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1. Indiana University Sleep Walk (05:08)

Date:
2018
Main contributors:
Docherty, Carrie; Lalevich, Steven; Cummings, Janae
Summary:
Hoosier Five host Janae Cummings talks about the Indiana University Sleep Walk and the Sleep Great IU! Challenge with Carrie Docherty from the IU School of Public Health and Steven Lalevich from He...

2. Lost birds and how to bring them back (40:04)

Date:
October 4, 2019
Main contributors:
Fallon, Katie; McCabe, Janet; Ketterson, Ellen
Summary:
In fewer than 50 years, North America has lost 2.9 billion birds, nearly a third of the 1970 population. In this episode, the team explores the significance of birds, the story of one unloved varie...

4. Demystifying Cybersecurity with Alison Macrina (23:44)

Date:
February 6, 2019
Main contributors:
Macrina, Alison; Shanahan, James
Summary:
For the great many of us confounded by issues of cybersecurity, Dean Shanahan and founder of the Library Freedom Project Alison Macrina work through everything from Facebook to the NSA and web brow...

5. Spring Break Review (24:43)

Date:
March 13, 2016
Main contributors:
Shanahan, James
Summary:
Through the Gates is off for Spring Break this week, but join us on a look back through the first seven episodes. There's much more to come through the rest of this semester!

6. All I Want for Christmas (05:46)

Date:
December 7, 2018
Main contributors:
Coffman, Andrew
Summary:
The Sample: In this episode of The Sample, Abbie and Emily try to figure out why so many students can't get enough of a 1994 holiday tune. Photo by Drew Coffman on Unsplash.

7. What's Next: Bob Perciasepe on public-private cooperation (39:06)

Date:
November 20, 2020
Main contributors:
Perciasepe, Bob; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
In the third episode of our post-election series, Bob Perciasepe explains how the Biden administration and the private sector could work together to decarbonize and build resilience. Bob is preside...

10. Air Check: holiday travel, gifts, and food (23:42)

Date:
December 3, 2020
Main contributors:
Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
Now deep in the holiday season, even in 2020, we have much to celebrate. But, in the U.S. especially, celebration can lead to a spike in emissions and waste from travel (despite CDC recommendations...

11. Natural Gas and International Relations With Adam Stulberg (43:51)

Date:
September 24, 2021
Main contributors:
Stulberg, Adam ; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
In the 1990s, you could see one bumper sticker across the capital of Azerbaijan: "Happiness is multiple pipelines." Amid ever-complicating conversations about environmental resilience, the themes o...

12. Mental Health: Live (27:45)

Date:
March 12, 2021
Main contributors:
Clayton, Susan ; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
We kick off our mental health series with Dr. Susan Clayton, professor of psychology and environmental studies and chair of the psychology department at the College of Wooster. Together, we work to...

14. People's Cooperative Market With Lauren Volpp (21:19)

Date:
January 28, 2022
Main contributors:
Volpp, Lauren; Shanahan, James; Filippelli, Gabriel
Summary:
Many of us here in Indiana wonder how we can access local food as the weather gets colder and warm-weather plants go dormant. So, in three parts, we're asking folks near Bloomington how they prepar...

15. Sustaining wine and identity (39:39)

Date:
November 15, 2019
Main contributors:
Brain, Matt; Hou, Yingkun; Pincus, Robert
Summary:
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...

17. Empathy through environmental music (58:30)

Date:
February 3, 2020
Main contributors:
Newcomer, Carrie; Schricker, George; Dirksen, Rebecca
Summary:
Part 1 For thousands of generations, people have connected with their environments through music. They've developed ecological empathy, communicated with the divine, and passed their understanding...

18. Land Defenders: The producers of Barú (49:48)

Date:
August 21, 2020
Main contributors:
Wilcox, Marvin; Shapiro, Adam; Shanahan, James
Summary:
In the second episode of our land defender series, we talk with land defender Marvin Wilcox and Front Line Defenders representative Adam Shapiro. They walk us through Marvin's story, in which agric...

