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Erika Biga Lee reports on a new University
Graduate School initiative that allows doctoral candidates to
submit dissertations electronically.
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Swarthmore psychologist Kenneth Gergen
has written extensively about cell phones and the challenges of
"absent presence." Interestingly, IU researcher Dong-Chul
Seo has found that drivers are more distracted by the task of
holding a conversation with a person who is not present than by
the juggling act of maneuvering a phone and a steering wheel at
the same time.
IU East's Jean Harper has added IT to her nonfiction prose writing class. An exhibition of her students' multi-faceted work opens at the Richmond Art Museum this weekend. Included is Courtney Hughes' virtual morning tour of the local Paulee Restaurant.
Read about some IU robots of note,
including some pedagogical "bots"—one set to land
on a simulated Martian surface, another that can play the IU alma
mater.
Richard McKaig, IUB's dean of students, has been honored with the Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Performance by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. Read about other stars in the IU constellation by clicking on "Headliners" at the top of this page.
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Nursing students John Kjeldsen and Kendra Sprague use new Leica CM E microscopes, purchased with Kresge matching grant funds.
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IU Kokomo
A decade of the sciences
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What's as big as a shoe box and chomps on the soft green plants of Pleistocene Epoch swamps and wetlands? If you guessed mastodon teeth, you may be ready for a visit to honor a very special herd on May 1.
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