Indiana University's Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, one of the nation's oldest academic programs devoted to studying the black experience, has been actively publishing research. Featured books in this edition include several books by the department's faculty, who will be recognized at a reception on Oct. 8.
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Eric Wright, director of the Center for Health Policy at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, says the State Children's Health Insurance Program has reduced the number of uninsured children, and failing to extend the program would have a deleterious effect on children's health. Nicole C. Quon, assistant professor of public and environmental affairs at IU Bloomington, said the debate underscores fundamental differences in values about health care.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision to review Indiana's voter ID law "raises the possibility of another self-inflicted wound, like the Court's decision to resolve the 2000 election in favor of George Bush," say Patrick Baude, the Ralph F. Fuchs Professor of Law and Public Servic at the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington. Baude said whatever the Court decides will favor either Democrats or Republicans, a partisan result that could weaken its moral authority.
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In this edition of Lecture Notes, meet National Geographic's Lisa Ling and discuss the female orgasm.
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Hispanic Heritage Month begins Saturday (Sept. 15), which is the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries, and continues until Oct. 15. Contact information for each professor is listed below. Indiana University Bloomington professors have prepared comments from immigration to shifting views of Latinos after 9-11.
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Living Well tips for September discuss a new tool for addressing the public health concerns of ill-fitting condoms, a brief and effective treatment for sexual problems that occur after gynecological cancer, and how to set health and wellness goals that really work. Our experts hail from the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction.
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In this edition of Lecture Notes, explore the music of Frank Zappa with fellow Mothers of Invention bandmate Jimmy Carl Black and find out what law schools are really looking for.
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On Monday (Aug. 27), Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced that he will resign next month. Indiana University School of Law faculty recently responded to Gonzales' resignation.
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In this edition of Lecture Notes, explore the creation of comic books, learn how humans process alcohol and meet Pulitzer Prize winner David Halberstam.
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In his book City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria, published earlier this year, history professor Edward Watts describes challenges to classical pagan education in the Roman Empire in the Byzantine era that mirror current debates about the place of Darwinian evolution in public school curricula. The enduring influence of traditional education in Rome illustrates a social principle that makes a return to Creationist teaching improbable, Watts said: "Fundamentally, religious ideology and public education are expected to achieve very different things."
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