshops and conferences, publications, a new course, student internships and engagement in a philanthropic activity to address a social problem.
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 Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie will leave Saturday for a two-week trip to Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, the first trip to Africa by a sitting IU president in more than two decades. McRobbie will also be the first IU president to tour the groundbreaking AMPATH program in Kenya, a partnership between IU and Moi University in Kenya and one of the world's largest and most comprehensive programs to combat HIV/AIDS.
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 Researchers at The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University Bloomington have been awarded a two-year grant to study the medical accommodation and care of transgender service members in the U.S. military.
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 Indiana University has announced that 18 entering freshmen and two current IU students will join the more than 500 others who have been named Wells Scholars since the first class enrolled in 1990.
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 Yea-Fen Chen, executive director of the U.S. Chinese Language Teachers Association and coordinator of the Chinese Language Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has returned to Indiana University to direct its Chinese Flagship Program.
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 Indiana University Vice President and Director of Athletics Fred Glass will be available to media on Monday, Aug. 26, for a tour of athletics facility upgrades and to discuss what Hoosiers fans can look forward to during the 2013 IU football season.
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 Funding for scientific research can take years to acquire, with researchers negotiating their way through a labyrinth of submissions, reviews, edits and resubmissions. But one group of young researchers at Indiana University is taking its funding request to the public by using a crowd-funding website designed specifically for supporting new science.
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 A fall exhibition featuring rarely-seen images shot by famed "Life" magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White will open Sept. 6 at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. The exhibition will remain on display on the Indiana University Bloomington campus through December. Then, in 2014, it will travel to the Bensusan Museum of Photography, Museum Africa, in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Michaelis Galleries at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa.
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 With the inaugural issue of the journal Network Science, coordinating editor Stanley Wasserman brings together scholars from fields across the academic spectrum whose interests converge upon the quickly evolving field of network science. The journal finds a natural home at Indiana University, particularly in a year in which the topic for the Themester initiative across the Bloomington campus is "Connectedness: Networks in a Complex World."
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 Indiana University's Kelley School of Business is expanding its credit-bearing certificate programs for executives worldwide while continuing to offer a top-quality experience that is applicable to the needs of the marketplace. Executive Degree Programs offers graduate degrees and nearly a dozen credit-bearing graduate certificates in business analytics, enterprise resource planning, information technology service management, project management and other topics.
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 After slumping this spring, the Leading Index for Indiana showed that the state's economy may be gaining traction, moving up 0.6 points to 101.6 in August. All the LII's components are pointing up, some strongly.
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 Indiana Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann will keynote the first event in the 2013-14 Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series on Sept. 6 at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis.
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 More than 60 percent of students who transferred from two-year schools in the 2005-2006 academic year obtained bachelor's degrees at four-year institutions, according to a new report issued by Indiana University's Project on Academic Success and the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
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Indiana exports totaled $34.4 billion in 2012, setting a record high for the state, according to a new report from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.
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 Indiana University has named Jennifer M. Schopf its new director of international networking. Schopf officially joined the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and CIO on Aug. 1 to lead IU's advanced, high-performance networking efforts around the world. She succeeds James G. Williams, IU's first director of international networking, who is retiring after a 30-year career at the university.
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 A Wisconsin startup company that raised $46 million in its initial public offering July 24 is one of the few such ventures to come to market with sales revenues, thanks in part to patented technologies licensed from Indiana University.
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 Indiana University campuses around the state will add new cadet police officers to their IU Police Department ranks after the IU Police Academy presented badges during graduation ceremonies to 38 members of its 42nd class.
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Sociologists from Indiana are participating in the 108th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, held Aug. 10 to 13 in New York. Studies presented discuss the ability to predict political races using Twitter, how elementary students' academic performance affects how their parents treat them, the influence of student loan debt on students' experiences in college, and much more.
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Leading professors of privacy and surveillance law today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the secret order of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorizing the NSA to collect "all call detail records or 'telephony metadata' created by Verizon," including calls wholly within the U.S. and calls between the U.S. and abroad.
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 Thomas E. Reilly Jr. has been elected to a two-year term as chair of the Indiana University Board of Trustees.
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 Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, a distinguished scholar and professor of practice at the Indiana University School of Global and International Studies, is one of 16 Americans who will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom for 2013.
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 Nationally known expert in program evaluation and mixed methods research John Hitchcock, the newly appointed director of the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy at the Indiana University School of Education, has also been appointed as research director for the Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia.
