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The spring 2011 issue of the Jacobs School of Music's IU Music commemorates the school's beginnings with a bold new opera exploring the drama of Vincent van Gogh's private vision and the extremes to which it drove him. Go behind the scenes and discover the process that inspired the creation of this work in homage to one of the greatest artists of all time.
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The NASA Space Shuttle Program will retire its vehicles this year after many years' service. Thousands of scientific experiments were carried out aboard shuttle missions, including those of IU Bloomington neurobiologist Jeff Alberts, who wanted to know how zero gravity affects the development of neural pathways and other systems. The shuttles will be retired to museums in New York, Virginia, Florida and California.
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The Structure of Matter: What the Electron Ion Collider will teach us
Friday, April 22
4-5 p.m.
North Conference Room, Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter (CEEM), IU Bloomington
Elke-Caroline Aschenauer of Brookhaven National Laboratory says the collider will allow the study of the spin contribution from gluons and quarks, including their flavour decomposition, in heretofore unprecedented precision, and will access a much wider kinematic space than ever before, in particular extending to the currently unmeasured low Bjorken-x sea. For more information, e-mail phys_web-l@indiana.edu.
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Scientist at Work: Nikodem Poplawski
Give Nikodem Poplawski a bath towel and a couple different balls and he'll describe a way of looking at the universe with a story that doesn't include any Big Bang characters. For Poplawski, a youthful and fit postdoctoral researcher who earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Indiana University in 2004, the universe is all about the bounce, not the bang.
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Members of the Atmospheric Science Program at IU Bloomington invited scientists from Taylor University to perform the first high-altitude balloon release in Bloomington history, its overseers believe. The launch happened March 30 in Dunn Meadow. Taylor University's Hank Voss, Don Takehara and Jeff Dailey were on hand to describe the instrumentation that accompanied the balloon spaceward.
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This year's Joan Wood lecturer, Indiana University Bloomington graduate Tracy Lawhon, knows what it means to turn scientific discoveries into products people can use -- even her career has been an exercise in translating research into business. Lawhon (B.S. microbiology 1988, J.D. 1994) is the chief pharmaceutical development officer for Tragara Pharmaceuticals, and is being honored for her professional successes by the IU Bloomington Department of Biology.
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Faiz Rahman and Rinku Roy Chowdhury of the Indiana University Bloomington Department of Geography are receiving $637,000 from NASA to study the vulnerability of extensive mangrove forests in Bangladesh to climate change. The project is a collaboration by scientists from IU and the U.S. Forest Service.
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When Jacob Barnett first learned about the Schrödinger equation for quantum mechanics, he could hardly contain himself. For three straight days, his little brain buzzed with mathematical functions. From within his 12-year-old, mildly autistic mind, there gradually flowed long strings of pluses, minuses, funky letters and upside-down triangles -- a tapestry of complicated symbols that few can understand.
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Late last month, Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie awarded the President's Medal for Excellence to Italian-American virologist Renato Dulbecco, joint-recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and one of four Nobel Laureates who worked together at IU in the life sciences during the late 1940s. The President's Medal is one of the highest honors an IU president can bestow.
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Scientists from the United States and China have discovered the first intact fossil of a mature eudicot, a type of flowering plant whose membership includes buttercups, apple trees, maple trees, dandelions and proteas. The 125 million-year-old find, described in a recent issue of Nature, reveals a remarkably developed species, leading the scientists to argue for an earlier origin of the eudicots -- and perhaps flowering plants in general.
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The March 2011 issue of IU Discoveries featured biogeochemist Seth Young, who is using sulfur isotopes to learn more about ancient Earth. Also included were stories about plant transpiration in a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, the evolutionary costs of polygamy among 19th century Mormon women, the annual Women in Science conference, an award for IU Bloomington biologist Roger Innes, DNA repair, and the solving of a difficult geometry problem by IU Bloomington mathematician Nets Hawk Katz.
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Recent and upcoming titles by IU researchers
"Test-retest variability of [(11) C]raclopride-binding potential in nontreatment-seeking alcoholics," Synapse, July 2011, by K.K. Yoder et alla
"Regulation of phosphatase homologue of tensin protein expression by bone morphogenetic proteins in prostate epithelial cells," Prostate, June 2011, by T.J. Jerde, Z. Wu, D. Theodorescu, and W. Bushman
"Antigen detection in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for diagnosis of fungal pneumonia," Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, May 2011, by C.A. Hage, K.S. Knox, T.E. Davis, L.J. Wheat
"AMP-activated kinase mediates adipose stem cell-stimulated neuritogenesis of PC12 cells," Neuroscience, May 2011, by B. Tan et alla
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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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