$6.1M to Help Colleges with New-Vehicle Push: Six Indiana State Institutions Will Build Training Around Electric Car Technology
Indianapolis Star, August 8, 2009 - Six million dollars in stimulus funds will enable state institutions to train Hoosiers workers for the electric vehicle industry. "Our goal is to develop a statewide educational and training program for the next generation of engineers and the technological work force..." said IUPUI Professor Yaobin Chen, chairman of the department of electrical and computer engineering (Purdue School of Engineering and Technology).
http://www.indystar.com/article/20090806/NEWS05/908060415/1008/LOCAL19/
+6.1M+to+help+colleges+with+new-vehicle+push

ICVA Assembles Team to Help City Attract Medical, Science Groups
Indiana Economic Digest, August 8, 2009 - The Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association is putting together a corporate consortium to make the city a hub for medical and life sciences conventions, meetings and trade shows, a step IUPUI Chancellor Charles R. Bantz considers critical to building international awareness of Indiana's life sciences industry.
http://www.indianaeconomicdigest.net/main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=135&ArticleID=49312

Why Some American Values Are Obstacles to Insurance System Overhaul
Las Vegas Sun, August 7, 2009 - American cultural values are "incredibly powerful forces" that are influencing the debate over health care reform, said Eric Wright (School of Public and Environmental Affairs), director of the Center for Health Policy at IUPUI. People don't talk about the cultural values that influence the debate because "it gets too threatening, it sounds un-American," Wright said. "It doesn't matter what you propose, they'll throw out the 's-word' - socialism."
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/aug/06/why-some-american-values-are-obstacles-insurance-s/

Purdue to Lead Electric Vehicle Education Consortium
InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report, August 6, 2009 - President Barack Obama announced that Purdue University will receive a $6.1 million grant to develop degree and training programs for electric vehicles. Purdue will partner with five other institutions, Notre Dame University, IUPUI, Ivy Tech Community College, Purdue University Calumet and Indiana University Northwest, to develop the program.
http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?id=37051

FOCUS Expands to 45 College Campuses for 2009-10 School Year
PRNewswire, August 5, 2009 - The Fellowship of Catholic University Students, a fast-growing college campus outreach now with a presence in 25 states, announced that it has added 12 more universities, including IUPUI, to its roster for the 2009-10 school year.
http://interestalert.com/story/08050002aaa0563b.prn/siteia/EDUCATIO/education.html

IUPUI Trip is About More Than B-Ball: Team Will Spend 7 Days In Costa Rica
WISH-TV, August 5, 2009 - The IUPUI men's basketball team was at Conseco Fieldhouse preparing for a seven day trip to Costa Rica. Jags will play in games but they will also distribute shoes to those in need. The team leaves on Thursday, August 13, 2009, and returns August 19.
http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/sports/college/iupui_trip_basketball_20090805

The Regeneration Recipe
TheScientist.com, August 2009 - Professor David Stocum (Purdue School of Science) is quoted in article about regeneration research across the nation. "A lot of [scientists studying regenerative medicine] don't realize the relevance of amphibian limb regeneration to mammalian repair and regeneration," says Stocum, director of the Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine at IUPUI. Stocum has studied regeneration in the axolotl, a type of tiger salamander, for years.
http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/55861/

Colleges Upset About Licensing Changes; IUPUI Educator Says Overhaul Would Hurt Students
WISHTV.com, July 30, 2009 (School of Education) - Patricia Rogan, associate dean of education, comments on proposal to overhaul teacher education that calls for future teachers to get their degrees in fields such as math or science with fewer of the education courses that teach them how to teach. "The question that we have as educators is why would we abolish standards in a quest for teacher excellence, and impact on student achievement?" Rogan said.
http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/education/Colleges_upset_about_licensing_changes_20090730

War Movies a Mirror of Society's Attitudes
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 23, 2009 - Professor Monroe Little (School of Liberal Arts) is quoted in story on war movies, including the now-playing "The Hurt Locker." "A great war film can elicit responses on the part of the viewers that go beyond simply glorifying war," Little said. "And in fact, the greatest war films don't glorify war at all."
http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/movies/51495377.html

Inactive Law License Could Jeopardize Convictions
Indianapolis Star, July 20, 2009 - Hundreds of criminal convictions could return to court because the Indiana prosecutor who oversaw the cases had an inactive law license for more than three years. However, for the cases to be returned to court, defendants would have to show the prosecutor's status affected their trial's outcome, said Professor Joel Schumm (IU School of Law-Indianapolis). The odds of overturning such cases were "very slim to none at all," the professor said.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20090720/LOCAL/907200358/1304/
LOCAL/Inactive+law+license+could+jeopardize+convictions

Can Pen And Paper Help Make Electronic Medical Records Better?
PhysOrg.com, July 20, 2009 - Observing that doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others who use electronic health records have not totally abandoned paper, including notes stuck or taped to a computer monitor, index cards, and even notebooks, researchers, led by Jason Saleem, Ph.D., a Regenstrief Institute investigator and assistant research professor, (Purdue School of Engineering and Technology), documented how and why the healthcare professionals were using paper.
http://www.physorg.com/news167310335.html

Cellular Dynamics International In-Licenses Key Patent Portfolio for Using Stem Cell-Derived Cells in Drug Testing
PRNewswire, July 15, 2009 - Cellular Dynamics International announced that it has exclusively in-licensed a US-issued patent portfolio on optimizing the stem cell differentiation selection process and on using heart cells (cardiomyocytes) in drug testing. The license, obtained from Dr. Loren Field and IUPUI, covers two important concepts for using stem cell-derived cells for drug screening.
http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=
ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/07-15-2009/0005060165&EDATE=

Indiana Reflects National Trend as Geography Literacy Declines
Eurekalert, July 14, 2009 - A study in the Journal of Geography reports that geography knowledge among Indiana college freshmen has not improved. "With the efforts we put into K-12 geography education statewide through the Geography Educators Network of Indiana during the 15-year period, we anticipated an increase in geography literacy, not a decline," said study author F.L. (Rick) Bein, professor of geography (School of Liberal Arts).
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/iu-irn071409.php

Dillinger Exhibit Goes on Display
InsideINdianaBusiness.com, July 14, 2009 - A free exhibit about America's first public enemy opens at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis. DILLINGER! Forging a Hoosier Legend was produced by students from the Herron School of Art and Design at IUPUI with the assistance of Exhibit House through a grant from the IUPUI Solution Center.
http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?ID=36622

On The Great Masticator
NPR, July 13, 2009 - Dental historian and IUPUI Professor Dr. Arden Christen, (School of Dentistry), was interviewed for a nationally aired "NPR Your Health" segment. Christen discussed Horace Fletcher, the Victorian industrialist and self-taught nutritionist who became known as "The Great Masticator" for promoting the idea that chewing food properly is directly related to health and fitness.
http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510284/
106497384/npr_106497384.mp3?_kip_ipx=844949096-1249069785

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/07/chew_chew_chew.html

Wishard Advocates Launch Push for Bond Issue
Indianapolis Star, July 12, 2009 - Wishard Health Services today officially unveiled their plans to build a new $754 million, 1.2 million square foot hospital complex to replace the public hospital's facilities. The new hospital would be located on the west side of the IUPUI campus on land now held by Indiana University.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20090712/BUSINESS/907120413/1304/
LOCAL/Wishard+advocates+launch+push+for+bond+issue