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Funding for scientific research can take years to acquire, with researchers negotiating their way through a labyrinth of submissions, reviews, edits and resubmissions. But one group of young researchers at Indiana University is taking its funding request to the public by using a crowd-funding website designed specifically for supporting new science.
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 These back-to-school news items discuss the effect home foreclosures can have on students; guns on campuses; ins and outs of high school and college students working; LGBT experiences in college; cell phone addiction; and effective ways elementary and middle schools can help students increase physical activity.
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 Scholars and archivists from around the world will screen, analyze, and discuss old, rare, almost lost and nearly forgotten films and videos at Orphans Midwest, a film symposium held on the Indiana University Bloomington campus in September.
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The Indiana University Board of Trustees will meet Thursday and Friday, Aug. 8 and 9, at the Campus Center at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
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 Indiana University has implemented the Kuali Coeus Institutional Review Board, a comprehensive online system for the submission, review and approval of human subjects research. With seven Institutional Review Boards and more than 4,800 approved active research studies, IU is the largest university to implement this community-developed open source software.
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 The disclosure today by the Guardian newspaper of another NSA surveillance program is only the most recent in a series of revelation suggesting how out of touch the National Security Agency is with U.S. law and with public sentiment about privacy and its protection, according to an Indiana University cybersecurity and privacy expert.
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 Indiana University Alumni Association CEO J Thomas Forbes has been elected to a three-year term on the Council of Alumni Association Executives Board of Directors.
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 The Indiana University School of Journalism will honor six alumni, including Pulitzer Prize winners, a World War II correspondent, investigative reporters and journalism visionaries, at its third annual Distinguished Alumni Awards celebration Sept. 28.
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 In the 21st century, kids are learning in school and out of school, online and offline, 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Today, Indiana University and New York University announce a $350,000 grant from the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust to research a dynamic experiment in this sort of "lifewide" learning.
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 Edwin C. Marshall, Indiana University vice president for diversity, equity and multicultural affairs since July 2007, will retire effective July 31 after 42 years as a professor and administrator at IU, the university has announced. IU President Michael A. McRobbie has selected James C. Wimbush, dean of the University Graduate School, to immediately succeed Marshall subject to the approval of the IU Board of Trustees at its next meeting Aug. 9.
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Indiana University Bloomington is among the nation's top 25 best public colleges and universities, according to new rankings from Forbes.
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 A 13-member search and screen committee has been formed to identify finalists for the position of chancellor of Indiana University Kokomo. John Applegate, IU executive vice president for university academic affairs, announced the committee's creation today.
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 A 13-member search and screen committee has been formed to identify finalists for the position of chancellor of Indiana University Southeast. John Applegate, IU executive vice president for university academic affairs, announced the committee's creation today.
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 Even though schools are cutting back on arts education, young people are following their artistic passions outside of traditional programs, fueled by new technologies that enable them to create and share art, according to a new report commissioned by The Wallace Foundation and authored by Kylie Peppler, an assistant professor of learning sciences in the School of Education at Indiana University Bloomington.
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 Land plants can "see," but can microscopic plants see better? New research from Indiana University has uncovered a give-and-take communication system between and within photoreceptors in freshwater-dwelling cyanobacteria that works at a level of complexity beyond those seen in plants or other organisms.
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ApeX Therapeutics, a cancer-focused drug discovery and development company with technology licensed from Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., has received a Phase I, Small Business Innovation Research grant for $240,332 from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health to develop an oral or injectable medicine to more effectively treat leukemia and other cancerous tumors in children.
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Indiana University faculty and researchers have nearly doubled the number of invention disclosures in the past three years. According to the IU Research and Technology Corp., a not-for-profit organization that assists IU faculty and researchers in realizing the commercial potential of their discoveries, invention disclosures have nearly doubled from 131 in FY 2009 to 230 in FY 2012.
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Indiana University researchers this week are discussing research findings at the STI & AIDS World Congress in Vienna, Austria. Findings involving an increased role by pharmacists in customers' HIV care, high risks of STIs after release from prison and improved access to much-needed cervical cancer screenings are discussed in this release.
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 Anne Massey has been named associate vice president for university academic planning and policy at Indiana University, effective Sept. 1, Executive Vice President for University Academic Affairs John Applegate has announced.
