Robots invade and volcanos erupt on campus at third annual Science Fest
Post by IU Newsroom intern Sheila Raghavendran On Saturday, Oct. 22, IU was overrun with robots. These robots — machines such as PARO, the therapeutic robotic seal — were on site for holding and petting as part of the School of Informatics and Computing’s activities at the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences’ third […]
A gut feeling that honey bee microbiome work at IU will be worth watching
Although it has yet to become added fodder in the debate over if, how or when President Barack Obama has been over-stepping his authority, the White House did recently issue a Presidential Memorandum ordering relevant agencies and departments to create a federal strategy to promote the health of Apis mellifera – the western honey bee […]
La traviata vs. Grand Theft Auto: How will scientists referee the cultural cage match?
Last week Clifford Lynch, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information, kicked off an impressive run of technology-oriented speakers here at IU Bloomington that continues next week with Google’s Blaise Agüera y Arcas on Monday and Research Data Alliance chair Fran Berman on Tuesday. It goes to show you timing is everything … like […]
IU in the catbird seat: SDN to benefit higher ed, U.S. economy … and who better to lead
The U.S. Department of Defense grant of $900,000 to IU for working on challenges to secure SDN — software-defined networking — isn’t a huge amount of money in itself for a technology that is projected to grow in market value from $252 million in 2012 to as much as $35 billion by 2017. More importantly, […]
Science mentoring at IU Bloomington: An ever-appreciating, unquantifiable investment
Some of you may have missed the news in January about Indiana University Bloomington physicist John Beggs and his long-distance cyber-mentoring of Horace Greely (N.Y.) High School senior Jiayi Peng to a second-place and $50,000 finish in the prestigious Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. The story of Beggs’ mentoring, above and beyond the […]
The disruptive environment at IU Informatics that could improve U.S. health care
Things are starting to get a little disruptive over at IU Bloomington’s School of Informatics and Computing, particularly at the west building. That is where Kris Hauser, an assistant professor of computer science now in his fourth year at IU, and Ph.D. student Casey Bennett have been absorbing the feedback from their paper, “Artificial Intelligence […]
Science at Work: It’s all about you, the citizen scientist
“Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems” is the theme of the Ecological Society of America’s annual meeting under way in Portland, Ore., and one thing many of the world’s leading ecologists are making clear here is that the theme may never come to fruition without a little help from their friends. That […]
Science at Work: IU’s IT plan is working … again and again
It wasn’t exactly a shocker when the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy announced last week that IU would receive $3.82 million as the university’s share in a $27 million second round of funding for the Open Science Grid, initiated in 2008 with $30 million from NSF and DOE to advance state-of-the-art […]
