Hitler massacred three million Jews. Now there are three million drug addicts … I’d be happy to slaughter them.” –Rodrigo Duterte This chilling quote is from former President Rodrigo Duterte and encapsulates the brutal rhetoric that defined the Philippine War on Drugs. The Philippine War on Drugs is a bloody anti-drug campaign that spanned from… Read more »
Research
The Effect of Conflict on the Education of Young Girls
In 2014, 276 girls were kidnapped from their school in Chibok, Nigeria by an armed group. Since then, 1,600 children have been abducted or kidnapped across northern Nigeria, many of them while in school or on their way to school. Education is vital to ensuring that countries’ economies are able to grow and succeed. Education… Read more »
Breaking Barriers: How Telehealth is Shaping the Future of Healthcare
In 2020, the world turned upside down as the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the way we think about healthcare. Among its most significant shifts was the rapid adoption of telehealth services, which created a digital bridge between patients and providers as a temporary solution to the accessibility challenges the world was facing. While telehealth was not… Read more »
Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Link Between Healthcare Shortages and Baby Boomer Retirements in the East North Central U.S.
The United States healthcare system is facing a critical challenge- a growing shortage of healthcare professionals, driven by the retirement of the baby boomer generation. This demographic shift began as baby boomers reached retirement age in the early 2010s, reshaping the healthcare workforce while increasing the demand for services. My thesis titled, “Examining the Association… Read more »
The Racial Divide in Accessing Prenatal Care: Why White and Black Mothers Face Different Premature Birth Risks
Black women are three times more likely to have a pregnancy-related death, compared to White women, and infants born to Black women are over twice as likely to die in their first year of life, relative to those born to White women. One contributing factor to those statistics can be attributed to a mother receiving… Read more »
The Viability of Relocation Incentive Strategies – Tulsa Remote
Relocation incentive strategies, an innovative form of economic development incentives, boost short-term economic growth, but leave mixed demographic and economic measures in the medium-term. The Tulsa Remote program led to medium-term boosts in both housing supply and births in the surrounding, non-program implementation areas, boosting regional growth. Would you move to a new place if… Read more »
Creativity, not Checkboxes: Indiana Elementary Music Teachers Like Their Standards Now
Even though it ranks as the 43rd most highly educated state, Indiana may be doing something right. As students are less likely to pursue higher education and contribute to the academic vitality of the state than they are in many others, Indiana’s education policies – and their main implementers – are worth examining. At the… Read more »
On the Brink of Extinction: Small Island Developing States’ Pleas for Climate Financing through UN General Assembly Speeches
Imagine living on a small island in the Caribbean, completely surrounded by water. You learn that your entire island is in the path of a Category 5 hurricane. First, you ask: how do we prepare? Then, if you survive, you ask: how do we recover? For those living in small island developing states, these… Read more »
Public Universities’ are Impacting the Unhoused–For Better and Worse
Throughout my four years at Indiana University – Bloomington, I was surprised at the noticeable presence of chronically unhoused individuals in the surrounding community. These empirical observations motivated me to look into why this would occur in a small semi-rural town in Southern Indiana. What I found shocked me: nothing. I saw no research on… Read more »
Cybersecurity: Governed by Values, not Threats
Cyberattacks occur every minute around the world. There is probably one occurring right now, and you might be next. This is not a new phenomenon. Take Ticketmaster, for example. In 2024, the online ticketing company experienced a cyberattack in which 500 million customer records, including payment information, addresses, and email data, were stolen. Regimes worldwide… Read more »