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IUPUI In the News - April 4, 2008


Advisers Tout Obama's Policy
The Tribune Star (Terre Haute), April 2, 2008 - Presidential candidate Barack Obama's foreign policy advisers hold a forum at University Place Conference Center at Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis.
http://www.tribstar.com/news/local_story_092230114.html

School of Informatics to Host First-Ever Blogging "Unconference"
Indianapolis dBusinessNews, April 2, 2008 - Bloggers from around the state will share best practices, tips, tools, case studies and strategies for successful blogging during BlogIN 2008, a blogging "unconference" that the IUPUI School of Informatics will host on April 26, 2008.
http://indianapolis.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?type_news=latest&newsid=154799

IUPUI Researchers are First to Get Clear 3-D Picture of Anti-cancer Agent
SpectroscopyNow.com, April 1, 2008 - Structural biologist Millie Georgiadis of the IU y School of Medicine and Eric Long of the Purdue School of Science at IUPUI, along with Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis colleagues, obtain the first X-ray structure of the well-known anti-cancer agent bleomycin.
http://www.spectroscopynow.com/coi/cda/detail.cda?id=18375&type=Feature&chId=8&page=1

School of Law Professor Discusses Legal Issues During Kuwait Trip
Al Jarida (Kuwait), March 31, 2008 - IU School of Law-Indianapolis Professor George Edwards lectures at University of Kuwait, and is featured in Kuwait newspaper article discussing a range of international human rights and other legal issues in Kuwait and the United States.
http://www.aljarida.com/AlJarida/Resources/PdfPages/AlJarida/31-03-2008/P06_Local.pdf

IUPUI Speaker's Lab Staff Member Seeking Miss 500 Title
Banner Graphic (Greencastle) March 31, 2008 - Savahannah Lien is not worried about speaking engagements during her bid for the "Miss 500" title. "Speeches don't really bother me because I work in the speakers lab (at IUPUI) helping people write and prepare speeches," Lien says in this story.
http://www.bannergraphic.com/story/1321662.html

Experts Say Fed Rate Cuts Could Be Hurtful
Indianapolis Star, March 28, 2008 - "There is a psychosis in banking that leads to lenders being really, really bullish, or really, really scared. Right now, they're really, really scared," says business Professor Philip Powell in this article on the Federal Reserve's efforts to improve the economy.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080318/LOCAL/80318010

Chelsea Clinton Campaigns for Her Mother in Indiana
WishTV.com, March 25, 2008 - Hilary Clinton's campaign for president is a family affair as her husband former President Bill Clinton toured the state, and daughter Chelsea campaigned at Indiana universities, including IUPUI.
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8066168&nav=menu35_12

Churches Grapple with New attitudes, New Strategies for Reaching Unaffiliated
Indianapolis Star, March 23, 2008 - Churches "have got to think seriously about their own identities and what face they want to put toward a world where it can't be presumed that everybody is going to go to church," says Arthur Farnsley, a research fellow with the Center for Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080323/LOCAL18/803230397/1111/LIVING09

Local Students Head to State Geography Bee In Indy
Indianapolis Star, March 20, 2008 - Fourth through eighth grade Indiana students who won their school-level competitions will head to the Indiana Geographic Bee at IUPUI on April 4.The state winner will quality for the nationals May 20 and 21 in Washington, D.C.
http://beta.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080320/LOCAL010106/803200522/1263/LOCAL07

Police Indictments Create Barely a Ripple
WISH TV.com , March 21, 2008 - They don't seem like crimes, say some Gary residents of the allegations of federal civil rights violations on the part of the city's former police chief and top two aides.
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8054006&nav=0Ra7

First 3-D View of Anti-cancer Agent Reported
Science Daily, March 20, 2008 - IUPUI researchers in the School of Medicine and Purdue School of Science create the first three-dimensional image of how a well-established chemotherapy agent targets and binds to DNA. The study may help scientists develop better drugs to treat a wide range of cancers.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080318124812.htm

Law School Leads Engineering Operations for First U.S. Office of Dubai Firm
Charleston Regional Business Journal, March 1, 2008 - IU School of Law-Indianapolis alumnus is engineering principal in charge of North American operations for a Dubai-based firm's first formal project office in the United States.
http://www.charlestonbusiness.com/dailyjournal/3_107/full-issue.html

IUPUI Center for Young Children Among Those Helping Autistic Children
Indianapolis Star, March 14, 2008 - At Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, four autistic boys enrolled at the Center for Young Children, a mainstream day care facility, are helping professionals learn about autism.
http://search.indystar.com/sp?aff=1100&skin=100&keywords=autism

Honoring Minority Achievers
Indianapolis Star, March 14, 2008 - The Minority Business and Professional Achievers Recognition Awards Dinner honorees include Khaula Murtadha, executive associate dean of the School of Education at IUPUI, who received the 2008 Madame C.J. Walker (Outstanding Woman of the Year) Award.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/BUSINESS/803140432/1305/BUSINESS

Regenstrief Institute Tapped by CDC to Combat Potentially Catastrophic Disease Outbreaks
Medical News Today, March 12, 2008 - "The Centers for Disease Control has awarded the IU School of Medicine a $2.6 million initial contract to accelerate the real-time ability of local, state and regional entities to share data and information to enhance rapid response to and management of potentially catastrophic infectious disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies."
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/100366.php

E-schooling grows, but what about teachers?
International Herald Tribune, March 9, 2008 - Work of IU School of Social Work professor Robert Vernon is cited in this story about the growing number of Web-based college courses. Vernon holds seminars with his students in Second Life, the virtual world where computer-simulated people, called avatars, interact.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/09/business/starts10.php

Q & A with Valerie Eickmeier, Dean Herron School of Art and Design
Indianapolis Star, March 7, 2008 - Valerie Eickmeier answers questions about Herron, contemporary art, and personal pursuits in this interview.
http://www.indy.com/posts/5783

IUPUI Professors Play Out Shakespeare Courtroom Drama
Indiana Lawyer, March 5, 2008 - An IUPUI English professor and an IU School of Law-Indianapolis professor performed the courtroom scene from "the Merchant of Venice" during the American Shakespeare Center’s stop in Indianapolis.
http://www.theindianalawyer.com/html/detail_page.asp?content=01513

Genesco Shoe Merger Dead at Finish Line
New York Times, March 4, 2008 - Antony Page, IU School of Law-Indianapolis professor, is expert source for this story on Finish Line and Genesco.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03042008/business/genesco_shoe_merger_dead_at_finish_line_100378.htm

Community can reshape its economic future
The Tribune-Star (Terre Haute), Feb. 2, 2008 - Philip Powell, faculty chairman of the IU Kelley School of Business evening MBA program in Indianapolis, is quoted in story on growth of life sciences industries in Midwestern communities.
http://www.tribstar.com/archivesearch/local_story_033212844.html



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