Undergraduate SpaceICE researcher wins prestigious engineering award

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By Lily Williams Undergraduate materials science senior Lauren Kearney heads to Northwestern University’s SpaceICE lab on most days to work on the design for the team’s freeze-casting instrumentation that will launch in a NASA mission next year. Kearney won one of two of Northwestern’s Hilliard Awards for leadership, scholarship and service. Each year, the university’s […]

Chicago cops find solace in God ‘in times of stress,’ growing public distrust

By Allison Ledwon In the following story, details such as the names and ages of the police officers have been withheld to protect their privacy and personal safety. A  South Side police officer, like most young adults graduating from college, was looking for a stable but fulfilling career.  He thought he would find it in […]