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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
