|
|
 |
What is beauty? Is it really only in the eye of the beholder? How do we decide what is beautiful, and what is not? The Fall 2009 issue of Indiana University's award-winning Research & Creative Activity magazine reflects on the art and artifice of beauty, from makeover shows to music to what makes Cindy Crawford attractive.
|
|
|
|
Reports of seasonal flu infections in the last four months of 2009 are way up, thanks to the presence of a new flu variety: H1N1. The virus genome is actually an amalgam of genetic material from viruses commonly associated with humans, birds (chickens), and pigs. Early studies show H1N1 is no more dangerous than other seasonal flu variants. However, CDC officials have said that they are concerned certain demographic groups -- pregnant women, children, the elderly and those with chronically compromised immune systems -- are more susceptible to H1N1 virulence. Doctors recommend these groups be given priority for the recently released H1N1 vaccine.
|
|
|
|
GIS Day
Nov. 18, 2009
10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Herman B Wells Library lobby, IU Bloomington
GIS Day is an annual worldwide event to educate people about how Geographic Information Systems technology makes a difference in our lives. Informational booths and activities will show off the exciting work that IU researchers and staff, government agencies and businesses are doing with Geographic Information Systems. The highlight of this year's event is the keynote presentation by Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, titled "Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Study the Effects of Diverse Institutions."
|
|
|
|
Scientist at Work: Enrique Merino
Throughout his career, Indiana University Bloomington geologist Enrique Merino has sought evidence of complexity in geochemical phenomena recorded in rocks, and has tried to apply a dynamics-based kind of thinking to understand them. Merino, a geochemist with broad and multidisciplinary interests (in minerals and rocks and their chemical reactions with water), is retired from teaching but continues to do research on some of geology's most vexing mysteries.
Full Story
|
Evoking Indiana University's late president Myles Brand as one of the first to "clearly see the emerging importance of information technology for higher education," IU President Michael McRobbie formally dedicated IU's new $32.7 million Data Center on Nov. 5, 2009. During dedication remarks, McRobbie, who became IU's first vice president for information technology in 1996 while under Brand, reflected on IU's list of remarkable IT achievements.
Full Story
Indiana University has received more than $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to collaborate on a $12.2 million, seven-university project designed to network researchers around the country. While the proposed new networking system will contain authentication mechanisms to protect sensitive data and intellectual property, it is being described as a Facebook for scientists.
Full Story
Indiana University's Innovation Center, a new $10 million home to university researchers and private start-up companies, was formally dedicated Nov. 9, 2009, by IU President Michael A. McRobbie. Citing an array of success stories previously sprung from collaborations between Indiana University and private companies -- the breathalyzer, the lie detector, fluoride toothpaste -- McRobbie idealized on the future for a 40,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility being envisioned as a key component of the president's Innovate Indiana initiative.
Full Story
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Indiana University a $5 million grant to continue a project that measures levels of airborne toxic chemicals being deposited in the Great Lakes. The Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network (IADN) project is led at IU by Ronald Hites, Distinguished Professor, and by Ilora Basu, a research scientist in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
Full Story
The Indiana University Nanoscience Center sponsored a workshop on advanced battery technologies on Friday, Nov. 13, in the IU Bloomington Chemistry Department. The workshop was an outgrowth of a major two-day Energy Conference held at IU Bloomington and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in August. The workshop explored current battery research and future directions for developing high-power and high-energy density batteries needed for transportation and renewable energy applications.
Full Story
The Indiana University open house to end all open houses, complete with a perilous bed of nails, streaking rocket cars, imploding oil drums and soda cans ripped apart by magnetic fields, took place Oct. 31, 2009, courtesy of the IU Departments of Physics and Astronomy.
Full Story
The Oct. 20, 2009, issue of Discoveries featured IU Bloomington anthropologist Richard Wilk and his stewardship of IU's unique Food Studies Program. Also featured were stories about diabetes, early humans in Europe, dental plaque, depression, a new network for science supercomputer, and IU's latest Joan Wood and James P. Holland lecture series honorees.
Full Story
|
|
|
|
|
Some recent titles by IU researchers
"Association between basal, squamous cell carcinomas, dysplastic nevi and myotonic muscular dystrophy indicates an important role of RNA-binding proteins in development of human skin cancer," Archives of Dermatological Research, Nov. 10, 2009, by A. Zemtsov
|
|
|
|
Did you know that IU has several Twitter accounts set up to help you stay informed? Find out more at IU's Twitter page.
|
|
Play >>