19. Expanding Collaboration with Ravi Naidu (33:24)

Date:
March 30, 2022
Main contributors:
Naidu, Ravi ; Shanahan, James; Filippelli, Gabriel
Summary:
In this episode, host Gabe Filippelli talks with Laurate Professor Ravi Naidu at the University of Newcastle about environmental contamination, emerging issues, and how to work with industries in a...

20. The change has not been delicate (25:49)

Date:
January 1, 2020
Main contributors:
Alexander, Edward; Miles, Emily; Shanahan, James
Summary:
In the new year, we're returning to our first episode, "How the Arctic caught fire." But this time, we focus in on the Gwich'in perspective. Edward Alexander, co-chair of the Gwich'in Council Inter...

21. Spiritual Ecology: Anishinaabe knowledge with Deborah McGregor (35:32)

Date:
December 11, 2020
Main contributors:
McGregor, Deborah; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
Spiritual Ecology: Anishinaabe knowledge with Deborah McGregor In this series, we ask, how can spiritual connection with our environment help us enter into right and restorative relationship with...

22. How to Community Garden: Faith Farms (29:18)

Date:
June 15, 2022
Main contributors:
Whittaker, Curtis
Summary:
Wrapping up our tour of community gardens, Curtis Whittaker tells us the story of Faith Farms in the Emerson neighborhood of Gary, Indiana. Over the past nine years, a team from Progressive Communi...

23. Air Check: new SAB chair John Graham (19:20)

Date:
November 11, 2020
Main contributors:
McCabe, Janet; Graham, John D.; Shanahan, James
Summary:
In this Air Check, host Janet McCabe talks with IU professor and recently-named chair of the EPA's Science Advisory Board John D. Graham about his experience in the SAB and what he foresees for the...

24. Collaborative leadership with Laura Calandrella (25:48)

Date:
April 14, 2021
Main contributors:
Calandrella, Laura; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
When you hear the word leadership, you may think about hierarchy. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this episode, Laura Calandrella, author of Our Next Evolution: Transforming Collaborative L...

25. Barbara Buffaloe, Mayor of Columbia MO (30:00)

Date:
February 21, 2024
Main contributors:
Buffaloe, Barbara
Summary:
Gabe talks with Barbara Buffaloe, mayor of Columbia, MO, about climate challenges and success in her community.

26. What's in the Build Back Better Bill for Ag? (24:49)

Date:
December 22, 2021
Main contributors:
Clayton, Chris; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
A discussion with Chris Clayton of Progressive Farmer/DTN about ag and climate provisions in the Build Back Better bill. What is the future for those provisions?

27. Recipe for an electric vehicle battery (38:07)

Date:
December 6, 2019
Main contributors:
Less, Greg; Morse, Ian
Summary:
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...

29. Resilience in Indianapolis (37:32)

Date:
December 15, 2022
Main contributors:
Shanahan, James
Summary:
Jim talks to Gabe about environmental resilience issues in Indiana, mainly Indianapolis. Urban heat, green insfrastructure, the White River.

30. Earth Week Live: Philanthropy, Implementation, and Coordination (43:47)

Date:
April 20, 2022
Main contributors:
Martin, Jane; Gore, Anagha; Thompson, Amy
Summary:
In this show, taped live at Hopscotch Coffee, we talk with Jane Martin, Anagha Gore, and Amy Thompson about the work of ERI and how we can coordinate to improve our relationships with each other an...

31. Mental Health: Accessing Inherent Wisdom (24:30)

Date:
May 11, 2021
Main contributors:
Dellman, Jess; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this episode, Jess Dallman introduces us to the transpersonal counseling dynamic and helps us take a look at how we can slow down and move intentionally with the earth. We explore how we can sup...

32. When environmental journalists gather (42:56)

Date:
October 25, 2019
Main contributors:
Subramanian, Meera; Bourgon, Lyndsie; Shanahan, James
Summary:
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, ...

