May 16, 2003
The spy who came in from the cold war
Bond, James Bond, that is, will be the focus of an academic conference this month in Bloomington, 50 years after novelist Ian Fleming first introduced the suave cultural icon. (Note to secret agents: the Q’s speedboat will be on display, in addition to an exhibit of Fleming letters and manuscripts housed at IU’s Lilly Library.)
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An historic expedition
U.S. President Thomas Jefferson directed
William Clark and Meriwether Lewis to “learn all you can” on their
mission to chart the lands and waterways linking the Missouri River
to that distant place Jefferson called the “Western Ocean.” At IU
Southeast, not far from the Falls of the Ohio, students and faculty
are learning all they can as they complete projects related to the
expedition’s bicentennial.
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A fantastic voyage
In the 1966 sci-fi thriller Fantastic
Voyage, a medical team is shrunk to the size of a miniscule
submarine, which is then injected into the veins of a man needing
brain surgery. But that’s sci-fi, and this is reality: IU gastroenterologists
have begun to use a diagnostic procedure called capsule endoscopy.
The patient swallows a capsule containing a mini cam, battery, light
source and transmitter. Not to worry, it’s no bigger than your
multi-vitamin.
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Making waves
James “Doc” Counsilman was the quintessential coach, serving as IUB men’s swimming coach from 1957-1990, coaching two U.S. men’s Olympic teams that won a combined 21 of 24 gold medals and then made waves of his own, becoming the oldest person to swim the English Channel. WTIU has produced a new documentary.
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Marilyn Whitesell (center), a professor of fine arts at IU Southeast,
and students Malissa Calhoun of Salem (far left) and Troy Winnebrenner
of Louisville (far right) have been on a Voyage of Discovery of
their own, using modern technology to research and to produce life-size
depictions of those who completed the Voyage of Discovery 200 years
ago. Article
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