January 2010
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Today's feature
The artwork of Indiana University Bloomington alumna Lyndall Bass will soon make its way across the country -- and eventually, around the globe -- in wallets, purses, piggy banks and gumball machines everywhere. Bass created one of four designs selected for the reverse side of a 2010 Lincoln Bicentennial Penny. The new penny is being issued in recognition of the bicentennial of President Abraham Lincoln's birth and the 100th anniversary of the first issuance of the Lincoln cent. More »
Headliners
If you are what you eat, stop eating "food-like substances" that have little to do with actual foods, says best-selling author Michael Pollan. Pollan will appear at IU Auditorium Friday, Feb. 26, in a free signature event of Indiana University's 26th annual ArtsWeek.
Research
The first pirate's cannon is resting in an underwater science lab at Indiana University Bloomington under the watchful eyes of archaeologist Charles Beeker and other researchers. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis this week announced its partnership with IU to provide funding for the transport of the 17th-century relic.
Technology
Indiana University staff members at IU Bloomington and IUPUI consistently achieve a level of excellence in communication. Both campuses were honored once again with top awards at the Society for Technical Communication's annual competition in Chicago.
Outreach
Organizers of an Indiana University Haiti relief effort say the response from the IU and Bloomington communities has been strong. As fundraising efforts continue -- just this week, each member of the IU women's basketball team donated her pre-game meal money to relief efforts -- IU has shifted the focus to a material aid drive, encouraging donors to help "Cram the Container!" a 1,280-cubic-foot container provided by the university.
Health
AMPATH, the joint partnership between Indiana University School of Medicine, the Moi (Eldoret, Kenya) University School of Medicine and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, has received a three-year, $5 million USAID supplement grant to expand health care services in western Kenya.
FYI
An increasing number of shoppers want to know where the clothing on store racks is made so they can weigh the local and global impact of their choices. Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will host "Check Your Label: Elements of Conscious Consumerism" next Friday, Feb. 5, at IU Auditorium in Bloomington.
Arts & Humanities
Internationally acclaimed stage director James Marvel will make his IU Opera Theater debut Feb. 5 with Gaetano Donizetti's gripping, tragic opera Lucia di Lammermoor. Set in 17th-century Scotland, the story about a young woman driven to madness -- and murder -- by love and politics is based on Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor.
Events
H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of one of the top-selling sports books in history, Friday Night Lights, will headline a free, daylong seminar at IUPUI on March 10 called "Investigating the Business of College Athletics."
