Your Colleagues in the NewsCheck out the top-reaching stories of academic impact in traditional media. Metrics draw from English-language print, broadcast and online global media outlets. | Top stories (Dec. 30-Jan. 5*) |
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Feinberg's Marilyn Cornelis finds that people who like to drink their coffee black also prefer dark chocolate. The cause is genetic. Cornelis was cited in 88 stories for a reach of 15.9 million. Top outlets include The Washington Post, U.S. News and UPI.
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The Patrick and Shirley Ryan Family makes a $480 million gift, the largest gift in Northwestern’s history, providing a capstone to the $6 billion ‘We Will’ Campaign. The gift was cited in 188 stories about the biggest gifts in higher education in 2021 for a reach of 7.6 million. Top outlets include the Associated Press, Forbes, ABC News, Fox Business and MarketWatch.
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Feinberg's Mercedes Carnethon discusses the measures schools are taking to prioritize a safe return to classes amid the omicron outbreak. Carnethon was cited in 103 stories for a reach of 5.6 million. Top outlets include Fox News and NPR.
*To allow time for data processing and validation, the reporting period for top stories and quantitative media metrics runs Thursday-Wednesday. |  |
| In the spotlight | Read in-depth coverage of Northwestern faculty work and research. |  From CNET For years, experts thought the biggest stars in the universe, red supergiants, died with a whimper. But in 2020, astronomers witnessed quite the opposite. One of these gleaming monsters — 10 times more massive than the sun — violently self-destructed after presenting the cosmos with a final, radiant beacon of starlight.
"It's like watching a ticking time bomb," Raffaella Margutti, of Northwestern's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, and the paper's senior author, said in a statement. |
| Trending News | These are the trending topics in the news and on social media that we’re keeping our eyes on this week. If you have a viewpoint or expertise on any of the topics below and you’re willing to talk to reporters about them, email us at media@northwestern.edu. | We're looking for experts on the following topics | A dispute between the Chicago public school system and its teachers' union drags on, with the two sides continuing to negotiate for an end to a work stoppage by the city's educators. | Senior U.S. and Russian officials launched special talks Monday aimed at defusing tensions over a Russian military buildup on the border with Ukraine, part of a flurry of diplomatic activity in Europe this week. | The somber Jan. 6 anniversary has renewed determination among President Joe Biden and other Democrats to act on voting rights legislation, which they say would protect future elections and the institutions of U.S. democracy. | | As the super contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus spreads, hospitals are seeing a growing trend: Patients admitted for other ailments are also testing positive for COVID-19. Doctors say it may mean more people have asymptomatic or undiagnosed disease than the current data show. |
| NU Voices | Read perspectives from Northwestern faculty in national media. |  From Steven Lubet, NBC News "The story Roberts presented is oddly incomplete, omitting a crucial aspect of Taft’s legacy: Taft also believed that judges should be accountable for their conduct according to ethical standards developed outside the judiciary — a proposition that Roberts has politely but firmly rejected," Lubet writes for NBC News. |  From Sanford Goldberg, Chicago Tribune "As we seek the right lessons to draw from these sorts of cases, it is tempting to think that knowledge itself is a bright yellow line: Those who are aware of wrongdoing but who do nothing to stop it bear some responsibility. Still, it is worth asking another, more challenging question: Are there people who didn’t know what was going on but who should have known? Asking this question may help us appreciate how ignorance — failing to be aware of something wrong that needs to be addressed — does not always excuse our inaction. Sometimes we are responsible for our ignorance," Goldberg writes in the Chicago Tribune. |  From Alex Richards, Chicago Tribune "Fertility preservation is also an issue of health ethics and equity. Black and Hispanic women, along with members of the LGBTQ+ community, have greater barriers to accessing fertility care, which worsens the preexisting health disparities that these populations already face," Richards writes in the Chicago Tribune. |  From Andrew Koppelman, The Hill "The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on President Biden's vaccine mandates Friday, Jan. 7. Officially, the cases are about questions of federal power, administrative law and the capacity of Congress to delegate authority to agencies. But what is fundamentally driving the litigation is the libertarian myth — one that may be embraced by the new conservative Supreme Court majority — that freedom can be promoted by hamstringing the capacities of government," Koppelman writes in The Hill. |  From Eric Reinhart, Salon "The abolition of America's incarceration system – and its replacement with infrastructures of support that are far more effective at preventing violence – must be a centerpiece of sustained efforts to rebuild U.S. public health and global pandemic preparedness. Rather than spend some $200 billion each year on policing and punishment that inflict harm on the entire country, America's lawmakers must redirect public investments toward building the systems of equality, economic security and care required to ensure genuine public safety for everyone," Reinhart writes in Salon. |
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