If Housing at IUPUI was a motel, it would flip on its red neon no-vacancy sign.

With all 1,100 beds now assigned to students, IUPUI has stopped accepting new applications for housing for the 2008-09 academic year, said Vicky Pasternak, Assistant Director of Housing & Residence Life.

"Campus housing is filled to the brim" Pasternak said.

Last year was the first year since apartment-style housing was built at IUPUI in 2003 that student housing was 100 percent full, she noted. This year, student housing was full by the end of June, compared to August a year ago.

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Dawn Rhodes, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration, at IUPUI has announced several changes regarding the operation of the division she oversees, including its name.

Effective July 1, 2008, Rhodes announced the name of the division changed to "Finance and Administration" (F&A). "While we want to pay tribute to those who have gone before us, I would like a clear demarcation of a change in leadership. I believe simply switching the two words accomplishes both. It will take some time for various publications to reflect this, but I encourage you to begin your department transition now," she said.

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School of Science Acting Dean Bart S. Ng has named today psychology professor Kathy E. Johnson as chair of the Department of Psychology.

"Professor Johnson's record of excellence in cognitive developmental psychology research and her significant contributions to the scholarship of teaching and learning make her an ideal leader for the department," said Ng. "She has the experience and skill needed to advance further the department's contributions to Indiana's workforce and its life sciences economy."

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What did you do on your summer vacation? For three local high school students the answer to that question includes experiments on the role of RNA in bacteria identification, how bone cells respond to mechanical stimulation and the design of a 2D biomembrane.

School of Science professors at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis have opened their research labs to area high school students as part of an effort to encourage more young people to pursue careers in science and mathematics. They are faculty mentors of the Project SEED Summer Research program sponsored by the Indiana section of the American Chemical Society.

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For Sandosh Vasudevan the word "leisure" doesn't necessarily compute. That's because Vasudevan - a native of India who came to IUPUI for graduate school - seemingly spends every waking moment developing software applications, projects that are turning heads in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Last summer, Vasudevan, 25, completed an internship with Web portal giant Yahoo!, where he created a Web analytics extension to Firefox for use by the company's programmers and engineers. On weekends, Sandosh developed a movie selection widget for Yahoo! Widget Engine. It was judged a "must ship with widget," the top such ranking among Yahoo! intern projects.

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The politics of managing the watersheds and river basins which provide water for the millions of inhabitants of New York City, Los Angeles, the Pacific Northwest and other increasingly thirsty areas of the country are explored in Embracing Watershed Politics, a new book which asks whether and how politics are getting in the way as Americans try to better manage and protect the natural re¬sources of our watersheds.

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Eugene R. Tempel

Eugene R. Tempel, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, will leave that position August 31, 2008 to become president of the Indiana University Foundation, Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie announced today.

Charles R. Bantz, Indiana University Executive Vice President and Chancellor of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), where the Center is headquartered, announced that Patrick M. Rooney, Ph.D., director of research at the Center, will serve as its interim executive director. A blue-ribbon search committee will be appointed to conduct a national search for a permanent successor.

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