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July 19, 2002

ARTI to develop new business incubator
IU’s Advanced Research and Technology Institute has purchased a downtown Indianapolis building that will be developed into the IU Emerging Technology Center, a vital element in IU’s support of emerging, start-up companies in general and the Central Indiana Life Sciences Initiative in particular. Such academically affiliated business incubators have a high level of success, both economically and in terms of community building, says ARTI’s president.
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Sciences to benefit from Howard Hughes award
IU’s Bloomington campus will benefit from a four-year, $2.2 million Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Science Education Program grant to support teaching and research in biology, biochemistry and neural science–fields that traditionally provide a foundation for medical research
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The rabbi and the emperor
Fran Sherwood’s Book of Splendor is an historical fantasy pitting the real-life Emperor Rudolph II’s demands for an “elixir of immortality” against the capabilities of the real-life scholar Rabbi Judah Loew, in 17th-century Prague. Get out your lawn chair, pour a tall lemonade and find a reading spot in the shade for this new W.W. Norton release; the book is the IU South Bend professor’s third novel and she’ll be making the rounds on a Midwestern book tour next week.
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Is there a doctor in the business school?
The constraints to the practice of medicine by economic forces in the past few years has led to the development of a combined M.D./M.B.A. degree on the IUPUI campus. Meet Kevin McGarvey, IU’s first medical student to enroll in the new program.
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Photo by Paul Martens
One of the joys of the Indiana University summer season is the influx of visitors who attend workshops, conferences, camps, concerts and recreational opportunities on the eight state-wide campuses. In the case of these young visitors (Class of 2022?), a walking tour of the Old Crescent area of the Bloomington campus included a stop at Tuck Langland’s sculpture of Herman B Wells. Click here for more on the sculptor and the sculpture.

Viers to direct IU’s Office of International Services
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Alumni voters elect Belanger an IU trustee
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Today's feature
Spam-I-am
While the authentic SPAM, a tinned American luncheon meat, began its 65th year of production this year (and produced its six billionth can earlier this month), that unsolicited commercial E-mail (UCE), or spam as it is more commonly known, is the green eggs and ham of electronic communication. IU’s award-winning Knowledge Base has a new series of articles about spam and some strategies for dealing with it.
Go to this Web site:
http://kb.indiana.edu/data/afne.html

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