Photo by Chris Meyer Patrons line up outside the Musical Arts Center on the IU Bloomington campus in anticipation of the Festival Orchestra concert featuring alumnus Joshua Bell on violin. The concert is part of the Summer Music Festival.
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Simon Hall a unifying hub for sciences

The bacterium E. coli, the protist Paramecium, maize, mice and fruit flies will be among the organisms depicted in limestone at the $55.7 million, 140,000-square-foot Simon Hall, scheduled to open its doors to scientists and support staff next February in Bloomington.

SUMRS for scholars

Undergrads and their faculty mentors are hard at work collaborating on Summer Research Scholars projects. At IU East, those projects include a study on the effects of casino gambling on the community of Rising Sun; the ecosystem of the Kankakee River and an analysis of the attitudes of pastors toward those with mental illness.

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'Big Red' is super

IU's system is the fastest supercomputer owned and operated by a U.S. university and is the 23rd fastest in the world.

Big year for inventions

IU posts record of invention disclosures reported by IU's Research and Technology Corp.

Presidential search

The IU Board of Trustees appointed a committee to begin the search for a new university president at a special meeting June 27. A search committee has also been appointed to find IU East's new chancellor.

IUSM receives $5 million for asthma, allergy research center

A five-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease creates one of nine such centers in the U.S. IU researchers hope to identify diagnostic biological markers or indicators for these diseases that will help identify which children will be predisposed to developing asthma.

Nature vs. nurture

Environmental factors strongly influence the rate of mental decline in older age, suggesting that health-protective behaviors and environments can help sustain cognitive function in older adults, says IU psychologist Deborah Finkel.