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We talked with Indiana University's vice president for research, Fred Cate, about a few of the ongoing and groundbreaking types of research going on around the COVID-19 pandemic. Cate says it would be hard to find a part of life in Indiana that research at IU hasn't been touching. Listen to hear details of some of the interesting work going on around the IU system.
Students are back. And things look familiar, but they are a bit different. We talked with Dr. Kathy Adams Riester, the Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs and Executive Associate Dean of Students for the Division of Student Affairs, about what student services and campus life will look and feel like this fall.
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.
We talked with Dr. Joel Wong about taking pleasure in the simple things in these troubling times. He talks about working with your children and creating an appropriate atmosphere within their new daily routines, the benefits of a simple walk, keeping in touch with people and something called gratitude journaling.
Listen to this, and then make sure you're registered to vote. Dr. Matthew Baggetta, from the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University -- Bloomington, talks about the voting calendar ahead of us, the mail-in ballot process, poll watchers and much, much more.
DEADLINE TO REGISTER TO VOTE, Monday, October 5th.
MAIL IN ABSENTEE BALLOTS: A federal appeals court has now reinstated Indiana's Election Day deadline to receive the mail-in ballots. Your absentee ballots must once again be received by noon on NOVEMBER 3rd to be counted.
ABSENTEE IN-PERSON VOTING (or early voting): Tuesday, October 6th through Monday, November 2nd.
ELECTION DAY, Tuesday, November 3rd.
Dr. Todd Saxton is an expert on business strategy and entrepreneurialism. We talked with the Kelley School of Business professor about what small businesses are doing to stay afloat and innovate in this struggling economy.
The coronavirus is changing a summer, and the upcoming fall season, of political campaigns. Traditional big rallies aren't taking place, large events that often feature campaigns or get out the vote drives are postponed or canceled, door-to-door electioneering may be impacted as well. Dr. Matthew Baggetta of the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs joins us to talk about local election strategies, messaging and what's to come as we look ahead in the campaign calendar.
Indiana's state Department of Education has begun announcing plans for what the start of the 2020-2021 school year will look like. And the state's many school corporations are making their individualized plans to teach and keep children safe. We talked with Jill Shedd, Indiana University's assistant dean for teacher education, about what the classroom experience may be like for young learners this fall.
When stay-at-home orders were issued parents became teachers. And now that summer is here, parents are wondering what happens with their children's fall enrollment. We talked with Indiana University sociologist Jessica Calarco, who researches the impact of social inequalities on families, children, and schools, about what we might see when school is back in session.
Dr. Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD, is a professor of radiology, pediatrics, medical education, philosophy, liberal arts, philanthropy, and medical humanities and health studies at Indiana University. He joined us to examine some of the similarities and differences between a pandemic a century ago, compared to what we're living through today.
Joe Fitter teaches finance in the prestigious Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, where he is also director of the Strategic Finance Academy. He talked with On Topic about what we should be doing to make sure our household finances are in good order with the rapidly shifting economy. Don't cash in your 401Ks, DO make sure you've got several months of emergency money available to you, evaluate your discretionary spending and more. It's all On Topic with IU and Joe Fitter.
Shandy Dearth is the director of undergraduate epidemiology education at the Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI. She explains pandemic surveillance, key indicators health experts will be looking for before relaxing stay-at-home orders, how to keep yourself safe at work and much more.
Monika Nieves Maldonado (Toa Baja, Puerto Rico)
Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Monika Nieves Maldonado is considered one of the great and most versatile vocal performers in Puerto Rico. By age twelve, she was the main voice of the Areyto Folkloric Ballet. As a singer-songwriter for Puerto Raíces, she performed throughout Puerto Rico as well as the U.S. They shared stages with bands such as Los Pericos, Aterciopelados, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Cultura Profética, La Secta, and Fiel a la Vega. Currently, he plays güiro and sings Música típica with her family group, Herencia Musical, in which Monika joins forces with her brother, cuatro player extraordinaire Christian Nieves and her father, composer, cuatro and guitar player, Modesto Nieves. He collaborates with numerous Puerto Rican musicians and is a recording artist. Her musical project, Pasajeros del Tren, is a fantastic venue for Monika’s creativity. The group plays a fusion of Caribbean rhythms, flamenco and pop-rock. She defines her musical style as JibaRock, a refreshing and innovative formula that combines her subtle and powerful voice and musicianship, as well as her charming energy on the stage.
