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Dec 6, 2024 | 
faithandleadership.com | Alison Bowen
Amid laughter and the sound of scissors crafting Christmas cards, half a dozen women from Lawndale Christian Community Church joined in fellowship on a recent Saturday morning. In many ways, it seemed like an ordinary church hall scene — women and familiar laughter, friends discussing holiday plans. But for Kenya Varnado-England, who became a member of the congregation this year, this church feels different from ones she’s attended before. Previous congregations felt businesslike, she said.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
paw.princeton.edu | Alison Bowen
Why do some people react by coping resiliently with adversity, while others might want to sit in a dark corner for days? This is one question neuroscience professor Ilana Witten ’02 hopes to research as a 2024 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator. The award aims to equip scientists to push their research further, providing each recipient about $11 million in support throughout seven years, according to the institute.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
cosmopolitan.com | Alison Bowen
Put a finger down if you’ve ever had to scour a resort gift shop for a tampon or pad. Yeah, it’s not exactly vacation vibes. But that’s what happens when your period makes a surprise visit and completely interrupts your plans of basically living at the swim-up bar. So can anything be done about this inconvenience? Is there a way to scam the menstrual cycle to avoid having a period while you’re on vacation?
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
news.luc.edu | Alison Bowen
A devil mask from Mexico. Pictorial tapestries from India. Beaded headdresses from Cameroon. All are part of a collection of thousands of objects from non-Western cultural traditions that are set out on tables for Loyola University Chicago students’ careful inspection and study. The May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection, consisting of nearly 2,850 objects was established in 2014.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
news.luc.edu | Alison Bowen
Coming up on mile 20 is when many marathoners start to struggle. Maggie Beers knows this firsthand. The 46-year-old West Chicago, Illinois, resident is running the marathon for the eighth time Sunday, and she is ready for when she, as she describes it, hits the wall.“It’s a mental game a lot of times trying to finish these races,” she says. “I feel right around mile 20, you’re thinking, ‘I only have 6 miles left.’ But it’s the hardest 6 miles. It’s like you hit a wall.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
news.luc.edu | Alison Bowen
When researchers go abroad to collect data from citizens of other countries, it can create conflict. Many times, the researchers’ intentions are misunderstood, or the local population may feel excluded or patronized. A dedicated team of scientists at Loyola University Chicago’s Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health seeks to mitigate these tensions by involving local researchers in their projects in Africa.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Alison Bowen
Steve Jobs Swore the 10-Minute Rule Made Him Smarter. Modern Neuroscience Is Discovering He Was RightStuck on a tough problem? Do what Jobs would have done and follow the 10-minute rule. Say you're facing a difficult problem at work, and even though you've been sitting at your desk for the last 10 minutes straining your brain to think of a solution, you're still coming up blank. What do you do? If …
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
wbez.org | Alison Bowen |Graham Meyer |Morgan Ciocca |Manuel Martinez |Manuel Martínez
Friends since their childhood in the Chicago suburbs, Rebecca Little and Colleen Long met in their fourth-grade class in Flossmoor. In adulthood, they bonded over incomprehensible grief as both experienced shattering pregnancy losses. Little, a Chicago-area writer and mom of three living boys, had what she calls a “Bingo card” of loss — a chemical pregnancy, a miscarriage, a 20-week stillbirth and, finally, a TFMR, or termination for medical reasons, with identical twin boys at 23 weeks.
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May 13, 2024 | 
mercurynews.com | Alison Bowen
Lying in his bed at a Wheaton rehabilitation center, Eddie Wisniewski grimaced when a chaplain holding a Bible appeared in the doorway. That day in 2022, Wisniewski had already been in a hospital for days, then spent a week in physical therapy. He was relearning how to walk as he recovered from lymphedema that left him with swollen legs. He was not in the mood for preaching. The chaplain, the Rev. Arnold Hoskins, however, made no attempt to sermonize.
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May 13, 2024 | 
hechoencalifornia1010.com | Alison Bowen
Lying in his bed at a Wheaton rehabilitation center, Eddie Wisniewski grimaced when a chaplain holding a Bible appeared in the doorway. That day in 2022, Wisniewski had already been in a hospital for days, then spent a week in physical therapy. He was relearning how to walk as he recovered from lymphedema that left him with swollen legs. He was not in the mood for preaching. The chaplain, the Rev. Arnold Hoskins, however, made no attempt to sermonize.
