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Elevated air pollution, ozone found in Chicago near Lake Michigan, expressways

Northwestern University scientists say pollution levels they studied were highest over the lake and in lakeside neighborhoods and near expressways.

Chicago Sun-Times

How Black women, America’s invisible ‘saviors,’ can rewrite the narrative - Roll Call

Dr. Inger E. Burnett-Zeigler of Northwestern University talks about how Black women can attend the needs of community, family, and their own.

Roll Call

Unnerved Northwestern University students seek answers, improvements in communication after fatal shooting near campus

Students fleeing gunfire at a beach near the school say the university hasn’t conducted active-shooter drills and failed to quickly notify them of the threat or where to shelter.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Age, not weight, identifies diabetes and prediabetes better, finds new US study; know more

Age will help to spot diabetes and prediabetes conditions in adults better, a new study done by researchers from Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University have found. The study has been published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine recently.

The Times of India

Poll: ‘Striking’ lack of mayoral campaign outreach to Latino, Black voters

A Northwestern University poll on the Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas contest for mayor finds Latino voters are still “up for grabs” while race and a generational divide are also key factors in the election.

Chicago Sun-Times

How These New Electronic Bandages Could Speed Up The Healing Process

The wireless, battery-free bandage sends electrical signals to help heal wounds and streams real-time data to a smartphone.

Zenger

University of Chicago graduate student workers unionize

The vote to affiliate with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America follows a similar move by graduate students at Northwestern University.

Chicago Sun-Times

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How a gun violence spike in 2016 created a movement of Chicagoans that is still building

Over the last six years, support for community-based violence prevention has swelled in Chicago. It started with a “really shocking and enormous” increase in shootings.

Chicago Sun-Times

Things do in Chicago March 16-22: The Mix

Tedeschi Trucks Band, Shamrock Shenanigans and “Tuk Tuks on Devon” are among the entertainment highlights in the week ahead.

Chicago Sun-Times

Eberly emerges as front-runner to be Biden’s Fed vice chair pick

WASHINGTON — Northwestern University Professor Janice Eberly is the front-runner in the White House search for a successor to Lael Brainard as vice chair of the Federal Reserve, people familiar with the matter said.

Tribune News Service

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and wife to invest $250 million in new Chicago research lab

The lab will harness brain power from Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Chicago Sun-Times

How to help young people limit screen time — and feel better about how they look

New research found teens and young adults who even briefly cut time on social media gained self esteem. Try these 5 tips to help them — and yourself — improve screen-life balance.

WEKU

The scramble to help newly arrived migrants, R. Kelly’s sentence and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a five-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

5 mayoral hopefuls discuss community-based answers to gun violence at forum on youth

Good Kids Mad City leaders press candidates on the Peace Book Ordinance, which would divert 2% of police funding for youth-led anti-violence programs in neighborhoods.

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Rebecca Blank dies at 67; renowned economist led the University of Wisconsin

Rebecca Blank was president-elect of Northwestern University last year when a cancer diagnosis led her to step down. She was an advisor to three U.S. presidents.

Zenger

Two-sided Storm Unleashes Heavy Snow, Tornadoes And Flooding

This week, a strong cross-country storm brought a variety of weather risks to the central United States

Chicago Sun-Times

4 Northwestern University staff members hurt, 1 critically, by falling tree at Evanston campus

The tree hurt four people walking on a sidewalk as it fell.

Chicago Sun-Times

Voters worry about crime, police chief lays groundwork for exit and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Northwestern’s law school gets $5 million gift to expand immigration services

The donation is intended to allow the school’s immigration law clinic to represent more clients, hire another attorney and fund ongoing programs and operations.

Chicago Sun-Times

Death of Northwestern student pulled from Diversey Harbor ruled accidental

Peter Salvino, a 25-year-old doctoral candidate, died from drowning, with ethanol intoxication a contributing factor, an autopsy has found.

Chicago Sun-Times

Why did Charles Manson order killings? NU psychologist, other experts offer a new take

Chicago psychologist Alan Friedman is among experts who reviewed a 1997 prison exam and are challenging the belief that Manson was schizophrenic. Manson was convicted of orchestrating the 1969 killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles.

Financial Times

300 nuclear missiles are headed your way. You must respond. What now?

Inside Moran Cerf’s quest to modernise the decision-making process that could end life on earth

Chicago Tribune

Northwestern graduate student workers vote to unionize after years of organizing

Following two days of casting ballots — and years of grassroots organizing — Northwestern University graduate students voted Thursday to unionize and will join the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.

The Independent UK

Lab grown nerve cells ‘holds promise for neurodegenerative disease’

The researchers said their work opens new opportunities for medical research and potential transplantation therapies.

The Texas Tribune

T-Squared: Introducing our spring 2023 fellows

Tribune fellows have the opportunity to gain valuable experience in all aspects of the operation of a modern news organization.

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