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ORC scientists act as the editorial team for the Namibian Journal of Environment

This is actually old news we haven’t shared with you yet. A year ago, ORC’s research team of ( Ken Stratford, John Mendelsohn, Florian Weise and Stéphane Périquet), were given the opportunity to take over from John Irish as the Editorial team of our very own Namibian scientific journal, the Namibian Journal of Environment (NJE). Publishing scientific articles can be a windy road, often taking months, sometimes years from first submission to final publication.

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Chicago nonprofits got $1 million in unrestricted funding. Here’s how some used it.

Run by formerly incarcerated individuals, ChiFresh Kitchen is one of 26 Chicago organizations that have received money from Chicago Beyond. The money, $1 million of which has been distributed so far with $2 million still to go, is going to smaller organizations doing “hyperlocal” work that “often don’t get resources,” said Chicago Beyond founder and CEO Liz Dozier, also a former CPS principal.

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Behind the scenes of the country’s largest COVID vaccination site at Dodger Stadium

Over the past year, Dodger Stadium became a lot more than a ballpark. It was a COVID testing site where more than 1 million people got tested. It was a voting center, a holiday lights drive-thru show, a socially distanced tailgate location where Dodger fans sat and watched our boys in blue take the 2020 World Series. Now it’s changing roles again.

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