News - Indiana Public Media • 17th November 2023

Abortion restrictions prevent OB-GYN training, so IU sends residents to Illinois

After the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back a right to an abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson last year, 24 states have triggered abortion bans or are likely to do so, the Guttmacher Institute reports.

State actions in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision put pressure on medical schools who train doctors in obstetrics and gynecology as abortion restrictions and bans accrue.

Dr. Nicole Scott, Indiana University’s OB-GYN residency program director, leads 40 residents this year. I

News - Indiana Public Media • 25th January 2024

Employers and Ivy Tech partner for affordable, free college and skills training

Julie Hays, a quality control inspector at Cook Medical, smiles as she tells the story of how she decided to go back to college.

With basic classes out of the way from her first try, she took two classes per semester at Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington while working full time. She finally graduated in December with a certificate in business administration at no cost to her, because of the My Cook Pathway program.

“It was just overwhelming, you know, just to be unable to finish in Decembe

News - Indiana Public Media • 21st February 2025

Even before DEI came under attack, IU Bloomington’s Black enrollment stayed flat for decades

Indiana University Bloomington hasn’t made much progress on Black student enrollment in almost 50 years, according to a WFIU/WTIU News analysis.  Fall enrollment headcounts from 1975 to 2024 show Black students at IU averaging about 4 percent of the undergraduate student body.

The Columbus Dispatch • 9th May 2022

Gunfire into Columbus homes, businesses on the rise, with lives threatened, lost

Gunfire into Columbus homes, businesses on the rise, with lives threatened, lost

Traci Wimberly was soundly sleeping with her 1-year-old daughter next to her one night in late March when an unknown suspect in a passing car fired a single bullet that ripped through the exterior of her home and lodged itself in her daughter’s leg.

Fortunately, her daughter, Aurisa Naielle Stewart, survived, but she is in the process of an expensive recovery. And Wimberly is still searching for justice for her ba

NPR • 17th February 2024

Indiana University abruptly canceled a Palestinian artist's exhibit. It's now sold out

Indiana University canceled a planned exhibit of the artwork of Palestinian-American artist Samia Halaby. Now a one-day exhibit by new organizers is sold out.

News - Indiana Public Media • 7th August 2024

'The high-paying jobs of the future': Colleges play key role in billion-dollar semiconductor industry

The high schoolers got an introduction to the billion-dollar semiconductor industry.

News - Indiana Public Media • 7th December 2023

'The perfect match': College students with physical disabilities earn internships with Fehribach Center

It’s been years since Paige Moore started looking into college internships. As a freshman at Indiana University, there weren't many options.

First, paid internships were hard to find. And then she had to find somewhere that helps people with disabilities. Moore is hard of hearing, and she uses a sign language interpreter. She felt like she was at a disadvantage.

Then she found the Gregory S. Fehribach Center at Eskenazi Health.

“It felt like the perfect match,” Moore said.

Now a senior, she

The Columbus Dispatch • 24th February 2022

'They didn't just live there': Columbus historian remembers life in The Blackberry Patch

Travelers from the South planted the seeds for one of Columbus' most successful Black neighborhoods with a stretch of rustic log cabins nearly 100 years ago.

Erected on the East Side in the 1920s and 1930s, Blackberry Patch was a community of residents who cared for one another, said Reita Smith, a local historian and founding chair of the James Preston Poindexter Foundation.

"That need for community and