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With strong tournament showing, Wildcats ‘bring some life’ back to team

Text by Michelle R. Martinelli Video by Hannah Gebresilassie The Northwestern women’s basketball team’s performance  in the Big Ten tournament left an obvious question: Where has that team been all season? Despite a disappointing 4-14 finish in the Big Ten regular season, the Wildcats (18-15) played like they had finally found their chemistry and became the lowest-seeded […]

Becoming an elite basketball player comes at high price

By Aishwarya Kumar Lakshminarayanapuram Whitney Young junior guard Adrienne Truitt and her family have never gone on a family vacation in the last 10 years. Not even on short trips. Adrienne’s father Michael wanted to spend every additional penny he had on his daughter’s basketball career. And it is considerable: An estimated $40,000.

The freeze-dried food diet: What Scott Kelly’s year in space can tell us about our gut

By Danielle Prieur Growing up, you might remember trying “astronaut food” like freeze dried ice cream while on a field trip to your local science museum. Now imagine living a whole year on a diet of freeze dried food. That’s exactly what NASA commander and astronaut Scott Kelly did, living on the International Space Station as part of […]

FDA gives top priority to protecting the blood supply from Zika virus

By Neil Murthy The Food and Drug Administration is turning to technology to protect the nation’s blood supply from Zika, as the virus continues to sweep across the Americas and Chicago reported the first case here last week. Currently there have been no confirmed cases of Zika virus transmission through blood transfusions in the United […]

A hard rain’s gonna fall again at Ravinia

By Josef Siebert Bob Dylan will return to Ravinia this summer, appearing for the first time since his debut at the 102-year-old festival one rainy night in June 1964. Ravinia announced details of its 2016 season, which features over 140 events between June 2 and Sept. 11, on Wednesday. Billed as Robert Dylan for his […]

The high price of prescription drugs: A hard pill to swallow

By Valerie Lapointe A new hepatitis C drug that costs $750 per pill came on the market in 2015. Martin Shkreli acquired the rights to an AIDS medication and raised the price 5,556 percent in 2015. “Does this represent a cultural shift in the orientation of pharmaceutical company executives and of the public’s tolerance to […]

From dingy to delightful – vibrant lights glow under the Loop el

By Elizabeth Bacharach  The shadows beneath the el tracks – the underbelly of the city –are starting to glow with multi-colored lights on Wabash Avenue. And the lights may soon become part of a personalized light show that people can program from an app. The makers of The Wabash Lights are raising contributions to ultimately run […]

What’s beyond #OscarsSoWhite? Chicagoans sound off on Hollywood diversity

By Jasmine Cannon and Jasmine M. Ellis While Hollywood is still recovering from criticisms revolving around racial diversity in casting, some Chicagoans believe it’s time for The Academy to take a different approach. According to UCLA’s 2015 Hollywood Diversity Report, little more than 10 percent of lead actors in theatrical films were minorities, and just […]

Freshman guard returns home for Big Ten tournament

By Michelle R. Martinelli Video By Hannah Gebresilassie INDIANAPOLIS — As a 9-year-old girl standing on an empty court at the Big Ten Tournament, Jordan Hankins was in awe of how huge it looked. Although she wasn’t intimidated and took advantage of being able to shoot around before the teams and their fans showed up, […]

Above and Beyond: Remembering the Vietnam War

By Patrick Martin and Qingwei Chen When visitors to the Harold Washington Library Center ascend the escalator to the third floor, they will now see 58,307 dog tags hanging above them. Each small piece of metal is stamped with the name of an individual service member killed in the Vietnam War. They are in chronological […]