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Safeguarding Indiana is focus of cybersecurity summit

The first Indiana Statewide Cybersecurity Summit brought together researchers and leaders in cybersecurity from Indiana University, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame. 

Covered by:

• Fox 59: Statewide cybersecurity summit kicks off for Hoosiers
• WTHR: IU hosts virtual cybersecurity summit
• Inside Indiana Business: Summit shining light on cybersecurity

In other news 

Oct. 15

• VIDEO: “Churches can be biggest mental health support for African Americans,” Fox 59.

  • Expert comment from Brad Fulton, associate professor of management and social policy at the IU O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Information from this article at The Conversation.

• COLUMN: “Leaders must adapt to the changing world of work,” Indianapolis Business Journal.

  • By Sara Johnson, clinical assistant professor at the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI and director of IU Executive Education.

• “Physicists make most precise measurement ever of neutron’s lifetime,” Nature.

  • Based on research from the Department of Physics in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences and featuring expert comment from research scientist Daniel Salvat. IU-affiliated authors at the time of the study were graduate students Nathan Callahan, Maria Dawid and Francisco Gonzalez; engineer Walt Fox; Rudy Professor of Physics Chen-Yu Liu; research scientist Daniel Salvat; and mechanical technician John Vanderwerp.

• “How many lives have coronavirus vaccines saved? We used state data on deaths and vaccination rates to find out,” The Conversation.

  • By Sumedha Gupta, associate professor of economics at IUPUI.

• VIDEO: “Number of unfilled jobs grows in Indiana,” Fox 59.

  • Expert comment from Andrew Butters, assistant professor of business economics and public policy at IU Kelley School of Business at IU Bloomington.

• VIDEO: “Sports betting apps fuel bonanza for Indiana treasury,” Fox 59.

  • Expert comment from Kyle Anderson, clinical assistant professor of business economics and faculty chair of the Evening MBA Program at IU Kelley School of Business at IUPUI.
• VIDEO: “Trucking companies dealing with supply chain woes as holiday season looms,” WANE-TV.
  • Expert comment from Amrou Awaysheh, assistant professor of operations management and executive director of the Business Sustainability and Innovation Lab at the IU Kelley School of Business at IUPUI.

• COLUMN: “Don’t let the talent crunch derail your hiring standards,” Indianapolis Business Journal.

  • By Liz Malatestinic, teaching professor in human resource management at IU Kelley School of Business at IUPUI.

Oct. 16

• COLUMN: “Afghanistan’s Taliban-led future,” East Asia Forum.

  • By Abdulkader Sinno, associate professor of political science and Middle Eastern studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington.

• “Despite progress, Indiana’s still one of the nation’s top CO2-emitting states,” The Herald Bulletin.

  • Expert comment from Gabe Filippelli, Chancellor’s Professor of Earth Sciences at IUPUI and executive director of IU’s Environmental Resilience Institute.

Oct. 18

• VIDEO: “IU Northwest receives Hispanic-serving designation, $5M grant for STEM,” WISHTV.
  • Expert comment from Ken Iwama, Chancellor of Indiana University Northwest

• “The hospital whiteboard was blank. Until this IU Health worker started to draw,” The Indianapolis Star.

  • Featuring IUPUI student William Minion. Also featured in this WRTV story.

• “To help hospitals, Hoosiers urged to get vaccines after first flu-related death of season,” WFYI.

  • Expert comment from Shandy Dearth, lecturer and director of undergraduate epidemiology education at the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI.

Oct. 19

• VIDEO: “Lowe’s wanted a Kokomo man to sign confidentiality agreement to get refund on a poorly built shed,” WRTV.

  • Expert comment from Judith Wright, clinical assistant professor of business law at the IU Kelley School of Business at IUPUI.

• “Cyberattack at Sinclair Broadcasting disrupts WSBT-TV shows and phones,” South Bend Tribune.

  • Expert comment from Scott Shackelford, associate professor of business law and ethics and director of the IU Cybersecurity Program at IU Kelley School of Business at IU Bloomington.

• “12 ways to break through a weight loss plateau,” Men’s Health.

  • Expert comment from John Raglin, professor in the department of Kinesiology in the School of Public Health at IU Bloomington.

• “IU O’Neill School Professor Elected to National Academy,” Inside Indiana Business.

  • Featuring Kosali Simon, Herman B Wells Endowed Professor in the IU O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and associate vice provost for health sciences at IU Bloomington. Based on information in this release.

• “Tech hubs growing in popularity in Hoosier state,” Fox 59.

  • Expert comment from Geoffre Sherman, IUPUI Sports Innovation Institute, lecturer in the Department of Tourism, Event and Sport Management at IUPUI. .

Oct. 20

• COLUMN: “Can Facebook’s smart glasses be smart about security and privacy?“ The Conversation.
  • By Apu Kapadia, professor of computer science at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering at IU Bloomington.

• “IU Kelley School students build with Habitat for Humanity again after COVID-19 disruptions,” The Herald-Times.

• “EPA lays out plans to address PFAS, some say it doesn’t go far enough,” Indiana Public Media.

  • Expert comment from Marta Venier, assistant professor at IU O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Bloomington.
• “Lilly Library acquires more than 20,000 linguistic books collected by ‘Dame of Dictionaries,’ WBIW. Also covered by Inside Indiana Business.

  • Expert comment from Michael Adams, Provost Professor and chair of the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington, and Joel Silver, Lilly Library director. Based on information from this release.

Oct. 21

• “IU strength coach fighting for disability employment,” Inside Indiana Business.

  • Featuring Tom Morris, senior assistant athletic director for athletic performance at IU, and his work with the Indiana Work to Include Coalition.
• “’The Price of Progress’ first play at renovated Walker in Indy,” Chicago Crusader.
  • By Vernon Williams, communications and community engagement strategist with the IUPUI Office of Community Engagement.

• “4 ways the energy crisis hits U.S. electricity, gas, EVs,” Energy Wire.

  • Expert comment from John Graham, professor at IU O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Bloomington.