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Indiana University has announced a major commitment to research in one of health care's most promising fields with the creation of the Indiana Institute for Personalized Medicine. This story and many more are in the newest issue February 2011 IU Home Pages.
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All the pains and joys of adolescence rise to the surface with painful clarity in Spring Awakening, a contemporary Broadway musical that draws inspiration from a controversial, 19th-century coming-of-age play by Frank Wedekind. It will be performed at the IU Auditorium in Bloomington at 8 p.m. on Feb. 22. Tickets are $20-$60.
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IU students get dirty, make a difference in Gulf restoration project
Two dozen Indiana University Bloomington students dropped everything last month and raced to spend a quick weekend on the Gulf of Mexico, where they tromped through coastal mud flats, wrestled with heavy bags of gritty oyster shells and generally got sweaty and filthy dirty. The students joined several Indiana Nature Conservancy staff members and more than 400 other volunteers taking part in 100-1000: Restore Coastal Alabama.
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Indiana residents indicated a growing concern about school performance and provided some support for proposed changes in the latest statewide survey of Hoosiers' opinions about education conducted by the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) at Indiana University.
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Former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton and groundbreaking Hispanic author and political analyst Leslie Sanchez will headline the Ninth Bulen Symposium on American Politics this month at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Hamilton and Sanchez join a program of academics, media and political party representatives on Feb. 18 to examine how midterm election results will impact state and national politics, including the 2012 race for the White House.
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While President Barack Obama's State of the Union address displayed a big vision for electric cars in America, a blue-ribbon study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that the president's vision needs bold action from the auto industry, federal government and the scientific community to ensure those goals are realized. The report, Plug-In Electric Vehicles: A Practical Plan for Progress, lays out the short-term and long-term steps the United States must take to be assured of a global leadership role in the emerging electric vehicle industry.
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Officials from Indiana University Northwest and the Foundations of East Chicago had high hopes when they devised a partnership to enroll professionals from a number of nonprofit agencies that serve East Chicago in a graduate-level certificate program in nonprofit management. Three weeks into the 15-credit program, with 18 students enrolled from East Chicago organizations, everything seems to be on track toward fulfilling the expectations.
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It once was a refrain of every parent frustrated by a picky eater: "Finish your food. There are children starving in China." Growing up in the 1960s, Nick Cullather couldn't see any connection between the peas growing cold on his plate and the problems of China. But as his new book, The Hungry World, explains, his mother's warning captured one of the key ideas of the era: that the world was united by a single, global food supply, and that by controlling it the United States could defeat its communist enemies in Asia.
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The Center for Health Policy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis recently released a proposal for establishing a Hoosier Health Insurance Exchange to be governed and managed by a new quasi-independent state agency called the Hoosier Health Commission.
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The Jan. 11, 2011, issue of Perspectives on Policy reports on a project-based IU Northwest course on climate change and alternative energy sources. Also featured are a round-up of Martin Luther King Jr. Day activities at IU campuses, a middle-school engineering competition at IPFW, an M.B.A. class that analyzed Indiana's clean-tech business sector, public service announcements by former Rep. Lee Hamilton and former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, 2010 Census results for Indiana, and a book on terrorism.
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The Innovate Indiana blog highlights new research discoveries from IU faculty and researchers, discusses trends in technology transfer and university research, and shows how IU innovation is benefiting the entire state of Indiana.
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