Interviewed by Raquel Paraíso, 10/05/2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a range of concerns and questions for social science researchers. For many qualitative researchers, research sites are no longer accessible, and many data collection methods are no longer feasible. Critical questions about what qualitative research can and even should do during times of physical distancing are arising, particularly among graduate students. Specifically, many graduate students with qualitative dissertation work in development or already underway are now facing notable delays to their progress toward completion, with questions about a “research restart” pointing to uncertainty.
This webinar aims to address some of the common concerns that graduate students conducting qualitative research are now navigating. Specifically, in this webinar, the following will be explored: the complicated ethics of “continuing research” during uncertain times; the value of historicizing methodological practice when designing and re-designing qualitative research methodologies and methods; and virtual methodologies and methods for carrying out qualitative research.
With this project I wanted to dive into the process of memory and how one recalls upon memory. I also wanted to explore the validity of memory and how we can fall into nostalgia and never really escape its clutches.
From a Bayesian point of view, the selection of a particular model from a universe of possible models can be characterized as a problem of uncertainty. The method of Bayesian model averaging quantifies model uncertainty by recognizing that not all models are equally good from a predictive point of view. Rather than choosing one model and assuming that the chosen model is the one that generated the data Bayesian model averaging obtains a weighted combination of the parameters of a subset of possible models, weighted by each models’ posterior model probability. This workshop provides an overview of Bayesian model averaging with a focus on recent developments and applications to propensity score analysis, missing data, and probabilistic forecasting of relevance to social science research.
Video bio of Terri Stacey inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2020;
Terri Lynn Stacy was born in the small town of Knightstown in Henry County, Indiana. In 1985, Stacy was hired as the receptionist for WIBC-FM in Indianapolis. After winning “Employee of the Year” in 1989, Stacy was rewarded with a guest stint on the morning show on WIBC-FM, hosted by Jeff Pigeon. Stacy was such an instant hit that station managers decided to continue having her co-host the morning show, even though she was still working her full-time job as the station’s receptionist. In less than a year, the station made her a full-time on-air personality and morning show co-host. She would continue in that role, despite the ever-changing radio landscape, for more than 20 years. In 2010, Stacy finally stepped down from the morning drive and began a new direction as the traffic reporter for WIBC-FM. Since 2005, Stacy has hosted “The First Day Sunday Magazine Show” and she continues as host of the “Caregiver Crossing” show on WIBC-FM. In both 2007 and 2008, Stacy was acknowledged by Indianapolis Woman magazine as the “Local Female Radio Personality of the Year.”
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers
Video bio of Paul Mendenhall, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2020;
Paul Mendenhall began his life-long radio broadcasting career in 1970 at Carmel High School where he worked at the school’s radio station WHJE-FM. After high school graduation, Mendenhall worked part time at WHYT-FM in Noblesville, Indiana, and in 1974 at WXLW-AM in Indianapolis while attending Butler University. From there, Mendenhall transferred to Ball State to take his first full time job for Bill Shirk’s family at WERK-FM in Muncie, Indiana. At WERK-FM, he became program director and served as one of the “Men at WERK” until 1981. He also managed the radio station at Ben Davis High School and was a teacher for 17 years. Mendenhall joined Fairbanks Broadcasting in Indianapolis working for Cris Conner at WNAP-AM, then WIBC-FM and, finally, his current professional home, WTTS-FM. He joined WTTS-FM, located in Bloomington, Indiana, in 2001 where he hosts the WTTS-FM “Morning Show.”
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers
Video bio of J Chapman, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2020;
J Chapman grew up in the broadcasting industry — his father, Jerry, led Indianapolis’s WFBM-FM/TV (now WRTV-TV) for three decades, and J got an early start in the media business when assigned by his father to mow the grass at the station’s northside transmitter site. After graduating from Hanover College in 1983, Chapman worked as on-air talent at stations in Indianapolis; South Bend, Indiana; and Madison, Indiana. He also worked at stations in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Covington, Kentucky. Chapman was part of a team that launched Indianapolis’s Fox TV affiliate, WPDS-TV (now WXIN-TV), in 1984 as a photographer and sports anchor. In the later 1980s, Chapman decided to go into broadcast sales and joined Emmis Communications, where he started as a sales representative for WENS-FM and became sales manager before becoming general sales manager for WTLC-AM/FM. From 2001 to 2005, he was director of sales for Emmis’s Indianapolis Radio Group, where he worked for 17 years. In June 2013, he became owner and president of Woof Boom Radio with six stations throughout eastern Indiana, serving the Muncie, Anderson, Hartford City, Daleville, Yorktown, Alexandria, Pendleton, New Castle and Marion communities. He soon added more Indiana stations in Lafayette and a five-station cluster in Lima and Delphos, Ohio. Chapman also served as the board chairman of the Indiana Broadcasters Association.
