CARBONDALE, Illinois, Aug. 19 -- Southern Illinois University issued the following news release: A recent Illinois Bar Foundation (IBF) grant will allow Southern Illinois University School of Law's Civil Practice Clinic to expand its basic estate planning and other civil law services to veterans and their immediate families. The clinic provides free services for persons 60 years and older in the region's 13 southernmost counties. The $15,000 IBF grant will enable veterans and their immediate f  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 19 (TNSres) -- The Illinois Institute of Technology issued the following news release on Aug. 18, 2023: * * * Mohammad Asadi partners with SHV Energy to distribute electrolyzer device that can convert carbon dioxide into propane in a way that is economically viable and scalable * * * A paper recently published in Nature Energy based on pioneering research done at Illinois Institute of Technology reveals a promising breakthrough in green energy: an electrolyzer device   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 19 (TNSres) -- Northwestern University issued the following news release: The viral ALS Ice Bucket Challenge a few years ago raised major funding that resulted in the discovery of new genes connected to the disease. One of those genes is NEK1, in which mutations have been linked to as much as 2% of all ALS cases, making it one of the top-known causes of the disease. But it wasn't known how the mutated gene disrupts the function of the motor neuron and causes it to degen  more

EVANSTON, Illinois, Aug. 19 (TNSres) -- Northwestern University issued the following news release on Aug. 18, 2023: * * * Why overlapping sounds are easier to remember * * * Have you ever used a mnemonic device with a rhyme or alliteration -- like "i before e, except after c" -- to help remember something, and wondered why it worked so well? New research led by Northwestern University Ph.D. student Matias Fernandez-Duque and Viorica Marian, the Ralph and Jean Sundin Professor of Communicati  more