by Anne Snabes | Jun 12, 2020 | Coronavirus, Environment, Featured, Science + Technology
Sophia Horigan was supposed to study gypsy moths in a southwestern Michigan forest this spring and summer. Instead, the University of Chicago PhD student is studying in her apartment, where she rotates between a wooden table and a grey armchair. With her field...
by Anne Snabes | Jun 10, 2020 | Coronavirus, Education, Featured
Coronavirus relief money helped Spokane Falls Community College students Nakita Tibbits and Kevin Robinson pay their rent. But the presidents of community colleges in Spokane said while that assistance was important, there were many students in need who were left out....
by Jack Kelly | Jun 10, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
Affordable-housing activists warned lawmakers Wednesday of a looming rent crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and called on Congress to act swiftly to provide billions of dollars to help millions of Americans. The activists told the House Financial Services...
by Jack Kelly | Jun 4, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured, Politics
Georgia voting rights activist Stacey Abrams and Michigan’s top election official said Wednesday that the federal government must provide support to states to protect voters from COVID-19 and ensure all Americans can vote by mail in the November election....
by Anne Snabes | May 29, 2020 | Coronavirus, Environment, Featured
This month, House Democrats passed the $3 trillion HEREOS Act. This act would give $50 million to Environmental Protection Agency grant programs aimed at alleviating environmental problems that disproportionately affect communities of color, including exacerbating...
by Anne Snabes | May 28, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
Researchers at Northwestern University are using a biotechnology technique they developed for portably producing vaccines and for sensing contaminants in water to try to speed up the discovery of COVID-19 anti-viral drugs. Michael Jewett, a professor of chemical and...
