IU research index

By Jan R. Holloway, UITS; Lauren J. Bryant, RUGS; and Shannon F. Walden, R&SP

• Site and date of the first scientific lake studies conducted in the world: IU’s field station on Lake Wawasee, 1895

• Name of IU mathematician who corresponded in detail with Albert Einstein concerning the mathematical proofs for Einstein’s theories: Vaclav Hlavaty (1894-1969); became IU professor in 1948)

• Year IU astronomer Daniel Kirkwood discovered gaps in the solar system’s asteroid belt, correctly predicting they are caused by Jupiter’s gravitational tugs: 1866

• Year that Crest toothpaste, based on stannous fluoride patented by three IU researchers, hit the national market: 1956

• Number of active IU patents today: 226

• Percent of active patents that are from the IU School of Medicine: 80

• Amount of sponsored program awards (grants, etc.) to IU for FY2002:
$339,540,097

• Dollar amount of total awards for IU East in FY 2002: $9,094,885

• Size of the 2000 Indiana Genomics Initiative (INGEN) grant from Lilly Endowment, the largest in IU’s and Lilly’s histories: $105 million

• Total new research funding received by the School of Medicine credited in whole or part to INGEN during first 18 months of the initiative: $25 million

• Number of jobs in Indiana supported by grants won by IU faculty in 2001-2002: 6,800

• Number of new jobs in Indiana expected to be created by INGEN: 500

• Name of researcher who discovered cure for testicular cancer in 1974, used to treat Lance Armstrong, the four-time winner of Tour de France: Lawrence Einhorn, IU Distinguished Professor of Medicine

• Number of photographs included in the Kinsey Institute collection: 75,000

• Campus where paleobotanist Gary Dolph discovered world’s oldest intact seed of the black gum tree (roughly 55 million years old): IU Kokomo (1986)

• Number of Nobel Prizes won by IU faculty, former faculty, or graduates: 4 (Hermann Müller, 1946; James D. Watson, 1962; Salvador Luria, 1969; Renato Dulbecco, 1975)

• Number of Pulitzer Prizes won by IU faculty: 2 (Douglas Hofstadter, 1980, and Yusef Komunyakaa, 1994)

•Number of current IU members in the National Academy of Sciences: 10 (more than all other universities and colleges in Indiana combined)

• Number of active IU members in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: 16

• Number of Big Ten researchers named among the top "Brilliant 10" scientists in the nation by Popular Science magazine: 1 (David Clemmer, IUB professor and chair of the chemistry department)

• Number of Big Ten professors to receive President’s National Medal of Science, the American equivalent of the Nobel Prize: 1 (Ernest Davidson, IU professor of chemistry, won the award in 2002)

• Rank of IU Bloomington Libraries collections size among North American Research Libraries: 13

• Total holdings of IU Library system (all campuses): 9,303,328 volumes

• Number of miles of shelving in the Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library storage facility: 12

• Number of recording titles available through the Variations Digital Music Library Program at IU: more than 8,000

• First IU campus to offer a course, then a minor, in women’s studies: IU South Bend

• Location of a copy of the New Testament from the Gutenberg Bible, four Shakespeare folios, George Washington’s letter accepting the presidency of the o United States, and the entire run of annotated production scripts for Laugh In: Lilly Library, IUB

• Number of assignable square feet used for research laboratories and service areas, all campuses: 943,307

• Number of seconds it would take the I-Light optical fiber network (linking IU, Purdue, and IUPUI) to transmit more than one trillion bits of information: 1

Sources: Association of American Universities; IU President’s Annual Report 2001-02; IU Advanced Research and Technology Institute; IU Fact Book 2002-2003; Indiana University Timeline, 1995; IU Home Pages; IU Office of Communications and Marketing; IU Libraries 2001-02 Annual Report; IU Libraries Administration; IU School of Medicine Office of Media Relations; University Information Technology Services