Dr. Patrick Quinn, an assistant professor at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington, and a team of researchers have been awarded a 3-year, $400,000 grant from the Swedish Research Council to research the prescribed opioid analgesic used during pregnancy and the risk for adverse birth outcomes and neurodevelopment problems in offspring. The team, which includes… Read more »
Awards & Honors
Brian Dodge to receive LGBTQ+ Spirit Award
Brian Dodge, a professor at the School of Public Health-Bloomington and associate director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion, has been selected to receive this year’s LGBTQ+ Spirit Award. In existence for 20 years, the award goes to a faculty member who “embodies the strength, character, and spirit of IU’s LGBTQ+ Culture Center.” The… Read more »
SPH alum Michaela Cisney garners GlobalGiving award for her nonprofit Priyam Global
Priyam Global Initiative, a nonprofit started in 2014 by IU School of Public Health-Bloomington alum Michaela Cisney, has been awarded an Honorable Mention on GlobalGiving’s annual Top 10 list. The mission of Priyam Global Initiative is to alleviate poverty for children with disabilities by investing in their mother. The nonprofit currently works in India, which… Read more »
Dr. Brandon Howell named Lodging Faculty Fellow
Dr. Brandon Howell, a lecturer in the School of Public Health-Bloomington, was recently named a Lodging Faculty Fellow with White Lodging Services. This fellowship, the first such appointment nationally with White Lodging, has Howell reacquainting himself with his practitioner roots in the hospitality industry. He is learning White Lodging’s hospitality systems in preparation for the recently approved… Read more »
Patrick Quinn named APS Rising Star
Patrick Quinn, an assistant professor at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington, has been selected as a Rising Star in the Association for Psychological Science (APS). APS Rising Stars reflect the best and brightest of psychological science. The Rising Star designation recognizes outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their post-Ph.D. research career whose… Read more »
Academic specialist and graduate student Aurora Le awarded prestigious Cross Future Leaders Award
Aurora Le, an academic specialist and graduate student at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington, has been awarded the prestigious K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. This award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and in… Read more »
Dr. Beth Meyerson named IU Bicentennial Professor
The Indiana University Office of the Bicentennial has named Beth Meyerson, associate professor of health policy and management and co-director of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention in the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington, as a Bicentennial Professor, along with 25 other exceptional IU faculty members whose appointments were approved by the IU Board of… Read more »
York wins 2018 National Accessibility Leadership Achievement Award
Dr. Sherril York, Executive Director of the National Center on Accessibility at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington, has received the 2018 National Accessibility Leadership Achievement Award presented by the National Park Service (NPS). The award recognizes outstanding accomplishments that advance opportunities for persons with disabilities in the National Park System. Dr. York was presented… Read more »
IU praised for outstanding Sports Management and Athletic Administration faculty
Indiana University Bloomington was recently named as one of the four best schools for Outstanding Sports Management and Athletic Administration Faculty by Bschools.org. In addition, its list of 19 exceptional professors in this field featured four professors at Indiana University and two professors at other schools who hold PhDs in Sports Management from IU. Check… Read more »
Alyce Fly elected to serve as Nutrition Research Chair for American Society of Nutrition
Alyce Fly, Associate Professor of Nutrition Science and Dietetics at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington, has been elected to serve as chair-elect of the Community and Public Health Nutrition Research Interest Section (RIS) for the American Society for Nutrition (ASN). Founded in 1928 as the American Institute for Nutrition, ASN’s mission is to bring… Read more »
Sexuality in America focus for team receiving 2018 Outstanding Faculty Collaborative Research Award
Since 2009, an IU Bloomington team has been researching how sex has changed over the years. Now the team’s collaboration on the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior has earned the campus’s 2018 Outstanding Faculty Collaborative Research Award. The National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior is the largest nationally representative survey of sexual behavior… Read more »
MPH students Elizabeth Bartelt and Alex Purcell receive prestigious public health award
Master of Public Health (MPH) students Elizabeth Bartelt and Alex Purcell are this year’s recipients of the prestigious Stephen Jay Award for Leadership in Public Health. The award is presented annually to current MPH students across the state who exhibit exemplary public health leadership, scholarship, and practice, resulting in the improvement of public health in… Read more »