by Michaela Meaney | Jun 11, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Dan Mikulecky had an epiphany during his 2004 deployment to Iraq with the Montana National Guard. He had joined the Guard for college, but wasn’t sure the direction he wanted to go in life post-deployment. Being out in the Iraqi countryside, however, it...
by Michaela Meaney | Jun 1, 2015 | Education, Topics
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The final night of the Scripps National Spelling Bee was packed with repeat visitors and potential dynasties, but no one saw Snehaa Ganesh Kumar advancing as far as she did. The Folsom Middle School seventh grader tied for fourth place with her...
by Michaela Meaney | May 28, 2015 | Education
Snehaa Ganesh Kumar, 12, of Folsom, correctly spell her second word of the preliminaries, “pirarucu,” a type of fish found in the rivers of South America. Snehaa is announced first as one of 49 spellers to advance to the semifinals in the Scripps National...
by Michaela Meaney | May 26, 2015 | Entertainment
Medill News Service reporters interviewed red carpet attendees at the GI Film Festival, including military film icon R. Lee “Gunny” Ermey, about their favorite military films of all time. Published in conjunction with
by Michaela Meaney | May 20, 2015 | Science + Technology
A stop-motion animation using junk food to explain fracking.