33. Air Check: activism beyond extractivism (31:58)

Date:
November 25, 2020
Main contributors:
Riofrancos. Thea; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this extended Air Check, political scientist Thea Riofrancos joins us to discuss the historical context of Chilean lithium mining and how it relates to the global movement for a renewable energy...

34. Natural Gas: Live (1:04:00)

Date:
January 19, 2021
Main contributors:
Hall, Keith ; Shanahan, James ; Miles, Emily
Summary:
Our big question for the series is, why do we extract and burn natural gas? To answer this question, we’re addressing smaller questions around the physical science of hydraulic fracturing/emissions...

36. Rebuilding the coffee system for resilience (33:15)

Date:
November 23, 2019
Main contributors:
Harper, James; Eise, Jessica; Tremain, Thaleon
Summary:
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...

37. Hoosier history and environmental attitudes (36:04)

Date:
December 7, 2022
Main contributors:
Sandweiss, Eric
Summary:
Does the history of Indiana shape how Hoosiers relate to the environment today? Conversation with Eric Sandweiss, Professor of History at IU Bloomington

38. Investing in Local Growing With Cedar Valley Permaculture (38:26)

Date:
January 21, 2022
Main contributors:
Hamilton, Stewart; Campbell, Kelsey; Shanahan, James
Summary:
Many of us here in Indiana wonder how we can access local food as the weather gets colder and warm-weather plants go dormant. So, in three parts, we're asking folks near Bloomington how they prepar...

39. Pakistan's Environmental Position With Imran Khalid (34:19)

Date:
November 22, 2021
Main contributors:
Khalid, Imran; Filippelli, Gabriel; Shanahan, James
Summary:
In this episode, Gabe talks with climate and sustainability expert Imran Khalid about COP26, renewable energy, vehicle emissions, and more as they relate to Pakistan's position in a changing climate.

40. The psychology of (climate) change (45:33)

Date:
May 8, 2020
Main contributors:
Lertzman, Renée; Attari, Shahzeen; Frank, Robert
Summary:
Listeners, we have a question. How are you feeling about climate change, about the environment? You can let us know by emailing us at itcpod@indiana.edu. In this episode, we examine just that—the ...

41. Air Check: The US Energy Mix and Valentine Roses (16:03)

Date:
February 11, 2021
Main contributors:
Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
It's almost Valentine's Day, a time for love and examining yet another lifecycle analysis of environmental effects. We also dig into the United States's energy mix and projections. US energy stats...

42. The fire season is far from over (45:05)

Date:
January 24, 2020
Main contributors:
Douglas, Arabella; Miles, Emily; Shanahan, James
Summary:
Part 1 In our first episode covering this season's Australian bushfires, we speak with Arabella Douglas. She is a traditional owner who belongs to the Currie family of the Yugambeh and Bundjalung ...

43. Paths to (and from) climate gentrification (42:50)

Date:
February 6, 2020 to February 7, 2020
Main contributors:
Harris, Alex; Keenan, Jesse; Curran, Winfred
Summary:
Part 1 Long-time residents of higher-elevation Miami neighborhoods have anticipated for decades an influx of wealthy people retreating from flood-prone areas. Then, as it finally began to happen, ...

44. Diversifying Power with Jennie Stephens (30:46)

Date:
September 19, 2022
Main contributors:
Stephens, Jennie
Summary:
To open our fourth season, we chat with Northeastern University professor of sustainability science and policy Jennie Stephens about climate movement leadership and how it needs to shift if we want...

45. How we solved acid rain (44:27)

Date:
March 31, 2020
Main contributors:
Goffman, Joe; Josephson, Dan; Miles, Emily
Summary:
As early as the 1930s, lakes in the Adirondacks began registering fish loss. By the 1980s, visible forest dieback turned the attention of the United States to the acid rain crisis. Today, scientist...

