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The Fall 2008 edition of Research & Creative Activity, offers a package of stories related to sustainability initiatives under way at several IU campuses as well as articles exploring the chemistry of air pollutants, the patterns of deforestation in Indiana and elsewhere, and what Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection can teach us about environmental ethics.
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Armin Moczek, an evolutionary biologist at IU Bloomington, is learning that the size and shape of horned beetles' protuberances influences the size of male beetles' genitalia. His research strongly suggests that environmentally controlled changes in beetle horn size can drive the origin of new beetle species.
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Spins and Charges in Low dimensions
Nov. 19, 2008, 4 to 5 p.m., Swain Hall West 119, IU Bloomington -- Free and open to the public. Amir Yacoby of Harvard University will discuss the physics of elementary particles under conditions of constraint.
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Scientist at Work: Mark Kelley
Day in and day out, cancer fighter Dr. Mark Kelley is about trying to find a safe way to knock cancerous tumor cells out of action, while at the same time protecting a patient's normal cells from damage. His work at Indiana University's Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center -- studying the use of DNA repair genes as a therapeutic tool in different chemotherapy programs -- is highly specialized, but he also knows answers to his problems may lie within the work some other researcher is doing in another corner of the same building.
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Discovery of the most intact female pelvis of Homo erectus may cause scientists to reevaluate how early humans evolved to successfully birth larger-brained babies. "This is the most complete female Homo erectus pelvis ever found from this time period," said Indiana University Bloomington paleoanthropologist Sileshi Semaw. "This discovery gives us more accurate information about the Homo erectus female pelvic inlet and therefore the size of their newborns."
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A classic experiment proving amino acids are created when inorganic molecules are exposed to electricity isn't the whole story, it turns out. The 1953 Miller-Urey Synthesis had two sibling studies, neither of which was published. Vials containing the products from those experiments were recently recovered and reanalyzed using modern technology. The results were reported in a recent issue of Science.
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Indiana University scientists, students and administrators gathered recently to celebrate the construction of the 6,000-square-foot Research and Teaching Preserve Field Laboratory, the university's newest science building. When the Field Lab is completed, likely in spring 2009, university architects will ask that the Field Lab be awarded LEED certification, an acknowledgement of the structure's tiny environmental footprint.
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Indiana University and Purdue University have again joined forces, this time to expand research exploring crucial issues surrounding energy production, distribution and use. The two institutions have jointly created the Indiana Consortium for Research in Energy Systems and Policy to advance interdisciplinary research related to energy systems and environmental and energy policy issues. Members of the consortium include IU Bloomington, Purdue University in West Lafayette and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
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A Biocomplexity Institute team led by Indiana University Bloomington biophysicist James Glazier with collaborators András Czirók, Randy Heiland, Charles Little, Herbert Sauro and Santiago Schnell is set to receive $2.7 million from the National Institutes of Health to expand studies of early animal development, addressing age-old problems in developmental biology.
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Physicists working to disprove "Lorentz invariance" -- Einstein's prediction that matter and massless particles will behave the same no matter how they're turned or how fast they go -- won't get that satisfaction from muon neutrinos, at least for the time being, says a consortium of scientists. The test of Lorentz invariance, conducted by MINOS Experiment scientists and reported in the Oct. 10 issue of Physical Review Letters, started with a stream of muon neutrinos produced at Fermilab particle accelerator, near Chicago, and ended with a neutrino detector 750 meters away and 103 meters below ground.
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The June 17, 2008, issue of IU Discoveries featured an article on Geoffrey Fox -- an IU professor in the School of Informatics who is working to bring predictability to the natural world. This issue also included a story about the $25 million clinical research grant awarded to IU, details on the IU coal geologist who received a national honor, details on the 2008 Gill Award recipients, an in-depth look at the IU Cyclotron, and a feature on a donut made of a math maze.
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Some recent titles by IU researchers
"Methyl group acceptance assay for the determination of global DNA methylation levels," Methods in Molecular Biology, exp. 2009, by K.P Nephew, C. Balch, and D.G. Skalnik
"Hybrid Fitness in a Locally Adapted Parasite," American Naturalist, Dec. 2008, by C.M. Lively, M.F. Dybdahl, and others
"Ventilation strategies in the depressed term infant," Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, Dec. 2008, by D.W. Boyle, E.G. Szyld, and D. Field
"The controversial and short-lived early use of rehydration therapy for cholera," Clinical Infectious Diseases, Nov. 15, 2008, by W.J. Daly and H.L. DuPont
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IU President Michael A. McRobbie delivered his first State of the University address on Oct. 14, 2008, in the University Place Conference Center Auditorium on the IUPUI campus. In the address, McRobbie, who became IU's 18th president in July 2007, provided an update on the strategic priorities he announced during his 2007 inaugural address. McRobbie reviewed faculty and staff accomplishments and laid out a course for achieving continued and growing excellence in IU's two core missions, education and research. The speech is now available on the Internet in text and video formats.
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