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IU News 261001
Oct. 26, 2001 Welcome to IU News. Please feel free to pass this along to other alumni and friends of IU. GET WIRED TO IU: WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE - IU Home Pages continues its series of audiostreamed conversations with a program featuring Rabbi Harold S. Kushner. In today's world, Rabbi Kushner's books, "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" and, more recently, "Living a Life That Matters," are more relevant than ever. Kushner will be speaking next month at the Polis Center-sponsored Spirit & Place Festival in Indianapolis. http://www.homepages.indiana.edu/102601/text/conversations.html IU, IBM UNVEIL THE NATION'S LARGEST UNIVERSITY-OWNED SUPERCOMPUTER - IU and IBM last week announced that IU has acquired the nation's largest university-owned supercomputer. The IBM SP supercomputer, which has been expanded to triple the university's previous supercomputing capacity, will support IU researchers in a broad range of areas, including life sciences, archaeology, astronomy and computational physics. View the dedication ceremony. RealPlayer 8 Basic is needed. http://video.indiana.edu:8080/ramgen/ip/video/teraflop_101701.rm QUALITY: HELPING INDIANA COMPANIES TO GROW AND SUCCEED - The Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, part of IU's Kelley School of Business, Thursday (Oct. 25) recognized 77 of Indiana's leading, high-potential and fast-growing companies at its eighth annual Growth 100 Dinner. The Growth 100 award honors Hoosier companies with annual sales of at least $1 million. The program is one example of how IU and its Kelley School of Business are helping the state of Indiana to foster economic development and create new employment opportunities for all Hoosiers. http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/growth01.htm IU SELECTS BIOLOGY PROFESSOR AS DIRECTOR OF NATURE PRESERVE - IU Bloomington Biology Professor Keith Clay has been named director of the new preserve recently designated by the university for research, teaching and environmental education. The preserve consists of two sites: Griffy Woods, a 185-acre site adjacent to the City of Bloomington's Griffy Nature Preserve north of the campus, and Moore's Creek, a 261-acre site in southern Monroe County adjoining Lake Monroe and contiguous with federally owned land managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/preserve1001.htm TECHNOLOGY: IU RECEIVES GRANT FROM NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION TO HELP BUILD GLOBAL GRID NETWORK - The National Science Foundation recently awarded a consortium of 15 universities, including Indiana University, $13.65 million to build the International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory, or iVDGL. This "Global Grid" of computing networks will harness the computational power needed to conduct major scientific experiments in physics, astronomy, biology and engineering in the 21st century. http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/grid01.htm IU ALSO AWARDED NSF GRANT TO CREATE INNOVATIVE NEW COMPUTING FACILITY - IU today (Oct. 26) announced that the university has received a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create a new and innovative facility called AVIDD for processing data generated by large scientific instruments. It will be a major new tool for teaching and research. AVIDD initially will be distributed across three IU campuses -- at Gary (IU Northwest), Bloomington and Indianapolis -- and will be integrated with very high network bandwidth using the university's new Optical Fiber Infrastructure. http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/avidd01.htm ARTS AND CULTURE: MET AUDITIONS TO TAKE PLACE AT IU SCHOOL OF MUSIC - The Metropolitan Opera Indiana District Auditions will be held at 12:30 p.m. Saturday (Oct. 27) in the Musical Arts Center. This competition is free and open to the public. The adjudicators this year will be internationally-known conductor Julius Rudel, Pittsburgh Opera General Director Christopher Hahn and singer/director Drew Minter. Nineteen singers will compete for prize money and the opportunity to advance to the regional and national auditions. Among the grand finalists last year in the national competition were IU School of Music students Kristine Winkler and Lawrence Brownlee. http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/metwinners01.htm ON CAMPUS: IU TRUSTEE WALDA NAMED TO FEDERAL RELATIONS POST - John D. Walda will become the university's new executive director of federal relations effective Jan. 1, 2002. Walda, an attorney from Fort Wayne, has served on the IU Board of Trustees since 1990, including eight years as the board's president. He will resign from the board by the end of the year to accept this new position. http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/walda1001.htm ALUMNI: COMMITTEE BEGINS SEARCH FOR IU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION LEADER - The 10-member search committee that will recommend a new president for the IU Alumni Association will held its first meeting Wednesday (Oct. 24). The committee, appointed by IU President Myles Brand, will be chaired by IU Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Terry Clapacs. Clapacs said the committee hopes to complete its work by January. The university is seeking a successor to Jerry Tardy, who died Sept. 7, after leading the association for 14 years. http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/alumnidir1001.htm IU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TO CEASE EFFORTS WITH ZINDIANA.COM - The IU Alumni Association has been notified that zIndiana.com will cease operations on Tuesday (Oct. 30). If you use zIndiana.com as your e-mail account, that will also no longer be available. We invite you to set up a permanent e-mail forwarding address and suggest using that in conjunction with a free web-based e-mail account. If you created a Web site in the zCommunity, this also means your zCommunity site must be backed up immediately or it will be lost. 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