At a signing ceremony set for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday (Oct. 14) in the Wrubel Conference Room of IU Bloomington’s Cyberinfrastructure Building, IU Vice President for Research Fred H. Cate and Navy Rear Adm. Rick Williamson will sign an accord that further expands the Indiana… Read more »
Tag: School of Informatics and Computing
Seattle-based company to sell IU-developed molecular modeling and design software
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 »
Future engine of IU innovation is born with groundbreaking for $39.8 million Luddy Hall
One recent event certain to catalyze the innovators and entrepreneurs of tomorrow at IU Bloomington was the Oct. 2 groundbreaking for Luddy Hall, the $39.8 million, 124,000-square-foot new home for IU’s School of Informatics and Computing. Slated for completion in December 2017, private donations will fund at least one-fourth of the cost — including $8… 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 »
EmotEd's Neumann among top researchers at brain trauma conference in Washington D.C.
The founder of Spin Up company EmotEd LLC, which seeks a novel approach in treating emotional disorders linked to traumatic brain injuries (TBI), joined a host of presenters earlier this week in Washington, D.C., at a conference held by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Research and Development. Dawn Neumann was among more than… 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 »
Law professor, privacy/security expert Fred H. Cate named IU's vice president for research
Indiana University’s top research post will soon have a new leader as Fred H. Cate, an IU Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, has been named vice president for research. Cate, one of the world’s leading experts on privacy and security issues, will serve a two-year term and replaces Jorge José, who… 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 »