Publication: INDIANA UNIVERSITY

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

IU Kelley School's Leading Index for Indiana declines for second month in a row

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Leading Index for Indiana continued to lose ground in May, following a slight slide in April, from a revised value of 100.9 to 100.8."The economic data has presented a mixed picture recently, and the components of the LII were ... [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Index, Indiana (United States), Declination, Consumer Sentiment

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Sun Yat-sen University

Indiana University President McRobbie visiting Beijing as part of 15-day East Asia trip

BEIJING -- Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie will continue a 15-day visit to East Asia on Tuesday in Beijing, where he will renew a partnership agreement with one of China's pre-eminent research universities, meet with IU alumni and business ... [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - May 18 2013]

Entities: Indiana University, University President, Beijing, Sun Yat-sen University

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Pronova BioPharma ASA

IU announces R&D agreement to advance proton therapy tools for cancer treatment

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A series of collaborative research agreements between Indiana University Cyclotron Operations, Indiana University Health Proton Therapy Center and ProNova Solutions aims to develop advanced proton therapy technologies, including a ... [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - May 17 2013]

Entities: Pronova BioPharma ASA, Indiana University, Proton, Pencil Beam

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Indiana University

Indiana University President McRobbie visits South Korea as part of 15-day East Asia trip

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie will kick off a 15-day visit to East Asia with meetings Monday with South Korean higher education leaders and a reception for new students in Seoul, South Korea.Michael A. McRobbieMcRobbie ... [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - May 17 2013]

Entities: Indiana University, South Korea, University President

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Jeffersonville High School

IU video contest winners learn from PSAs about prescription drug abuse

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Brian Fischer, a senior at Jeffersonville High School in Jeffersonville, Ind., won the KeepRxSafe.com Public Service Announcement Video Contest, which is part of a growing effort statewide to address a rising problem affecting Indiana ... [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - May 17 2013]

Entities: Drug Abuse, Jeffersonville High School, Brian Fischer, Drugs

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

IU study: Agriculture contributes $37.9 billion to Indiana's economy

Editors: The complete study is available as a PDF at the Indiana Business Research Center website, or from George Vlahakis at 812-855-0846 or vlahakis@iu.edu.BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Agricultural industries contributed $37.9 billion to Indiana's economy in ... [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - May 17 2013]

Entities: Agriculture, Soybean, Commodities, Livestock, Corn

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Kelley School of Business

Financial Times ranks IU Kelley School of Business' executive education program among world's best

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Kelley Executive Partners, the custom executive education arm of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, has again been ranked among the world's best by the Financial Times in its annual survey of custom executive education ... [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - May 15 2013]

Entities: Kelley School of Business, Education, Elanco Animal Health, Hill-Rom, Cook Medical Inc

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Hess named vice president for university clinical affairs, dean of IU School of Medicine

INDIANAPOLIS -- Dr. Jay L. Hess, currently the Carl V. Weller Professor and chair of the Department of Pathology and professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, has been selected as the new vice president for university ... [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - May 14 2013]

Entities: Indiana (United States), Pathology, Leadership, Dan Evans, University of Michigan Medical School

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Two IU student teams share $200,000 start-up investment as BEST contest winners

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Teams of Indiana University students who created a real-time interactive platform for sports fans and an Internet-based tuxedo rental business that provides online fittings have won IU Bloomington's BEST Competition. Each start-up ... [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - May 13 2013]

Entities: Matt Ferguson, Mary Delaney, Eric Taylor, Informatics

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

IU's Kinsey, School of Informatics re-release app for anonymous reporting of sexual behaviors

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- With privacy concerns addressed, Indiana University has re-released the free Kinsey Reporter app, a global mobile survey platform for collecting and reporting anonymous data about sexual and other intimate behaviors.The Kinsey Reporter ... [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - May 08 2013]

Entities: Informatics, Julia Heiman, Google Android, Google Play

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

IU innovations continue to help NASA manage big data

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — NASA's Operation IceBridge mission wraps up its spring flight season this week, gathering radar data about Earth's polar ice sheets to help scientists better understand global climate change. Experts from Indiana University have once ... [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - May 02 2013]

Entities: NASA, Indiana University, Big Data, Invention, University of Kansas

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

IU School of Public Health environmental health expert to serve on EPA committee

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- James E. Klaunig, professor of environmental health at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, has been appointed to serve on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board's Chemical Assessment ... [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - May 01 2013]

Entities: US Environmental Protection Agency, Toxicology, Environmental Health, Public Health

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...the overall slow economic growth, there is slim chance that the FedFed policy of quantitative easing will get unwound anytime soon," Slaper said. "The Fed's policy has undercut the interest rate spread as a good indicator of the future direction of the national economy. As a result, the strength of the change in the measure does not provide a signal of the direction or strength of future economic activity in the state."

IU Kelley School's Leading Index for Indiana declines for second month in a row [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - 10 hours ago]

"I am delighted to be back in China to extend efforts that have resulted in more overseas study opportunities for IU students in the world's largest country, enhanced research collaborations among faculty and staff here at IU and in China, and more of the best students from this important region of the world coming to Indiana to pursue a quality education."

Indiana University President McRobbie visiting Beijing as part of 15-day East Asia trip [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - May 18 2013]

"This collaboration is key to our development of the SC360 proton therapy solution, one of the most advanced and affordable proton therapy systems in the world" said Joe Matteo, division president of ProNova Solutions, LLC R&D and manufacturing, and vice president of research and development for the Provision...

IU announces R&D agreement to advance proton therapy tools for cancer treatment [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - May 17 2013]

"By contributing to efforts to increase awareness of prescription drugdrug abuse, the Keep Rx Safe PSA contest is important and complimentary to the Partnerships for Success Initiative" said Courtney Olcott, IPRC Partnerships for Success project officer

IU video contest winners learn from PSAs about prescription drug abuse [Published INDIANA UNIVERSITY - May 17 2013]