46. Engaging with climate through art (40:08)

Date:
April 29, 2020
Main contributors:
Chandler, Patrick; Pelto, Jill
Summary:
Observing art can help us relate to environmental issues and move us emotionally, but what happens when we take the next step and begin creating art? In this episode, we look at the multi-level pot...

47. Air Check: Intro to the Health Effects of Fracking (33:14)

Date:
January 8, 2021
Main contributors:
Marusic, Kristina; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
Kristina Marusic, who covers environmental health and justice issues in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania for Environmental Health News, helps us understand how fracking and natural gas affect co...

48. The Power of Wonder with Lisa Sideris (24:05)

Date:
February 21, 2022
Main contributors:
Sideris, Lisa; Shanahan, James; Filippelli, Gabriel
Summary:
In this series, we ask, how can spiritual connection with our environment help us enter into right and restorative relationship with the earth, including human and nonhuman inhabitants? In this epi...

49. Snowy waves of grain (35:31)

Date:
October 18, 2019
Main contributors:
Wagner, Gerald; Wolf, Ray; Thomas, Ben
Summary:
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...

51. In pursuit of environmental justice (33:46)

Date:
February 17, 2020
Main contributors:
Shepard, Peggy; Miles, Emily; Shanahan, James
Summary:
The legacy of environmental (in)justice stretches beyond the commencement of the industrial revolution, and according to long-time community organizer Peggy Shepard, it remains among the greatest c...

52. Supporting The Change Agent with Laurie Thorp and Lissy Goralnik (49:50)

Date:
March 29, 2022
Main contributors:
Goralnik, Lissy; Thorp, Laurie; Shanahan, James
Summary:
As institutions of higher education aim to prepare students of sustainability and support environmental research, what are we missing? And what does it take to turn our knowledge of chemistry and p...

53. Hoosier Urban Forestry with Burney Fischer (42:09)

Date:
April 26, 2022
Main contributors:
Fischer, Burney; Shanahan, James; Filippelli, Gabriel
Summary:
How are Hoosier forests shifting, and what can we do to ensure our cities maintain healthy canopies? In this episode, Jim talks with Burney Fischer, former state forester and co-lead of the Bloomin...

55. Redesigning Food Systems: Live (1:06:00)

Date:
April 23, 2021
Main contributors:
Filippelli, Gabriel; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this special Earth Day live show, we discuss food systems from the global to the hyperlocal. Hosts Gabe Filippelli and Jim Shanahan are joined by Cherilyn Yazzie, who helps run Coffee Pot Farms ...

56. The environmental justice landscape (24:08)

Date:
April 3, 2020
Main contributors:
Konisky, David; Miles, Emily; Shanahan, James
Summary:
In this bonus episode, IU O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs professor David Konisky helps us understand the modern environmental justice movement in the context of its history.

57. Land Defenders: Live with Nina Lakhani and Rebecca Thiele (52:05)

Date:
August 6, 2020
Main contributors:
Lakhani, Nina; Thiele, Rebecca; Shanahan, James
Summary:
According to UK-based Global Witness, 14 land and environment defenders were killed in Honduras over the course of 2019, three years after the murder of celebrated Indigenous land defender Berta Cá...

58. Land Defenders: Why this keeps happening and how to help (59:16)

Date:
August 28, 2020
Main contributors:
Brondizio, Eduardo; Goyes, David Rodríguez ; Santana, Stella Emery
Summary:
In the third and final episode of our land defender series, we talk with Eduardo Brondizio, David Rodríguez Goyes, and Stella Emery Santana about the international systems that have long exploited ...

59. Dr. Jay Lemery on Climate Health (33:25)

Date:
January 24, 2022
Main contributors:
Lemery, Jay; Shanahan, James; Filippelli, Gabriel
Summary:
What is the health impact of urban heat islands? Is climate change a "cause of death"? How good is med school training on climate issues? Gabe talks with Dr. Jay Lemery of the Univ of Colorado.

