[August 08, 2011] IU briefs: Fashion design is newest IU major Tweet Aug 08, 2011 (Herald-Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Fashion design is newest IU major Americans spend more than $82 billion per year on clothing. So in response to increasing student demand, IU has expanded its fashion design program, making it the newest major on the Bloomington campus. Students can begin pursuing the degree in the upcoming school year through the Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design in the College of Arts and Sciences. Until this year, students who wanted to pursue fashion design did so through the department's two-year fashion design certificate and the College's Individualized Major Program. The high level of demand and student interest in the field convinced AMID and the College that it was time to develop the major. Researcher prompts AT&T to improve security At the urging of an IU researcher, AT&T, one of the nation's largest cellular telephone service providers, announced it will begin automatically enabling the voicemail password protection system on phones of every new subscriber or line added to an account. "This is a win for consumers," said Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research graduate fellow Chris Soghoian, who called for enhanced voicemail privacy settings in an op-ed he co-authored for The Hill last month. "Consumers should have hacker-free voicemail by default." Soghoian has been working with AT&T executives over the past several weeks, encouraging the company to make changes to their policy. "This is an example of a company listening and working with privacy and security researchers, resulting in a positive change for consumers," he said. Knudsen, Sprouse named Remak professors Larry D. Singell Jr., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has announced that Daniel Knudsen and Rex Sprouse have been selected to receive Henry Remak Professorships for 2011-2014. Each Remak Professorship comes with an endowment income of $25,000 per year, to be used at the discretion of the faculty members to enhance their teaching and research. Sprouse is professor of Germanic studies and second language studies. His research focuses on second language acquisition. Knudsen, professor of geography, is the founding director of the International Studies Program and is director of the Landscape Studies Program in the University Graduate School. Research on ovarian cancer promising An experimental two-drug combination for treating late-stage ovarian cancer continues to produce strong results, leading its IU researchers to actively pursue the next step, conducting a larger clinical trial to test the therapy and to see how it compares with existing treatments for ovarian cancer. Not only did a surprising 70 percent of patients in the phase II trial show a positive effect from the new therapy, the researchers say they may have discovered biomarkers that could help identify women who would respond best to the therapy. "The potential that this regimen is efficacious, combining decitabine with the carboplatin therapy, is very exciting," said Kenneth Nephew, cancer researcher in the IU Medical Sciences Program in Bloomington and a researcher at the IU Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center. "It's well tolerated and didn't have any dose-limiting toxicities. We could enroll patients with confidence because of these results." To see more of the Herald-Times or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/. Copyright (c) 2011, Herald-Times, Bloomington, Ind. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For more information about the content services offered by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT), visit www.mctinfoservices.com. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]