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Read the Spring/Summer 2008 issue of the IU School of Education's Chalkboard, featuring Professor Sasha Barab and his video game Quest Atlantis.
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In the last 25 years, scientists have observed a steady decline in the world's glaciers. Glaciers, like the northern Norwegian one pictured here, are largely composed of ancient ice.
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2008 Gill Symposium
May 21, 2008
8 a.m.-6 p.m.
Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union, IU Bloomington
This year's 2008 Gill Award recipient is Robert Sapolsky, who makes a return visit to Bloomington following his S.R.O. lecture in March. This year's Young Investigator Award goes to Karel Svoboda of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus. A number of IU scientists associated with the Gill Center will discuss progress in their fields.
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Scientist at Work: Manjari Mazumdar
The Indiana University School of Medicine's Medical Sciences Program in Bloomington welcomed a new researcher to its ranks earlier this year. Plucked from the prestigious National Cancer Institute, Manjari Mazumdar is bringing her cancer research to the halls of Bloomington's campus. Her work could lead to early detection tests, as well as new preventions and treatments for certain cancers.
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The National Institutes of Health has given $1.2 million to Indiana University researchers to build the ultimate international epidemic research tool. Principle investigators Katy Börner, Steven J. Sherman and Alessandro Vespignani will oversee the project, EpiC, which they hope will make the sharing and re-using of epidemics datasets and algorithms as easy as sharing videos via YouTube.
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The Indiana Asteroid Program began with a borrowed lens and a bet over a chocolate ice cream cone. Almost 60 years later, its final chapter was written with the naming of a heavenly body after one of the most dedicated staff members Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Astronomy has ever seen.
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Researchers from the IU School of Medicine and the IUPUI School of Science have created the first three-dimensional image of how a well-established chemotherapy agent targets and binds to DNA. The study, which published online the week of March 17 in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may help scientists develop better chemotherapy drugs to treat a wide range of cancers.
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Byron Gipson brings this love of science and a "ferocious curiosity" inherited from his mother back to Indiana University, where he began studying this semester as the first Adam W. Herbert Graduate Fellow. Pursuing a doctorate, Gipson will serve his fellowship conducting cutting-edge research into the neural mechanisms underlying relapse to drug-seeking behavior, a research focus in the lab of George V. Rebec, chancellor's professor and director of the Program in Neuroscience.
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The March 25, 2008, issue of Discoveries, highlighted Dale Sengelaub, a professor in Indiana University's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Also featured in this issue were stories about the climate change threatening Amazonian small farmers, a story on the downside of a good idea, details on new information regarding the "Bible of Particle Physics," and a look at what IU chemists have recently discovered in the laboratory.
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Some recent titles by IU researchers
"Hormone-mediated suites as adaptations and evolutionary constraints," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, May 2008, by Joel McGlothlin and Ellen Ketterson
"A randomized trial of two print interventions to increase colon cancer screening among first-degree relatives," Patient Educaiton and Counseling, May 2008, by S.M. Rawl, C.S. Skinner, and others
"Very early arterial ischemic stroke in premature infants," Pediatric Neurology, May 2008, by M.R. Golomb, B.P. Garg, M. Edwards-Brown, and L.S. Williams
"Filamentous Actin Regulates Insulin Exocytosis through Direct Interaction with Syntaxin 4," Journal of Biological Chemistry, April 18, 2008, by J.L. Jewell, D.C. Thurmond, and others
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Visit IU at the Indiana State Fair
For the third year in a row, the Indiana State Fair will be all about Indiana University for an entire day. IU makes a big difference in the state, from improving Hoosier health to building a better Hoosier economy. On Aug. 7, IU Day, we'll celebrate our commitment to Indiana.
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