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Building Wakanda: a graduate student’s journey into sports psychology

Posted February 20, 2021 by ScIU Editorial Team

[DJ Purnell is captured from the side, smiling. He is sitting at a panel on advice for applying to graduate school]

This week on the blog, we tackle sports and performance from the perspective of mental health, talking with IU’s DeJon Purnell. Purnell is a Ph.D. student in the Counseling Psychology program in IU’s School of Education, and his specific focus is Sport and Performance Psychology. While much of sports psychology translates directly into counseling the athletes themselves, DJ focuses on bigger-picture issues in sports and performance mental health, such as coaching behaviors and pathways to licensure for practicing sports counselors…

Welcome to the Weaver Lab: An interview with Dr. Lesley Weaver

Posted February 13, 2021 by Chloe Holden

[Dr. Lesley Weaver poses for a head shot wearing a bright, cobalt blue top, smiling facing the camera, and wearing her black, curly hair down and parted on the side.]

Dr. Lesley Weaver, an alum of IU’s Department of Biology, has returned to campus as an Assistant Professor after her finishing her postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University. This past September, I had the opportunity to interview her about her experience as an early career researcher, setting up her lab, navigating IU in her new role as an Assistant Professor, and how the COVID-19 pandemic shift to online has simultaneously highlighted issues with and solutions to accessibility and diversity in academia.

Building Wakanda: a graduate student’s journey into sports psychology

Posted February 22, 2020 by Lana Ruck

A profile of DeJon Purnell in celebration of Black History Month In the USA, sports are important, period. But many of us are aware that America’s cultural obsession with sports is not without its downsides. Still, I know people who are fine with 2020’s Super Bowl mascots (among other things; see The Onion’s recent Tweet),… Read more »

Brewers without borders: Crossing racial divisions in the world of craft beer

Posted February 8, 2020 by ScIU Editorial Team

A beer glass sits on a barrel.

This post is from ScIU’s archives. It was originally published by Lana Ruck in February 2019 and has been lightly edited to reflect current events. A profile of Aaron Ellis in celebration of Black History Month Craft beer: chances are if you’re over 21, you’ve heard about it, drank it, or even tried to brew it… Read more »

Brewers without borders: Crossing racial divisions in the world of craft beer

Posted February 19, 2019 by Lana Ruck

A beer glass sits on a barrel.

A profile of Aaron Ellis in celebration of Black History Month Craft beer: chances are if you’re over 21, you’ve heard about it, drank it, or even tried to brew it yourself. For anthropologist Aaron Ellis — a brewer, a Ph.D. candidate in IU’s Department of Anthropology, and an IU academic advisor in the departments… Read more »

Sexual science: An interview with Justin Garcia

Posted May 29, 2018 by Chris ChoGlueck

A picture of Justin Garcia, smiling into the camera.

“Our sexuality is becoming digital,” notes Dr. Justin Garcia, a leading expert in modern human mating.  While new modes of sexuality and romance bring benefits, they also invite ethical questions.  Take the phenomenon of “sexting,” the transmission of sexual images and messages via mobile phone or other electronic media.  After discovering that sexts are shared… Read more »

Who’s eating who? Predators that cause disease epidemics & Predators that improve human health

Posted August 8, 2017 by Briana K. Whitaker

A women sits in a blue boat (kayak) holding a double-sided paddle in the middle of a lake. Trees and cloudy background.

Pathogens and parasites are the hidden players of many of nature’s most bizarre and beautiful patterns and processes. For example, the extraordinary levels of plant animal biodiversity we find in the tropics is thought to be due, at least in part to the high levels of disease and natural enemies we find in those environments…. Read more »

A short interview with Dr. Jonathan Schlebach

Posted February 21, 2017 by Victoria Kohout

a portrait of Dr. Schlebach

This past August Indiana University welcomed a new addition to its chemical biology research faculty, Dr. Jonathan Schlebach. Dr. Schlebach came to IU following a post-doctoral position at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, to begin setting up his own research program and teaching graduate and undergraduate courses. He offers some insight on what his research… Read more »

Biological Venn diagrams: Where do math and biology intersect?

Posted December 20, 2016 by Briana K. Whitaker

Think back to some of the core materials you learned from a biology course, either in college or high school. What do you remember? Maybe you remember something about human anatomy, or the carbon cycle, the structure of cells, or how DNA is replicated? But do you ever immediately think about how math and biology… Read more »

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