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Research

Discovery!

Student working in lab

The grand moments of discovery are real, but they hardly ever happen at the end of the story as the culmination of feverish work. It's usually the opposite, actually. A discovery signals the real work is about to begin.  More »

Sex out of the bell jar

Alfred Kinsey

In the early days of the Kinsey Institute, sex research was inextricably tied to academic freedom.  More »

'Partner or perish'

research icon

Collaboration, multidisciplinary approaches and advanced IT have blended for success in funding the sciences at IU. In fiscal 2008, more than a half billion dollars in government and private-sector grants and contracts drove research and sponsored programs.  More »

Getting it right at Simon Hall

Simon Hall

"You can't just look at the building and say, 'Ah, it's effective,'" says IU sociologist Tom Gieryn.  More »

Earth and water

Urban green space

Helping Indiana strike the strategies for environmental stewardship is one way IU scientists are making their mark.  More »

Q&A with Kenneth Pimple

Ken Pimple

We asked Ken Pimple, director of the TRE workshop, about the importance of research ethics to the journey of scientific exploration and to faculty who wish to inject research ethics into the curricula of their specific teaching disciplines.  More »