IU in the News highlights a sampling of media stories featuring Indiana University from the past two weeks. No editorial revisions are made to the content, which is presented as it was initially published or broadcast.

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• “Many children aren’t getting the vision screening they need,” The Washington Post.

  • Expert comment from Katie Connolly, chief of pediatric and binocular vision service at the IU School of Optometry.

• “IMPD, state officers focused on community safety through ‘Click It or Ticket’ campaign,” WRTV.

  • Expert comment from Arvind Verma, professor of criminal justice in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington.

• “Indiana may experience rolling blackouts this summer. What are they? How can you prepare?” The Herald Times.

  • Expert comment from Sanya Carley, professor at IU O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

• “Researchers at IU are creating a patch to reverse opioid overdoses,” WTHR. Also covered by Fox 59.

  • Based on this news release.

• “Indy Pride and prejudice,” Indy Monthly.

  • Expert comment from Brad Fulton, associate professor in the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Bloomington.

• “Clarksville Starbucks files to unionize, first to do so in Indiana,” Indiana Public Media.

  • Expert comment from Joseph Varga, associate professor of labor studies in the School of Social Work at IU Bloomington.

• “Elon Musk’s bot problem on Twitter is extraordinary,” Wall Street Journal. Research also featured in Forbes.
  

  • Expert comment from Kaicheng Yang, a computer scientist and Ph.D. candidate at IU who helped build a bot-detection tool called Botometer. 

• “If Roe is overturned, the ripples could affect IVF and genetic testing of embryos, experts warn,” STAT.

  • Expert comment from Stephanie Boys, an associate professor in the IU School of Social Work. 

• “IU School of Nursing addressing national shortage,” Inside Indiana Business.

• “Has the gun become a sacred object in America?” Christian Science Monitor.

  • Expert comment from Andrew Whitehead, associate professor of sociology at IUPUI.

• “Volunteers say need for aid in Ukraine getting ‘bigger’ as war surpasses 100 days,” CBS 4. 

  • Expert comment from Robert Kravchuk, professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Bloomington.

• “IU cybersecurity institution expands,”  Inside Indiana Business.

• “EPA report finds numerous chemicals in smoke from Walmart warehouse fire,” WISH-TV.

  • Expert comment from Gabriel Filippelli, Chancellor’s Professor in the School of Science at IUPUI.

• “EPA report found higher levels of carcinogens temporarily after Plainfield fire,” WTHR. Also covered by Fox 59.

  • Expert comment from Sarah Commodore, assistant professor in the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.

• “IU names Kelley School interim dean,” Inside Indiana Business. Also covered by Poets and Quants, Yahoo News and the Indiana Daily Student.

• “IUSB to host Summer STEM Academy for middle-schoolers,” ABC 57.

• “Local experts weigh in on Jan. 6 insurrection hearings,” WTHI.

  • Expert comment from Raymond Haberski, a professor of history at IUPUI, and Lee H. Hamilton, professor of practice in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

• “Are social media platforms like railroads? The future of Facebook and Twitter could depend on the answer,” CNN.

  • Expert comment from Barbara Cherry, a professor at The Media School at IU Bloomington.

• “A conversation with Indiana University Northwest professor of economics Micah Pollack,” Lakeshore Public Radio.

• “Indiana’s red flag law deemed more lenient than most – find out why that is,” WTHI.

  • Expert comment from Jody Madeira, professor of law in the IU Maurer School of Law. Also quoted in The Verge about fertility fraud.

• “Expert: Time for climate change prep is now in Tippecanoe County,” WLFI. Also quoted on WFYI.

  • Expert comment from Matt Flaherty, implementation manager at the Environmental Resilience Institute.

• “The Jan. 6 committee hosted a hearing for the 21st century,” FiveThirtyEight.

  • Expert comment from Steven Webster, assistant professor of political science in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington.

• “Hoosier housing market is hot; Fed’s interest rate hike will make an impact,” WTHR.

  • Expert comment from Kyle Anderson, clinical assistant professor of business economics in the Kelley School of Business at IUPUI. Also quoted in The Indianapolis Star, WSBT, Fox 55 Fort Wayne, WISH-TV.

• “Opinion: The endurance of parents,” NPR.
  

  • Expert comment from Jessica Calarco, associate professor of sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington.

• “Prosecutors still reviewing 1988 Indianapolis shaken baby death case,” WTHR.
  

  • Expert comment from Novella Nedeff, professor of law in the IU McKinney School of Law at IUPUI.

• “Giving refugees money instead of stuff can lead to price gouging – but it doesn’t have to,” The Conversation.
  

  • Co-authored by Owen Wu and Alfonso J. Pedraza Martinez, both associate professors of operations and decision technologies in the IU Kelley School of Business.

• “Tight labor market, rising costs and possible recession: How local businesses are surviving,” South Bend Tribune. 
  

  • Expert comment from Andrew Butters, assistant professor of business economics and public policy in the IU Kelley School of Business. Also quoted in The Indianapolis Star.

• “There’s a major recession signal everybody is missing: small businesses cutting spending as they prepare for the worst,” Fortune.

  • Expert comment from David Audretsch, Distinguished Professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

• “Why might the F-word be on the rise?” NBC News.

  • Expert comment from Michael Adams, Provost Professor and chair of the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences.

• “How Christian home-schoolers laid the groundwork for ‘parental rights’,” The Washington Post.

  • Expert comment from Robert Kunzman, professor in the School of Education at IU Bloomington.

• “IU colleagues collaborate on Ukrainian cultural preservation,” Indiana Public Media.

• “PFAS are more toxic than we thought. EPA sets new, temporary health guidelines,” Indiana Public Media.

  • Expert comment from Lisa Kamendulis, associate professor in the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.

• “Satellites zoom in on cities’ hottest neighborhoods to help combat the urban heat island effect,” The Conversation.

  • By Daniel P. Johnson, associate professor of geography at IUPUI.

• “Why gender equity in sports matters so much,” Lexington Herald Leader.

  • Expert comment from Jayma Meyer, visiting clinical professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

• “Efforts to form a new government in Iraq descend into chaos,” The New York Times.

  • Expert comment from Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi, the Michael A. and Laurie Burns McRobbie Professor in Global Strategic Studies and Professor of Central Eurasian Studies, and director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East at Indiana University.

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