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Panel Participants are Lisa Marling (Ally, Nurse), JR Ridgeway (Army, Law Enforcement), Scott Tucker (Business Owner), Benjamin Guard (Student, Co-founder of SAGA at IVY Tech), Sue King (Navy Vet, ...
Stephen S. Mills is an award-winning LGBTQ poet who is a native of Richmond, Indiana. Travis Rountree, assistant professor of English and director of the Writing Program invited Stephen to IU East ...
Poetry reading of Stephen S. Mills. Video recording of Mills reading "How We Became Sluts" from his published work "Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution."
Poetry reading by Stephen S. Mills. Audio recording of Mills reciting his poem "You Don't Look Violent" from his published work "Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution."
The collection includes three kinds of material. There are original audio recordings of specific passages that demonstrate the ways of performing them discussed in Focal Impulse Theory. (There is a...
Presents an actual Nevada parole board hearing during which a disabled sex offender hopes to be released from prison after being eligible many years earlier and repeatedly refused.
His traumatic ...
Ian MacGowan starts by talking about the year 1968, reactions and protests to the Vietnam War, and the general atmosphere of chaos and anger. He then discusses the atmosphere in Washington, DC, and...
Jerry Springer recounts his involvement with the youth-led effort to lower the voting age in Ohio, his testimony before Congress, and youth political attitudes then and now.
Pat outlines her motivations for getting involved with the youth vote, her activism at the time, the youth vote's path from Congress to Supreme Court to constitutional amendment, and the Nixon sign...
From the peaks of the Appalachians to a wave of Belgian plantations and the Louisiana shoreline, we explore how the age-old holiday tradition of tree decoration intertwines with the environment.
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This week: A major electricity supplier in Indiana plans to retire two coal-fired units at its Petersburg Generating Station, and we take a look at what you can do to make sure your campfire fuel i...
"They was mean to me. And I'm glad I'm not in an institution no more.” Beth was sent to an Indiana institution when she was young. She didn’t have the opportunity to go to school but states she le...
Einstein, Jacob; Campbell, Chelsea; Shanahan, James
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When so many of us feel responsible for and powerless against climate change, it can be difficult to assess which actions are effective. In this episode, associate producer Jacob Einstein speaks wi...
This week: We take a look at why Indiana ranks 44th in the nation for new incidences of lung cancer, and the federal government makes a deal with a national cement company for alleged Clean Air Act...
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
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The Black Oak spring was located on the property of Dorothy Waters' childhood home in Black Oak. Waters says that her grandfather (who built the house in 1926) sold the water from the well to a man...
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
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Dorothy Waters grew up in the Black Oak neighborhood of Calumet Township and her parents owned farm land near the Chase Street spring in Small Farms. Waters and her siblings pulled weeds in their f...
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
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Dorothy Waters' childhood home in the Black Oak neighborhood was located on the same property as the Black Oak spring, an artesian well that was open to the public. Waters says, "Anybody that wante...
Dorothy Waters grew up in the Black Oak neighborhood of Calumet Township and her parents owned farm land near the Chase Street spring in Small Farms. Waters and her siblings pulled weeds in their f...
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
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Dorothy and Robert Waters describe a gravel road on their family farm that connected the Black Oak spring to the Chase Street spring. The road made a relatively straight east-west line between the ...
The Black Oak artesian well was located in the front yard of Dorothy Waters' family home. She says that when people from the neighborhood collected water from the spring, they sometimes left pennie...
Dorothy Waters recalled that her brother told her that there used to be a house next to the Chase Street spring: "There was a house there, that he called the Spring House. Because it was right ther...
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
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Kay Westhues interviews Dorothy and Robert Waters at their home in Schererville, Indiana, on December 7, 2019. Dorothy Waters is a descendent of the Nimetz family, who settled in the Black Oak area...
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
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Kay Westhues interviews Dorothy and Robert Waters at their home in Schererville, Indiana, on December 7, 2019. Dorothy Waters is a descendent of the Nimetz family, who settled in the Black Oak area...
With the anniversary of Indiana University's Bicentennial just around the corner, it makes sense to talk with someone who has expertise on the subject of the history of IU. In this week's episode, ...
