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But what does esports sound like here at Northwestern? Today I talked to some players slash students of the tactical shooter game Valorant about the vibrant esports community we have on campus as well as their thoughts on the current state of the game at large.

If you’re a tennis fan, you most likely already know about the new King Richard movie. WNUR News reporter Emily Zou speaks with the film’s cast at an advanced screening hosted by Warner Brothers. Here’s a behind the scenes listen:

Northwestern student activists aren’t satisfied with the school’s current climate actions. From divestment to environmental justice, they feel as if there’s still a lot of work to be done. Emily Zou has the story.

When asked by a Northwestern student why they should get involved with the Evanston community Tuesday night, Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss encouraged students to find a cause that they are passionate about.

Dune is a movie difficult to evaluate on its own terms; it’s inextricably tied to other cultural ecosystems that make the Dune-watching process hard to do in isolation.

Molly Schnell, an assistant economics professor at Northwestern, gave a virtual talk about her research on the effects of school shootings on survivors Thursday morning.

“She’s Returned!” “She is Risen.” “Mother is Back.” That’s not your local cult recruiting, but the reactions of Mitski fans on Twitter after the Japanese-American singer-songwriter announced that she would be dropping her new song (mysteriously untitled at the time) the following day, October 5th, at 9AM CST.

The third annual #Speech Matters conference, hosted by the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, took place on April 20th and 21st. The conference aimed to tackle topics that are exceedingly relevant, including communication during the COVID-19 pandemic and student activism and advocacy.

On May 22, a convergence of San Diego climate education organizers will meet at the Climate Champions Virtual Summit, a project developed by the Climate Champions team.

A brief glance at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s website leaves the viewer with a singular impression: this is a place for those who passionately care about climate change. Boasting a 118-year history of “understanding and protecting the planet since 1903”, you’d never guess the role that William Nierenberg, who served as director of Scripps for 21 years, played in obfuscating climate change in the public eye.

The end of Winter Quarter marks the first completed course of Synthesis 1 for 320 Seventh College students, UC San Diego’s newest college’s writing sequence, called the Synthesis program, centers communication and writing while taking on the lens of the climate change crisis, in reference to the overarching theme of Seventh College, which is a “changing planet.”

In this interview, Pasquale Verdicchio, a literature professor at UC San Diego, answers questions about the synthesis of the fields of humanities and sciences in the climate change crisis. He also shares his thoughts on how COVID-19 will affect the way we think of ourselves and the world at large, and how we can take steps to make a difference in our daily lives.