217 Today: The IKIDS study is uncovering how prenatal exposure to chemicals can affect a child’s development

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An IKIDS researcher at UIUC conducts a part of the study with a child participant. IKIDS aims to understand how exposures to chemicals in consumer products can affect children’s physical development and neurodevelopment.
  • Photo: Photo courtesy of Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Monday, March 25, 2024

Today’s headlines:

  • Illinois Democratic lawmakers want to update the state’s decades-old child labor laws.
  • Governor J.B. Pritzker is touting Illinois as the best place in the nation to make and distribute cleaner fuel for airplanes.
  • Advocates for children with severe disabilities are at odds over how Illinois should fund special education day schools.
  • The Fighting Illini women’s basketball team defeated Stony Brook in the second round of the Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament

In today’s deep dive, we’ll learn more about how chemicals used in food packaging may be harming brain development in babies and children.

217 Today is produced by Stephanie Mosqueda. Reporting contributed by Mawa Iqbal, Alex Degman, Colin Hislope and Madison Holcomb.

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Stephanie Mosqueda

Stephanie Mosqueda is a senior majoring in journalism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with minors in Spanish and public relations. She is the 217 Today producer and a reporter for the Illinois Student Newsroom.