Steve Truchan details life growing up in the Small Farms community in Lake County, Indiana. He says that "everybody was a farmer." He describes a beautiful scene surrounding the Chase Street Spring...
Steve Truchan's family business, the Gary Bridge and Iron Company is located near the Chase Street spring. He recalls a time when the spring stopped flowing. It happened in the early 1980s when new...
Kay Westhues interviews Steve Truchan at his office at the Gary Bridge and Iron Company in Gary, Indiana, on December 6, 2019. Truchan is the owner of Gary Bridge and Iron Company, located on 37th ...
What does a Tesla have to do with red mud and white seaweed in Indonesia? What stands in the way of solid state batteries? How can you tell what's really powering your electric vehicle? In this epi...
Highly stressful situations can lead to an inability to act and respond. These feelings have long-lasting impacts that affect people well afterward. However, as you’ll hear, this is not the result ...
Using inclusive vocabularies, defined here as those vocabularies representative of and created by historically marginalized communities, is helpful for providing options when creating original desc...
The In This Climate team is thankful for a lot this year. Since our first episode at the beginning of September, we've covered wildfires as they relate to the Arctic, air quality, and wine. We've e...
This week: We talked to a former Russian army soldier who survived the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 and eventually made his way to the U.S. He thought his first brush with environmental disas...
As climate changes, so do pieces of culture. Pieces like car ownership, outdoor sports, and the drinks we share. This is the final episode in our beverage series, and it's all about coffee. We foll...
Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities; Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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Working in public, and with the public, can enable scholars to build vital, sustainable research communities, both within their fields, with other scholars in different fields, and with folks off-c...
Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities ; Sylvia Fernandez
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Toxic discourses towards the Mexico-United States borderland and its communities have continuously altered history, social dynamics, culture, among other things that are part of this region. Meanwh...
Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities; Sylvia Fernandez
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While cartography is a colonialist product when unrepresented individuals or communities utilize and recreate these tools they serve to contest a colonial cultural record. With respect to U.S.-Mexi...
This week: After disastrous flooding, officials in Goshen, Indiana embark on a journey of climate change resilience, and a new online tool seeks to help communities prepare for climate change befor...
Developing good communication skills is increasingly hard in such a fast-paced and globalized world. Is it okay to put emojis in professional emails? How should we address bosses and professors? Is...
As climate changes, so do pieces of culture. Pieces like car ownership, outdoor sports, and the drinks we share. This is the second episode in our beverage series, and it's all about wine. We start...
“Oh, my favorite thing was we got the opportunity to take two clients to Tennessee.” Lori Nei talks about a career highlight as a service manager in the disability field in Indiana. As part of her ...
The Sample: In this episode of The Sample, Mallory Melchi and Hudson sit down with us to talk about the work that they do with the Indiana Canine Assistance Network. Mallory does important work as ...
Reverend Terence Standifer, the former pastor of the Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church in Small Farms, discusses how pollution affected the Little Calumet River and the surrounding area. He...
Reverend Terence Standifer, the former pastor of the Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church in Small Farms, shares his experience doing community outreach for an Environmental Protection Agency ...
Reverend Terence Standifer, the former pastor of the Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church in Small Farms, describes a dispute between the Gary-Hobart Water Corporation and the Environmental Pr...
Connie Standifer recalls the community use of the Chase Street Spring when she was growing up. She remembers that people traveled to Small Farms to collect water from the artesian well, sometimes d...
Kay Westhues interviews Terence and Connie Standifer at Macomb Community College in Macomb County, Michigan, on November 8, 2019. Reverend Standifer was the pastor at Pleasant Valley, Missionary B...
As climate changes, so do pieces of culture. Pieces like car ownership, outdoor sports, and the drinks we share. This is the first episode in our beverage series, and it's all about beer. From fiel...
One of the signature projects for Indiana University’s Bicentennial, the Bicentennial Oral History Project has produced a rich and extensive collection of oral history recordings with faculty, staf...
This week: A pair of environmental advocacy groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to tighten national emissions standards for toxic pollution from steel mills, and an EPA proposal se...
