July 18,
2003
Approving
a budget, electing a trustee
IU trustees have
approved a budget that provides for faculty salary increases of 2
percent to 2.8 percent across all campuses and staff salary increases
of 2 percent, and IU alumni have voted their approval of Cora Smith
Breckenridge, who has been elected to a third three-year term as a
trustee.
‘Prince
of Pops’ to meet medieval Russian war hero
Maestro Erich Kunzel will conduct the Summer
Music Festival’s orchestra and chorus in a performance of Prokofiev’s
score for the 1938 Russian film Alexander Nevsky next week.
Music lovers also will have the opportunity to meet Hoosier son and
Pulitzer Prize winner Ned Rorem, plus hear a recital of selections
from the 80-year-old’s amazing compositional career.
IT
power
Whether
the subject is pedagogy or biotechnology, IT has become the epicenter
of knowledge transfer at major research universities. On IU campuses
throughout the state, SBC Fellows and TAG recipients are expanding
the capabilities of Web-based and multimedia resources in areas
as diverse as pharmacology and music education. Read about their
research and next-round funding deadlines.
Also this summer, NSF has re-funded TransPAC, the Internet service
that connects research and education networks between the U.S. and
the Asian Pacific, and IBM is partnering with the IUSM to create
an information system with the capabilities of transforming the
hunt for the origins of disease.
Employee
update:
TIAA-CREF, Webmail, ETC
UITS
will launch a new and finer Webmail service for the campuses next
week; employees covered by TIAA-CREF have additional investment
fund options beginning this month and clerical support staff on
the Bloomington campus may be eligible to participate in the ETC
(Excellence Training for Clericals) Class of 2003-2004.
Bird
portrait completed for IUPUI’s sport art museum
School
of Continuing Studies online enrollments jump 90 percent
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Photo by Paul Martens
Not far from where Jean Paul Darriau’s sculpture of the original
lovers, Adam and Eve, stands in Dunn's Woods, Melissa Bunger
chose an arch of IU Bloomington’s Sample Gates on Kirkwood Avenue
as the backdrop for her bridal portrait June 27, prior to her weekend
wedding. Bunger is an IU alumna, with a degree in education.
 Today's
feature
Take the Silk Road
Come to a Bloomington bayram and
celebrate the performing, visual and cinematic arts of the
Silk Road peoples and cultures July 31-Aug. 3. The famous
Silk Road—-traveled since 200 B.C.—was the main
artery for the cultural and commercial exchanges in history
between Western and Eastern civilizations.
Celebrating the Silk Road Peoples
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