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 (Nov. 9-15) |
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Norrina Allen finds that cutting salt intake by one teaspoon daily provides the same blood pressure-lowering benefits as popular hypertension medications. Allen was cited in 716 stories for a reach of 24.1 million. Top outlets include WebMD, U.S. News, Everyday Health and CNN.
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Drs. Ankit Bharat and Rade Tomic perform a double-lung transplant by temporarily placing breast implants inside the patient’s chest cavity to keep the heart in place while awaiting donor lungs. Bharat and Tomic were cited in 310 stories for a reach of 18.5 million. Top outlets include Healio, NewsNation and NPR.
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Several faculty, including Northwestern Law's Steven Lubet, Medill's Storer H. Rowley, and Weinberg's Danielle Gilbert discuss the complex history and broad impact of the Israeli-Hamas conflict. They were cited in 11 stories for a reach of 4 million. Top outlets include The Hill, The Washington Post 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. |  |
| In the Spotlight | Read in-depth coverage of Northwestern work and research. |  From ABC News Graduates of the Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP) made history on Nov. 15 as the first incarcerated students to receive a degree from a top 10 university at Stateville Correctional Center. Founded by Weinberg’s Jennifer Lackey, NPEP offers incarcerated students in Illinois a top-notch liberal arts education. |  From NewScientist Physicists are on the verge of conducting the most precise tests of Einstein’s gravitational theories ever undertaken. Employing a unique experiment on the International Space Station, the team, including Weinberg’s Timothy Kovachy, will test Einstein’s equivalence principle, which states that all objects fall with the same acceleration when gravity is the only force acting on them. Kovachy explains to NewScientist why ultimate precision requires conducting the experiments in space.
|  From WBEZ Pre-exposure prophylaxis, known as PrEP, is a 99% effective HIV-prevention medication deemed safe for most individuals, but until now, it has mostly been marketed to adults. Weinberg’s Kathryn Macapagal and the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing aim to change that, partnering with the organization PrEP4Teens to create social media marketing campaigns and engage teens in learning about the medication. |
| NU Voices | Read perspectives from Northwestern faculty in national media. |  From Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker “The manipulations we’ve faced so far haven’t been deceptive so much as expressive. Fact-checking them does not help, because the problem with fakes isn’t the truth they hide. It’s the truth they reveal,” Weinberg’s Daniel Immerwahr writes in The New Yorker. |
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