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 […]
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 […]
New partnership with Crane strengthens IU’s mission, benefits state’s taxpayers
It’s been shown time and time again that stronger higher education has a direct correlation to a state’s economic, social and cultural health, and at a time when growing attention is being paid to global competition challenging America for science and technology prominence, one would think policymakers would be leaning to invest more heavily in […]
