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Paul H. O'Neill

Three scholars awarded inaugural O’Neill Professorships

Friday, November 20, 2020

The Indiana University O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs has announced the appointment of the first three recipients of its newly established Paul H. O’Neill Professorships.

Paul H. O'Neill

Former EPA leader Gina McCarthy to keynote IU event commemorating agency's 50th anniversary

Monday, November 02, 2020

The EPA has significant ties to the university and, in particular, the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

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Indiana local government officials most likely to contract with nonprofits for economic development and addiction services, new research finds

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

The report, “Indiana Local Government Officials' Contracts with Nonprofits,” uses data from the Indiana Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (IACIR) on issues affecting local governments and residents in Indiana.

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Former O'Neill School Dean John D. Graham appointed chair of EPA's Science Advisory Board

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

John D. Graham has been named chair of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board.

Kosali Simon

Returning college students contributed significantly to local community COVID-19 case counts

Thursday, October 01, 2020

“College Openings, Mobility, and the Incidence of COVID-19 Cases,” was co-authored by IU O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs Professor Kosali Simon.

Sanya Carley

Households of color more likely to have utilities disconnected, not receive stimulus checks

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Survey of low-income households conducted by professors Sanya Carley and David Konisky confirms: Energy insecurity exacerbated by pandemic has hit vulnerable populations the hardest.

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O’Neill School Dean named NAPA Fellow

Thursday, September 24, 2020

O’Neill School Dean Siân Mooney has been selected for the 2020 Class of Academy Fellows by the National Academy of Public Administration.

Marta Venier

Monkey poop could hold key to understanding threats to wildlife from chemical pollutants

Wednesday, September 09, 2020

The study, “Feces Are Effective Biological Samples for Measuring Pesticides and Flame Retardants in Primates,” was co-authored by O’Neill’s Marta Venier, Shaorui Wang, and Tessa Steiniche, along with Michael Wasserman in the COAS Department of Anthropology, among other collaborators from the U.S., Uganda, and Costa Rica.

Marta Venier

EPA awards $1.6M for IU research on synthetic chemical exposure in rural drinking water

Thursday, August 27, 2020

Amina Salamova is co-principal investigator for this joint research project conducted by the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington and the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs—part of a nationwide effort to implement the PFAS Action Plan, which outlines concrete steps the EPA is taking to address PFAS and protect public health.

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Indiana health care industry continues to grow its nonprofit presence

Thursday, August 27, 2020

The report, “Nonprofit Paid Employment in Health Care for Indiana,” uses data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) prepared by the Indiana Business Research Center (IBRC) and analyzed by the Indiana Nonprofits Project.

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Cleaning products used to stop spread of COVID may be harmful on their own, study finds

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

“Increased Indoor Exposure to Commonly Used Disinfectants During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” co-authored by O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs Associate Research Scientist Amina Salamova, Visiting Research Associate Guomao Zheng, and IUPUI Professor Gabriel Filippelli, appears in a forthcoming edition of Environmental Science and Technology Letters.

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Scope of citizen oversight of police can determine effectiveness in decreasing violent crime

Monday, August 24, 2020

The study, “Examining the Accountability-Performance Link: The Case of Citizen Oversight of Police,” was conducted by O’Neill School professors Usman Ali and Sean Nicholson-Crotty and is forthcoming in the journal Public Performance and Management Review.

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The O’Neill School joins Next Generation Service Partnership

Monday, August 17, 2020

The O’Neill School has been selected to join the NextGen Service Active Planning Cohort, a small group of schools of public service that are committed to implementing new undergraduate public service programs.

Kosali Simon

Non-COVID-19 health care visits declined dramatically as pandemic hit

Monday, August 03, 2020

A new study co-authored by IU and O'Neill researchers including Kosali Simon and Coady Wing indicates that use of non-COVID-19 care declined during this time period as people either deferred or skipped care, which may have important implications for their current and future health.

