Geological methods provide insights into recent ecological transitions Shells from muddy sediment collected on the western Palos Verdes shelf off the coast of southern California. The shells are from the scallop Chlamys hastata. Courtesy of: Prof. Susan Kidwell CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 8, 2017 By: Steve Koppes Paleontologists investigating the sea bed off[Read More…]
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New Chicago Data Visualization Site Raises Awareness of Over-representation of Black Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Datasets available for download include juvenile arrests by demographic and offense from 2013 to early 2017. CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–June 9, 2017. Justice Divided (justicedivided.com) is a new educational tool focused on a long-recognized problem of the juvenile justice system: Youth of all races break the law, but black youth are more[Read More…]
New Report Lays Out Considerations for Designing Higher Education Risk-Sharing Systems
Students walk to class at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, September 13, 2016. AP/Steve Helber Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–May 22, 2017. Policymakers are increasingly interested in the idea of having institutions of higher education shoulder some of the risk when students struggle with federal student loans. Properly designing such[Read More…]
Prairie State College Students Recognized With Top Honors at Skyway STEM Competition
Prairie State College students (from left) Asija Watson, Andrew Severs and Gary Rathbone received top honors during the 2017 Skyway Stem Poster Competition, hosted at Elgin Community College. CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–May 2, 2017. Three Prairie State College students brought home top honors from the 2017 Skyway STEM Poster Competition. This year’s[Read More…]
Recently Discovered Solar System Could Seed Life Between Adjacent Exoplanets
Research simulates whether organisms could survive space travel Illustration shows what each of the TRAPPIST-1 planets may look like, based on available data about their sizes, masses and orbital distances. Illustration by: NASA/JPL-Caltech CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 27, 2017 By: Greg Borzo After NASA announced in February the discovery of a solar system[Read More…]
Hubble Discovery of Runaway Star Yields Clues to Breakup of Multiple-Star System
Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- As British royal families fought the War of the Roses in the 1400s for control of England’s throne, a grouping of stars was waging its own contentious skirmish — a star wars far away in the Orion Nebula. The stars were battling each other in a gravitational tussle,[Read More…]
Pacom Deploys Defensive Anti-Missile System to Korean Peninsula
U.S. Pacific Command has deployed the first elements of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, known as THAAD, to South Korea, implementing the U.S.-South Korean alliance’s July 2016 decision to bring the defensive capability to the Korean Peninsula. DoD photo CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2017 — U.S. Pacific[Read More…]
State of Illinois, University of Illinois System Launch ‘Smart State’ Partnership
University of Illinois System President Tim Killeen (Source: uillinois.edu) Technology initiative will help state better serve citizens, promote business growth SPRINGFIELD, IL (ENEWSPF)–February 3, 2017– The State of Illinois and University of Illinois System announced a new partnership today which advances Illinois as the nation’s premier ‘Smart State’, integrating next-generation[Read More…]
Stem Cell Transplants May Induce Long-Term Remission of Multiple Sclerosis
Encouraging results help set stage for larger studies. Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2017. New clinical trial results provide evidence that high-dose immunosuppressive therapy followed by transplantation of a person’s own blood-forming stem cells can induce sustained remission of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks[Read More…]
Discussion on the Cook County Criminal Justice System at the League of Women Voters – Park Forest Area on December 17
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—December 1, 2016. Please join The League of Women Voters – Park Forest Area on Saturday, December 17th at 10:30 a.m. at the Park Forest Public Library, 400 Lakewood Boulevard, for the monthly meeting. The speaker, Janice Goldberg, Co-Chair of the Cook County League of Women Voters Criminal[Read More…]
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