For many around Indiana University, May means graduation, the start of summer break and the world’s greatest auto race, the Indianapolis 500. Yet it also marks a month of recognition for those whose creativity and perseverance improve the human condition, as May is National Inventors Month. As IU approaches its bicentennial, among its strategic goals… Read more »
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Regional campuses claim three President's Awards for Teaching; IUSM's Bruce Molitoris is recognized as a Distinguished Professor
Since 1974, the President’s Award for Teaching has recognized 125 IU educators for outstanding teaching, research or service throughout IU’s campuses statewide. As an award for distinguished teaching, it honors top faculty, their commitment to students’ education and their devotion to the university’s fundamental mission of educational and research excellence. When it comes to… Read more »
Now hear this: Town hall meeting for IU Bloomington's EAR Program set for April 15
It’s called EAR — the Emerging Areas of Research Program. And for those who have yet to hear about this latest research initiative at IU Bloomington — yet want to learn more — then be sure to block off noon to 1:30 p.m. on your calendars for Friday, April 15. That’s when a town hall… Read more »
A biochemist and cancer researcher at IU Bloomington delves into craft brewing as well
Craft brewing, one could say, is the “yeast” of Matt Bochman’s worries as an assistant professor at IU Bloomington’s Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Department. Although most of his research focuses on the maintenance of genomic integrity — particularly on DNA helicases and other factors involved in how DNA replicates, recombinates and repairs itself — he… Read more »
McROBBIE: Indiana Biosciences Research Institute is positioned to drive a new wave of medical innovation and economic prosperity
The decision by Lilly Endowment and the Eli Lilly and Co. Foundation, announced two weeks ago, to pledge a combined $100 million to further the development of the Indiana Biosciences Research Institute is the latest evidence of the extraordinary commitment by many of the state’s leading institutions to making Indiana a hotbed of research aimed… Read more »
McRobbie, Stephan take part in discussion on how $42 million in Lilly Endowment grants can boost southwest central Indiana's economy
The anticipated impact of $42 million in educational and economic development grants recently awarded by the Lilly Endowment toward initiatives in southwest central Indiana was readily apparent in Odon on Friday, March 4. At WestGate Academy, adjacent to Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane, a collection of state and regional leaders that included IU President Michael… Read more »
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research sets deadline for IUPUI faculty to apply for FORCES funding to develop, commercialize technology
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis faculty can submit funding proposals through March 15 to the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to support the development and commercialization of their technology. Since 2011, more than 30 faculty members have received over $940,000 through two categories of the FORCES (Funding Opportunities for Research Commercialization and Economic Success) initiative…. Read more »