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers
Video bio of Bob Forbes, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2020;
Bob Forbes started broadcasting WBOW-AM in in 1947 in Terre Haute, Indiana, while still in college at Indiana State Teachers College. In 1948, Forbes joined WTHI-AM when it first went on air. WTHI-TV then launched in 1954 as the 10th Hoosier television station; Forbes was WTHI-TV’s first and only sports anchor at the station until he retired in 1985. He was the longtime voice of the Indiana State Sycamores, including the Larry Bird-led NCAA runner-up basketball team in 1979. Forbes was inducted into the Indiana State University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1984 for his broadcasting career and into the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association Hall of fame in 2006. He died in January 2005 and was inducted posthumously to the Indiana Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers
Video bio of Bob Ross, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2020;
Although a native of Florida, Bob Ross lived and worked in Muncie, Indiana. His “Joy of Painting” program is still nationally and internationally syndicated and was produced at WIPB-TV, a community PBS station affiliated with Ball State University. Ross’s programs have been carried by nearly 300 television stations, covering an estimated 80 million households. Ross died in 1995 at the age of 52.
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers
Video bio of Linda Jackson, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2020;
For more than 30 years, Linda Jackson has delivered the news to viewers in northeast Indiana – the vast majority of them from the desk where she has anchored morning or evening newscasts spanning two generations. Jackson graduated from Indiana University with a degree in journalism and got her start in local news as an intern at then-WKJG-TV, the NBC affiliate based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Her first full-time work in broadcasting was as a producer and reporter. She has also served the community in a station management role, and it is as a news anchor that Jackson has become best known in the region. In 2016, Jackson was tapped to lead the re-launched NBC news channel in Fort Wayne. She has served as lead anchor at “Fort Wayne’s NBC” since its launch, helping to establish the news team as a source for engaging and professional coverage in the community.
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers
Erica Snowden-Rodríguez (Akron, Ohio)
Since moving to Ohio in 2005, Erica has led an active career as a performer and teaching artist in the region of Northeast Ohio. In addition to the Akron Symphony Orchestra, they are the principal cellist of the Erie Philharmonic and former principal cellist of the Canton Symphony. They perform in a variety of chamber music and recital settings within the community and abroad. Erica has toured nationally with Sphinx Virtuosi, a chamber orchestra comprised of the nation’s top Latinx and African-American string players, and has appeared as a performer and lecturer at many of Cleveland’s cultural and medical centers, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Mixon Hall, and the Cleveland Clinic. In addition to an active performance career, Erica is a music educator, having served on the faculty at The University of Akron School of Music from 2013-14 and at the Cleveland State University Department of Music from 2014-16.
Interviewed by Tamar Sella, 09/14/2020.
With the meteoric rise of Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube, it is clear that image- and video- based platforms have become tremendously important to our social, political, and economic lives. However, there are unique challenges associated with data collection and analysis on visual social media platforms. This workshop explores the following questions in detail: How do we integrate and weigh Big Data questions with more in-depth contextualized analysis of social media content? How do we categorize textual and visual content, addressing issues of ontology? How can we scale small data to big data in visual spaces? Ultimately, it is argued that image/video data produced and consumed on social media has real value in helping us understand the social experience of everyday and profound events, but studying these types of data often requires innovations in theory and methods. Hands-on methods work will involve participants collecting data from YouTube and understanding structured metadata and unstructured data involving visual content.
