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Read about two of the Intensive Freshman Seminars offered at IU Bloomington this summer in the latest edition of IU Home Pages.
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Pictured above is a "young" globular cluster named NGC 1818 which formed only about 40 million years ago -- just yesterday compared to the 12 billion year ages of globular clusters in our own Milky Way. IU astronomer Katherine Rhode recently received an NSF CAREER Award to continue her studies of globular clusters.
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Joseph and Sophia Konopinski Colloquium
Sept. 23, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Swain Hall West, room 119
Simon Billinge of Columbia University will discuss "Material structure in the nano-world: The nanostructure problem and our efforts at solving it." Crystallographic methods are the gold standard for atomic structure determination; however a broad and growing class of materials and/or nanophase morphologies do not yield to a crystallographic analysis. For more information visit: http://www.indiana.edu/~iubphys/.
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Scientist at Work: Juergen Schieber
The majority of Earth's geologic record is composed of sedimentary rocks, such as limestone, sandstone, and shale. These rocks form when weathering detritus accumulates in lakes, oceans, or river valleys, and also when chemical processes cause precipitation of minerals such as calcite, gypsum, or quartz. Once deposited, these materials compact and turn into solid rock. The Grand Canyon in northern Arizona may be the world's most familiar "open book" of 1.7 billion-year's worth of sedimentary rocks, but new research by Indiana University sedimentary geologist Juergen Schieber casts doubt on whether we've accurately translated the book's words.
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An astronomer who came to Indiana University Bloomington two years ago to study the formation and evolution of galaxies has received the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for early career, tenure-track teachers and scholars.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities' "We the People" project has awarded a group of Indiana University anthropologists $250,000 to transcribe, translate and publish the oral literature of the Assiniboine, a northern Plains Indian tribe with only about 50 living members still fluent in the tribal language of Nakota.
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Research published by a team of Indiana University bioinformaticists has shown quantitatively the influence of small sequence changes and environmental conditions on the disordered regions of a protein.
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The new Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry is the first science department created on the Indiana University Bloomington campus in 33 years, and is the culmination of more than seven years of planning. The IU Trustees recently approved the department.
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Cognitive scientists at Indiana University Bloomington received a five-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create and employ innovative methods for training future scientists.
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The first-ever PhD recipient from Indiana University's School of Informatics -- founded in 2000 as the first school of its kind in the United States -- has already begun research at one of the leading bioengineering programs in the world.
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The Aug. 19, 2009, issue of Discoveries featured IU Bloomington Anthropology Department evolutionary anthropologist Virginia Vitzthum's work on early pregnancy loss and its relationship to prospective investment based on risks and rewards. Also featured are stories about additional genomes playing a key role in the origin of new species, research related to the virtually identical neurochemicals found in the brain in mammals and birds, and chromosomal evidence that mammals have seen their gemones shrink after the dinosaurs became extinct.
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Some recent titles by IU researchers
"The role of occupational complexity in trajectories of cognitive aging before and after retirement," Psychology and Aging, Sept. 1, 2009, by Finkel D, Andel R, Gatz M, Pedersen NL.
"Are seizure variables related to cognitive and behavior problems?" Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, Sept. 8, 2009, by Austin JK, Fastenau PS.
"Smoking and illicit drug use associations with early versus delayed reproduction: findings in a young adult cohort of Australian twins," Journal of Studies of Alchol and Drugs, Sept. 1, 2009, by Waldron M, Heath AC, Lynskey MT, Nelson EC, Bucholz KK, Madden PA, Martin NG.
"Automated Inference of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease from Amino Acid Substitutions," Bioinformatics, Sept. 3, 2009, by Li B, Krishnan VG, Mort ME, Xin F, Kamati KK, Cooper DN, Mooney SD, Radivojac P.
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Current graduate students serve as Emissaries for Graduate Student Diversity by sharing their experiences at Indiana University. Emissaries blog about life in Bloomington and are available to answer prospective students' questions personally via e-mail. Meet the 2009-2010 Emissaries.
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