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O’Neill School ranked best North American public administration program

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

The O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs ranks second in its academic subjects in the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities.

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COVID-19 is hitting Indiana nonprofits hard

Tuesday, July 07, 2020

The report, Indiana Nonprofits and COVID-19: Impact on Services, Finances and Staffing, by Kirsten Grønbjerg, Elizabeth McAvoy, and Kathryn Habecker, examines the effects of the crisis on the state’s nonprofit sector.

Marta Venier

Treating PFAS as a class can help reduce their harm, new report shows

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

All per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) should be treated as one class and avoided for nonessential uses, according to a peer-reviewed article co-authored by O’Neill's Marta Venier.

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Indiana meat farmers saddled by slow processing times

Monday, June 29, 2020

A new survey from Indiana University’s Sustainable Food Systems Science team has found that Indiana meat farmers could be more efficient and expansive if they had better access to meat processing plants.

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COVID-19 hurting vulnerable populations already struggling to pay utilities

Monday, June 15, 2020

The study, "Survey of Household Energy Insecurity in the Time of COVID-19," was conducted by O'Neill School professors Sanya Carley and David Konisky.

Statement from Dean Mooney on the O’Neill School’s commitment to diversity and equity

Thursday, June 04, 2020

Today I urge you to be the change makers, to create the change that matters, to run for office, to volunteer, to create new public policies, and exercise your voting rights. In whatever ways we can help, we must.

Kosali Simon

Online searches for coronavirus spiked after 1st case reports, dwindled shortly after

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Study by co-corresponding author Kosali Simon, Herman B Wells Endowed Professor, and IU research team including Felipe Lozano-Rojas, Thuy Nguyen, and Coady Wing of the O'Neill School.

Kosali Simon

Data behind job losses reveals demographic disparities during pandemic

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Kosali Simon, the Herman B Wells professor in the O'Neill School, and various co-authors recently released three papers examining the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on jobs, labor markets and unemployment.

O’Neill School honors alumni Amy Kennedy-Reynolds and Chris Lowery

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

The O’Neill School will present its Distinguished Alumni Award to Amy Kennedy-Reynolds, MPA’85, and Chris Lowery, BSPA’84, later this month.

Kosali Simon

O’Neill faculty, students, and alumnae serving as resources for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Voices for Health Initiative in Indiana

Monday, May 11, 2020

O’Neill School Distinguished Professor Lisa Blomgren Amsler and several O’Neill faculty, students, and alumnae are serving as a vital resource on a $600,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for its Community Voices for Health initiative.

Sanya Carley

New article in Nature Energy recommends policies to thwart energy insecurity during COVID-19 pandemic

Friday, May 01, 2020

“COVID-19 Assistance Needs to Target Energy Insecurity,” was co-authored by O’Neill School Professor Sanya Carley and doctoral student Michelle Graff and was published today (May 1).

Kimberly Novick

Novick awarded Fischer Faculty Fellowship

Thursday, April 30, 2020

The O’Neill School announced today (April 30) that Kimberly Novick, associate professor and director of the school’s Ph.D. program in environmental science, is the recipient of the 2020 Fischer Faculty Fellowship.

Kosali Simon

Government orders have less impact on voluntary quarantine than having news about the pandemic

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Indiana University researchers, including the O’Neill School’s Kosali Simon, have released results from the first comprehensive study of how COVID-19 mitigation policies affect measures of individual movement and contact in the United States. 

Marta Venier

Study: PFAS in carpets a major exposure source for children

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Schools, families should replace carpets as industry moves away from PFAS. The authors, led by O’Neill School’s Marta Venier, measured PFAS concentrations in carpet and dust samples collected from 18 California childcare centers in 2018.

Laura Littlepage

Planting a sustainable future for a local community

Monday, April 27, 2020

A trio of O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs students will be responsible for putting home-grown food on the tables of a local neighborhood after writing a successful grant application as part of one of their undergraduate classes with Professor Laura Littlepage.

