Workshop on Teaching Sustainability across the Curriculum

How do you teach sustainability?
What is the sustain•ability Themester?

Put the finishing touches on your fall syllabus with this interactive workshop!

August 20, 9:00-1:00 p.m. (bring your lunch!)
Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union

Open to faculty, librarians and graduate students. RSVP with your name, affiliation and course title to themes@indiana.edu

Instructional consultants and authors from Teaching Environmental Literacy (IU Press 2010) facilitate a conversation about teaching sustainability, emphasizing active learning that takes advantage of the diverse events on the College Themester calendar. Share ideas and receive a preview of this fall’s special Themester activities, including:

· Roundtable discussions with the community
· Participatory art projects
· Film series
· Nationally-recognized visiting and local lecturers from the fields of geography, physics, economics, political science, climatology, fine arts, literature, fashion design and more
· Student project grants
· Student research prizes and presentation opportunities

Facilitators include:

· Lisa Kurz (Campus Instructional Consulting)
· Heather Reynolds (Biology)
· Jennifer Meta Robinson (Communication and Culture)

For more information, see:

Themester: http://themester.indiana.edu
T&L Workshop: http://themester.indiana.edu/events/TeachingLearningInstitute

Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and Campus Instructional Consulting

New microscope at IU Bloomington breaks light microscopy resolution barrier

A fixed PTK (marsupial kidney cell line) cell in mitosis. The condensed chromosomes are stained with Hoechst stain and are shown in blue, while microtubules are labelled with an antibody to tubulin and are shown in red. Imaging was done in the structured illumination mode. More than 2000 images were taken and processed to create this image.2010Image by Eric Workman and Jim PowersFixed PTK cell in mitosis.
Image by Eric Workman and Jim Powers  

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A new laser-equipped microscope at IU Bloomington's Light Microscopy Imaging Center makes it possible to examine biological samples with unprecedented detail in three dimensions.

A fixed PTK (marsupial kidney cell line) cell in mitosis. The condensed chromosomes are stained with Hoechst stain and are shown in blue, while microtubules are labelled with an antibody to tubulin and are shown in red. Imaging was done in the structured illumination mode. More than 2000 images were taken and processed to create this image.

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"It's a fantastic and unique acquisition for our university," said cell biologist Claire Walczak, the Imaging Center's executive director. "This super-resolution microscope, one of only 16 in the world and one of only 8 commercial units, is part of our vision to bring state-of-the-art technology to IU's life science researchers, to enable them to address questions that they did not have the ability to ask previously, due to the lack of appropriate technologies."

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A short video of a live HeLa cell can be viewed at http://newsinfo.iu.edu/asset/page/normal/9660.html. 


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