Opportunities for grads/postdocs related to social media, digital media, and the influences of technology.

Microsoft Research Postdocs.

Who: Newly minted/about-to-be-minted PhD students working on social media topics from a social science perspective

Deadline: December 12, 2011

More Information:

http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/11/15/microsoft-research-social-media-postdoc-opening/

Special issue of JOBEM on Socially-Mediated Publicness.

Who: Scholars who want to publish their work on socially-mediated publicness in a fantastic journal experimenting with open-access

Deadline: December 12, 2011 for brief abstracts; January 6, 2012 for complete articles

More Information:

http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/09/13/socially-mediated-publicness-a-call-for-papers/

Digital Media & Learning Summer Institute.

Who: Graduate students/young postdocs doing work touching on policy and innovation around digital media & learning

Deadline: January 9, 2012

Application & More Info:

http://dmlcentral.net/call-for-applications-2012-summer-institute-program

Microsoft Research PhD Internships.

Who: Current PhD students working on social media topics from a social science perspective

Deadline: January 10, 2012

More Information:

http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/11/28/social-science-phd-internships-at-microsoft-research-new-england-spring-summer-2012/

Human Trafficking & Technology Research Grants.

Who: Scholars who can research the role of tech in different facets of human trafficking

Deadline: February 17, 2012

Request for Proposals:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/focus/education/human-trafficking-rfp.aspx

Free Workshop on Publishing Research & Longer Documents in Word

IT Training Workshops are free for IU graduate students.

Thursday, October 27, 2011, 5:30pm - 9:00pm
Word 2010: Publishing Research & Longer Documents 
Information Commons room IC103
This workshop lasts 3+ hours.

To sign up, go to the IT Training Workshop site and scroll down to find the correct listing.

Intended for experienced users of Word who want to create long documents such as research papers, team project reports, books, and graduate theses or dissertations. This workshop explores the best method for structuring long documents in Word and demonstrates how to reliably assemble long documents from multiple source files. It highlights Word's advanced publishing features and automated functions, so participants will also learn how to create lists of figures and captions, a table of contents and a document index.

What You'll learn:

• create and edit an outline
• collapse, expand and relocate sections of an outline
• create and manage master documents
• create a table of contents in a master document
• create captions and lists of figures
• use advanced search options
• format and generate an index
• format footers in a master document
• print a master document 

What you need to know:

• how to use templates
• create and edit headers and footers
• insert and edit footnotes or endnotes
• work with multiple documents
• create and edit styles
• create tables of contents
• insert and modify graphics
• format text using Word shortcuts

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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New Cyberinfrastructure Building to serve as gateway to Bloomington’s growing technology park

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 27, 2010

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie will preside over the groundbreaking ceremony for IU Bloomington's new Cyberinfrastructure Building at 11 a.m. Thursday (April 29). The ceremony will take place at 10th Street and the Indiana State Road 45/46 Bypass.

The Cyberinfrastructure Building, referred to as the CIB, joins the IU Data Center and the IU Innovation Center in the evolving technology park at 10th and the Bypass in Bloomington.

With 123,000 gross square feet and a 250-person, reconfigurable multipurpose space off the atrium, the CIB is designed to be the social hub of the tech park area. Visitors will join resident information technology experts for frequent collaboration and networking opportunities in the high performance, green facility.

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http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/14290.html

IU to operate new high-speed network for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The GlobalNOC at Indiana University provides 24x7x365 professional network support for the most advanced research and education networks in the country. Global NOC staff ensure the health of these networks using a variety of management and monitoring tools, including a 30-foot video wall in their state-of-the-art control center.  Courtesy of Indiana University.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC) at Indiana University has been selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to serve as operator of its new high-speed network for climate research called "Nwave."

The three-year, $1.6 million contract is funded in part under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and will create seven new jobs within the GlobalNOC. The project adds to the growing list of national and international networks for which the Indiana-based GlobalNOC serves as network operations center.

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http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/14134.html

IU, NoMoreClipboard expand IT use to improve student health, wellness

The IU Health Center, above, receives about 70,000 patient visits each yard. About 40 percent of the 2009 IU freshman class created an electronic personal health record facilitated through a partnership between the Health Center and NoMoreClipboard.com.  Courtesy of Indiana University.

Building on the success of recent student personal health record adoption rates at Indiana University's Bloomington campus, NoMoreClipboard.com and IU on Feb. 4 announced a strategic alliance to develop additional personal health modules in an effort to improve student health and wellness at IU, and to market healthcare information technology solutions to other colleges and universities.

NoMoreClipboard.com is an online, patient-controlled personal health record management system designed to consolidate a patient's medical information in one convenient and secure location for easy access and use.
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Indiana University students at the Bloomington campus can currently create a free personal health record account by visiting the Health Center's Web site (www.indiana.edu/~health/) and clicking on "myHEALTH" to visit the Health Center page on the OneStart portal.
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For more information, visit http://www.nomoreclipboard.com/.

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(IU News: 3/1/2010)

IUPUI "MasterPlan" web site keeps students informed about parking, construction

The Office of Communications and Marketing recently launched a new Web site to keep people informed of campus construction projects, traffic alerts, parking alerts and other related situations.

The site is located at http://masterplan.iupui.edu/. To access the site, go to www.iupui.edu, click on About IUPUI, and select Maps & Directions. Campus Construction is listed in the left navigation.

Construction-related updates, and traffic alerts, are published to the Master Plan site, to Twitter (www.twitter.com/IUPUItraffic) and RSS feeds.

Updates can also be found on these high-traffic IUPUI pages:

    * Current Students (www.iupui.edu/students/)
    * Campus Maps (www.iupui.edu/about/maps/)
    * OneStart (coming soon)

The page is also available through the IUPUI search engine (try these keywords: construction, parking, master plan, buildings, etc) and will appear on the site index.

To submit construction news that isn’t on the Web Site, please e-mail Jennifer Boehm at jrboehm@iupui.edu.

IU Kokomo launces new web site

Kokomo, Ind.–Indiana University Kokomo has launched a new and improved Web site, www.iuk.edu, featuring easier navigation, online video, vibrant flash images, and social media integration...
 
Indiana University Kokomo serves a seven county, primary service area in north central Indiana. The campus offers more than 40 academic programs including four graduate degrees.

http://www.iuk.edu/news/?naid=19&ncid=

(IUK News: 1/21/2010)