Academic libraries and archives are dealing with increasing numbers of digital audio and video (AV) files, acquired through both digitization of analog collections and acquisition of born-digital AV resources. While the emergence of low-cost storage options and maturity of streaming platforms has made it easier to store and deliver AV, these collections often lack metadata needed in order to make them discoverable and usable by researchers and other users. Since late 2018, the Indiana University Libraries have been working with partners at the University of Texas at Austin, New York Public Library, and digital consultant AVP to develop an open source software platform, known as AMP (Audiovisual Metadata Platform), that leverages automated machine learning-based tools together with human expertise to build workflows to create and augment metadata for AV resources to improve discovery, rights determination, and use. We will present an update on progress of the AMP project and its successes and challenges to date, including a demonstration of the AMP system and discussion of issues in system design, workflows, and the use of open source and commercial cloud-based machine learning tools. We will also discuss results to date of testing the AMP system using collections from the Cook Music Library and University Archives at IU and from the New York Public Library. This work is generously supported by a grant to IU from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Representation is one of the most powerful impacts that archives can make on communities. Ensuring that all people’s works, lives, and information is being preserved in an archive is what fuels a many modern day archivist. However, establishing equal representation of minorities and underrepresented groups is not enough to create a more inclusive world, archivists must also create ways for people to access that information. The creation of digital libraries and other online resources, allows for more people to use the resources collected, see themselves and their work represented, and gain an understanding of the artists who have come before them. The Ars Femina Archive (AFA), is housed at Indiana University Southeast, and is a collection of music composed by women from before the 1500s to the 1800s. This archive preserves and celebrates the impact that women in history have had on music. Women are largely underrepresented in the arts and especially in music, the AFA allows for people from around the world to research and access this collection of musical compositions created by women. This presentation will focus on the history of the collection, what is contained in the archive, its mission and how that mission is furthered by digitization, and the impact it has on scholarship and performance.
This fall, the IU Libraries is launching two exciting new services: IU DataCORE, for storage and access of IU research data, and Digital Collections, for managing and delivering digitized images, books, newspapers, sheet music, and archival collections . These IU-wide services were conceived as part of the Enterprise Scholarly Systems (ESS) initiative, a partnership between the IU Libraries, IUPUI University Library, and UITS. Both services are built using the Samvera Community’s open source Hyrax repository platform. They represent a new, modern way of managing and proving access to our unique digital collections using software collaboratively developed by several partner institutions including IU. This talk will provide an overview of both services, providing insight into their history, technologies, and plans for the future.
Securing research data, especially meeting new and stricter regulatory and other cybersecurity requirements, is becoming a challenge for both researchers and campus units at IU that support research. To help them navigate this complex landscape, IU is launching SecureMyResearch, a collaborative effort by the Center of Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR), the Information Security division within the Office of the Vice President for IT, and UITS Research Technologies. Its goal is to accelerate research by empowering researchers with a resource that reduces both their cybersecurity and compliance burden and risk to regulated and open research data at IU. This presentation will describe SecureMyResearch and how it aims to weave research data security and compliance into the institutional fabric.
This February was the third year anniversary of the Open Access Policy, authored to ensure the accessibility and availability of university scholarship to the public for future generations. When the policy was passed, the Scholarly Communication Department was tasked with encouraging several thousand faculty to annually deposit their work into a new institutional repository, IUScholarWorks Open. To facilitate the deposit process, developers in Library Technologies developed the Bloomington Research Information Tracking Engine, also known as BRITE. The BRITE application is able to check the open access and copyright status of articles, compile emails to faculty, and prepare metadata for batch deposit into IUScholarWorks Open. While some manual intervention is still necessary, BRITE has helped our team automate a normally extensive and time-consuming process. This session will walk through the process of development for the BRITE application, as well as the documentation that allows users and employees with little to no subject knowledge on copyright, metadata, or automation to successfully navigate the application. We will also discuss some of our plans for the BRITE application in the future, and look for insight into what development our users may need moving forward.
Indiana University Libraries are home to rich and unique collections, ranging from the Calumet Regional Archives at Northwest, to the University Archives at Bloomington, to the William L. Simon Sheet Music Collection at Southeast. To date, the description and discovery of these materials have been facilitated by disparate systems, formats, and practices. This fractured ecosystem has challenged the exploration of materials meaningful to Hoosiers and those in the national and international communities. Library Technologies and Digital Collections Services have partnered with archivists across IU in a project called Next Generation Archives Online. In celebration of IU’s 200th anniversary and with funding from the Office of the Bicentennial, this project is laying the groundwork for a unified description and discovery infrastructure and coordinated processes governing contributions to that infrastructure. This new ecosystem includes ArchivesSpace for creating collection description and ArcLight for end user search and discovery. This talk will share progress to date in implementing and moving from the current generation’s disparate technologies and practices to the unified approach of the next generation.
