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The College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington has launched a news site that contains information about new books and publications by faculty, news releases about the College, news about faculty, students and alumni, faculty experts, blogs and more. The arts, humanities, international and languages, sciences and math, social sciences and Themester tabs lead to news releases in each of those categories.
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The IU Art Museum's exhibit "The Graphics of Revolution and War: Iranian Poster Arts" will run through Dec. 18. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. The exhibit showcases Iranian posters of the Islamic Revolution (1979) and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88), when posters served as visual mechanisms through which a young and unsteady nation struggled to define and defend itself.
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HPER's athletic trainers: Helping area high school students go the distance
Today's athletic trainers are employed in a wide range of fields, including performing arts, motor sports, and the military. As athletic training majors in IU's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation prepare themselves for what some describe as a "recession proof" career, they continue a long tradition of helping area high schools meet their student-athletes' health and fitness needs. "It ultimately benefits the parents because it assures there's someone in place who is appropriately trained to care for their child and to take a very different approach than a coach might," said John Schrader, coordinator of the School of HPER's athletic training programs.
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Just as the Occupy Wall Street movement has brought more attention to financial disparities between the haves and have-nots in American society, researchers from Indiana University and the Netherlands are highlighting the disproportionate influence of so called "Rich Clubs" within the human brain. "We've known for a while that the brain has some regions that are 'rich' in the sense of being highly connected to many other parts of the brain," said Olaf Sporns, professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. "It now turns out . . . they are strongly linked to each other, exchanging information and collaborating."
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The I Love You More Book is a whimsical love story that can be enjoyed by children and adults. IU sex researcher Debby Herbenick normally authors books about sexual health and satisfaction, but here offers up a romantic and hopeful tale about enduring love. She talks more about writing, romance and the nature of love in a Q-and-A with Active for Life.
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Hip strengthening exercises performed by female runners not only significantly reduced patellofemoral pain -- a common knee pain experienced by runners -- but they also improved the runners' gaits, according to Indiana University motion analysis expert Tracy Dierks.
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If you live in the Ohio River Valley chances are you have heard of histoplasmosis, a fungal infection that enters the body through the lungs. More commonly associated with pulmonary disease, the soil-borne mold also can cause vision loss and blindness if left untreated.
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Today's hormonal forms of birth control are vastly different from those used by earlier generations of women, both with lower levels of hormones and with different means of delivery (not just a pill), but many of the same problems related to women's pleasure remain. "Contraception in general is a wonderful way for women to plan their families," said lead researcher Nicole Smith, project coordinator at IU's Center for Sexual Health Promotion. "It's something women are often on for as many as 30 years or more. If they're experiencing these negative effects, they might stop using contraception correctly or altogether. They need to know that there are options."
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Indiana University and Regenstrief Institute researchers report that it takes significantly longer for orders to forgo resuscitation in the event of cardiac arrest to be written for patients who had that decision made for them by a surrogate decision-maker, compared to patients who made their own decisions, even though patients with a surrogate were sicker and the resuscitation issue might arise sooner. "Surrogate decision making is not just more challenging for everyone, it actually affects important care processes in the hospital -- in this case, code orders," said lead author and Regenstrief Institute investigator Alexia Torke, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at the IU School of Medicine.
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The Oct. 13, 2011 Active for Life included articles about IU research involving football players' show of emotion, campus smoking bans, kids' weight and high blood pressure, mecury exposure in Indianapolis, and promising results concerning cell death following traumatic brain injury. Experts also discuss the importance of annual eye exams after the age of 50.
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