Children in the foster care system face a slew of challenges ranging from instability in the home to uncertain access to food and limited prospects for higher education. The current structure of resources and programming in the system has proven thus far to be insufficient to address these and other concerns of the youth it… Read more »
Research
Phytoplankton and Public Health: Lake Monroe’s Implications for Managing Freshwater Ecosystems
(Photo: Aerial Associates Photography, Inc. by Zachary Haslick) Algae holds a valuable position in telling us about the health of a freshwater supply as well as the communities depending on it. For Lake Monroe, a reservoir just southeast of Bloomington, Indiana, and the city’s primary drinking water source, phytoplankton can serve as an early… Read more »
From Aid to Instability: How Foreign Arms Empower Coup d’Etats in Sub-Saharan Africa
In June 2023, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Jonathon Braga met with Niger’s Brigadier General Moussa Salaou Barmou at Air Base 101, a site bolstered by $158 million in U.S. arms sales since 2017. Just weeks later, General Barmou led a military coup that ousted Niger’s democratically elected president, reportedly using U.S.-provided weapons. Sub-Saharan Africa is… Read more »
What were the Impacts of International Accountability Mechanisms on the Philippine War on Drugs?
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 »
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 »