IU News 261001
Oct. 26, 2001

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GET WIRED TO IU:

WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE - IU Home Pages continues its series
of audiostreamed conversations with a program featuring Rabbi Harold S.
Kushner. In today's world, Rabbi Kushner's books, "When Bad Things Happen
to Good People" and, more recently, "Living a Life That Matters," are more
relevant than ever. Kushner will be speaking next month at the Polis
Center-sponsored Spirit & Place Festival in Indianapolis.
        http://www.homepages.indiana.edu/102601/text/conversations.html

IU, IBM UNVEIL THE NATION'S LARGEST UNIVERSITY-OWNED SUPERCOMPUTER - IU
and IBM last week announced that IU has acquired the nation's largest
university-owned supercomputer. The IBM SP supercomputer, which has been
expanded to triple the university's previous supercomputing capacity, will
support IU researchers in a broad range of areas, including life sciences,
archaeology, astronomy and computational physics. View the dedication
ceremony. RealPlayer 8 Basic is needed.
        http://video.indiana.edu:8080/ramgen/ip/video/teraflop_101701.rm

QUALITY:

HELPING INDIANA COMPANIES TO GROW AND SUCCEED - The Johnson Center for
Entrepreneurship and Innovation, part of IU's Kelley School of Business,
Thursday (Oct. 25) recognized 77 of Indiana's leading, high-potential and
fast-growing companies at its eighth annual Growth 100 Dinner. The Growth
100 award honors Hoosier companies with annual sales of at least $1
million. The program is one example of how IU and its Kelley School of
Business are helping the state of Indiana to foster economic development
and create new employment opportunities for all Hoosiers.
        http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/growth01.htm

IU SELECTS BIOLOGY PROFESSOR AS DIRECTOR OF NATURE PRESERVE - IU
Bloomington Biology Professor Keith Clay has been named director of the
new preserve recently designated by the university for research, teaching
and environmental education. The preserve consists of two sites: Griffy
Woods, a 185-acre site adjacent to the City of Bloomington's Griffy Nature
Preserve north of the campus, and Moore's Creek, a 261-acre site in
southern Monroe County adjoining Lake Monroe and contiguous with federally
owned land managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
        http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/preserve1001.htm

TECHNOLOGY:

IU RECEIVES GRANT FROM NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION TO HELP BUILD GLOBAL
GRID NETWORK - The National Science Foundation recently awarded a
consortium of 15 universities, including Indiana University, $13.65
million to build the International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory, or iVDGL.
This "Global Grid" of computing networks will harness the computational
power needed to conduct major scientific experiments in physics,
astronomy, biology and engineering in the 21st century.
        http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/grid01.htm

IU ALSO AWARDED NSF GRANT TO CREATE INNOVATIVE NEW COMPUTING FACILITY - IU
today (Oct. 26) announced that the university has received a $1.8 million
grant from the National Science Foundation to create a new and innovative
facility called AVIDD for processing data generated by large scientific
instruments. It will be a major new tool for teaching and research. AVIDD
initially will be distributed across three IU campuses -- at Gary (IU
Northwest), Bloomington and Indianapolis -- and will be integrated with
very high network bandwidth using the university's new Optical Fiber
Infrastructure.
        http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/avidd01.htm

ARTS AND CULTURE:

MET AUDITIONS TO TAKE PLACE AT IU SCHOOL OF MUSIC - The Metropolitan Opera
Indiana District Auditions will be held at 12:30 p.m. Saturday (Oct. 27)
in the Musical Arts Center. This competition is free and open to the
public. The adjudicators this year will be internationally-known conductor
Julius Rudel, Pittsburgh Opera General Director Christopher Hahn and
singer/director Drew Minter. Nineteen singers will compete for prize money
and the opportunity to advance to the regional and national auditions.
Among the grand finalists last year in the national competition were IU
School of Music students Kristine Winkler and Lawrence Brownlee.
        http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/metwinners01.htm

ON CAMPUS:

IU TRUSTEE WALDA NAMED TO FEDERAL RELATIONS POST - John D. Walda will
become the university's new executive director of federal relations
effective Jan. 1, 2002. Walda, an attorney from Fort Wayne, has served on
the IU Board of Trustees since 1990, including eight years as the board's
president. He will resign from the board by the end of the year to accept
this new position.
        http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/walda1001.htm

ALUMNI:

COMMITTEE BEGINS SEARCH FOR IU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION LEADER - The 10-member
search committee that will recommend a new president for the IU Alumni
Association will held its first meeting Wednesday (Oct. 24). The
committee, appointed by IU President Myles Brand, will be chaired by IU
Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Terry Clapacs. Clapacs
said the committee hopes to complete its work by January. The university
is seeking a successor to Jerry Tardy, who died Sept. 7, after leading the
association for 14 years.
        http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/alumnidir1001.htm

IU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TO CEASE EFFORTS WITH ZINDIANA.COM - The IU Alumni
Association has been notified that zIndiana.com will cease operations on
Tuesday (Oct. 30). If you use zIndiana.com as your e-mail account, that
will also no longer be available. We invite you to set up a permanent
e-mail forwarding address and suggest using that in conjunction with a
free web-based e-mail account. If you created a Web site in the
zCommunity, this also means your zCommunity site must be backed up
immediately or it will be lost. In the future, be sure to visit
http://www.alumni.indiana.edu.
        http://www.indiana.edu/~alumni/zindiana.html

RESOURCES:
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IU HOME PAGES - http://www.homepages.indiana.edu/
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IU EVENTS CALENDAR - http://events.iu.edu/

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IUPUI - http://www.iupui.edu/
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IPFW - http://www.ipfw.edu/
IU KOKOMO - http://www.iuk.edu/
IU NORTHWEST - http://www.iun.edu/
IU SOUTH BEND - http://www.iusb.edu/
IU SOUTHEAST - http://www.ius.edu/

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