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 (Jan. 13-19*) |
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Feinberg's Robert Murphy and Robert Havey explain why it is not a good idea to try to gain natural immunity by intentionally contracting COVID-19. They were cited in 54 stories for a reach of 6.5 million. Top outlets include NBC News and Poynter.
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McCormick's Randall Berry shares solutions that could assuage the fears of U.S. airlines around the deployment of 5G networks. Berry was cited in 182 stories for a reach of 5.1 million. Top outlets include the Associated Press, NPR, NBC News, ABC News and CBC News.
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McCormick's Josiah Hester creates FaceBit, a mask that can monitor the wearer’s health, sense heart beat and more through the face. Hester was cited in 54 stories for a reach of 5.1 million. Top outlets include The Washington Post, Gizmodo, Mashable, Scientific American and the Chicago Tribune.
*To allow time for data processing and validation, the reporting period for top stories and quantitative media metrics runs Thursday-Wednesday. |  |
| 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 | President Biden is considering deploying several thousand U.S. troops, as well as warships and aircraft, to NATO allies in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, an expansion of American military involvement amid mounting fears of a Russian incursion into Ukraine, according to administration officials. | The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would take up a pair of cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions. The justices will hear appeals from a conservative student group that has been challenging the use of race as a factor in undergraduate admissions at Harvard University, the nation's oldest private college, and the University of North Carolina, the nation's oldest public state university. | Monday’s pullback put the S&P 500 down more than 9% this month, on pace for its worst monthly decline since March 2020 and worst January performance ever. The Dow was also headed for its biggest one-month loss since March 2020, falling more than 7%. The Nasdaq, meanwhile, has dropped roughly 14% in January and is on pace for its worst month since October 2008, when it plunged 17.7%. |
| NU Voices | Read perspectives from Northwestern faculty in national media. |  From Katie Watson, Chicago Tribune "This could be the last anniversary of Roe v. Wade with the precedent still standing, but what’s at stake in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case poised to gut or overturn Roe this year, goes far beyond abortion. The unspoken question the U.S. Supreme Court will answer in Dobbs is whether women are 'people' under the Constitution," Watson writes for the Chicago Tribune. |  From Kathryn Macapagal, STAT "About 60% of older Americans take a cholesterol-lowering statin to prevent heart attack, stroke and other forms of cardiovascular disease. In contrast, only 25% of eligible, HIV-negative people take pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a safe, highly effective way to prevent HIV infection. But recent changes in how health care providers should think about PrEP and who it is for have the potential to transform the HIV epidemic in the U.S. and possibly put it in the rearview mirror," Macapagal writes in STAT. |  From Dhondup T. Rekjong, Chicago Tribune "If Chinese leaders refuse to negotiate with [President Joe Biden] or don’t have the courage to address the Tibetan issue now, there will not be any better opportunities in the future. Indeed, China may never get such a chance again. The Dalai Lama has never lost the compassion for China he voiced when he was 26 years old. But he cannot wait forever," Rekjong writes in the Chicago Tribune.
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| Media metrics | The following metrics reflect Northwestern's performance in 75 priority media outlets, chosen based on their reach and influence with key academic audiences. | Priority Media Outlet Performance Metrics | Coverage over time: |  |
| Northwestern topic breakdown: |  | | *Topic areas are assigned based on keyword search and reflect the subject of the article, not the department or unit of the individual cited. Some articles may be counted under multiple topic areas. |
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