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Indiana has been awarded roughly $3.6 million to help support expanded access to mental health and substance abuse services in clinical settings.
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Ball State University has been awarded a second continuing grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to fund research on microplastics. The student team learning how to remove them from wastewater has now been given a total of nearly $125,000.
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Vaccination rates for Indiana toddlers have fallen since before the pandemic.
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The L.C. Ward building, previously owned by Fort Wayne Community Schools, had been unused since 2017 and was slated for demolition.
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The NOAA Urban Heat Island campaign for 2024 asked 14 communities in the U.S. and two internationally to collect temperature data from around their cities.
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Miss Virginia’s Food Pantry, a non-profit organization serving the city’s southeast side, continues to provide food to the poor and needy in the spirit of its foundress, Virginia Schrantz from her original residence on South Hanna Street.
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It’s been an active season for tornadoes and flooding in the Midwest due to various factors like hot and cold jet streams and climate change. This could create lasting public health challenges.
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The Human Agricultural Co-Operative continues to make strides in wiping out food deserts in our community. Fort Wayne residents Ty Simmons and Chief Condra Ridley officially founded the not-for-profit cooperative in 2017 to solve food insecurity in northeast Indiana, an offshoot of Ty’s work with young gardeners, initiated in 2015. Simmons has been awarded the Presidential Lifetime Achievement medal for his work.
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The health department announced a case of tuberculosis in Fort Wayne Community Schools and have sent messages to those in close contact.
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The bones were discovered in Steuben County in the 1960s and have been on a journey back to a permanent display at the university.
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A new statewide dashboard aims to streamline data collection on people with the sickle cell disease to better serve them and provide specialized care where they need it.
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AWS Foundation works with several organizations around the area to ask questions about accessibility.