60. Air Check: Indiana Law Limiting Sustainability (09:14)

Date:
May 13, 2021
Main contributors:
Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily; Filippelli, Gabriel
Summary:
Gabe explains how Public Law 180 in Indiana, which operates to restrict the ability of local governments to regulate fuel sourcing and other sustainability measures, fits into a larger pattern of s...

61. How AI can help fight climate change (26:51)

Date:
May 14, 2020
Main contributors:
Silverberg, David; Pilgrim, Brad; Shanahan, James
Summary:
Machine learning's potential to assist in climate change mitigation and adaptation is vast, but as with any developing technologies, so are the challenges. In this episode, we talk with journalist ...

62. Air Check: One Year Later (15:50)

Date:
March 12, 2021
Main contributors:
Filippelli, Gabriel; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this Air Check, professor and biogeochemist Gabriel Filippelli joins us again to talk about what a year in the pandemic has taught us about greenhouse gas emissions and our capacity to change sy...

63. Detangling Plastics with Paul Harvey (41:17)

Date:
April 6, 2022
Main contributors:
Harvey, Paul; Filippelli, Gabriel; Shanahan, James
Summary:
Host Gabe Filippelli talks with Paul Harvey about his book and project Plasticology, microplastics in the environment, and how we can deal with our legacy of plastics pollution—which, like most thi...

64. Air Check: lowering energy burdens and the NC Senate (18:12)

Date:
December 17, 2020
Main contributors:
Salvador, DeAndrea Newman ; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this Air Check, Senator-Elect DeAndrea Newman Salvador joins us to talk about North Carolina's 39th District, which she flipped in the most recent election. As the founder of Renewable Energy Tr...

65. Remix: environmental education (44:56)

Date:
September 13, 2022
Summary:
We're just getting into the fall semester here at IU, so what better time to share an episode that examines methods of environmental education. We revisit conversations about infusing contemplative...

66. A future for Las Vegas, part 3 (28:49)

Date:
May 21, 2020
Main contributors:
Huber, Nicole; Stern, Ralph; Shanahan, James
Summary:
Positioned in the driest desert in the United States, Las Vegas is one of the nation's fastest-warming cities. In our third episode on its past and future, we focus on the time from 2000 to present...

67. Prison Ecology: Live with David Pellow (1:00:00)

Date:
September 3, 2020
Main contributors:
Pellow, David; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
This summer, people in United States and beyond took to the streets to demand racial justice. One of the loudest calls was to defund and abolish the police, but not just the police. Abolitionists h...

69. Building resilience through parks (37:16)

Date:
March 23, 2020
Main contributors:
Jarzen, Joe; Olson, Ethan; Reynolds, Heather
Summary:
When we learned about the storm-resilient Hunter's Point South Park, we immediately took interest in the resilience potential of urban public space. Then came the questions. How can we manage publi...

70. Air Check: Elections, ghost towns, and refuges (16:42)

Date:
November 3, 2020
Main contributors:
Miles, Emily; Shanahan, James
Summary:
We voted, and we hope you did, too! On this election night Air Check, we only prognosticate a little bit. We otherwise discuss climate ghost towns, climate refuges or "havens," and the columns on E...

71. Educating (virtually) for Environmental Change (39:53)

Date:
October 9, 2020
Main contributors:
Milks, Kirstin; Scribner, Adam; Hamburger, Michael
Summary:
In this bonus episode, we talk with organizers and participants from the award-winning Educating for Environmental Change program. Kirstin Milks, Adam Scribner, Michael Hamburger, LaStelshia Speaks...

72. Remix: Heat (47:18)

Date:
August 17, 2022
Main contributors:
Shanahan, James; Filippelli, Gabriel; Miles, Emily
Summary:
When we think of this summer's deadly heatwaves and each rollout of temperature projections, it's hard to argue that there's anything more obviously horrifying. So we wanted to go back through som...

73. Subtracting With Leidy Klotz (45:47)

Date:
October 28, 2021
Main contributors:
Klotz, Leidy; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
When you come across a challenge, what is your first impulse? To add or subtract? And what does it really mean to subtract? In this episode, University of Virginia professor Leidy Klotz helps us u...

