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 (Sept. 7-13) |
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Alvin Tillery discusses recent court cases regarding corporate diversity efforts following the Supreme Court decision striking down race-conscious admissions in higher education. Tillery was cited was cited in 196 stories — primarily NPR broadcasts — for a reach of 21.8 million.
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The MacArthur Foundation is leading a group of donors that have pledged $500 million to help the struggling local news industry. News of the pledge cited Tim Franklin and a Medill study on the state of local news in the U.S., which has lost more than one-fourth of its newspapers since 2005. The work was cited in 174 stories for a reach of 9.4 million. Top outlets include The New York Times, the Associated Press, NPR, Fox News, Fortune, Quartz, Voice of America and many others.
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Weinberg postdoctoral fellow Yitong Huang develops a mathematical model to predict how we recover from jet lag and finds that having consistent large breakfasts at the destination could help travelers overcome the symptoms. Huang was cited in 123 stories for a reach of 5.2 million. Top outlets this week include The Washington Post and CBS News.
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| In the Spotlight | Read in-depth coverage of Northwestern work and research. |  From Crain's Chicago Business Northwestern and the University of Chicago team up to lead a new math and biology research institute called The National Institute for Theory and Mathematics, funded by a $50 million grant from the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation. The institute, focused on basic research, will be housed in Streeterville near Northwestern’s medical campus. |  From Popular Science Feinberg’s Dr. Lorenzo Gallon and McCormick’s John Rogers develop a soft implant that adheres directly to a transplanted organ’s surface to monitor its health. They tell Popular Science the new device enables earlier detection of organ rejection, which has major implications for saving not only the organ’s viability, but the life of a patient. |  From Forbes "Rosalie Favell: Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera," an exhibition of Rosalie Favell’s (Métis) Indigenous portraits, will be on display at the Block Museum of Art from Sept. 20 to Dec. 3. These portraits include more than 115 photos from the series, as well as a suite of new portraits of Chicago-area artists and arts professionals taken during Favell’s Block Museum residency in the spring of 2023. |  From The Washington Post A new report finds that Americans are starting their own businesses at record rates, led by women and people of color. When people think of entrepreneurship, most think of high-growth tech start-ups. However, Kellogg’s Kylie Jiwon Hwang tells The Washington Post a lot of entrepreneurship is a result of the fact that marginalized people continue to face difficulties in employment — not just in finding work, but in moving up. |
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