Night of the Ace: Who will step up as Northwestern’s Friday night starter?
By Andre Toran Medill Reports That pitcher who runs out onto the mound on Friday nights is the pacesetter for the rest of the weekend in college baseball. The first game of a weekend set is crucial to how teams tends to perform, so programs put their best guy on the mound to give them […]
Ramblers look to block the outside noise as they finish off tough 5 game stretch
Greg Melo Medill Reports In college sports, conference play is king. And for a young Loyola women’s basketball team, Missouri Valley conference games have presented a mix of ups and downs. After a weekend split against Illinois State and Bradley, Loyola finds itself tied for the fifth spot in the Valley. With the top 6 […]
UIC women’s tennis maps a global trajectory
By Fernando Shan Medill Reports The University of Illinois at Chicago women’s tennis team recruited seven international students from five different countries, including Brazil, Bosnia, Czech Republic, Germany and England. Besides being strongly international, most of the student-athletes on the team are transfer students. Chicago is their second destination in the United States.
Chicago mayors: A mixed legacy on the environment
By Dwight A. Weingarten Medill Reports When Chicago’s first Mayor William B. Ogden took office in 1837, he along with two alderman crafted the city seal. The city’s motto, “Urbs in Horto,” or City in a Garden, that appears at the bottom of the seal, quickly lost much of its literal meaning even with huge […]
Paul Vallas shines at student-led mayoral forum
By Nora Mabie Medill Reports Junior Sandra Garcia stands outside the Carl Schurz High School auditorium with a big Ziploc bag filled with red and blue buttons. “Are you 18?” she asks students as they enter the auditorium. If she gets a yes, Garcia hands them a button, labeled “VOTER” in big block letters. If […]
#7 Loyola Falls to UCLA, Defeats Penn State in Pair of Four-Set Affairs
by Tim Hackett Medill Reports Mahan’s career week helps Ramblers salvage home split After UC Santa Barbara snapped their six-game winning streak Saturday, the #7 Loyola-Chicago Ramblers returned home to Gentile Arena for matches against a pair of teams with 21 NCAA men’s volleyball national championships between them,. They faced off against #5 UCLA and […]
Chicago sports may be more European than you think
by Louis Ricard Medill Reports The ‘85 Bears revolutionized the way defense is played with the 4-6 scheme. The Chicago Bulls won six NBA titles, including two three-peats with the levitational Air Jordan. The Chicago Cubs recently broke a 108-year-old losing spell by winning the World Series. And it feels like yesterday the Blackhawks won […]
Demystifying artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning
By Xieyang Jessica Qiao Medill Reports Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) – these buzzwords are used so interchangeably that they become fluid in interpretation. But while these emerging technologies are intertwined, they provide different levels of application. DL is a subset of ML, and ML is a subset of AI, […]
Safety requirements for Antarctic researchers can take out your wisdom teeth
By Stephanie Fox Medill Reports What do Antarctic climate scientists and Nordic Vikings have in common? More than you might think. After being cast out of Iceland for murdering his neighbor, Erik the Red, the notorious Viking who walked the Earth around 985 A.D., braved the unforgiving seas in search of a new home. That’s […]
FDA taking a firmer stance on e-cigarette regulation in 2019
By Emma Goodson Medill Reports The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to move on stricter regulation of e-cigarettes – electronic nicotine delivery systems – if youth usage of these products continues to rise in 2019. Commissioner Scott Gottlieb voiced the agency’s concerns at a recent public hearing focused on eliminating youth use of electronic […]