Noon Edition

This week on Noon Edition, we sat down with reporter and author Douglas Wissing to discuss his experiences reporting for WFIU while embedded with the 1-19th Indiana Agribusiness Development Team in Afghanistan.

This week on Noon Edition, local experts joined us in studio to discuss the impact of Woodstock 40 years later.

This week on Noon Edition, 9th District Congressman Baron Hill spends some of his August recess in studio discussing regional affairs and answering your questions.

This week on Noon Edition, we'll discuss how service learning and leadership programs affect their communities.

This week on Noon Edition, we'll discuss Indiana Public Schools with superintendents from across the listening area. Our hosts will speak with Monroe County Consolidated School Corporation's new Superintendent J-T Coopman and Richland Bean Blossom Consolidated School Corporation Superintendent Steve Kain.

This week on Noon Edition, we’ll discuss how to network and job search in the conclusion of our three-part series on surviving the economy. Joining us in the studio are Ivy Tech Career Services Assistant Director Katie Anderson and WorkOne Business Services Director Richard Rampley.

This week on Noon Edition, in the second part of our series on surviving the economy, we’ll discuss the psychological impact of being unemployed. Joining us in the studio are Indiana University Counseling and Psychological Services Director Nancy Stockton and Center Stone Employment Consultant Kim Jackson-Maudlin.

This week on Noon Edition, we'll discuss ways to cut expenses and live more frugally as the first of our three-part series on surviving the economy. Joining us in the studio are Purdue Extension educators Barbara Bowman and Glenda DeFord.

July 4th is the ten-year anniversary of a racially-motivated shooting in front of the Korean United Methodist Church in Bloomington. On this week's prerecorded Noon Edition, we revisited the tragedy and evaluated the current climate for hate crimes in our community.

This week on Noon Edition, we discussed how to protect yourself from identity theft and how the trend has manifested itself in southern Indiana. Joining us in the studio are Law Professor Fred Cate and Computer Science Professor Minaxi Gupta.

This week on Noon Edition, we discussed the constantly evolving roles of women in South Central Indiana.

This week on Noon Edition, we discussed how people perceive and process the news media. In studio guests included DePauw University Communications Professor Jeff McCall, Indiana University Telecommunications Associate Professor Erik Bucy, and Indiana University Psychology Professor Edward Hirt.

This week on Noon Edition, we discussed the issue of transparency in maternity care. Joining hosts Herald Times Editor Bob Zaltsberg and Mary Catherine Carmichael were Bloomington Area Birth Services Executive Director Georg'ann Cattelona and Bloomington Hospital Regional Center for Women and Children Executive Director Dana Watters.

This week on Noon Edition, Herald Times Editor Bob Zaltsberg and co-host Mary Catherine Carmichael sat down with Indiana University Dean of College of Arts and Sciences Bennett Bertenthal. They discussed the role of a liberal arts education in a quickly changing Indiana.

This week on Noon Edition we discussed the life sciences and their role in Indiana.

State Health Commissioner Dr. Judy Monroe and IU Professor in Applied Health Science Alice Lindeman talk about Indiana's obesity epidemic.

This week on Noon Edition, we discussed common myths surrounding flu outbreaks and ways to promote public health in South Central Indiana. Joining Herald Times Editor Bob Zaltsberg were Director of the Indiana University Health Center Dr. Diana Ebling, and Indiana University Associate Dean for Global and Community Health Lloyd Kolbe.

This week on Noon Edition, WFIU's "Ask the Mayor" took over Noon Edition for an hour-long "Ask the Mayor" extravaganza.

On this week's Earth Day-themed edition of Noon Edition, we discussed sustainability efforts on Indiana campuses. Joining host Herald Times Editor Bob Zaltsberg and co-host Mary Catherine Carmichael were DePauw University sustainability Coordinator Carol Steele and Indiana University Director of Sustainability Bill Brown.

This week on Noon Edition we discussed online journalism and community building through social networking online.

Spring Gardening in Indiana

This week on Noon Edition, a conversation with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, author of the New York Times Bestselling book "My Stroke of Insight," and the neuroanatomist at the local Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute.

This week on Noon Edition, a discussion of a study ranking Indiana ninth in the country for its community corrections population. Herald Times Editor Bob Zaltsberg and Mary Catherine Carmichael are joined in the studio by Monroe County Judge Ken Todd and Sheriff Jim Kennedy.

This week on Noon Edition, Indiana University Athletics Director Fred Glass stops by the studio. Herald-Times Editor Bob Zaltsberg and WFIU News Director Stan Jastrzebski are you hosts.

This week on Noon Edition, we'll discuss the reorganization and policy changes at the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, or IDEM. Joining hosts Bob Zaltsberg and Mary Catherine Carmichael are IDEM Assistant Commissioners Scott Nally and Dan Murry as well as Hoosier Environmental Council Senior Policy Director Tim Maloney.