74. Emergent Strategy with adrienne maree brown (33:33)

Date:
August 27, 2021
Main contributors:
brown, adrienne maree; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
Season 3 of In This Climate is right around the corner! In anticipation, we're sharing one of our favorite interviews from spring 2021. It's a wide-ranging conversation with person-of-many-hats adr...

75. Susan Anenberg: Climate and Air Quality (34:45)

Date:
January 17, 2022
Main contributors:
Anenberg, Susan; Filippelli, Gabriel; Shanahan, James
Summary:
Gabe talks with Susan Anenberg of GWU about climate change, air quality, COVID and climate and other issues.

76. Air Check: Crazy Town and Ecoliterate Agriculture (25:48)

Date:
April 2, 2021
Main contributors:
Bradford, Jason; Shanahan, James; Miles, Emily
Summary:
Dr. Jason Bradford, board president of the Post Carbon Institute and co-host of the Crazy Town podcast, joins us to talk about their third season and his work in/around sustainable agriculture. We...

77. How We Solved Acid Rain (45:45)

Date:
January 7, 2022
Main contributors:
Shanahan, James; Filippelli, Gabriel; Miles, Emily
Summary:
A show about how environmental policy dealt with acid rain, and the beneficial effects in the Adirondacks.

78. What's Next: Live (59:05)

Date:
November 6, 2020
Main contributors:
Meyer, Robinson; Funes, Yessenia; Wray, Britt
Summary:
In the first episode of our post-election series, we go live with Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic, Yessenia Funes of Atmos Magazine, Britt Wray of Gen Dread, Dharna Noor of Earther, and independent ...

79.  Geoengineering: Live (51:21)

Date:
February 11, 2021
Main contributors:
Kravitz, Ben; Gerrard, Michael; MacMartin, Douglas
Summary:
Jim Shanahan and guest host Ben Kravitz talk with environmental law expert Michael Gerrard and climate engineering researcher Douglas MacMartin about the ins and outs of geoengineering. See the vi...

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

Date:
October 11, 2019
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 dev...

81. The Hoosier Environmental Landscape With Jesse Kharbanda (53:43)

Date:
November 5, 2021
Main contributors:
Kharbanda, Jesse; Filippelli, Gabriel; Shanahan, James
Summary:
In this episode, Jesse Kharbanda sits down with host Gabe Filippelli to talk about the nuances, challenges, and opportunities in Indiana environmental legislation and action. Jesse built this knowl...

82. IU's Paul Helmke & Brian DeLong on the 2016 Political Season (44:12)

Date:
November 1, 2016
Main contributors:
Helmke, Paul; DeLong, Brian; Shanahan, James
Summary:
This week, Through the Gates host Jim Shanahan discusses the upcoming election and recent electoral debates with IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs professors Paul Helmke, Professor of P...

84. Herzig, Monika, on Jazz Legend David Baker and Women in Jazz (29:15)

Date:
September 18, 2016
Main contributors:
Herzig, Monika; McFadden, Dale; Handley, Chris J.
Summary:
Through the Gates host Jim Shanahan talks with Monika Herzig, jazz recording artist and lecturer in SPEA’s Arts Management program about jazz legend David Baker, jazz education, and women in jazz. ...

86. Martins, Nicole, on the effects of mass media on children (27:26)

Date:
October 12, 2016
Main contributors:
Martins, Nicole; Shanahan, James
Summary:
Through the Gates host and Dean of the Media School Jim Shanahan speaks with Associate Professor Nicole Martins about her work on the effects of media on children. The conversation reveals some of ...

87. Through the Gates Year-End Review (30:15)

Date:
December 24, 2016
Main contributors:
French, Tom; Banks, Jonathan; Benson, Robbie
Summary:
A look back at some of the interesting personalities who appeared on Through the Gates, including Tom French, Jonathan Banks, Robbie Benson, Kate Lilley, Lilly King, Lee Hamilton and Monika Herzig.

