81. Lopez Lightning Talk (2019 Spring Symposium) (02:39)

Date:
2019-05-16
Main contributors:
Daniela Gutiérrez López
Summary:
As a scholar-activist devoted to anti-racist, decolonial, femme-inist, anti-capitalist, anti-ableist struggles to decriminalize undocumented people in the United States, I continuously organize in the hopes of altering or dismantling the systems and institutions that perpetuate violence against marginalized, Black and brown communities. Inspired by the website Torn Apart/Separados, which maps Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities across the settle U.S. (volume 1) and the amount of money congress representatives have received from ICE (volume 2), and as part of my dissertation, I wish to create a network graph visualization --eventually accompanied by written and audio interpretations in at least English and Spanish-- of the overlaps between ICE funding congress (potential effects on public policy), government representatives benefiting from public universities, and universities' ultimate complicity with ICE. In tracing "money moves," this project lays the groundwork for activist mobilizations that deploy working-class, labor movement tactics as a means to organize within/against the imperial, neoliberal university (in this case, Big 10 institutions). Finally, my larger aim is to create inter-state, national, and international (no-border) networks of communication and support for the communities to which we belong and/or with whom we are in solidarity.

82. The fate of barley and future of beer brewing (35:14)

Date:
2019-11-08
Main contributors:
Davis, Steven, Carley, Sanya, Robionson, Clay, Steinberg, Matthew
Summary:
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 field to glass, we explore challenges for barley farmers, options in sustainable brewing, and the willingness of the public to invest in more environmentally friendly beer. 4:30 - Steven Davis of University of California Irvine 11:30 - Sanya Carley of Indiana University 19:00 - Clay Robinson of Sun King Brewing in Indianapolis and Matthew Steinberg of Exhibit 'A' Brewing in Framingham

83. Russian Environmental Journalist Angelina Davydova (25:38)

Date:
2019-04-10
Main contributors:
Davydova, Angelina, Shanahan, James
Summary:
Angelina Davydova reports on the environment for Russian and international media. During a visit to IU Bloomington, this Hurbet H. Humphrey fellow from UC Davis sat down with Dean Shanahan to discuss Russian waste management, thawing permafrost and how the changing climate is affecting the natural landscapes of Russia.

84. The long history of the Bering Strait (23:24)

Date:
2019-10-11
Main contributors:
Demuth, Bathsheba, Miles, Emily
Summary:
Like many of us, Bathsheba Demuth grew up seeing the human world and the natural world as separate. Then, she spent a couple years between high school and college in Old Crow, Yukon. There, she developed a sense of a social world that contains more than human beings. Emily talks in this episode with Demuth, now a Brown University Assistant Professor of History & Environment and Society, about her new book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait.

85. Lab Experiments in Social Science Research (1:40:32)

Date:
2019-03-01
Main contributors:
Doan, Long
Summary:
Despite the growing popularity of experimental designs in sociological research, lab experiments remain relatively rare. Nevertheless, lab experiments are the gold standard for testing theory and assessing causal arguments, especially those that difficult to test using questionnaire measures. This workshop focuses on the logic of experiments, types of questions that are ideal for answering with lab experiments, issues of internal and external validity, and contrasting lab experiments to other experimental and observational methods. Using exemplars from sociology, I will walk through the design of lab experiments, common pitfalls that may surprise unaccustomed researchers, and ways to deal with these issues. The workshop is a mixture of lecture and hands-on exercises and is designed for those interested in designing their first few experiments or those on the fence about using lab experiments in their own research.

