IDS: Auditorium fills for Nobel Lecture speech

 
Distinguished Professor Elinor Ostrom presents an updated version of her Nobel Prize lecture to an audience Feb. 16, 2010, at the IU Auditorium in Bloomington, Ind. Ostrom is the University's eighth Nobel Prize recipient. (Ryan Dorgan | IDS)

Elinor and Vincent Ostrom stood side by side, hands held tightly as they became recipients of the University Medal, IU’s highest honor.

The medal, awarded by IU President Michael McRobbie, was presented prior to Professor Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize lecture Tuesday at the IU
Auditorium.

McRobbie said the distinction has only been awarded 10 times.

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(By Alycin Bektesh: IDS: 2/17/2010)

IU Press Turns 60, and also they have a blog!

IU Press Turns 60!

You can also find them on Facebook and Twitter!

http://iupress.typepad.com/blog/

Attention students: GPSO Seeks Nominees for Faculty Mentor Award

Each year the GPSO awards the Indiana Bloomington Faculty Mentor Award. All graduate and professional students are invited to give their support to faculty members that they feel deserve special recognition for exemplary behavior.

Nominations should be in the form of a letter. The letter(s) should be emailed to gpsolink@indiana.edu before midnight on Friday, March 5, 2010. All nominees, graduate and professional students, faculty and the award recipient are invited to attend an Awards Ceremony.

Please visit the gpso website for more information regarding a nomination:
http://www.iu.edu/~gpso/faculty-mentor-award.php

IU Bloomington launches initiative for a more inclusive campus

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A campus-wide series launches this week with the purpose of engaging all Indiana University Bloomington faculty, students, staff, administrators, alumni and emeriti in building a culturally diverse and culturally literate campus.

Called ARC 2010! -- Attention, Reflection, Connection, Taking Steps Toward an Inclusive Campus -- the initiative will employ panel discussions, lectures, workshops and conversations to address diversity as a subject and process of intellectual inquiry that is informed by practice and that informs future practice.

The series begins this Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010.  For more information on the initiative and listings of workshops and additional events, see ARC 2010 Web site, http://www.indiana.edu/~arc2010.

(IU News: 2/16/2010)

HHE: Statehouse Report 7: LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS

Statehouse Report 7
February 16, 2010

LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS

Bills move to respective chambers

After a short break at the mid-way point of the legislative session, the General Assembly returned to Indianapolis to begin work on bills that passed the chamber in which the bill was introduced. As mentioned in last week's report, the Senate is now addressing bills introduced and passed by the House and vice versa for the House.

Because it takes a few days for bills to be assigned to respective committees and for the bills to be reviewed by Committee Chairs, there were not a significant number of bills heard this week.

However, one bill (HB 1135) that we reported on in prior Statehouse Reports, was heard in the Senate Education Committee. The bill would require universities to accept credit for advanced placement coursework completed by high school students when they achieve a score of three or higher on the College Board advanced placement exam. IU and other sister institutions testified on the bill, which is being supported by the K-12 education community. We are working with the House author and Senate sponsor on revising the bill in a manner that is acceptable to both the higher education institutions and K-12 community.

We expect that next week will be a very busy week for committee hearings. Of course, as more bills are reported out of committees, more bills will be on the House and Senate calendars for second and third reading. We also learned this week that the General Assembly is now working toward a goal of ending the legislative session a week early, if at all possible.

The Indiana Commission for Higher Education met on Thursday evening and Friday morning. Thursday's meeting involved discussions of the higher education funding formulae and an updated Commission policy on regional campuses. We were present at both these discussions and provided input.

During Friday's meeting, projects to renovate the Tulip Tree Apartments and Briscoe Quad on the Bloomington campus were approved. Vice President Tom Morrison was afforded time to discuss the campus' strategic plan to upgrade student residential facilities. The following degrees were also approved by the Commission:

M. S. in Criminal Justice and Public Safety at IUPUI
B.S. in Health Sciences at IUPUI
B.A. of Arts in Philanthropic Studies at IUPUI

CONTACT:
Jeff Linder
Associate VP for Public Affairs and Government Relations
jmlinder@indiana.edu
317-681-1776

H-T: Shortcomings aside, Indiana has fewer regulations for higher education than most states

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Shortcomings aside, Indiana has fewer regulations for higher education than most states
by Mike Leonard
(2/7/2010)
http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2010/02/07/news.qp-2323348.sto?1266339200

Interested in this thread?  See also..
 
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Legislature’s role questioned as IU wrestles with cutbacks
When state Sen. Luke Kenley blocked approval for construction projects at Indiana and Purdue universities last summer and demanded the state’s premier research institutions do more to make tuition affordable, it re-ignited the long-simmering debate over the state’s role in higher education decisions.
(2/7/2010)
http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2010/02/07/news.qp-8755356.sto

It’s critical to maintain edge at Indiana University, other state universities:
IU, other schools contribute vastly more than they cost and must be protected
First they were “state universities.” Then they were “state supported.” Now they are “state assisted.”
(2/9/2010)
http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2010/02/09/digitalcity.qp-8938941.sto 

IDS: School of Informatics works in India to improve research

IU’s School of Informatics at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis and the National Institute of Technology Calicut in India are working to increase international research opportunities.

The institutions co-founded the first International Symposium on Biocomputing that is taking place today until Wednesday in Calicut, India. There will be lecturers and presenters from 14 different countries who will focus on bioinformatics and biotechnology.

Mathew Palakal, associate dean for Graduate Studies and Research at the School of Informatics, had the idea for the symposium after a trip to NITC in April 2009.

During his trip he spoke with colleagues at NITC, and they realized that international divides cause barriers when sharing knowledge and research. They created the symposium to improve research in the areas of bioinformatics and biotechnology.

“Bioinformatics and biotechnology are really two sides of the same coin,” Palakal said in an IU press release. “The more we are able to blur boundaries and integrate practices, the more meaningful and effective our research and its impact on the quality of human life becomes.”

Graduate students Rini Paul and Satishkumar Ganakammal were selected to participate in the event as presenters. Their papers will join with more than 100 other international student submissions.

http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=73713&search=graduate%20student&section=search

(By Lindsey Erdody: IDS Reports: 2/15/2010)