Enormous, rare ‘corpse flower’ about to make pungent debut at IU’s Jordan Hall Greenhouse
If houseplants, like houseguests, start to stink after three days, then an extremely rare plant that hasn’t bloomed in nine years at IU’s Jordan Hall Greenhouse is due to create a stench for the ages. One of the world’s largest species of flower, the Amorphophallus titanum or titan arum, is expected to put forth its […]
High school students get crash course in science with latest addition to Biology Department’s summer research programs
Post by Lauren Bryant, associate director for research development communications, Office of the Vice Provost for Research: When Mary Ann Tellas was a freshman at Indiana University Bloomington, she had the good fortune to encounter the late Jim Holland, a professor of biology at IU Bloomington known for his tireless recruiting and mentoring of students, […]
Indiana University physicists playing key roles in quest for new particles
The building blocks that make up the elements on the periodic table are straightforward. Atoms are composed of protons, neutrons and electrons. But two of those particles – neutrons and protons – haven’t been considered elementary particles since the 1960s. They’re hadrons, composed of three quarks: subatomic particles that come in six “flavors,” up, down, top, […]
