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Heart disease most common killer of women

One of every two women in the United States dies from heart disease, according to IU cardiologist Elisabeth von der Lohe. Natural or surgical menopause increases a woman's risk for heart disease and women diabetics are more at risk for heart disease than male diabetics. In general, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease for women has nuances that are not standard in men, von der Lohe said.

That's why she and Jacqueline O'Donnell, M.D., have started the Women's Health and Heart Initiative at Krannert Institute of Cardiology.

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Workers at IMU

Bill Wand (left) and Mike Mason work high above Seventh Street on the Indiana Memorial Union. The restoration of mortar joints is necessary where the caulk is separating from the stone on the building.
Photo by Chris Meyer

A new twist on multicultural learning

Multicultural education should extend beyond special observance periods, such as Black History Month, and units on holidays of various races and religions, say two IUPUI education professors.

With a $10,000 grant from the IU School of Education's Research Institute on Teacher Education, Beatriz D'Ambrosio and Khaula Murtadha are searching for ways to integrate multicultural education into all aspects of learning at Marion County's Indian Creek Elementary School.

PAIRS picked at Kokomo

Faculty from the IU Kokomo campus have been selected as participants in a program that "couples" financial and faculty resources of IUK and the public schools for the educational benefit of Kokomo students.

Called Partners in Alliance for Instructional Research (PAIRS), the IUK participants are Dee Lohman, education; Naana Horne, English; Herb Miller, German and international business; and Cathy Barnes, campus climate.

The sound of music

In 1902, Thaddeaus Cahill set up the "Telharmonium," a 200-ton array of Edison dynamos that produced different pitched hums. The electrical output was "broadcast" over telephone lines.

Electronic music has come a long way since then, and with the explosion of digital influences, computer music has grown to include multimedia of every color and shape.

This weekend (March 8-9), the IU School of Music and the IUB Department of Computer Science will hold a free symposium. Included is a concert with music by Max Mathews, who in 1957 wrote the first computer music synthesis program.

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