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The December 2008 edition of Research at Indiana University features the many anniversaries being celebrated at the Jacobs School of Music.
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The Chimes of Christmas return during the holiday season
Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m., IU Auditorium, Bloomington -- Chimes of Christmas, the Bloomington holiday tradition from the IU Jacobs School of Music, will ring in the holidays at IU Auditorium. The annual Jacobs School of Music's Chimes of Christmas concert features the IU Wind Ensemble, the IU Trombone Choir and all 125 members of the Grammy-nominated Singing Hoosiers. This event is one of the most popular of Bloomington's holiday celebrations and showcases a wide variety of traditional Christmas songs and spirituals.
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Why young people don't vote -- or do they?
While many college students lived and breathed the U.S. presidential election this fall, 25 political science majors at Indiana University had a unique perspective on the contest and their peers' engagement in the campaign. They have spent the fall semester learning about theories of voter turnout and social-science research tools -- and applying them to the 2008 election -- for a senior seminar called "Why Young People Don't Vote."
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It has been an eventful year for Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research and its director, IU Law Professor Fred H. Cate. And 2009 promises to bring more of the same, with information security and privacy issues expected to move to the forefront of government policy and the demand for IU expertise likely to increase.
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Larry J. Zimmerman, an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis professor of anthropology and museum studies at the School of Liberal Arts, and Jessica Welch, an IUPUI student and a formerly homeless woman, have completed a unique study of the material culture of the homeless. The researchers discovered that the problem of homelessness is broader and much more complex than previously thought.
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A new study involving health care systems in 21 countries -- and the prospects for change in response to such common pressures as rising costs and aging populations -- casts doubt on the possibility of major overhauls of any of these systems because of the history and traditions that created them.
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According to a report produced by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, more women than men are earning college degrees, a result of the increased opportunities for women in recent decades.
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The Indiana University Center for Urban Policy and the Environment will work with the Indiana Supreme Court's Division of State Court Administration to study ways to make the state's system of trial courts more equitable and efficient. The Division plans to use the court system study to assess the viability of one of the many reforms called for in the extensive report issued last year by the Indiana Commission on Local Government Reform.
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The Nov. 11, 2008, issue of Perspectives on Policy featured a story about an IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs course on climate change, in which U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service professionals take part from their offices and homes in eight Midwestern states. It also spotlighted an IU professor's book on volunteerism, energy and environment research at Indiana University, a study of the value of urban green space, IU Kokomo's accountability efforts, a Mayors Institute held at IUPUI and IU experts' forecasts for the Indiana economy in 2009.
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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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