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`IU and the Microsoft Corporation have entered into a new agreement which assures continued availability for another three years of Microsoft's most popular software products to students, faculty and staff at no increase in cost to the university. The announcement was made at the April 4 at the IU trustees' meeting in South Bend by Michael McRobbie, IU vice present for Information Technology.
The original four-year agreement, signed in 1998 and renewed for an additional year, made IU the first university in the United States to negotiate such a relationship with Microsoft. That $7.5 million agreement, which expires June 30, is expected to result in the distribution of more than 500,000 copies of Microsoft software with an educational value of over $80 million of Microsoft software at IU. This is a potential saving to the eight-campus IU community of more than $70 million over this five-year period.
The new three year agreement commences on July 1. Students, faculty, and staff will continue to enjoy the option of downloading software for free or of purchasing software CDs at campus bookstores for a nominal charge. The software available on these CDs includes Microsoft Office, Web development packages, and Windows operating systems upgrades.
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Honors
Clement McDonald, MD, has been elected to the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians, the national organization of doctors of internal medicine and the second largest physician group in the nation. The board is the main policy-making body of ACP.
Douglas McKeag, MD, MS, will be recognized in May at the 50th Annual Meeting of the
American College of Sports Medicine with the Citation Award, the second highest ACSM honor.
The award was presented "...in recognition of his pioneering achievements in defining, practicing, teaching, organizing, and bringing to universal recognition the discipline of primary-care sports medicine." Dr. McKeag is chairman of the Department of Family Medicine and director of the IU Center for Sports Medicine
Family Medicine's Brenda O'Hara, MD, and Kathy Zoppi, PhD, MPH, were honored as IUPUI Outstanding Female Faculty or Staff Leaders at the Sixth Annual Women's History Month
Leadership Reception March 31.
Tres Scherer, MD, received the Gerald L. "Jerry" Doran Outstanding Service Award during the Mid-Winter Meeting of the Indiana District of Kiwanis International. The award acknowledges Dr. Scherer's outstanding service to the children of Indiana and Riley Hospital for Children.
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This week on Sound Medicine
Tune in at noon, Saturday, April 12, to Sound Medicine, the weekly radio program co-produced by IUSM and WFYI Public Radio (90.1 FM) in Indianapolis.
Guests will include John Bancroft, MD, director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, discussing the 50th anniversary of Kinsey's book Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, the institute's research then and now, and how attitudes of human sexuality have changed since the 1950s.
Rajiv Sood, MD, director of IU Burn Center at Wishard Memorial Hospital and medical director of the People's Burn Foundation, will discuss burn treatments and the opening of the new Burn Center. Also, Zoe Krause, one of Dr. Sood's patients and a volunteer with the People's Burn Foundation, will discuss her personal experience and the work of the foundation.
Rounding out the hour will be Herbert Benson, MD, director of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Harvard University. He will discuss the mind/body relationship and the role of spirituality in the healing process.
Archived editions of Sound Medicine, as well as other helpful health information, can be found at soundmedicine.iu.edu/.
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Scientific Calendar online
A comprehensive listing on IUSM seminars, lectures and Grand Rounds can be accessed at www.
medlib.iupui.edu/calendar. To place items on the Scientific Calendar, please forward them to Iona Sewell at [email protected].
To keep the electronic version of Scope as streamlined as possible, only seminars and lectures of general or multidisciplinary interest will be included.
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April 14, 2003
Volume 7, Number 15 • Indianapolis, Indiana
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