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 The IU Varsity Club has announced that its donors have set a new record for giving to IU Athletics. For the third year in a row, the Varsity Club has increased the total raised during its annual giving campaign for student-athlete scholarships. With $11.9 million in contributions received during the 2012-13 fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, Varsity Club donors exceeded last year's annual giving record by over $2.8 million (31.4 percent). June 2013 was the single largest month of giving in the Varsity Club's annual giving history with $3.69 million.
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 Indiana University health and legal experts discuss the U.S. Supreme Court's influence on the FDA and research that examined the relationship between quitting smoking, heart disease, diabetes and weight gain in older women.
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 The June 2013 issue of the Indiana Magazine of History uncovers the story of a man who sought to revolutionize child welfare at the turn of the twentieth century.
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 Eric T. Bruder, a veteran consumer goods marketing executive with significant international experience, has joined Indiana University as executive associate vice president and chief marketing officer, the university has announced.
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As Americans spend a long holiday weekend celebrating the birth of the United States, one Indiana University privacy expert believes recent disclosures about widespread government surveillance programs signal the erosion of something the founding fathers believed so heavily in -- the Fourth Amendment. Even worse, the massive programs are doing little, if anything, to prevent terrorism.
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Brion G. St. Amour has joined Indiana University Research & Technology Corp. as head of intellectual property.
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 According to Indiana University cybersecurity and data privacy expert Fred H. Cate, four factors make the latest spying revelations concerning the National Secuirty Agency particularly problematic for the Obama administration.
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 A new Indiana University report indicates that foreign direct investment -- which has become crucial to the state and national economy -- has made a comeback after suffering the effects of the "Great Recession."
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New top-secret documents published by the Guardian newspaper on June 20 are important to the ongoing "security vs. privacy" debate and underscore the need for legislative action on, and more oversight of, such surveillance activities, say two Indiana University cybersecurity experts.
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 The U.S. Supreme Court's decision today in Alleyne v. United States clears up an anomaly among Sixth Amendment sentencing cases. But according to an IU Maurer School of Law expert, the court's close margin of decision and apparent unwillingness to overrule prior decisions have set the stage for further disputes.
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 Indiana University Emergency Management and Continuity (IUEMC) will conduct a full scale emergency preparedness exercise on the campus of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, June 25 (Tuesday).
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The disclosure of a top secret program that gives U.S. government officials the ability to surveil foreigners suspected of terrorism or espionage through leading American technology companies -- a program code-named PRISM -- could have serious effects on U.S. diplomacy on cyber issues, according to an Indiana University cybersecurity expert.
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 Rescheduling update: The explosives demonstration that was postponed from June 5 has been rescheduled for 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 12. The demonstration will take place at the old IU Outdoor Firearms Range at the dead end of Range Road off East 10th Street.
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 Buildings scheduled for demolition June 5 and 7 will be put to excellent use. Indiana University will assist training and response activities of the Indiana National Guard and other local, state and federal partners participating in United Front II, a multivenue search and rescue operation exercise in Bloomington on June 10 to 13. The collapsed buildings will be provide a "stage" for search and rescue teams to locate and extract "victims."
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 The Center for Constitutional Democracy at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law has been chosen to advise the Constitutional Review Committee of the Government of Liberia on the review and design of amendments to the country's 1986 constitution.
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Indiana University Police Academy has been training officers for the challenges that await them on the streets for years. Now, the Monroe County prosecutor's office has teamed up with the academy to provide instruction on criminal law.
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 As part of Indiana University's third annual Summer Festival of the Arts, the Jacobs School of Music will present Summer Music, an offering of more than 50 free and ticketed events from June 14 through July 23. Highlights this year include the triennial USA International Harp Competition.
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 One of the leading international harp competitions in the world begins July 10 at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. The ninth USA International Harp Competition is expected to draw more than 50 harpists to Bloomington, the largest number of contestants since its inception. All events are free and open to the public.
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 Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie bestowed the Distinguished Hoosier Award on violinist Alexander Kerr during an April 24 ceremony at Bryan House on the Bloomington campus. Kerr is professor of music and Linda and Jack Gill Chair in Music at the IU Jacobs School of Music.
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 Eleven students who are studying at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law have been named Milton Stewart Fellows and will participate as summer interns in Brazil, India, Japan and South Korea through the law school's Center on the Global Legal Profession.
