CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 7 -- Roosevelt University issued the following news: Even before studying voice at CCPA in the mid-2000s, Alexa Smith was keenly aware of the intersectionality of identity and performance in the arts. She was initially interested in becoming a singer, but after taking classes such as "Arts Education and Community Engagement" and "The Professional Performing Artist Society," she was additionally compelled to address systemic inequities in American classical music. Alexa  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 7 -- Kirkland and Ellis, a law firm, issued the following news release: Kirkland & Ellis represented Grupo Antolin, a global supplier of automobile interior components, in connection with its offering of Euros250 million of senior secured notes due 2030 and the amendment and extension of its Euros515 million senior term and revolving facilities. The proceeds from the notes issuance were used to redeem Antolin's outstanding Euros250 million senior secured notes due 2026.  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 7 -- Kirkland and Ellis, a law firm, issued the following news release: Kirkland & Ellis counseled LM Energy, a Dallas-based midstream company backed by Old Ironsides Energy, on the sale of LM Energy's natural gas gathering system in the Northern Delaware Basin to Trace Midstream, backed by Quantum. The transaction includes existing and under-construction high-and low-pressure gas gathering systems in Eddy and Lea counties in New Mexico consisting of 170 miles of pipeli  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 7 -- Kirkland and Ellis, a law firm, issued the following news release: Kirkland & Ellis advised Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, a specialist global investment manager focused exclusively on the infrastructure needed for the energy transition, on the final closing of the Net Zero Power Fund (NZPF). Quinbrook secured a total of $3 billion of new capital commitments in aggregate across the fund and co-investment vehicles for the NZPF strategy. NZPF is Quinbrook's fifth  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 7 -- Mayer Brown, a law firm, issued the following news: Mayer Brown partners Anna Pinedo and Joanna Horsnail were recognized by Corporate Counsel in its 2024 Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards. The annual awards honor in-house and law firm women leaders and allies who demonstrate "a commitment to advancing the empowerment of women in law," according to the publication. Anna, a partner in Mayer Brown's Capital Markets practice, was recognized in the "Lifetime Achiev  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 7 -- McDermott Will and Emery, a law firm, issued the following news release: Frankfurt, August 6, 2024 - McDermott Will & Emery has advised Atruvia AG and SERVISCOPE AG on the acquisition of all shares in Service-Direkt Telemarketing Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (SDT) by SERVISCOPE AG. Atruvia is the digitization partner of the cooperative FinanzGruppe. With approx. 5,260 employees the company generates an annual group revenue of around Euros1.5 billion (2023). SERVISCO  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 7 -- The University of Illinois Chicago campus issued the following news release: The University of Illinois Chicago-led initiative Crossing Latinidades will continue for another three years, thanks to a $5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The research initiative supports Latino humanities faculty and doctoral students, and the extension to 2027 will focus on third- and fourth-year doctoral students as they develop their dissertation proposals on Lati  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 7 -- The University of Chicago issued the following news: * * * Astronomers, physicists investigate big questions about the universe in unique collaborative environment * * * By Maureen Searcy The field of cosmology is just the small matter of understanding the entire universe: how it began, how it works, and how it's changing. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago, which brings togeth  more

MACOMB, Illinois, Aug. 7 -- Western Illinois University issued the following news release: At the Aug. 6 Western Illinois University Board of Trustees special meeting, the Board approved Resolution No. 24.8/1, a staff reduction authorization. "For the past decade, Western has been navigating the ongoing transformation of higher education and the enrollment decline due to population shifts, changes in funding, and a misguided narrative that higher education is not worth the investment," WIU Int  more

MACOMB, Illinois, Aug. 7 -- Western Illinois University issued the following news release: Brittany Sunderman's story began with building bridges and, through Western Illinois University, she is now building bridges in an Illinois community. Sunderman, who graduated from WIU with a Master of Arts in Community and Economic Development in 2023, started her path working for a construction company in Seattle, WA. She traveled to Nicaragua on a project to build a bridge and met Peace Corps Voluntee  more

EVANSTON, Illinois, Aug. 6 -- Northwestern University issued the following news release: CHICAGO - Social media's rise to popularity between 2010 and 2020 has been strongly correlated with the nationwide freefall in youth mental health that characterized the 2010s. Lawmakers have put increasing pressure on the U.S. government to take social media regulation more seriously, with cases about platforms like Facebook, Instagram and X rising to the Supreme Court level. But despite the ubiquity of s  more