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Via the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarding of the 2010 National Medal, Conner Prairie hosted StoryCorps, a national non-profit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. A diverse group of individuals representing the fabric of Conner Prairie members, guests, volunteers and more were on hand for the one-on-one interviews. These individuals have varied ties with Conner Prairie and have offered their personal, poignant moments of family connections and life-long memories. Please take a moment to listen how Conner Prairie has brought these individuals and families together to learn more about history through interactive engagement and in-depth conversations. You can listen to these segments and learn more about the initiative at connerprairie.org

This special explores hunger and its impact on Indiana and the world. Part of the Indiana Humanities Council's two-year Food for Thought campaign, and a partnership with Indiana's Family of Farmers, this panel discussion features three experts on hunger from a global and local perspective: Roger Thurow, author of Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty; Ted McKinney, Elanco's senior director of corporate affairs; and Jerry Adams, chairman of the board at Second Helpings. Learn about how Hoosiers are leading the way, and how we can all get involved.

The dialogue doesn't end here. The conversation is in full force on the Indiana Humanities Council's blog, which features posts by hunger advocates, community leaders and businesses making a difference. Read more, here. You can add your voice to the conversation by adding a comment to a blog post. We don't expect to solve world hunger with this forum, but we do hope that, by provoking conversation, we can help move us closer to a solution. That's why the Indiana Humanities Council has made hunger a focus of the Food for Thought initiative in 2011. Please join us.

WFYI’s Blueprint Central Indiana is encouraging conversation about sustainability, livability and infrastructure in Central Indiana. Together with other public broadcasting stations, WFYI is focusing on these important issues as part of the national project, Blueprint America.

WFYI was pleased to contribute to discussions related to the Indiana Humanities Council’s Food for Thought series. During the week of October 25, 2010, WFYI Public Radio aired a series of special reports exploring: urban farming, Indiana Food Agricultural Policy, the slow food movement, farmers markets and school lunch programs.

These programs have been made possible in part by support from the Indiana Humanities Council in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Major support for Blueprint America is provided by the Rockefeller Foundation. Since its establishment in 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation has sought to identify and attack at their source the underlying causes of human suffering. The Foundation pioneered the frontier of global philanthropy and continues to find and fund solutions to many of the world’s most intractable challenges.

Engineering Pharmaceuticals explores one of the major causes of rising health care costs – development of new drugs. It can cost up to $1 billion to bring a new drug to market. This program goes behind the curtain to see how drugs are created, and looks at efforts to cut costs.

Engineering Pharmaceuticals takes a step back and explains what, exactly, drugs do; how they actually act to attack diseases. Hear the sound of pharmaceutical scientists making new drug compounds as they explain the process and where its costs lie. Learn how engineers are helping redesign the drug manufacturing process to try and bring costs down. And realize the ramifications of these high costs in places where people can barely afford food, let alone muchneeded pharmaceuticals.

Engineering Pharmaceuticals is part of the Grand Challenges Series from the Purdue University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science and the Purdue College of Engineering.

Laying the Pipes
In part one of the series, Mary Hartnett explores water systems, how national issues affect our state and the history behind Indiana's water infrastructure.

An Underground Maze Part 1
An Underground Maze Part 2
During parts two and three, Sharon Alseth takes a closer look at the Central Indiana water infrastructure, how the systems work, needed maintenance – and the cost.

Drops in the Bucket
Marianne Holland examines how the federal, state and local economics and politics affect water infrastructure decisions in part four.

Tapping the Future
In part five of the series, Colleen Iudice presents the steps citizens, industry and the government can take to protect water resources and the systems that deliver them through sustainable practices.

This special series is underwritten by a grant from WPSU – Penn State Public Broadcasting.

The Principal Factor examines new ways of training and thinking about principals in Indiana's High Schools. It is a five part series produced by WFYI News, with support from the Wallace Foundation.

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The American Pianists Association celebrated its 30th Anniversary on November 11, 2009. The evening included performances by both current and former Fellows of the American Pianists Association. The performances were broadcast live on WFYI 90.1 FM and WICR 88.7 FM. Founder of the American Pianists Association, Anthony Habig, was honored, as well as all current and past APA Board Chairs. There were performances by Frederic Chiu, Grace Fong, Stephen Prustman, J.Y. Song, and Jeremy Siskind.

Part 1
A recent PBS documentary called the The Science of Miracles details the history of organ transplants and the challenges doctors and patients face searching for matching donors. WFYI Public Radio has produced a companion series called, Caring for Life. In part one, WFYI News Director Mary Hartnett looks at organ donation policy in the United States, the ethical issues that shape it and why there is shortage of transplant organs.

Part 2
One of the first questions people ask themselves when they are deciding whether to become an organ donor is: What does my religion say? For many, their faith helps them through the traumatic process of transplantation. But for some, their beliefs prevent them from giving or receiving an organ.

In part two of the WFYI series, Caring for Life, Indiana Public Broadcasting’s Marianne Holland looks at the connection between someone’s faith and their role as an organ donor or recipient.

Part 3
Imagine that your health or your life depends on where your name is on a waiting list. That’s exactly what is happening to nearly 99,000 Americans who need organ transplants. Demand has outstripped supply by a long shot. In part three of WFYI’s series on organ donation, Caring for Life, reporter Sandy Roob takes a look at the current shortage and explores some innovative options that could improve the situation.

Part 4
In the fourth installment of WFYI's Caring for Life, independent reporter Colleen Iudice takes a looks at scientific breakthroughs and the future of organ transplantation. The use of genetically engineered animal organs for human transplant procedures is called xenotransplantion, and it could be reality sooner then we think.

Learn More:
Indiana Organ Procurement Organization (IOPO)
Donate Life Indiana
Sound Medicine

WFYI's Mary Hartnett takes a look at the program in a five part series, Indiana Eugenics.

Read episode descriptions and listen to the episodes online here...

Sherri Wood Emmons is the managing editor of the Disciples of Christ magazine, Disciples World. The November edition focuses on the Jonestown tragedy, its survivors and the church. Emmons says Jones' activities like faith healing and mental and physical abuse had raised eyebrows among church leaders, but the good work of the Temple seemed to far outweigh the bad. For more information on the church and interviews with survivors and relatives of the victims of the Jonestown tragedy, go to www.disciplesworld.com.

2008 essays by community leaders on the theme, Exploring Imagination
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The People's Agenda 2006
Taxes–time zone–transportation. What are the issues that push your buttons? Find out what’s on the minds of your fellow Hoosiers–listen to The People’s Agenda right here. WFYI’s News Director Mary Hartnet–along with reporters from WTHR and The Indianapolis Star help the statehouse audience field questions to legislators.