Through a licensing agreement with the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., Seattle-based Cyrus Biotechnology will incorporate SparksX — a molecular modeling-and-design software package developed by Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing researchers — into its product pipeline. Based on numerous scientific assessments, SparksX offers scientists a “uniquely powerful tool” to recognize protein folds… Read more »
Tag: Informatics and IT
Grand Challenges initiative urges IU faculty across all disciplines, campuses to "go big" and attack world's most pressing problems
For those who haven’t heard by now — or were otherwise besieged by early-semester tasks — Indiana University just launched the most ambitious research program in its history. Through a $300 million investment over the next five years, IU’s Grand Challenges program aims to address some of the world’s most pressing issues — such as… Read more »
IU to expand STEM education toward diverse student pool through $1.66 million Navy grant
Expanding STEM-related skills (science, technology, engineering, math) within an increasingly diverse pool of talented students and researchers is the impetus behind a five-year, $1.66 million grant recently awarded to Indiana University by the U.S. Navy. Successful STEM initiatives with historically black colleges and universities (HCBUs) — such as IU’s Summer Scholars Institute with 12 partner… Read more »
IU Bloomington researchers are co-recipients of $1.2 million NSF grant to study "makers"
As Indiana University pursues its bicentennial goal of instilling “a culture of building and making” throughout the Hoosier State, a pair of IU researchers recently were named co-recipients of a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to study “making” as a potential driver of the U.S. economy. Associate professors Shaowen Bardzell and Jeffrey Bardzell of… Read more »
IUB engineering program earns approval from Indiana Commission for Higher Education
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education’s approval of an engineering program at Indiana University Bloomington paves the way for degree tracks to be offered starting next fall. Starting with the 2016-17 academic year, the program — to be housed at IUB’s School of Informatics and Computing — will offer degrees in intelligent systems engineering. Initially… Read more »
IURTC Spin Up companies, along with startups supported by the Innovate Indiana Fund, show their stuff at Innovation Showcase 2015
About a half-dozen companies with Indiana University ties took advantage of the opportunities afforded by the state’s largest exposition for startups — Innovation Showcase 2015 — which was held July 9 at Speedway’s Dallara IndyCar Factory and was sponsored in part by Innovate Indiana. As company representatives spent the day meeting with potential investors, making… Read more »
IU study finds that academia, compared to other sectors, has generated largest increase in women-filed patents since the mid-1970s
A recently published study by an Indiana University scholar found that since 1976, the number of women who have filed patents with the U.S. Patent and Trade Office has risen faster within academia as opposed to other economic sectors such as industry, government and individual inventors. The analysis, led by associate professor Cassidy R. Sugimoto… Read more »
Under new job title, IURTC tech manager aims to boost entrepreneurship at IU Bloomington
Along with his duties as a technology manager with the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., Wes Pennington recently added Discovery Scientist to his title — a nod toward increased efforts to encourage and assist more startup business activity among researchers and innovators at the IU Bloomington campus. Enabled through the Lilly Endowment, Pennington’s new… Read more »
Indiana faces a technical skills 'mismatch' that threatens the state's economy, but a unique conference seeks to chart a new path forward
It is an inescapable fact that Indiana faces a growing gap between the number of jobs that require technical skills and the number of workers who possess them. This reality was made abundantly clear in a recent study by HireUp Indy and TechPoint. It found that computer and information technology (IT) jobs in Indiana grew… Read more »
IU Bloomington research team wins $25K for LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge proposal
A team of researchers from the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research led by IU Bloomington assistant professor Yong-Youl “Y.Y.” Ahn was recently named as one of 11 winners of the LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge. Along with a $25,000 prize, the team traveled to LinkedIn’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., for a tour and… Read more »