Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibition to debut new ‘macroscopes’ at Vanderbilt University
Post by IU Newsroom intern Laura Ellsworth: Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, a traveling exhibition founded and curated by IU professor Katy Bӧrner, will debut its 2017 iteration at Vanderbilt University on Jan. 23. This international collection of world-class data visualizations will be on display in conjunction with the theme “Our Lives Online.” Bӧrner is an […]
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, […]
Women of science, of technology, prepare to be empowered!
I want to be a woman….studying science….at Indiana University….over the next week. If you already meet those prerequisites then prepare to be empowered. IU Bloomington’s Center of Excellence for Women in Information Technology gets things started with this weekend’s Techie Women Have More conference. Poster battle royale gets underway first, beginning at 2 p.m. Friday […]
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 […]
For IU’s job-seeking CS women, a chance to stick your boot in the door
So it’s going to be a skin-sizzling 35 degrees Fahrenheit or so this Thursday – the highest climb the thermometer will make during this winter work week – but if you’re looking for someplace hot, really hot, ground zero will be the Bloomington Convention Center where IU students can immerse in a job market hotter […]
IU’s data science certificate to keep workforce on pace with computing power
The folks over at Indiana University’s School of Informatics and Computing kept seeing the data on data science piling up and the opportunities growing, both for the school and most importantly for a workforce in need of a bigger and better payday. One analysis showed a 15,000 percent increase in data science job postings from […]
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 […]
