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 (March 6-12) |
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Several faculty, including Bessey Geevarghese and Drs. Tina Tan and Lynn Yee, highlight measles’ long-term immune damage and fatal brain complications. They were cited in 136 stories for a reach of 11.8 million. Top outlets include USA Today, Reuters, NBC News and CNN.
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David Gate and Lynn van Olst discover that enhancing the brain’s own immune cells may help to more effectively clear amyloid plaques in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s Disease. Gate and van Olst were cited in 217 stories for a reach of 7.8 million. Top outlets include the New York Post and NewsNation.
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Several faculty, including Nancy Qian and Martin Eichenbaum, discuss the effects of Donald Trump’s tariffs. Qian and Eichenbaum were cited in 97 stories for a reach of 8.4 million. Top outlets include France24, CNBC, Chicago Sun-Times and International Business Times.
*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 The Washington Post Experts say COVID-19 has transitioned to an endemic disease similar to the flu, with ongoing risks but reduced severity due to immunity and virus evolution. Feinberg’s Dr. Robert Murphy explains that if the coronavirus keeps evolving, boosters may not be needed annually, though the required frequency is still uncertain. |  From Forbes Forbes highlights the Block Museum of Art for its exhibition “Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland.” Weinberg’s Kathleen Bickford Berzock tells Forbes the exhibit reshapes museum narratives by centering Indigenous artists, emphasizing the presence and history of Native communities in the Chicagoland region. |  From CNN A new study finds misinformation training helps people spot fake news in as little as one month. School of Communication’s Erik Nisbet highlights that memory and motivation play key roles in retaining misinformation training and emphasizes that reminders are essential for long-term effectiveness. |
| NU Voices | Read perspectives from Northwestern faculty in national media. |  From Charles Manski, Scientific American “In this emergency, it is not enough for the National Academy of Sciences to speak up from its grass roots, as in 2016 or 2018. It must now speak as an institution if it is to fulfill its responsibilities to the nation and maintain its relevance in the future,” Weinberg’s Charles Manski writes in Scientific American. | From Robert Weinstock and Alexa Longstaff, Bloomberg Law “When the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the Environmental Protection Agency’s use of ‘end-result’ requirements in Clean Water Act permits on March 4, the court failed to engage with how permitting actually works. The decision imposes impractical burdens on agencies and could lead to a more adversarial permit process and less effective permits,” Northwestern Law’s Robert Weinstock and Alexa Longstaff write in Bloomberg Law. |
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