Python has become the lead instrument for data scientists to collect, clean, and analyze data. As a general purpose programming language, Python is flexible and well-suited to handle large datasets...
In anticipation of The Worlds of John Wick Conference happening November 7-9th, our host Elaine Monaghan sits down with Steve Watt to talk about the franchise and the world-building that makes it s...
Betty Earlene Jordan describes the Small Farms community's use of the Chase Street spring when she was a child. She says that the spring was "all [she] ever knew, growing up." Because she saw so ma...
Betty Earlene Jordan, who grew up in the community of Black Oak in Lake County, Indiana, talks about how, at a physical therapy appointment earlier that day, she spoke with two people who had very ...
Betty Earlene Jordan discusses how the use of plastic increased the amount of littering at the Chase Street spring. "I think that if people were out there and they had a container that maybe wasn't...
Betty Earlene Jordan describes the amount of work involved with using a spring as a primary water source. "It was a lot of work," she says. "Because we would fill the car up with those jugs and tha...
Kay Westhues interviews Betty Earlene Jordan at the Lake County Library, Merrillville Branch, in Merrillville, IN, on October 31, 2019. Jordan grew up in the Black Oak neighborhood of Calumet Towns...
Indiana University announced the Media Digitization Preservation Initiative (MDPI) in October 2013 with the goal of digitally preserving and providing access to all significant audio, video, and fi...
The Sample: Costume design is an important element to bringing a story to life. It brings out the personality of characters and lets the audience immerse themselves into a whole new world. This wee...
Pam Powers discusses the flooding that regularly occurred on the south side of Highway 80/90 and the creative methods residents -- her aunt, in particular -- employed to deal with them. She elabora...
Pam Powers shares a childhood memory of her neighbors in Small Farms who cultivated a large garden and shared the produce with her family. From her bedroom window, she could see the sunflowers they...
Little Calumet River Basin Development Commissioner David Castellanos credits Lake County Commissioner Roosevelt Allen for first bringing the Chase St. Spring to his attention. He talks with people...
Little Calumet River Basin Development Commissioner David Castellanos discusses current use of the Chase Street spring. He aspires to make the area surrounding the artesian well more accessible to ...
Little Calumet River Basin Development Commissioner David Castellanos discusses plans for the beautification and enhancement of the Chase Street Spring. He says, "So if we work together in partners...
Kay Westhues interviews David Castellanos at Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission office in Munster, IN, on October 25, 2019. Castellanos is a board member on the Little Calumet River...
Kay Westhues interviews Pam Powers at the Lake County Public Library, Merillville branch, in Merillville, Indiana, on October 25, 2019. Powers grew up in the Small Farms and is currently a member o...
Subramanian, Meera; Bourgon, Lyndsie; Shanahan, James
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We took a trip to Fort Collins, Colorado, for the annual Society of Environmental Journalists conference, and we want to tell you about it. Between the Rocky Mountains and the short-grass prairie, ...
This talk will focus on the scholarly activities of Julia Averkieva and Archie Phinney, anthropologists mentored by Franz Boas, the “father of modern anthropology” and a seminal figure in 20th cent...
This is a documentary short about a rice basketmaker in Nandan County in Guangxi, China. Born in 1957, Li Guicai makes baskets in Huaili Village, a Baiku Yao community. As a teen, he split bamboo f...
This week: A new proposal from the EPA limiting the amount of lead and copper in drinking water could help ensure safer drinking water in schools, and NASA has made available nearly 20 years of sat...
Late September in the U.S. saw a host of abnormal weather events: record heat in the Southeast, a Category 5 hurricane in an odd location, and five feet of snow in Montana. This episode, the team z...
Dr. Vera Kuklina, Research Professor, Department of Geography, George Washington University
While the impact of large infrastructural projects on Siberia’s people and environment has increasingly ...
Craig Campbell, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.The Lower Tunguska—a tributary in Siberia that flows into the great Yenisei river—was identified sever...
Jan Matti Dollbaum, PhD student at the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany.
Alexey Navalny is the most prominent opposition figure in Russia today. By com...
This week: Two midwestern environmental advocacy groups take the first step in suing the company that owns a steel mill in northwestern Indiana responsible for Clean Water Act violations, and the s...