86. Tracy Dodds, BA'74 (03:12)

Date:
2019
Main contributors:
Dodds, Tracy
Summary:
People sometimes asked sportswriter Tracy Dodds how she could cover sports if she’d never been an athlete. "How can you cover a murder trial if you've never murdered anybody?" she replied. Often faced with sexism and hostility, Dodds carried her wit, humor and gumption with her through a long and lucrative career in sports journalism. One of the first women to cover sports for a major publication, Dodds knew she was a trailblazer. It wasn't until later that she realized she'd helped pave the way for women in journalism. The myriad sports Dodds has covered include Big Ten football and basketball, hockey, auto-racing, boxing, swimming and diving. In 1984, 1988 and 1996, she was an on-site reporter and editor at the Olympics. In 1988, she helped found the Association for Women in Sports Media, later serving as its national president. She was the first elected female president of the Associated Press Sports Editors. In 2014, she became the first woman to be inducted into the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame. Amidst those incredible honors, the seemingly insignificant successes stand out, too. Dodds recalled the day she received a letter from a reader that began,"Dear Mr. Dodds, You're an idiot." Elated, Dodds shared the letter with coworkers. "He was calling me an idiot solely on the quality of my writing," Dodds said. "Not because I was a woman." Before graduating from IU in 1973 with a degree in journalism and political science, Dodds got her start at the Bloomington Herald-Telephone, now the Herald-Times, under the mentorship of sports editor Bob Hammel. In 1974, she was hired as a sportswriter for the Milwaukee Journal. It was an uphill battle. Her first week, the Journal's assistant sports editor Bill Dwyre told her she never should have been hired. Seven years later, Dwyre would write her a glowing farewell column as she moved on to the Houston Post. At the Post, Dodds was the only female conference columnist, covering the now-defunct Southwest Conference. Less than two years later, Dwyre would call her and offer her a coveted position at the Los Angeles Times. Dodds' years at the L.A. Times would have her covering UCLA and the Kings. "I came back from the '88 Olympics, jet-lagged on no sleep, and covered Wayne Gretzky's first game with the Kings," she recalled. After many years as a writer, Dodds moved into sports editing. She served as assistant sports editor at the L.A. Daily News, assistant sports editor at the Orange County Register, sports editor at the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman and associate sports editor at the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "There weren't a lot of women in sports writing then, but there were very few women in sports editing," she recalled. Upon leaving the Plain Dealer, Dodds returned to Indiana to write for The Indianapolis Star before moving home to Lafayette to be closer to family and to start her next career. She's now director of grants at the YWCA of Greater Lafayette, where she helps further the organization's mission of eliminating racism and empowering women. "Grants fund the mission," Dodds said. "That gives me a reason to get up in the morning and get to the office, where I work with some amazing women doing amazing service."

88. Digital Herbaria in the 21st Century (56:56)

Date:
2019-10-09
Main contributors:
Dunn, Jon, Halliday, Jim, Knox, Eric, Laherty, Jennifer
Summary:
Cyberinfrastructure finally caught up with the vision for biodiversity ‘big data’ online. Species are populations, and our knowledge of species is documented by preserved specimens. The IU Herbarium has 161,000+ specimens. Symbiota is a multi-institutional platform that accommodates specimen- and species-level images and information, and our regional instance for vascular plants is the Consortium of Midwest Herbaria data portal (http://midwestherbaria.org). To efficiently digitize the specimens, each was barcoded and photographed, with each image renamed as the barcode, and a skeletal database record created with the barcode, species name, and provenance (down to the level of U.S. counties). IU Libraries built the Imago digital repository (https://imago.indiana.edu), based on technology from the Samvera open source community, and quality-control pipelines to manage the digital resources being created by the IU Herbarium and other biological research collections. The high-resolution .tif images are stored in the Scholarly Data Archive, and equally good .jpg derivatives are married with the skeletal record information as they are ingested in Imago. Optical character recognition was used to capture specimen label information as .txt files, which were uploaded into Symbiota along with the Imago persistent URLs. The downstream workflow of label transcription and georeferencing was organized by the skeletal record information and conducted by a small army of student workers who simply needed access to the internet. The Imago pURLs also link DNA sequences in GenBank to the corresponding voucher specimens, and can be used in future digital publishing. IU hosts specimen images from other Indiana herbaria, and is providing technology transfer assistance to the University of Cape Town.

89. Mitigating the Impact of Opioid Misuse and Addiction on Hoosiers, Communities, and Public Health (1:23:52)

Date:
2019-04-23
Main contributors:
Duwve, Joan
Summary:
Dr. Joan Duwve, MD, MPH, is the Associate Dean for Practice at the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health in Indianapolis, and the former Chief Medical Officer at the Indiana State Department of Health. Dr. Duwve co­chaired the Indiana State Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Task Force from 2012 to 2016, and served on the Governor’s Task Force on Drug Enforcement, Treatment and Prevention from 2015 to 2016. She also served as the PI on the first rigorous study of injection drug use in Scott County.

90. On Air with IER: Episode 10 (17:47)

Date:
2019-01-22
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: People living or working near gas stations might be exposed to a far higher level of toxic fumes than previously thought, and we take a look at a restaurant named the best eco-friendly restaurant in the state of Indiana.