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6 days ago | 
iowapublicradio.org | Charity Nebbe |Samantha McIntosh |Madeleine Willis
In the first 100 days, the Trump administration signed more than 140 executive orders. Among them were cuts directed by the Department of Government Efficiency to federal funds and agencies that help support human service, arts and humanities organizations in Iowa.
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1 week ago | 
iowapublicradio.org | Charity Nebbe |Caitlin Troutman |Samantha McIntosh
During his working years, Fred Gratzon launched two wildly successful businesses, but he doesn't attribute his success to hard work. In fact, he says that laziness is the secret to his success, and he decided to write a musical about it. It's called "The Lazy Show," and it's showing at the Fairfield Art & Convention Center. Then, the early months and years of motherhood are filled with contradictions — it's a time of wonder and discovery, but also drudgery.
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1 week ago | 
iowapublicradio.org | Charity Nebbe |Samantha McIntosh |Madeleine Willis
The Ames History Museum had its grand reopening in October 2024, following a years long, $4.5 million expansion and renovation project. On this episode, we take a tour of the museum's permanent exhibit and archives, with executive director Casie Vance, exhibits manager Alex Fejfer, and longtime volunteer and former Ames Historical Society board president Kathy Svec.
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1 week ago | 
wvik.org | Natalie Dunlap |Samantha McIntosh |Charity Nebbe
In American schools, boys are more likely to repeat kindergarten, be put in time out, receive detention, be suspended or be expelled. Meanwhile, girls are more likely to outpace boys in literary skills, take advanced courses and graduate on time. The American Psychological Associations' Task Force on Boys in School is looking into the gender disparity between students.
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1 week ago | 
iowapublicradio.org | Natalie Dunlap |Samantha McIntosh |Charity Nebbe
In American schools, boys are more likely to repeat kindergarten, be put in time out, receive detention, be suspended or be expelled. Meanwhile, girls are more likely to outpace boys in literary skills, take advanced courses and graduate on time. The American Psychological Associations' Task Force on Boys in School is looking into the gender disparity between students.
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2 weeks ago | 
iowapublicradio.org | Charity Nebbe |Dani Gehr |Samantha McIntosh
Is there a difference between a fact and the truth? Can a truth still be true if the facts that support it aren’t entirely factual? Those are some of the questions raised in the play The Lifespan of a Fact, showing now at Riverside Theatre in Iowa City.
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2 weeks ago | 
iowapublicradio.org | Charity Nebbe |Samantha McIntosh |Caitlin Troutman |Madeleine Willis
Gender norms pave the way for stereotypes. "Beyond Stereotypes: Tales of a Modern Man," explores men's role in society and pushes past limitations of a patriarchal society. This episode of Talk of Iowa was recorded in front of a live audience at Investigate Midwest's live storytelling event on April 9. Up first, Jacob Mayer, student success and engagement coordinator at the University of Iowa, explores grappling with identity and belonging while growing up in the small town of Kalona.
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2 weeks ago | 
iowapublicradio.org | Ben Kieffer |Samantha McIntosh |Madeleine Willis
50 years ago, Vinh Nguyen was a teen in during the fall of then-Saigon in Vietnam. Nguyen was smuggled out of the country in the early 1980s, and has made Des Moines his home for the last several decades. Nguyen is the president of the Vietnamese American Community in Iowa and he shares his memories surrounding the end of the Vietnam War. Also this episode, political scientist Jim McCormick discusses how the war impacted the United States' foreign policy 50 years on.
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2 weeks ago | 
iowapublicradio.org | Charity Nebbe |Samantha McIntosh
Science journalist Sadie Dingfelder's work has appeared in publications including National Geographic and Washington Post. Her discovery as an adult that she has facial blindness and research into the neuroscience led to her debut book, Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination. Host Charity Nebbe talks with Dingfelder about her journey of self discovery and her obsession with hidden neurodiversities.
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2 weeks ago | 
iowapublicradio.org | Ben Kieffer |Samantha McIntosh
On this Newsbuzz episode, host Ben Kieffer talks with higher education reporter Vanessa Miller of The Gazette about the activity at this week's Iowa Board of Regents meeting, as well as developments on a lawsuit filed by University of Iowa students regarding their visa status.
