Informatics
Teaching & Learning
Student Projects and Achievements:
- A documentary film, filmed and produced by New Media students, was named Best Documentary at the 2007 Indiana Actors.com Film Festival. The video was about organ donations, told from the perspectives of donors' families, recipients and the nurses at Clarian Health Partners' Methodist Hospital. The film was a featured story on WISH-TV News 8 in Indianapolis. The film was named winner of the 2007 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Circle of Excellence Award.
- New Media students wrote and illustrated the comic book titled, “The Amazing Adventures of American Heart” for the American Heart Institute, targeting elementary school-age children to inform them about childhood obesity.
- Two New Media students were selected to receive conference scholarships to Photoshop World. Photoshop World was held in Boston, April 4-6, 2007. The scholarships include a one-year membership to the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP)
- The Indianapolis Star reported that the Indianapolis City Market isn't just conducting a $2 million renovation of its building at 222 E. Market St, but it’s also sprucing up its website by teaming with Medical Animatics, a two-year-old start-up founded by Harlon Wilson and Kurtis Rush, recent graduates of the SOI.
- The IUPUI campus Web site, www.iupui.edu, was a gold prize winner in the 22nd Annual Admissions Advertising Awards competition sponsored by Admissions Marketing Report. Produced by the IUPUI Office of Communications and Marketing, the Web site took the first-place honors in the Internet/Worldwide Web Site category for schools with 20,000 or more students. Steve Hodges, a graduate of SOI, is electronic media manager for IUPUI's Office of Communications and Marketing, and was responsible for leading the creative team.
- HIA undergraduate student Timothy Balko was an outstanding student athlete for men’s swimming and received an award in March 2007.
Faculty Projects and Achievements:
- Faculty member Susan Tennant was one of three IUPUI artists who have received fellowships given by the Arts Council of Indianapolis. Story: http://informatics.iupui.edu/news/story.php?id=471
- Faculty members Susan Tennant and John B. Ludwick were named recipients of the Trustees’ Teaching Award (TTA) for 2007.
- Faculty member Durwin S. Talon’s work will be included in the 49th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Illustrators. His creation of sequential art entitled BONDS: ADAGIO was selected by a panel of judges for inclusion in this year's prestigious exhibition. Each year, the Society of Illustrators recognizes the top achievements within the field of illustration encompassing all genres, every medium and every range of practitioner, from students to lifetime members. http://informatics.iupui.edu/news/story.php?id=510
- Faculty members produced a dental education film titled “Clinical Features of Dental Caries,” and used it in a pilot study for a grant proposal with Andrea Zandona for the Dental School.
- Faculty member Ruth Walker of the Health Information Administration (HIA) program was interviewed on personal health records in the Indianapolis Star on August 1, 2006 (front page of Healthy Living), the Redbook handbook on April 2007, www.redbookmag.com and the Journal of AHIMA, April 2007.
- Faculty member Ruth Walker was honored by the IUPUI Athletics Department as favorite professor on February 1, 2007.
- Faculty member Albert William was selected as a featured artist by IU's School of Fine Arts in Bloomington. William, a digital artist specializing in scientific storytelling animation work, was featured October 20 – November 18, 2006. Story: http://informatics.iupui.edu/news/story.php?id=479
- The SOI hosted the summer conference of the New Media Consortium (NMC) June 6-10, 2007, attracting approximately 460 attendees. The NMC is an international not-for-profit consortium of nearly 200 member institutions from almost every state in the US, across Canada, and in Europe, Latin America, and Japan. WISH-TV 8 ran a television spot on June 7, 2007 about the conference. TV Interview: http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6627451 Faculty members Susan Tennant and Beth Lykins captured top honors for their poster entries. Full story: http://informatics.iupui.edu/news/story.php?id=569
- A new Human-Computer Interaction Graduate Certificate Program offered online begins spring of 2008.
