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The April 8, 2011, issue of IU Home Pages features the 14 faculty members and two doctoral students who will be recognized for outstanding teaching, research and service to the university.
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Lil' Wayne: I'm Still Music Tour 2011
Grammy Award-winning, multiplatinum recording artist and producer Lil Wayne is the official performer for Indiana University's 2011 Little 500 concert. The event is co-sponsored by the Indiana Memorial Union Board and IU Auditorium and takes place in Assembly Hall (1001 E. 17th St., Bloomington) today (April 12), at 7 p.m. The show is the only student-presented stop on Lil Wayne's North American "I Am Still Music" tour, produced by Live Nation/Haymon Ventures. Part of the concert's proceeds will go to Malaria No More, an organization working to end malaria deaths in Africa by 2015. Tickets for the general public are priced from $49.75 to $99.75, and for IU Bloomington students from $44.75 to $99.75.
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Exonerated former death-row inmate to speak at IU Bloomington, IUPUI
Randy Steidl spent 17 years in prison, including 12 years on death row, after he was convicted of murder. Exonerated after a new investigation and the use of DNA evidence, he left prison in May 2004, becoming the 18th person to go free after serving time on Illinois' death row for a wrongful conviction. Now an advocate for the repeal of capital punishment, he will speak today (April 12) at IU Bloomington and Thursday (April 14) at IUPUI.
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Indiana University student Liz Baldwin likes to use what she has learned in the classroom for real-world projects. She found an opportunity to do so recently, and the result could be a change in state law that saves money and streamlines the cleanup of polluted industrial and commercial properties. Her project dealt with Indiana's Environmental Legal Actions statute, a law adopted in the 1990s that encourages property owners to clean up "brownfield" properties.
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Programs that allow facilities to buy and sell emission allowances have been popular and effective since they were introduced in the U.S. two decades ago. Critics worry the approach can create heavily polluted "hot spots" in low-income and minority communities. But a new study by Evan Ringquist, professor in the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, finds the efficiency gains of allowance trading have not come at the expense of equitable treatment of minorities and the poor.
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Challenging the Defense of Marriage Act was simply a matter of standing up for long-established principles of federalism, Maura Healey told an Indiana University audience last week. Healey, chief of the Civil Rights Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, joined a panel of IU experts and Indiana's solicitor general for a Maurer School of Law symposium titled "Same-Sex Marriage and the Future of DOMA: Law, Politics, Federalism, and Families."
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An Indiana University conference wrapped up after three long days of intensive, scholarly examination of one of the most troubling phenomena of contemporary public life: the resurgence of antisemitism. The conference involved 35 scholars from 12 countries in round-the-clock discussions of both older and newer forms of hostility to Jews, Judaism, and the State of Israel.
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Thandabantu Iverson has worn many hats in his life, including that of coal miner, auto worker, steel worker, butcher, stage hand, cab driver and teacher. William Mello has been an iron worker and labor activist. The two Labor Studies faculty members -- Iverson at IU Northwest and Mello at IU Kokomo -- co-edited Trabalhadores, Noves Perspectivas e Comparacoes, a collection of essays written in Portuguese and English by both Brazilian and American scholars on labor issues.
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The Indiana Geological Survey, a research institute of Indiana University, has been chosen as one of the U.S. partners in the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center, an international research collaboration. The center's primary purpose is to facilitate joint research, development, and commercialization of clean energy technologies for the United States and China. This collaboration will also build a foundation of knowledge, human capabilities, and relationships in mutually beneficial areas that will emphasize clean energy usage in both nations.
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The March 2011 issue of Perspectives on Policy features an IU economist's study of whether there is racial discrimination in hiring in professional football. Also included are stories about the need for realistic expectations for genomics research, an IU graduate's film about immigration, a Spanish Resource Center at IUPUI, the link between military and community service, a briefing on China's global business strategies and a workshop on sustainable business practices at IU South Bend.
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Take a journey through China. George Vlahakis, manager of media relations in the IU Office of University Communications, maintained a blog during an eight-day spring break trip to southeastern China by nearly 20 IU scholars, Indiana business people and journalists. Follow in their footsteps from Indiana to Hangzhou and Shanghai, China.
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