Photo by Donya Maleto
Multi-tasking
The sedentary desk job may one day be a thing of the past. The University Architect’s Office received a lot of visitors this month, including personnel from the Student Recreational Sports Center, who were interested in a “test drive” of the Walkstation, a piece of equipment that allows an employee to check E-mail and do simple tasks at a desk while toting up a few treadmill miles. Pictured here taking a spin is Andrew Lowry, assistant director of building services at the Physical Plant in Bloomington.
Today's Feature
Small stuff
A grace note on a musical score, WIMPs in a bubble chamber, a fruit fly’s genome, “mood markers” in human blood, a designer molecule — all illustrate, and not in a small way, some of the directions IU faculty members have taken their research toward explorations of life and how we live it. (NASA)
Additional top stories
- U-Club event: Medical breakthroughs go to market
- Midwest SoTL Conference April 11
- Marie Osmond at IPFW’s ‘Tapestry’ April 25
- Continuing studies and Indiana
- The writing’s on the wall (and it’s a Moveable Feast)
- Indiana Science Olympiad March 29 in Bloomington
Teaching excellence
IU Home Pages goes on hiatus with this edition, but join us again March 28 as we pay tribute to the men and women university-wide who are recipients of IU Founders Day teaching honors.Déjà vu, Prairie Home
If you missed the live broadcast of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion Feb. 26 from the IU Auditorium, tune in or listen all over again. While the news from Lake Wobegon is always a treat, the shining star of this segment is the IU Jacobs School of Music.
40 years later
IU Northwest contemplated the 1967 elections of Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher and Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, the first two African-American leaders of major American cities, at a symposium last week. Thoughts naturally turned to the candidacy of Barack Obama.
Women’s History Month
The historical female figures that have helped make the IU School of Medicine what it is today are featured in an on-site and online exhibit
opening today. (That's Dr. Doris Merritt at left, who was instrumental in bringing $55 million in grants for new construction to the medical campus between 1961-1978.)
Women and leadership
Put a former university president's wife, a current university president's wife, a female campus chancellor and a communications specialist in the same space and see what they have to say about "Leadership at IU." The topic is on the program for the 20th anniversary gathering of the All-IU Women's Studies and Gender Studies Conference, March 27-28 at IU South Bend. The conference will feature scenes from Michiana Monologues, an original regional adaptation of Eve Ensler's classic performance piece that debuted earlier this month on campus.
SI
IU East’s supplemental education program gets high marks from its peers; staffers and students are to present and to receive accolades at an international conference this spring.
It’s the painting, stupid.
Two Herron School lecturers have added to the pop culture phenomenon, the For Dummies book series. Get out your finest horsehair brush.
