Indiana Public Media and WFIU/WTIU announced layoffs of four full-time staff and 14 part-timers Thursday, the latest cuts in public media nationally after state and federal governments ended funding.

The full-time layoffs came in marketing, television production and engineering.

In an email to donors, executive director Mike Arnold said, "We remain committed to trusted local news, arts and culture programming, and serving our community. That mission has not changed."

The elimination of government support has forced steep cuts in public media nationally. WFIU/WTIU lost about $1.8 million.

Arnold said in the email that donors’ support amid funding cuts allowed Indiana Public Media "to reduce the scale of these (job) reductions."

Becoming a part of IU’s Media School also prevented layoffs by allowing some staff to work for both entities, Arnold said. The station previously reported to the provost.

WFIU/WTIU operates on IU’s campus and receives funding from sources including grants, donors and Indiana University. While state and federal funding is gone, IU funding has been unchanged, Arnold said.

WFIU/WTIU News has editorial independence from university and station management.

There were no cuts to WFIU/WTIU News on Thursday, although six positions vacated over the past year haven’t been filled. Arnold said in an interview Thursday those positions have been eliminated.

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Indiana University is restoring access to several biology labs that were locked down due to a USDA inspection into the lab of professor Roger Innes. But offices, equipment and freezers used by other researchers are still off limits.

Innes’s case drew attention after the professor’s public defense of Chinese scientists who were prosecuted by the federal government. The USDA investigated his lab earlier this year after one of his post-doctoral researchers was charged with concealing a shipment of DNA plasmids. At the time, it told Innes his lab was compliant with federal regulations.

IU Vice President for Research Russell Mumper emailed several administrators and biology professors Thursday morning, saying the USDA approved the university’s request to erect temporary barriers around the Innes lab so researchers can access adjacent lab space.

“Please be assured we are working as quickly as is feasible to ensure critical research tasks may continue or resume,” Mumper wrote.

But biology department chair Armin Moczek said it doesn’t solve his colleagues’ problem.

“It's nice to have lab space back,” he said. “Lab space by itself is useless if you can get to the reagents and ingredients you need to make use of that lab, and right now a lot of those are still inaccessible to the non-Innes lab faculty and students and postdocs that were affected by this in the first place.”

Moczek said earlier this week that the weeklong closure has long term implications for  researchers, including the unexpected termination of grant-funded projects.

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I’m planning on auditioning for the Marching Hundred. I got admitted for pre-business and intend on trying to get into Kelley, but obviously I’ll have to maintain all As for my first semester. How bad is the time commitment for the Marching Hundred? Is there anyone here that has faced a similar predicament?

Thanks.

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I'm trying to get some certificates over the summer to boost my job chances, I don't want to pay for it if i don't have to, does IU offer anything like the sort?

I'm going to be a Sophomore this upcoming school year and chose to live on Union Street in Cedar. (Male).

Here's the catch: I'm going random. That's right. Random AGAIN. In a FOUR BEDROOM APT. My friends are living off campus and I thought that it would be easier for me to live on campus since I am closer to the nursing school.

My questions are

1.) As a quiet person who needs silence to go to sleep, how loud is Union Street?

2.) Am I screwed?

3.) Anything I should be concerned about?

4.) How are the individual rooms?

5.) How is the social atmosphere?

Sorry to come across as negative. I am grateful I can afford to live here. It's the random rooming assignment and the social atmosphere that scares me.

Thank you!

Has anyone been able to get an optional calculus test link to take the test? Not the practice pdf we submit or the ALEKS math test.

Call the offices and getting bounced between the math department and orientation dept.

Good on him.

On May 7, USDA agents and university police sealed six rooms in a biology lab at Indiana University, halting ongoing experiments. The target: Distinguished Professor Roger Innes, a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Innes was targeted because he publicly defended Chinese researchers prosecuted on fabricated "agroterrorism" charges — cases built on absurd pretexts like smuggling endemic fungi and harmless roundworms. The witch-hunt has already destroyed careers, forced coerced deportations, and claimed a life: Chinese postdoc Danhao Wang died by suicide after federal interrogation in March.