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Three Indiana University Maurer School of Law faculty members and one adjunct professor were honored this month with prestigious teaching awards from the law school.
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Four Indiana University Maurer School of Law alumni will be inducted today, April 19, into the school's Academy of Law Alumni Fellows. Induction into the academy is the highest honor the law school can bestow on its graduates.
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 A world premiere, an additional new production, an updated production and a tribute to one of the Jacobs School of Music's most distinguished faculty members await explorers of all kinds at Bloomington's Musical Arts Center during the 2013-14 Indiana University Opera and Ballet Theater season -- "9 Stops: 1 Incredible Journey."
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 The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music will host a free performance by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 14, in the Musical Arts Center on the Bloomington campus. Conducted by newly appointed music director Krzysztof Urbanski, the concert will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Russian composer Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring."
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 William D. Henderson of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law has been named by National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America.
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 The Indiana University School of Journalism will welcome a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times and a National Public Radio news anchor as part of its lineup of spring speakers.
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 Paul Helmke, former president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and of the Brady Campaign/Center to Prevent Gun Violence, will be joining the faculty of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington starting in January 2013.
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  Professor Donna M. Nagy, a securities law expert at the IU Maurer School of Law, is scheduled to testify before a House committee on Tuesday, Dec. 6, on pending legislation that would expressly prohibit insider trading by members of Congress and legislative staffers.
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Donna M. Nagy, an Indiana University Maurer School of Law securities law expert, is scheduled to testify today, Dec. 1, before a Senate committee on pending legislation that would expressly prohibit insider trading by members of Congress and legislative staffers.
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 The Indiana University Latin American Popular Music Ensemble and its advanced workshop of young artists, El Taller, will present a CD release concert for their Paisaje Urbano (Urban Landscape) recording at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, in Auer Hall.
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 The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music will host the 2011 Midwest Composers Symposium on Nov. 11 and 12 in Bloomington.
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The energy-saving microturbine used to produce energy in Indiana University Bloomington's Central Heating Plant has reached a notable milestone, having produced one gigawatt hour of electricity since it was installed in January 2010.
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 The Indiana University Marching Hundred will be the first college marching band to perform at the new Lucas Oil Stadium when the Indianapolis Colts play their first regular season game this Sunday (Sept. 7) at 8:15 p.m. on national television. The band will take the field during the Colts season opener against the Chicago Bears.
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 The rapidly changing media environment of American adolescents is having both positive and negative effects on their development, according to Roger Levesque, a specialist on adolescents and the law at Indiana University Bloomington and editor of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. In his new book, Adolescents, Media and the Law: What Developmental Science Reveals and Free Speech Requires (Oxford University Press), Levesque integrates research on what the law considers "speech" in adolescent development with research on policies regulating adolescents' rights and their place in society.
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 Crime and violence against abortion clinics are no longer in the headlines, but that doesn't mean they no longer happen. A new study reports on the ongoing vandalism and harassment that are part of the job for those who work in many abortion clinics nationwide.
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 Surprising results from a nationwide clinical trial show that many children ages 7 through 17 who have amblyopia, or "lazy eye," may benefit from treatments commonly used on younger children. Previously, eye care professionals thought that treating amblyopia in older children would be of little benefit.
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 The strongest force in nature that we know about is the force holding together the parts of the proton and neutron, which are called quarks. This quark-binding force behaves very differently from other forces -- it doesn't weaken when the quarks get farther apart, and quarks can't be isolated. Understanding why this happens is the goal of a new $45 million project led by physicists from Indiana University Bloomington. The project leader, IU Physics Professor Alex Dzierba, described for a general audience what his team is undertaking in the 2004 Distinguished Faculty Research Lecture on April 12.
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Feb. 21 marks the 50th anniversary of the day biologists James Watson and Francis Crick realized that DNA was the genetic material of all living things on Earth. Their discovery ushered in the modern era of molecular biology, gene therapy and cloning. It also earned Watson and Crick a share of the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology.
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A major technical advance in astronomy is making it possible for scientists to see individual living cells of the human retina clearly for the first time. This will greatly improve doctors' ability to diagnose diseases of the retina such as glaucoma at an early stage, when treatment can prevent blindness.
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Twenty-seven IU faculty members from five different campuses have received research grants through the Arts and Humanities Initiative. This is the second year of a four-year $4 million program to encourage arts and humanities research, announced by IU President Myles Brand in 2000.
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