Do our brains keep us fat?

Do our brains keep us fat?

 A team of American and Italian neuroscientists has identified a cellular change in the brain that accompanies obesity. The findings could explain the body's tendency to maintain undesirable weight levels…

Do our brains keep us fat?
IU mourns passing of Janos Starker

IU mourns passing of Janos Starker

The Indiana University and Jacobs School of Music communities mourn the passing of Distinguished Professor of Music and Grammy Award-winning cellist Janos Starker. Starker, 88, died at his Bloomington home on…

IU mourns passing of Janos Starker
Heartbreak American style

Heartbreak American style

An Indiana University professor's new paper looks at how people write to break up today, including through texts, emails, and social media. According to Ilana Gershon, associate professor of communication and…

Heartbreak American style
2013 Guggenheim Fellowships

2013 Guggenheim Fellowships

Five Indiana University Bloomington professors in the College of Arts and Sciences are recipients of the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013. Poet Ross Gay, IU Polish Studies Center…

2013 Guggenheim Fellowships
Higher education for women in South Sudan

Higher education for women in South Sudan

Indiana University has been awarded $4.2 million by the U.S. Agency for International Development, through Higher Education for Development, for a 2½-year project to promote women's access to and success in…

Higher education for women in South Sudan
NOvA experiment, IU physicists move closer to measuring neutrinos

NOvA experiment, IU physicists mark milestone

Taking data from cosmic rays for the first time, the international NOvA experiment -- with the fingerprints of Indiana University researchers all over it -- began recording its first three-dimensional…

NOvA experiment, IU physicists mark milestone
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Introducing Leo P

May 10, 2013

  Meet Leo P, a new dwarf galaxy identified by astronomers using the WIYN 3.5m telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Southern Arizona (WIYN is owned and operated by the WIYN Consortium, which consists of University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, Yale University, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory). IU Bloomington astronomer Katherine Rhode worked [...]

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