- A Memorandum of Agreement was signed by Dean Bailey for SOI on April 13, 2007 with the Indianapolis Public Schools’ Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet High School and Early College (IPS CAMMHS) to establish formal collaboration.
Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity
For the 06-07 fiscal year, the total number of grant and contract proposals processed through the Informatics Research Institute (IRI) was 66, with a dollar value of $15,263,634. Of those, 20 have been funded, representing a dollar value of $1,672,637. External contract and grant expenditures for the School of Informatics as of June 30, 2007 totaled $1,177,996.
Anna McDaniel, principal investigator
Title: “The Indiana Cancer TRAIN (Translating Research – the Answers and Information Network): A Web Portal for Linking IUCC Patients, Clinicians and Researchers”
Sponsor: Walther Cancer Institute
Award: $250,000 01/01/07 – 12/30/09
Mathew Palakal, principal investigator
Title: “A User-Centric Bioinformatics Tool for Biomedical Research”
Sponsor: Research Support Funds Grant (IUPUI)
Award: $30,000 01/01/07-12/30/07
Sara Hook, John Ludwick, Susan Tennant, principal investigators
Title: “From Tradition to Innovation: New Media Lecture Series”
Sponsor: New Perspectives in the Arts & Humanities (a component of the New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities Program at IU)
Award: $18,000 04/01/07-03/31/08 (approx.)
Tony Faiola, principal investigator
Title: “Medical Information Visualization Assistant (MIVA)”
Sponsor: The Solution Center at IUPUI
Award: $7,952 Spring Semester 2007
An award of $115,000 from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust is helping faculty design an acoustic user interface (AUI) to make computing more accessible to blind students. Faculty member Steve Mannheimer is leading the project along with Dean Mathew J. Palakal
Faculty members Tony Faiola and Joe DeFazio are working with Dr. Donald Orr to create “Computerized Education to Prevent Hypoglycemia When Driving.” Their goal is to make adolescent drivers who are diabetic fully aware of the dangers of hypoglycemia when operating a motor vehicle. New technology is also at the core of a research project undertaken by faculty members Skip Comer, Jolene Kernick, Xiaoqiu Bao and Shielly Hartanto under the direction of Drs. Syed-Adeel Zaidi and Virginia Thurston on “Preparing Residents for the Next Revolution in Medicine – Genetics and the Promise of Personalized Medicine.” These two research projects are funded by Clarian Values Fund Grants: http://pulse.clarian.org/portal/intranet/home/content?defaultXml=/depts/grants/fundgrants.xml. Full story: http://informatics.iupui.edu/news/story.php?id=553
Faculty member Yaoqi Zhou brought two NIH grants with him when he was hired in August 2006. His research involves prediction of protein structures and investigation of energy functions responsible for protein folding and protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions. Dr. Zhou submitted a R01 renewal last March and is in the process of submitting another R01.
Faculty member Pedro Romero completed the fourth year of a five-year project with Rice University for the NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The project team seeks to find “Protein Packing Defects as Functional Markers and Drug Targets.”
Faculty member Malika Mahoui began work with Dr. Joe Gibson and the Marion County Health and Hospital Corporation on a project to find the optimal degree of perturbation necessary to render patient data unidentifiable yet valid for research purposes.
Faculty member Jake Chen is co-principal investigator for a $7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, studying proteins and their relationship to certain cancers. Indianapolis Star story: http://informatics.iupui.edu/news/story.php?id=478. Also, Dr. Chen and a team of researchers from IU and Purdue Universities will receive a research award from the Canary Foundation for an open-source bioinformatics software platform development project in proteomics, valued at $25,000, story: http://informatics.iupui.edu/news/story.php?id=572. Chen was also awarded a $174,000 grant to conduct bioinformatics research for the project, Predictive Lung Cancer Systems Biology. The two-year grant comes from the IU Cancer Center-based Lung Cancer Working Group, story: http://informatics.iupui.edu/news/story.php?id=487.
