Human Biology: News

News

Upcoming Events Around Campus and Bloomington:

Have you been to the "Science Cafe" at Border's bookstore in Eastland Plaza? The scientific salon is held on the second Thursday of each month from 7:00PM - 8:30PM with various topics presented for discussion by local scientists.

Look at the Student Activities Office webpage to find ways to become involved on campus.

Faculty in the News:

Enjoy reading about Dr. Vivian Halloran in the current issue of the IU Research and Creative Activity Magazine. The article, "Reading Eating" by Elizabeth Rosdeitsher, enlightens us to Dr. Halloran's passion about food and food memoirs and even offers us her grandfather's potato salad recipe.

Congratulations to Professor Michael Wade on being elected as a fellow of the American Advancement of Science. According to the IU press release, "Election as a AAAS fellow is among the highest honors in American science. Scholars are selected by their peers for scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications". Dr. Wade was elected for his "distinguished contributions to evolutionary biology, especially for theoretical and empirical work in evolutionary genetics, sexual selection and the levels of natural selection."

Congratulations to Dr. Bernice Pescosolido, HUBI Human Health and Disease area leader and Sociology professor, who has recently been honored as a Distinguished Professor at IU. Her research includes health care services, the stigma associated with people who have mental illnesses, and suicide research. Professor Pescosolido is also the founder and director of the Indiana Consortium for

Congratulations also to Professor Elisabeth Lloyd, HUBI faculty fellow and History and Philosophy of Science professor. She is one of the recipients of a grant from the New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Program. She will “examine the confirmation and testing of climate change models from a philosophical perspective and investigate the divide between skeptical scientists and the modelers in their views and conclusions regarding global warming” according to the IU press release.

Kenneth Pimple, HUBI faculty fellow and Assistant Scholar, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, was quoted recently in Nature Vol. 445, published online January 17, 2007 in an article on research misconduct, entitled "Breeding Cheats".

Human Biology Director Dr. Whitney Schlegel's KEEP gallery piece, "Seeing Student Thinking and Building a Space for Collaborative Faculty Curriculum Development" was profiled in the Carnegie Foundation's Gallery of Teaching and Learning's fall newsletter. This piece shows how the KEEP toolkit has been used to document examples of student learning in her team-based and case-based physiology course. The gallery piece also documents the collaborative process of the Human Biology faculty as they designed our core curriculum.

Be sure to look at the Spring 2006 issue of Indiana University Research and Creative Activity Magazine and the Spring/Summer 2006 issue of Indiana University Teaching and Learning Magazine. They have several articles about the research by Human Biology Faculty Fellows and friends of Human Biology.

In other news:

The Volunteers in Medicine of Monroe County has opened a free health clinic in Bloomington. Its mission is to provide services without cost to the medically underserved in Monroe and Owen counties. If you are interested in knowing more about this clinic or becoming a volunteer, please go to their website.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) have sponsored a national project, Integrative Learning: Opportunities to Connect. This project was a 3 year collaboration by ten colleges and universities to promote integrative learning in undergraduate education. Using the KEEP toolkit, these partners have presented their project, showcasing models and strategies to foster students' ability to integrate their learning. This is a fascinating and informative project; it is also a wonderful presentation of the KEEP toolkit.

WFIU has presented a 4 part series on "Life Sciences: reshaping your world". With experts from IU and the community, you can hear discussions about the life sciences, research and the future for IU and Bloomington. If you are interested in hearing any program in the series, you may click onto their webpage.

The Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Initiative (ELSI) & Human Biology (HUBI), two interdisciplinary initiatives on the IUB campus, receive the 2006 SOTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) Leadership Award. This project is developing and testing a model of cross-disciplinary service learning as one approach to achieving our goals of fostering student interdisciplinary understanding, intellectual and personal development, and civic engagement. Congratulations to principle investigators: Whitney Schlegel, Director Human Biology Program and Associate Professor, Biology; Heather Reynolds, Assistant Professor, Biology; Diane Henshel, Associate Professor, SPEA; Ben Brabson, Emeritus Professor, Physics; and Briana Gross, Doctoral Candidate, Biology. For more information, visit the KEEP toolkit project portfolio site.

Human Biology Courses offered for Spring 2008:

HUBI B101 The Human Organism (3 cr.)
HUBI B102 Seminar in the Human Organism (1 cr.)
HUBI B201 Human Dilemmas (3 cr.)
HUBI B202 Seminar in Human Dilemmas (1 cr.)
HUBI B460 Peer Instruction in Human Biology (3 cr.) (Peer Instructor Application for HUBI students)
HUBI B480 HUBI E-portfolio Capstone Course (for seniors who have applied for the Human Biology Area Certificate)
HUBI B490 Undergraduate Research in Human Biology (1-12 cr.)

View a pdf of a complete description of the courses available for Spring 2008.