The hunt for the return of the river herring
Medill News Service journalist Mollie McNeel is writing a series of stories from embedded reporting with field researchers for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland. By Mollie McNeel Medill Reports May 9, Potapsco River, Maryland. – I am out here standing waist deep in the middle of a roaring river, straddling a net […]
Stats LLC Brings Artificial Intelligence to Sports Broadcasts
Darren Zaslau Medill Reports Stats LLC, a Chicago sports data and technology company, is creating artificial intelligence to be used in sports broadcasts. The company is training computers to track player and ball movement during games to reveal advanced analytics for broadcasters, such as similar plays and success rates. As a result, fans will have […]
Coach Jared Voss Gets Win Number 500
By Nick Mantas Medill Reports Illinois high school baseball has a new member in the 500 club. Joliet Catholic Academy’s Head Baseball Coach Jared Voss just got win number 500 in a unique way. Coach Voss, an alumnus of JCA, is looking to make another run at the state title and at this point their […]
Child abuse survivor recounts horrifying rape experience
Gabrielle Phifer Medill Reports Life after being abused can be one of the toughest moments for any person, especially for a child. Patrick Dati was just 9 years old when he was sexually abused in a bathroom at a Chicago department store. It was difficult being abused but even more difficult when he found out […]
First Responders Nationwide Play in 2018 Unsung Heroes Soccer Tournament
By Darren Zaslau Medill Reports Soccer teams made of first responders from across the country participated in the 2018 Unsung Heroes Soccer Tournament in Chicago on May 3–4. Unsung Heroes is a fundraising organization run by volunteers who are police officers, paramedics or firefighters and community service members. The event raised money for Chicago’s injured […]
Uncovering the past at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Mollie McNeel Medill Reports Travel about an hour southeast of Baltimore and you’ll end up in a small Maryland town called Edgewater. Keep driving past the city limits and you’ll see a brown sign on the side of the road indicating that somewhere in the thick forrest to your left is the Smithsonian Environmental Research […]
Tracking marine life on the edge of the Pacific
By Rebecca Fanning Medill Reports Bodega Bay, California. I’ve spent the past several weeks working with marine ecologists –holding tiny porcelain crabs, named for their propensity for losing limbs, picking seaweed out of small buckets to be dried and weighed for an animal diet experiment, peering through microscopes at fish larvae and gazing at baby […]
Special tradition in a special lacrosse rivalry
By Nick Mantas Medill Reports Every rivalry has it’s own pageantry and traditions that make it unique. The rivalry between New Trier High School and Loyola Academy has less to do with disdain and more to do with distance. The schools are less than a mile apart. Their proximity carries onto the field. The two […]
From finding sinkholes to slave fishing ships – Observing the Earth with satellites
DigitalGlobe maps the Earth’s surface at a high resolution, to the extent where you can take a single map and zoom in enough to clearly see the windshield of a car, though the bobble head on your dashboard is safe from view so far. The company works with mineral prospectors, city planners, tech companies and different branches of […]
Preview: Illinois’ best high school lacrosse match up
By Nick Mantas Medill Reports Two of the best high school lacrosse programs in the state of Illinois will face-off for the first time this season. These two schools have a rivalry that has consequences for the outcome of their games; usually the winner is the state champion. Loyola Academy High School is hosting its […]