This week: An Indiana University survey finds that only 1 in 5 Hoosiers thought a pandemic was possible, and northwestern Indiana residents are concerned a plan to close several coal ash ponds may not be enough to stop a legacy of pollution.
DISCLAIMER : THIS EVENT OCCURRED BEFORE THE COVID-19 LOCKDOWN, MASK MADATES, SOCIAL DISTANCING, AND OTHER RESTRICTIONS!
IUPUI Center for TRIP Campus Keynote Address featuring Dr. Sacoby Wilson from the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Health.
Campus Keynote Address
"The Role of Community-Engaged Research and Practice in Addressing Environmental (In) Justice in the 21st Century"
Friday, February 21, 2020
12 noon - 1:00 pm (EST)
IUPUI University Library Lilly Auditorium
On Thursday, October 29, 2020 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Professor Peter Schubert, the 2020 Bantz-Petronio Translating Research Into Practice Awardee, hosted an inaugural brain-storming session to develop innovative ways to use clothing to power electronic devices and much more. This was a multi-disciplinary, campus-wide project. Faculty, students, and staff were encouraged to share their creativity in this fun, engaging, and interactive event.
This week: A U.S. company decides to stop selling an Indiana-made pesticide linked to "brain abnormalities" in children; we look at who won the first stage of a legal battle to prevent the construction of a coal-to-diesel plant in Spencer County; and students learn about using aquatic life to grow food.
This week: A coalition of groups from the Great Lakes region say its members need more time to see how a change to one of the nation's first major federal environmental laws will affect them, and a new report says snowfall rates have drastically changed in the past 50 years.
This week: A bipartisan bill making its way through the Indiana legislature seeks to limit the amount of PFAS firefighting foam used during training, and Congress grills the EPA administrator about the Trump administration's request to slash the agency's budget by 26%.
This week: Two Indiana-based companies are in charge of destroying the DoD's PFAS firefighting foam, and Congress takes a crack at the nation's plastic waste crisis.
This week: Both the U.S. EPA and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management have adopted "enforcement discretion" policies that will allow some forms of environmental regulation noncompliance during the COVID-19 crisis, and a new study has found that people living in communities with more air pollution have a higher COVID-19 death rate than people living in less polluted communities.
This week: Fallout from the COVID-19 crisis has dealt a serious economic blow to the clean energy industry. Plus, the combination of EPA's full-speed-ahead deregulation and COVID-19 "enforcement discretion" policy could put Hoosiers living near coal ash dump sites at risk.
This week: The Trump administration has finalized a rule that limits which waterways are under federal Clean Water Act protections, and we look into whether Indiana's 2019 agricultural fortunes are a sign of things to come.
This week: IDEM investigates whether a company responsible for a chemical release in Lake Michigan and the Little Calumet River is accurately reporting water samples; we take a look at the environmental issues Gov. Eric Holcomb brought up during the 2020 State of the State address; and a national non-profit organization is looking for 20 Indianapolis homeowners willing to transition to solar power at no cost.
This week: A group of researchers is reaching out to towns and cities across Indiana to create the first state-wide urban forest database, and we take a look at some bills introduced during the 2020 Indiana legislative session that could have an effect on the environment.
This week: The NOAA predicts above-average levels of rainfall and flood risk this spring, the Department of Defense it has identified many more military installations in the U.S. that may be contaminated with toxic PFAS chemicals.
This week: Farmers face off against precipitation and pestilence to feed the country, and climate and medical professionals say there's a direct link between human health and the health of the environment.
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, Archivist), and Brent Walsh (Administrator, Earlham School of Religion). All participants identify as LGBTQ+ and currently live or is originally from Wayne County, Indiana and surrounding areas.
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."
Interview of IU East student Jamie Peterson by Samantha Shockley for assignment for Professor Travis Rountree's ENG-W270 Argumentative Writing class in the spring of 2019.
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."
Interview of IU East student Alex Hakes by Ethan Scott for assignment for Professor Travis Rountree's ENG-W270 Argumentative Writing class in the spring of 2019.
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. This workshop is designed for social scientists, who are interested in using Python but have no idea where to start. Our goal is to “demystify” Python and to teach social scientists how to manipulate and examine data that deviate from the clean, rectangular survey format. This workshop is intended for social scientists who are new to programming. No experience required.
