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Date:: 2021-08-23
Main contributors:: Smith, Kenny, Widiss, Deborah
Summary:: Women's Equality Day, marks the anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, which guarantees all American women the right to vote is marked this month. As we celebrate the 101 anniversary of its certification, we talked with Deborah Widiss, a professor and associate dean for research in the Maurer School of Law, about the issues we face today. Professor Widiss' bio: https://www.law.indiana.edu/about/people/bio.php?name=widiss-deborah Professor Widiss has written several essays and op-eds regarding parental paid leave for single parents, which we touched on in this podcast. You can find two of them here: "Parental leave laws don’t do enough for single moms – but there’s a way to fix that" https://theconversation.com/parental-leave-laws-dont-do-enough-for-single-moms-but-theres-a-way-to-fix-that-137360 "Parental leave laws are failing single parents" https://theconversation.com/parental-leave-laws-are-failing-single-parents-129668

Date:: 2021-09-21
Main contributors:: Dumortier, Jerome, Smith, Kenny
Summary:: Dr. Jerome Dumortier, an economist and associate professor in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI joins us to talk about National Clean Energy Week, the growing clean energy sector, his research in bioenergy, land use, carbon emissions policies and much, much more. Dr. Dumortier's biography: https://oneill.iupui.edu/contact/people-directory/dumortier-jerome.html More on National Clean Energy Week: nationalcleanenergyweek.org

Date:: 2022-04-14
Main contributors:: Roth, Adam, Smith, Kenny
Summary:: Dr. Adam Roth is part of a research team studying the links between cognitive function and social networks. While there is a lot of research in this area, Roth is looking at the relationships between cognitive decline and the personal, face-to-face networks they enjoy. There remain many uncertainties to explore in this growing area of research, but Roth says the data suggests greater diversity of our social networks serve us well as we age. Listen to this conversation to get more insights from the department of sociology research fellow and member of the Indiana University Network Science Institute. Read his study here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19485565.2022.2052711?needAccess=true More on Dr. Roth: www.adamroth.org/

Date:: 2021-03-24
Main contributors:: Thieme, Sacha, Smith, Kenny, Miles, Emily
Summary:: University and college admissions officials across the country have been scrambling this past year in telling their story and helping prospective students during these most unusual days. We talked with Sacha Thieme, the executive director of Admissions at Indiana University - Bloomington to find out what the process has been like over the last year, and what new, incoming students can look forward to next year.

Date:: 2020-04-29
Main contributors:: Korty, Andrew, Smith, Kenny, Miles, Emily
Summary:: Chief information security officer Andrew Korty talks with us about how you can keep yourself, and your work-from-home data safe at a time when phishing and ransomware attacks are on the rise as we work through the Covid-19 pandemic. He talks about managing your data, backing it all up and the security of video chats. What to do, what to look for and where to turn are just some of the topics we discuss here.

Date:: 2020-08-21
Main contributors:: Carroll, Aaron, Miles, Emily, Smith, Kenny
Summary:: Indiana University's Covid-19 testing labs are now online at Bloomington and the IUPUI campuses. Dr. Aaron Carroll, of the IU Medical School and director of Surveillance and Mitigation at IU, says it's another step toward the university's ultimate plan of ubiquitous testing.

Date:: 2020-05-27
Main contributors:: Gesselman, Amanda, Miles, Emily, Smith, Kenny
Summary:: How has your dating life or relationship changed in the past few months? In this episode, social psychologist Amanda Gesselman explores how your experiences might align with participants in ongoing research from the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Gesselman also provides some tips for keeping your relationship strong under pandemic conditions.

Date:: 2020-04-09
Main contributors:: Muncy, Brandy, Miles, Emily, Smith, Kenny
Summary:: Emily Miles speaks with Brandy Muncy about coping with anxiety and depression in a social isolation context we're encountering during the Covid-19 pandemic. Brandon Muncy is a counselor at Counseling and Psychological Services, serving the mental health needs of students at Indiana University's Health Center.

Date:: 2020-06-09
Main contributors:: Anderson, Kyle, Smith, Kenny, Miles, Emily
Summary:: Kyle Anderson, an economist at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business at IUPUI, joins us to discuss the end of May's jobless claims, the recession, general recovery prospects and more.

Date:: 2020-07-17
Main contributors:: Levine Daniel, Jamie, Smith, Kenny, Miles, Emily
Summary:: Often times, when the economy struggles not-for-profits hit rough patches of their own. We talked with Dr. Jamie Levine Daniel, a professor in the O’Neill School of Public And Environmental Affairs at IUPUI to see how not-for-profits are doing right now. She tells us how some agencies are trying innovative approaches, the resources available to them and more.

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