Catbackers host women in sports media panel, promote engagement with Northwestern women’s basketball
By Kikue Higuchi Medill Reports The Catbackers — an organization of women with a passion for Northwestern sports — assembled a panel for women in sports media, ahead of Northwestern women’s basketball’s 67-64 loss against No. 21 Illinois on Jan. 22. The panel featured Northwestern alumni Megan McKeown, Lauren Withrow and Patricia Babcock-McGraw as well […]
WATCH: Spirit of the team: Athlete turns tragedy into inspiration
By Elena Shklyar Medill Reports The Northwestern volleyball team’s 2022 season was one for the books. The Wildcats reached their highest rating percentage index (RPI) in program history and had their winningest season in the past decade. A huge part of the team’s success? Junior Captain Natalie Chizzo. The “light” on the team, Chizzo inspired […]
Weatherize windows to save on heating bills in Chicago
By Diana Giambona Medill Reports As temperatures dip down near zero in Chicago and furnaces are running at full blast, experts recommend weatherizing windows. Simple weatherizing steps keep the cold out of homes and help residents avoid higher bills for natural gas, the most prevalent source of heat in Illinois. According to the U.S. Energy […]
WATCH: ‘When Percussion Strikes’: Educator helps connects Chinese community with their music, culture
By Hanzhi Chen Medill Reports Brent Roman is a multi-instrumentalist specializing in percussion. He considers himself a percussionist, music director, educator, sound designer and world music specialist. With his many titles, he developed his understanding of percussions, Chinese music and the meaning of being an educator. TRANSCRIPT: [The drum team plays the drums] ROMAN: I’m […]
Hands of Doomsday Clock now 90 seconds from midnight
By Dilpreet Raju Medill Reports Scientists and leaders of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock on Tuesday to their closest ever position to midnight, a metaphorical barometer for how close the planet is to human-forced annihilation. The hands now sit at 90 seconds to midnight. This is the […]
Scientists track tipping points of climate change
By Chelsea Zhao Medill Reports Crystal Rao, a geoscience graduate student at Princeton University, bases her research on environmental changes and impacts on species using nitrogen isotopes in fossils. Rao uses the ratio of two common forms of nitrogen as a standard and compares it with the nitrogen inside the tooth tissue of the megalodon […]
Penn State Ice and Climate Research Center aims to understand our rapidly warming world
By Chelsea Zhao, Dilpreet Raju and Ilana Wolchinsky Medill Reports As the Earth warms, researchers at the Ice and Climate Exploration Research Center (PSICE) at Pennsylvania State University are interested in how we can expect glaciers, those dense bodies of ice that move under their own weight, to react to a drastically changing environment. Extreme […]
The geological importance of caves to time climate change
By Dilpreet Raju Medill Reports Some of the interweaving drivers of Earth’s climate change remain a mystery, but many of the world’s leading paleoclimatologists work every day to fill in the gaps. Paul Töchterle, a geological Ph.D. candidate at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, is working to revise the methods scientists use to date […]
Stalagmites reveal clues to changing ocean currents, changing climate
By Ilana Wolchinsky Medill Reports Climatologist Laura Endres began her Ph.D. a year ago at ETH Zürich in the paleoclimate field, drawing on her background in earth and climate sciences. Endres uses climate records encased in cave stalagmites to reveal past climate patterns — paleoclimate — that give clues to how fast climate change is […]
Will evaporation dry up water sources as climate change worsens?
By Gabrielle Rancifer Medill Reports “If we didn’t have evaporation, we wouldn’t have water in the atmosphere,” said Thomas Lowell, a geology professor at the University of Cincinnati. Researchers closely follow and evaluate both evaporation and precipitation because they are key components of the water cycle. Evaporation delivers water to the atmosphere, and precipitation delivers […]