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Faculty excellence
Luddy’s Stewart earns international fellowship for project addressing AI-powered misinformation
LUDDY SCHOOL
Alex Stewart has been named an International Fellow at Lund University’s Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies to lead research on AI-powered misinformation.
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Rodríguez awarded +$1 million in USDA grant funding for the study and prevention of avian flu
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH-BLOOMINGTON
Roberto Rodríguez has received nearly $2 million from the USDA to develop UVC light–based systems to prevent avian flu outbreaks in poultry farms through scalable biosecurity solutions.
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Experts in the news
USA Today
Indiana University trains engineers to design for human impact (March 19, 2026)
Feng Guo, Alexander Gumennik, and students from the Luddy School highlight human-centered engineering through innovations in medical devices, AI-powered brain organoids, and technology that improves health, wellbeing, and quality of life.
HuffPost
Why Do We Use “O’Clock” When Telling Time? (Mar. 5, 2026)
Michael Adams explains that “o’clock” is a contraction of the medieval phrase “of the clock,” originally used to distinguish clock time from other ways of telling time as mechanical clocks spread across Europe.
Nature
How learning handwriting trains the brain (Feb. 2, 2026)
Karin Harman James is featured, highlighting research showing that handwriting, versus typing, activates brain regions critical for letter recognition and reading in children.
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