WATCH: Raising the Bar
By Isabelle Senechal and Rose LaForest Medill Reports As a teenager, Marshan Allen was sentenced to die in prison. Today, he is an accomplished criminal justice advocate and law school student who is fighting for the rights of those still behind bars. TRANSCRIPT: MARSHAN ALLEN: I was incarcerated, and I was convicted of felony murder […]
Investigating end of last Ice Age to understand today’s rapid global warming
By Annika Schmidt Medill Reports TIERRA DEL FUEGO, Chile — Glacial geologist Brenda Hall clambered up the side of a truck-sized, rain-slicked boulder in clothes soaked from a day hiking over forested ridges in the Patagonian wilderness. Despite heavy, steady raindrops clouding her glasses, Hall used a hammer and chisel to chip into the surface […]
