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Sociologist Dr. Kenzie Mintus at Indiana University-Indianapolis, was featured as an expert on a recent This Old House Reviews 2025 report titled Aging in Place: Can Older Americans Afford To Stay in Their Homes?  The report focused on aging in place. Click here to learn more about Dr. Mintus’s research on aging.

Professor Chris Lamb with the Department of Journalism and Public Relations at IU Indianapolis, teaches a course called Fake News. The course name was inspired by President Donald Trump, who falsely claimed to have invented the term. Trump’s lies and misstatements are well chronicled. As he explains, “I wanted to chronicle his failure as a …

Associate Professor of Sociology Andrew Whitehead appears as a featured voice in a new documentary on Christian nationalism titled GOD & COUNTRY. The film opens in theaters nationwide–including Indianapolis–on Friday, February 16. GOD & COUNTRY takes a closer look at the dangerous implications and explores how a base of Christians has radically stoked a movement …

Drs. Jennifer Bute and Maria Brann, along with a team of researchers from across the country, recently published a novel screening tool, Reproductive Grief Screen, to identify patients who may be experiencing ongoing, complicated grief following a pregnancy loss.  Click here for the press release highlighting the critical importance of this new tool and read …

Assistant Professor of English Sarah Layden‘s new book of short stories, Imagine Your Life Like This, was reviewed by Kathryn Ludwig for the Indiana Authors Awards book reviews, which makes the reviews available to newspapers across the state. Layden was interviewed about the book by Indiana Humanities/Indiana Authors Awards. Click here to Watch the interview:  …

Campus Pre-Law Advisor and Clinical Associate Professor of Political Science Shana Stump was interviewed in The Indiana Lawyer about upcoming changes to the LSAT for pre-law students. Click here to read the full article.

Professor Kristina Sheeler (IU Indianapolis School of Liberal Arts), and coauthor Karrin Vasby Anderson were recently interviewed about their increasingly relevant book: Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture.(Texas A&M Press, 2013). The book remains a timely and “important exploration of the complexities of women, gender, and power within the U.S. political system, with particular attention …

  IU Indianapolis sociology professor Andrew Whitehead provided expert analysis for a Washington Post column examining a slew of bills in Texas pushing for the insertion of a particular expression of Christianity in the public sphere. The half-dozen bills look to place Christian chaplains in public schools, post the Ten Commandments in every public school, …

Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed with enormous speed – so quickly that they could be textbook cases of classic bank runs, in which too many depositors withdraw their funds from a bank at the same time. The failures at SVB and Signature were two of the three biggest in U.S. banking history, following …

The Museum of Broken Relationships Indianapolis is a new exhibit developed as a collaboration between the IU Indianapolis Museum Studies Program, the Museum of Broken Relationships (based in Zagreb, Croatia), and partners around Indianapolis. WISH TV’s Scott Sander interviewed Dr. Laura Holzman, Associate Professor of Museum Studies in the IU School of Liberal Arts at …