The SkyDay Project rethinks how to teach environmental science through student-led art projects and creates a yearly international competition.

Reset talks with winners of the competition about their experience with taking daily photos of the sky and hears their poems.

GUESTS: Ben Whitehouse, founding executive director of SkyDay

Daniella and Deknav, students, Knightsbridge School International

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found a link between gun violence and abandoned homes. Researchers found that fully restored areas showed about a 13% decrease in gun assaults there.

Reset discusses with the leader of a group that works individually with at-risk individuals to reduce gun violence through coaching, workforce development and advocacy.

GUEST: Kanoya Ali, housing coordinator at Chicago CRED

Queer characters are showing up as lead characters more and more in film and media, but sometimes they fall into harmful stereotypes.

Reset explores queer characters in media and why representation alone isn’t enough.

GUESTS: Samantha Chery, multiplatform editor in features for the Washington Post

Sonal Soni, former fellow at the City Monitor, former intern at WBEZ

A report released Wednesday from the Urban Institute found single-family lending amounts in majority-white neighborhoods are much higher than in majority-Black neighborhoods.

Reset breaks it down with a researcher.

GUEST: Brett Theodos, senior fellow and director of the Community Economic Development Hub at the Urban Institute

The Biden Administration announced her release as part of a prisoner exchange. The U.S released Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.

Reset talks with two sports reporters about Griner’s release and what impact her detention has had on WNBA players who routinely play in Russian basketball leagues in the offseason.

GUESTS: Cheryl Raye-Stout, WBEZ sports contributor

Annie Costabile, sports reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times

More than three months after the first bus of asylum seekers arrived from the Texas border to Chicago, journalists from Block Club Chicago and Borderless Magazine interviewed them on how it’s going and if they think the journey was worth it.

Reset gets an update on their experiences and what legal challenges get in the way of being able to find employment and send money home to their families.

GUESTS: Madison Savedra, Southwest Side reporter for Block Club Chicago

Nicole Hallett, director, Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, University of Chicago Law School

Airline security can be notoriously challenging especially around the holidays, but some airports are turning to facial recognition technologies to speed up the process. But research has proven facial recognition technology is significantly less accurate for women and people of color.

Reset learns more about the risks and benefits of this tech at the airport.

GUEST: Geoffrey Fowler, tech columnist for the Washington Post