Laura Littlepage

Interactive map logs data on 12,734 Bloomington campus trees

Friday, April 24, 2020

IU Sustainability environmental practices coordinator Hannah Gregory worked to create a 2019 IU tree map to give IU Landscape Services a better idea on how to properly maintain their trees and the IU community a guide to the forestry that surrounds them.  

Adam Ward

IU colleagues create face shields for those in need

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Adam Ward and two Indiana University colleagues—the School of Education’s Adam Maltese and the Jacobs School of Music’s Mark Smith—have pooled resources to lend a bit of help to those in need.

Paul H. O'Neill

Indiana University mourns passing of Paul O’Neill, former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury

Saturday, April 18, 2020

Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and IU alumnus, Paul H. O’Neill, who demonstrated extraordinary leadership across the public, private and nonprofit sectors, died today (April 18) in Pittsburgh at the age of 84.

kirsten gronbjerg

Indiana local government officials rate their working relationships with nonprofits very positively, new research finds

Friday, March 27, 2020

Based on a 2017 survey, a large majority of Indiana local government officials (LGOs) reported having positive working relationships with most types of institutions. These and other findings are the subject of a new report on Indiana Local Government Officials’ Opinions on Working Relationships with Nonprofits released today by the Indiana University O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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Left and right agree U.S. needs to reduce fossil-fuel dependence but disagree about how to do it

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Both sides of the political spectrum recognize a need to reduce American dependence on carbon-based energy sources, but how the nation does so remains a divisive issue, a new study led by O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs professor Shahzeen Attari and co-authored with O'Neill research associate Joe Kantenbacher and Ph.D. student Deidra Miniard.  

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O’Neill School at IU Bloomington tops U.S. News rankings again

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

For the fourth consecutive year, the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington is ranked No. 1 for its master’s program in public affairs in the U.S. News and World Report Best Graduate School rankings.

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O’Neill School at IU Bloomington tops U.S. News rankings — again

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

For the fourth consecutive year, the Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington is ranked No. 1 for its master's program in public affairs in the just-released U.S. News and World Report Best Graduate School rankings.   

Dean Sian Mooney signs an agreement with Manuel Maria Caceres, the Paraguayan ambassador to the United States.

O’Neill School, Paraguayan government sign partnership agreement

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

The Indiana University O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the government of Paraguay have signed a partnership agreement that will result in greater collaboration between the two organizations and provide substantial academic opportunities for students and scholars.

Cleaning products could expose children to dangerous contaminants at child care facilities

Monday, March 02, 2020

The study, co-authored by O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs researchers Amina Salamova and Guomao Zheng suggests high levels of dangerous contaminants — known as PFAS — are finding their way into child care centers through the very products intended to keep children healthy.

Dean Sian Mooney signs an agreement with Manuel Maria Caceres, the Paraguayan ambassador to the United States.

Lisa Blomgren Amsler named Distinguished Professor

Friday, February 21, 2020

Indiana University has named Lisa Blomgren Amsler a distinguished professor, the highest academic title the university can bestow on a faculty member. President Michael A. McRobbie announced the Bicentennial Year honorees on Feb. 20.

Dean Sian Mooney signs an agreement with Manuel Maria Caceres, the Paraguayan ambassador to the United States.

IU-led Madagascar Health and Pollution Project among top 100 proposals for MacArthur Foundation $100 million grant

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has named an Indiana University project led by associate professor Joseph Shaw as one of the highest-scoring proposals in its 100&Change competition for a $100 million grant to help solve one of the world's most critical social challenges.

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Social assistance industry shifts away from nonprofit dominance

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Indiana’s social assistance industry has more than doubled in size since 1995 to reach almost 60,000 paid employees in 2018. However, less than half of those now work for nonprofit organizations

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Manufacturing Policy Initiative at Indiana University announces 2020 fellows

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Indiana University’s Manufacturing Policy Initiative has announced its inaugural class of fellows: Gilbert Kaplan and Michael Mandel.

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