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Ostrom, in Sweden, joins fellow Nobel laureates in extolling virtues of collaboration, research freedom
Ostrom, in Sweden, joins fellow Nobel laureates in extolling virtues of collaboration, research freedom -- Indiana University Professor Elinor Ostrom joined fellow Nobel Prize laureates Dec. 7 praising the potential of collaborative research and celebrating what can be accomplished when bright and creative people have the freedom to pursue answers to compelling questions. In her case, Ostrom said, the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, which she co-founded in 1973-74 with her husband and colleague Vincent Ostrom, provided opportunities for successful collaboration with researchers at IU and elsewhere. Read the complete story. Statistics, Informatics professors to collaborate on $35.5 million Army research project -- Two distinguished Indiana University Rudy Professors -- Stanley Wasserman, chair of the Department of Statistics, and Alessandro Vespignani, professor in the School of Informatics and Computing -- have been named as collaborators in a $35.5 million Army Research Laboratory project expected to span 10 years and involve 10 additional universities and corporations. As lead partner in a project devoted to the study of social and cognitive networks, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., will create a new center as part of the Army Research Laboratory's recently formed Collaborative Technology Alliance for Network Science. The center will link top social scientists and statisticians like Wasserman and physicists and computer scientists like Vespignani, in addition to neuroscientists, engineers and cognitive scientists, in order to uncover, model, understand and foresee the complex social interactions that take place in today's society. Read the complete story. Indiana University ArtsWeek goes 'green' for 2010 -- Indiana University's 26th Annual ArtsWeek, scheduled for February Feb. 18-28 (2010), will focus on the theme "Arts and the Environment." ArtsWeek 2010 kicks off with the Bloomington Area Arts Council Arts Leadership Awards on Thursday, Feb. 18. The week will close Sunday, Feb. 28, with a special brunch by local chefs sponsored by the City of Bloomington Arts Commission. The brunch will focus on conversations among area artists and arts organization leaders regarding issues facing the arts in the Bloomington community. ArtsWeek is an annual winter festival showcasing the many levels of artistic expression in Bloomington and on the IU campus. Sponsored in part by the IU President's Office and the IU Office of the Vice Provost for Research, ArtsWeek offers dozens of exhibitions, performances and family-friendly events featuring many modes of artistic expression. Read the complete story. America's Top Doctors for Cancer recognizes 19 IU Simon Cancer Center physicians -- Nineteen physicians with the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center have been recognized as the best in their field. The 19 are among 26 physicians in Indiana included in the most recent edition of America's Top Doctors for Cancer. The current guide identifies the nation's most outstanding physicians for the diagnosis and treatment of cancers in adults and children. "We certainly appreciate such recognition from America's Top Doctors for Cancer," said D. Craig Brater, M.D., dean of the IU School of Medicine. "The guide illustrates that our talented faculty physicians are highly regarded by both their peers and their patients." Read the complete story. Workplace Wellness: CSX Transportation taps wellness, ergonomics expertise at IU -- CSX Transportation and ergonomic experts from Indiana University have extended a three-year partnership focused on improving the health and wellness of thousands of railroad workers in 23 states. With the new three-year agreement, CSX continues to have access to IU's ergonomic expertise along with nutrition and fitness experts in the university's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation. IU researchers essentially have access to a working lab, providing rare research opportunities, undergraduate internships and full-time jobs for graduate students. Read the complete story. IUPUI scholar selected as an editor for The New Oxford Shakespeare project -- Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will house a new editorial project that will change the way Shakespeare is presented to the world. The Oxford University Press project will result in The New Oxford Shakespeare, an entirely new print and digital edition of the complete works of the most influential writer in the English language. This will be the first multi-platform, multi-format edition of Shakespeare's works and will be based upon original research by a small, cohesive international team of scholars, led by three general editors, including IUPUI associate professor of English Drama, Terri Bourus, an English professor and equity actor. Read the complete story. IU offers new professional credential in homeland security and emergency management -- The Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs is launching a new graduate certificate program in homeland security and emergency management, offering students and professionals an opportunity to improve their job and career prospects. The interdisciplinary certificate is designed for people who will work with government at all levels, government contractors, selected private firms and nongovernmental organizations. It will be available starting Jan. 1, 2010. Students in this program will complete advanced Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) certificates from the Incident Command System (ICS), National Incident Management System (NIMS), the National Response Framework (NRF), and Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP). Read the complete story. New understanding of how to prevent destruction of tumor suppressor; Discovery may lead to new treatments for late stage cancers -- Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and colleagues at the University of Texas Southwestern and Case Western University have determined how the protein Mdm2, which is elevated in late-stage cancers, disables genes that suppress the growth of tumors. The finding may lead to the development of new drugs for late stage breast cancer and other difficult to treat malignancies. The investigators have identified a critical pathway that stimulates the production of Mdm2 causing an increase in the level of protein that bind to p53, the most common tumor suppressor, as well as other tumor suppressors, and extinguishes tumor suppression activity. The study appears in the January 2010 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Read the complete story.
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