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. 27-Feb. 2*) |
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Feinberg's Ramon Lorenzo Redondo, Judd Hultquist, Egon Ozer and Lacy Simons detect the first case of the omicron BA.2 subvariant in Illinois and discuss how it could impact the course of the pandemic. They were cited in 241 stories for a reach of 13.6 million. Top outlets include Reuters, CNN, The Guardian, Voice of America and the Chicago Tribune.
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Weinberg's Farhad Yusef-Zadeh captures an unprecedented telescope image of nearly 1,000 strands at the center of the Milky Way galaxy — an image that could begin to unravel the mystery of what the strands, which he first observed in the 1980s using radio wavelengths, truly are. Yusef-Zadeh was cited in 119 stories for a reach of 6.6 million. Top outlets include CNET, CNN, Gizmodo and Science News.
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Northwestern Law's Center on Wrongful Convictions takes up the case of Kevin Dugar, who was released from prison after his twin brother confessed to a murder that landed Dugar in jail in 2003. The case was cited in 37 stories for a reach of 5.7 million. Top outlets include NBC News, The Guardian, People magazine and Sky News.
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| In the spotlight | Read in-depth coverage of Northwestern faculty work and research. |  From The Independent A new study showed dramatic shrinkage in tumours in mice compared to traditional cell therapy methods that improve the immune system’s ability to fight cancer. With a novel device that could be 3D printed, Northwestern University scientists (led by Shana Kelley) multiplied, sorted through and harvested hundreds of millions of cells, recovering 400% more of the tumour-eating cells than current approaches. |  From the Associated Press “Chicago is going to become, is on the precipice of becoming, a largely nonprofit-driven local news ecosystem, which is also something that is pretty rare in the country,” said Tim Franklin, senior associate dean of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. “It’s kind of hard to overstate how profound this development is. I think, in some ways, it could be a model for the nation.” |
| 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 | Ottawa is under a state of emergency as protesting truckers continue to occupy the country’s center of political power. The mayor of Ottawa declared the emergency Sunday after 11 days of unrest that began with protests by truckers over vaccine mandates imposed by the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. | New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy will end a statewide mask mandate to protect against COVID-19 in schools and child care centers. The requirement goes into effect March 7. New Jersey was one of just a dozen states with mask mandates in schools. | A Biden administration task force on organized labor issued a set of recommendations that could make it easier for federal workers and contractors to unionize. The report submitted to President Joe Biden includes 70 distinct policy proposals, according to a release by the White House. | Senators from both sides of the aisle voice support for a bill that would ban legislators from trading stocks in public companies to keep them from profiting from the insider knowledge they're privy to on Capitol Hill. Senators Jon Ossoff and Mark Kelly are sponsoring the legislation, which would require lawmakers and their immediate family members to put any stocks they own in blind trusts, eliminating any perceived conflicts of interest. | For the first time in U.S. history, a youth-led climate change lawsuit will go to trial. In Held v. State of Montana, 16 youth plaintiffs have sued the state over its energy policy, alleging that its heavy dependence on fossil fuel development accelerates climate change and infringes on their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment. The trial will start Feb. 6, 2023. |
| NU Voices | Read perspectives from Northwestern faculty in national media. |  From Andrew Koppelman, The Hill "This Court, with its dominant rightwing, will almost certainly overrule Roe. That will be a disaster for women. It will also be a disaster for the Constitution — in particular, for that provision of the Constitution by which the United States, for the first time, became the land of the free," Koppelman writes in The Hill. |  From Steven Lubet, The Hill "When Malik Faisal Akram took four hostages at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, he was not the first terrorist to seek the release of Aafia Siddiqui from her 86-year sentence in a federal penitentiary. Siddiqui, an American-educated Pakistani neuroscientist, became a cause célèbre among militants worldwide following her 2010 conviction for shooting at American military personnel in Afghanistan," Lubet writes in The Hill. |  From James E. Pfander, USA Today "With so little progress made at the federal level, state leaders should step up, demonstrate that their words have meaning and support local legislation that will bring some justice and accountability to their own backyards," Pfander writes with co-authors in USA Today. |
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