IU researcher to discuss issues with 'value-added' models for education quality
An Indiana University School of Education faculty member researching value-added measurements will make a presentation on these controversial measures in the latest Economics of Education Seminar...
View ArticleU.S. defense agency's international robotics challenge to include IU...
Researchers at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Informatics are part of an international team taking on the DARPA Robotics Challenge, a $2 million contest funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced...
View ArticleAnother record year for Indiana University researchers with 12 named as AAAS...
For the second straight year, the American Association for the Advancement of Science has awarded the distinction of Fellow to a record number of Indiana University faculty members. The new Fellows, a...
View ArticleTheobald receives Indiana University President's Medal
Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie has presented the President's Medal for Excellence to Neil Theobald, IU's chief financial officer, who will become the next president of Temple...
View ArticleProminent government and political leader Helmke joins SPEA faculty at IU...
Paul Helmke, former president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and of the Brady Campaign/Center to Prevent Gun Violence, will be joining the faculty of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs...
View ArticleIU Distinguished Professor Larsen receives Moore Prize from American...
Michael Larsen, an Indiana University Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Mathematics, has received the E.H. Moore Research Article Prize from the American...
View ArticleIU to offer free Information Visualization MOOC designed to illustrate data
Indiana University's Katy Börner, the Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science and an international leader in information visualization, will...
View ArticleIU School of Education professor Kuh awarded medal for higher education...
George Kuh, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Higher Education at the Indiana University School of Education, received the 2013 Robert Zemsky Medal for Innovation in Higher Education in a ceremony...
View ArticleIU information visualization professor takes expertise to World Economic Forum
Indiana University's Katy Börner began offering what is currently the university's only massive open online course this week, and just to underscore how globally connected education has become, this...
View ArticleIU's Mathers Museum of World Cultures names folklore professor as new director
Jason Jackson, associate professor of folklore at Indiana University Bloomington, has been named the new director of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. He is the Mathers' third director. With the...
View ArticleRichard Lugar to present O'Meara International Lecture at IU Bloomington
Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, the longest-serving senator in Indiana's history and a faculty member in Indiana University's School of Global and International Studies, will present the Patrick...
View ArticleIU's Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology appoints new director
April Sievert, senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington, has been appointed as director of the Glenn A. Black...
View ArticleIU School of Education faculty member awarded grant to study online expertise
A one-year study by an Indiana University School of Education assistant professor will help provide insight into how systems for recognizing skills and knowledge work well or need revision for use in...
View ArticleIU presence prominent at 2013 AAAS with presenters, conveners and record new...
Indiana University faculty members and graduate students will take part in the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, taking place Feb. 14 to 18 in at the Hynes...
View ArticleIU's Kafadar takes ongoing effort to improve 'science' of forensic science to...
Indiana University Rudy Professor of Statistics Karen Kafadar helped produce a 2009 report from the National Academies of Science that found most areas of forensic science analysis failed to meet the...
View ArticleIU receives patent for informatics professor's work predicting economic...
The media called it "The Twitter Predictor," and some scoffed at the idea that by analyzing activity on the social media tool one could predict economic markets like the Dow Jones Industrial Average....
View ArticleWork of late IU physicist Serot focus of March 6 symposium in his honor
The late Indiana University physicist Brian David Serot -- a four-time winner of the IU Trustees' Teaching Award still remembered for his calm rationality and encyclopedic knowledge of the field --...
View ArticleSchool of Education professor Bonk to speak at event partnered with SXSWedu...
Indiana University School of Education faculty member Curt Bonk will speak twice during this week's SXSWedu conference in Austin, Texas. The conference is the education portion of the well-known South...
View ArticleSchool of Education faculty member, center heading up free Chicago...
An Indiana University faculty member and her students from the Creativity Labs at IU Bloomington will lead a free symposium on Wednesday, March 13, in Chicago focused on learning through making. The...
View ArticleOperation Stormy Weather: IU to conduct tornado drills March 27
Indiana University campuses will participate in a statewide tornado drill on March 27 (Wednesday) as part of Indiana's Severe Weather Awareness Week, March 24-30.
View ArticleTwo IU computer scientists earn NSF CAREER Awards for young investigators
Two researchers at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Informatics and Computing -- David Crandall and Apu Kapadia -- have each been awarded the National Science Foundation's most prestigious...
View ArticleMedia Advisory: IU campuses will participate in statewide tornado drill...
Indiana University campuses will participate in a statewide tornado drill Wednesday, March 27, as part of Indiana's Severe Weather Awareness Week, March 24 to 30.
View ArticleGoogle funds 'BOOC' assessment course by IU School of Education researcher
Google has funded an associate professor in the Indiana University School of Education to develop a "Big Open Online Course," or BOOC. Daniel Hickey will offer a free course in September focused on...
View ArticleIU law professor's lecture considers women's role in shaping democracy
The difficult relationship between gender equality, the development of democracies, and constitutional design is the subject of Indiana University Bloomington's 2013 Distinguished Faculty Research...
View ArticleIU to take lead in Defense Department effort securing software-defined networks
The Department of Defense has awarded $910,000 to a team of computer security experts at Indiana University to study critical issues and vulnerabilities associated with software-defined networking,...
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