February 2009
In Every Issue
Today's feature
As a 40-page, full-color newsprint tabloid, the new edition of IU Home Pages is hot off the press and will arrive to personnel on IU's eight campuses mid-week next week. The newsprint, however, is a supplement to our online edition, which goes live Friday, Feb. 27. You'll find expanded feature content, additional photographs and audio-video presentations that we think you'll enjoy. If you haven't subscribed to the new IU Home Pages online, we invite you to do so by pointing your mouse to the red Subscribe link above this feature box. We welcome new readers and their comments. —Jayne Spencer, editor, IU Home Pages More »
Headliners
Imagine you're sharing an elevator ride with President Barack Obama, and he asks your advice -- about something you've spent your professional career studying. In the new issue of Perspectives on Policy, nearly 30 Indiana University experts in health care, energy, education, technology, tax policy and other fields write with passion and thoughtfulness about what they would tell the new president of the most powerful nation in the world.
Research
In the linguistic marketplace, men are bigger talkers and are more expressive than women. But that historical footnote falls apart under the influence of computer-mediated communication such as text messaging. Women get downright chatty and flirtatious.
Technology
A collaboration between an IUPUI informatics research associate and pharmacologists studying Parkinson's disease utilizing a small nematode lead to a cover story and cover art in the journal Molecular Interventions.
Outreach
Before he left office last month, Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter visited IU Northwest to announce the biggest donation ever for the campus toward supporting scholarships for students in Gary's Emerson neighborhood.
Health
Patients and their families want physicians who are gifted in diagnosis and treatment and who are caring individuals with the interpersonal skills needed to communicate complex information in stressful circumstances. A new study in the January issue of Academic Medicine shows training physicians to be humanistic is feasible and produces measurably better communicators.
FYI
Welcome to the new face of the IU Home Pages, a publication of news and features about faculty and staff on the campuses of Indiana University which has been published on the web since September 1996. Thanks to our colleagues at the IU Office of Creative Services, we've morphed again and you'll now be navigating a new design.
Arts & Humanities
Black History Month activities are taking place at IU campuses throughout the state. Take a look at some of the highlights, including visits from rapper/activist Chuck D. at IU Northwest Feb. 18 and Princeton University's Cornel West at IU Bloomington Feb. 23, and BHM web sites of note.
Events
Insider trading. Blackmail. A marriage on the rocks. An Ideal Husband was originally published in 1895, but the themes of Oscar Wilde's satiric play are as relevant today as when he originally wrote about them. An Ideal Husband is being staged by IU Bloomington's Department of Theatre and Drama as part of IU's 25th annual ArtsWeek celebration.