Faculty member Steve Mannheimer, along with the IUPUI Solution Center, assisted in developing a scrapbook of Oscar Robertson's career highlights, including Robertson's years as a prep star for Crispus Attucks High School, and the University of Cincinnati and National Basketball Association, story: http://informatics.iupui.edu/news/story.php?id=488.
The android science research of faculty member Karl MacDorman has attracted international media attention. In the past year alone, it has been featured on the Science Channel, National Public Radio, WISH TV 8, WLW Cincinnati, 2CC Canberra, WIBC syndicated radio, the New Scientist, Detroit Free Press, Edmonton Journal, Inside Indiana Business, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the front page of the Indianapolis Star on June 19, 2007: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070619/LOCAL18/706190366). Since joining IUPUI in November 2005, his research has also been featured on the Discovery Channel, the Economist, Japan's NHK Planet Zero, and Scientific American. News stories are listed under "Press" at http://www.macdorman.com. Dr. MacDorman was a key presenter at the International Robots & Vision Show and Conference http://www.robots-vision-show.info/robots_vision_show_info.html in Chicago on June 12-14, 2007, and has been invited to present at SIGGRAPH 2007. In the past year, he has organized several journal issues on the External Symbol Grounding Problem, Psychological Benchmarks of Human-Robot Interaction, and Android Science and has served on a European Union Science and Technology Commission.
Dr. Darrell Bailey completed the 4th year of the “Health Education for the 21st Century” project for the Ruth Lilly Health Education Center. Funded by the Lilly Endowment, the project has produced 2D and 3D visualizations for health education for young people as well as a data base information retrieval system enabling teachers to customize lessons and presentations. Award for this period was $332,276.
Dr. Anthony (Tony) Faiola, associate professor & associate director, Human Computer Interaction graduate program at IUPUI, presented four papers at two international conferences during the summer of 2006. The papers represent current research with his graduate students and with faculty from the School of Medicine. Dr. Faiola presented two papers with his graduate students at the CATAC ´06 (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication) Conference in Tartu, Estonia. Additionally, Dr. Faiola was a presenter at the 11th Annual Information Visualization – HCI Symposium in London, England. Dr. Faiola also was selected to receive a grant related to his research in human computer interaction. Dr. Faiola was awarded a PRAC (Program Curriculum Review and Assessment) grant to do an in-depth assessment of the HCI 1 course, which is the gateway course in IUPUI´s informatics HCI grad program. http://informatics.iupui.edu/news/story.php?id=446
Several SOI faculty gave presentations at Siggraph 2006 in Boston. MA, August of 2006, Story: http://informatics.iupui.edu/news/story.php?id=450
Civic Engagment
Faculty member Josette Jones was elected a Fellow of the Institute for Action Research in Community Health (IARCH) at the School of Nursing (IUSON). IARCH is organizationally housed within the IUSON Center for Community and International Affairs, along with the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Healthy Cities. IARCH fellows meet during the academic year to conduct business, share their works in progress and discuss existing and potential opportunities for community involvement.
MOI Partnership: produced an interactive medical education program for medical students in Kenya, using Kenyan materials and HIV virus visualization animations. Also, our director of technology tested a wireless computer network for Moi’s main campus.
Continued collaboration for Operation Walk for the fifth year. This visit was in Guatemala City, Guatemala, at the hospital Centro Medico Military in March 2007. The participants from SOI were faculty members Anna McDaniel, Dean Darrell Bailey, undergraduate journalism student Marcos Dominguez, Dean Jim Brown of the School of Journalism and faculty research associate Skip Comer. SOI faculty managed a data collection network using handheld units. The data were used to document the surgeries and patient information. The surgical team from Mooresville did over 50 knee/hip replacement surgeries, and several foot/ankle surgeries. Each patient was given documentation that included before-after x-rays, and surgical information from the data collection. SOI faculty built a Web site that provided daily updates of photos and videos during the trip: http://www.operationwalk-mooresville.org