88. Media Portrayal of Muslims, the Political Climate & Student Activism (22:57)

Date:
September 11, 2016
Main contributors:
Sinno, Abdulkader; Khabbaz, Dana; Cummings, Janae
Summary:
IU Media School dean Jim Shanahan interviews Prof. Abdulkader Sinno on topics ranging from the portrayal of Muslims in popular culture to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposed b...

89. Tompkins, Jess, On Women in Gaming (17:01)

Date:
September 26, 2016
Main contributors:
Tompkins, Jess; Docherty, Carrie; Lalevich, Steven
Summary:
Through the Gates host Janae Cummings talks to Jess Tompkins, IU Media School PhD student, about women in gaming and the sexualization of female characters in video games. She later chats with IU S...

90. Julien, Eileen, and the Arts of Survival (35:44)

Date:
July 9, 2016
Main contributors:
Julien, Eileen ; Shanahan, James
Summary:
This week, we’ll hear from Eileen Julien, IU professor of comparative literature and director of IU’s Institute for Advanced Study. Julien is also co-director of “Arts of Survival: Recasting Lives...

91. Adams, Michael, Author (45:14)

Date:
August 14, 2016
Main contributors:
Adams, Michael; Shanahan, James
Summary:
This week, we’ll hear from Michael Adams, Provost Professor of English at Indiana University, and author of “In Praise of Profanity” (Oxford University Press, 2016). Adams sees “In Praise of Profa...

92. Wexler, Nancy, Geneticist (43:33)

Date:
August 7, 2016
Main contributors:
Wexler, Nancy; Shanahan, James
Summary:
This week, we’ll hear from Nancy Wexler, a leading geneticist and neuropsychologist whose research led to the identification of the Huntington’s disease gene. Her research has also led to the disco...

93. Bochman, Matt, Molecular Biologist (32:40)

Date:
July 24, 2016
Main contributors:
Bochman, Matthew; Shanahan, James
Summary:
Water. Hops. Malted barley. Yeast. Put them together and you have a delicious beer — usually. But as IU molecular biologist Matthew Bochman shares on this week’s podcast, conditions common to the...

94. Douglas, Trevor, IU Chemistry Professor; Dana Johnson, Author (41:08)

Date:
May 29, 2016
Main contributors:
Douglas, Trevor; Johnson, Dana; Shanahan, James
Summary:
This week, Through the Gates host Jim Shanahan is joined by Trevor Douglas, the Earl Blough Professor of Chemistry in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Chemistry. Doug...

95. Carter, Sue, Director, Kinsey Institute (41:22)

Date:
May 15, 2016
Main contributors:
Carter, Sue; Allen, Colin; Shanahan, James
Summary:
This week, host Jim Shanahan is joined by Sue Carter, the director of The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. Carter was appointed to her position at The Kinsey Institute in October, 2014, afte...

98. Hamilton, Lee, Former Indiana Congressman (44:47)

Date:
May 8, 2016
Main contributors:
Hamilton, Lee; Shanahan, James
Summary:
Former Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton joins host Jim Shanahan on this week's episode of Through the Gates. Hamilton represented Indiana's 9th Congressional District from 1965 to 1999 and served ...

99. McGibbon, Murray, IU Theatre Professor (31:32)

Date:
May 1, 2016
Main contributors:
McGibbon, Murray; Shanahan, James
Summary:
This week on Through the Gates, IU associate professor Murray McGibbon joins host Jim Shanahan to discuss his upcoming "original pronunciation" production of Shakespeare's "King Lear". McGibbon ut...

100. Benson, Robby, Actor and IU Professor (56:28)

Date:
April 24, 2016
Main contributors:
Benson, Robby; Matejka, Adrian; Kwong, Lisa
Summary:
Accomplished actor, writer, singer and director Robby Benson joins host Jim Shanahan for this week's episode of Through the Gates. A professor of practice at Indiana University, Benson brings expe...