Within the past month, a pair of National Science Foundation-funded initiatives have been announced — one at IU Bloomington, the other targeting IU’s regional campuses — that will respectively boost efforts to improve STEM education and advance research efforts at a statewide level. The former project, known as TRESTLE — or Transforming Education, Stimulating Teaching… Read more »
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IU Northwest to offer more than $500,000 in STEM scholarships using NSF grant proceeds
Throughout the next five years, incoming freshmen and community college graduates enrolling at IU Northwest can apply for one of 26 scholarships funded by the National Science Foundation as part of an effort to increase the number of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) graduates in the region. Renewable over three years, the scholarships provide up… Read more »
IU scientist's use of decoy proteins to boost plant immunity offers huge economic potential
In the latest issue of the academic journal Science, IU Professor Roger Innes and a team of researchers within IU Bloomington’s Department of Biology describe how a minor alteration to an existing plant gene could set the stage for making future plants more resistant to a broad range of diseases. This approach — which marks… Read more »