The IU Cyclotron Facility has received an NSF grant to begin construction of a neutron-scattering facility, called a Low Energy Neutron Source (LENS), which will become an important regional component in teaching and research as well as in development and commercialization efforts of the state’s emerging health manufacturing industries.
Poet Nikki Giovanni has
been a friend of the IU Kokomo campus for many years.
She’s making a November visit, and you’re invited. Her
most recent collection, Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea,
was released last year.
Ancient Greeks, for the
most part, maintained that creativity was a "gift of
the gods," while Socrates thought that "ideas" sprang
from states of irrationality, when one was "bereft of
senses." Modern scholars have focused on cognitive processes.
In a Q&A, creativity researcher Jonathan Plucker discusses
his concerns about the de-emphasis on creativity in
education and how that de-emphasis could affect society.
Impact
• A
gifted young chemist arrives at his post on the
Bloomington campus with a prestigious Dreyfus Young
Faculty Award in his pocket.
• A SPEA professor
continues the process of transforming the legislative
body of a former Soviet state into a democratic model.
• And an IU physician
will soon receive the J.K. Lilly Distinguished Service
Award for his career contributions to the lives of people
with diabetes.
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