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  • 1 week ago | farmweeknow.com | Lyndsay Jones

    Tornado alley — the loosely defined U.S. region where tornadoes occur most frequently — is shifting eastward as atmospheric conditions favorable to tornadoes become more common in states outside of the Great Plains, a CBS Chicago meteorologist told ag professionals last week. And not only are tornado-producing conditions becoming more common in the deep South and upper Midwest, David Yoemans said, but the number of tornadoes that occur in a given outbreak has also increased.

  • 2 months ago | nprillinois.org | Lyndsay Jones

    Megan Hanley hadn't heard of kratom prior to last year. An epidemiologist for the Tazewell County Health Department, Hanley was working on researching trends in the county's overdose deaths as part of a state grant program. Her goal was to identify various trends that would aid the county's overdose prevention efforts — tracking things like demographics or what substances were involved in reported overdose deaths.

  • 2 months ago | nprillinois.org | Lyndsay Jones

    Illinois Wesleyan University is among 60 higher education institutions that have been urged by the U.S. Department of Education [DOE] to cooperate with ongoing investigations into alleged actions of "antisemitic discrimination and harassment."The DOE's Office for Civil Rights [OCR] sent the letter on March 10 to colleges and universities under investigation for potential Title VI violations.

  • 2 months ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Lyndsay Jones

    Share An Ohio-based animal rights watchdog has filed a complaint against Illinois State University , hoping the federal government will impose fines after multiple "emaciated" sheep were observed on a university-operated farm last year. Stop Animal Exploitation Now [SAEN] filed the complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture [USDA] in late February. The complaint stems from a noncompliance report ISU filed with the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare [OLAW] in July.

  • Feb 28, 2025 | nprillinois.org | Lyndsay Jones

    When Catherine Popovitch was a student at Normal Community West High School, she imagined herself someday following in the footsteps of the history and social science teachers she admired. But as an undergraduate student at Millikin University in Decatur, Popovitch quickly learned while student teaching that the profession wasn't for her. It took a pair of internships at Illinois State University's Milner Library for Popovitch to really find her niche.

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