Researchers Sara Hamideh and Kimberly Zarecor were interviewed on Talk of Iowa with host Charity Nebbe on Nov. 15. Listen to the interview starting at min. 31.
https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/celebrating-50-years-national-trail-system#stream/0…
Research in the news at Iowa State.
Press release: https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2018/10/31/shrink-smart
Iowa State Daily: http://www.iowastatedaily.com/app_content/iowa-state-small-town-shrinkage/article_4a398abc-e790-11e8-bbb4-676e5e9af0f2.html…
The team has published our first peer-reviewed publication based on analysis of our Iowa Small Town Poll data set using Entrepreneurial Social Infrastructure (ESI) as a framework to understand smart shrinkage in rural communities.
Peters, D., Hamideh, S., Zarecor, K., …
Listen to Sara Hamideh, Eric Davis, and Kimberly Zarecor talk with host Ben Kittelson about our work on rural smart shrinkage.
https://elgl.org/podcast-the-shrink-smart-project-managing-population-loss-in-rural-communities/…
Kimberly Zarecor and David Peters will present at the Iowa Leagues of Cities Annual Meeting in Council Bluffs, Iowa on Sept. 13. Our workshop will share our preliminary results and research design with League members.
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Iowa NPR journalist Mary Hansen interviewed Kimberly Zarecor on smart shrinkage and how it might be useful for rural Illinois communities.
https://illinoisnewsroom.org/2018/08/24/shrinking-illinois/…
Iowa NPR reporter Amy Mayer talks with faculty researcher Sara Hamideh about ‘brain gain’ and how some small Iowa towns are able to attract new residents.
http://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/how-some-small-towns-are-achieving-brain-gain
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The Mississippi newspaper, The Natchez Democrat, picked up our shrink smart research in this July 6, 2018 editorial:
https://www.natchezdemocrat.com/2018/07/06/communities-can-learn-to-shrink-smarter/…
Our research as reported on NPR gets a mention in this editorial in the The Daily Independent in Ashland, Kentucky.
David Peters talks with Iowa Gazette reporter B.A. Morelli about smart shrinkage for Iowa Ideas Magazine. Bancroft, one of the Iowa Small Town Poll communities, is featured in the story.