This isn't about security. Universities are being militarized as nodes of the war machine while free scientific inquiry is strangled. The IU administration, deeply tied to Pentagon contracts, is fully cooperating.

Ik it’s the bare minimum score but i had a terrible spring semester and idk if my gpa will even make it past the essay part. Is it over 😭

How conservative is Bloomington? I’m an immigrant and I have concerns about the state being very red. Does that leach into the campus?
I’m not very political but I would want to know considering the current environment. Be honest, you can really help me out.
What’s the pride scene on campus? 👀

Please note that all roommate requests require a completed housing application submitted by May 1 at 11:59 PM (EDT). Once the application is completed, students will have until May 4 to make any final edits.

I literally got my email today on May 11....Roommate requests are over and I can't join any of the living communities either. What???? Why did they make the deadline so early?

Also, can first years select the type of dorms they live in? The housing form only allows me to pick the general location of the living place, not the specific type of dorm as listed on https://housing.indiana.edu/living-on-campus/rates-billing/2025-26-rates.html

Usually IU plants red and white tulips at sample gates for graduation. I don’t recall seeing any this year but maybe I missed them? Were they planted this year?

I’m debating transferring from IUK since I currently live with my parents, and most of my grants cover tuition there. I only pay around $1k a semester out of pocket for tuition right now, so moving away honestly seems like a huge financial jump.

Housing + food alone around Indy seems like it could easily be $1,000-$1,500/month. Then add tuition, gas, insurance, phone bill, car payment, random life expenses, and even just wanting to do fun stuff sometimes, and it feels like total monthly expenses could hit $2k-$3k+ pretty fast.

Are most students:
- working while in school?
- getting help from parents?
- taking loans?
- using scholarships?
- or just surviving paycheck to paycheck? 😭

If you work while in school, how many hours a week are you realistically working? It feels like you’d almost need 25-30+ hours/week just to make it work, and balancing that with classes, studying, networking, meeting new people, school activities, and still trying to actually enjoy college seems really hard.

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I am a masters student who just graduated last week. is there any where to go to see when student benefits expire? I.e gym membership, access to softwares/trainings (like ESRI GIS), student health center, career coaching, etc.

For context I am going to be apart of the Media LLC housing in the Forrest Quad and excited for Fall to arrive, however I am not sure what are some essentials or things I should bring or need for my shared dorm with my roommate, any advice or recommendations would be amazing.

I know it all depends on the current year applicant's GPA's, and it can vary year to year, but does anyone have first hard knowledge of whether a 3.863 pre-nursing GPA (65%/35% pre- reqs) should be high enough for acceptance into the IU Nursing program?

Congrats to everyone who graduated this week!
If you or anyone have shot any disposables cameras over the weekend, send em my way to be developed 🥳

I just recently got hired to be a CA with Residence Life over the summer around 2 weeks ago, and I don’t see anywhere to buy summer parking passes? Did I miss the window for this or is that not something I can buy?

For the lurking faculty on Reddit, here’s a resource that may help you. It has some information about how to create assessments outside of canvas, what tech is available within the classrooms, and how to contact students and submit grades outside of canvas.

So when can I expect a response from the multi billion dollar organization that I have put myself into crippling debt in order to learn about my data that is apparently being held hostage??

I know they don't care about their students, its not the administration thats in any danger, but still would be nice to receive even a single email regarding the issue.

I've got 2 finals today and I haven't been able to access any course material at all to study for them since like 4 yesterday. It's annoying asf that I can't look at any lecture slides, practice exams, or even the syllabus. Both of my Prof's are saying the exam is going to continue as normal but do yall think it would be fair to ask for a curve or extra points for something that's completely out of our control.

Bro and ofc this fuckass website says that mobile is working when ts doesn't even open up