• On Jan. 21, the Trustees of IU participated in a legislative update discussion, by teleconference, which included IU vice presidents, chancellors and other leaders. The session, the first of several scheduled conversations in coming months, took place in Bryan Hall 115 on the IUB campus.
http://www.indiana.edu/~trustees/index.shtml

• Find a 19th-century Valentine card suitable for mailing electronically at this Lilly Library online exhibition:
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/exhibits.shtml#online

• IU basketball was first broadcast in 1938—on radio, of course.

• The 10th annual IU Undergraduate Research Conference is Friday, Feb. 11, on the IUPUI campus. “The Path to the Future” is the theme, and presentations will be made by both IU and Purdue undergrads. Carl McNair, head of the Dr. Ronald E. McNair Foundation Inc., will be the speaker. He is the brother of the NASA astronaut Ronald McNair, killed in the 1986 Challenger accident.
http://www.urop.iupui.edu/IUURC/home.html

• “Putting Student Learning First” is the theme of the upcoming Edward C. Moore symposium on Feb. 25.
http://ecmoore.iupui.edu/

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• IU Northwest’s School of Business and Economics has achieved accreditation of its bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in business administration by recent action of the board of directors of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
http://www.iun.edu/~newsnw/pg/2005/050118_aacsb.shtml

• The United States Olympic Committee has appointed Dr. Craig Brater, dean of the IU School of Medicine, to its five-member ethics committee. Other members are Harold Shapiro, committee chair; Leslie Caldwell of New York City; Lisa Fernandez of Long Beach, Calif.; and Thurgood Marshall Jr. of Washington, D.C.
http://www.iupui.edu/news/releases/0501_olympic_ethics.htm