July 19, 2012
UIC Doctoral Student To Study South African XhosaJochen Arndt, University of Illinois at Chicago doctoral student in history, has been awarded the International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council to study the South African Xhosa ethnic identity.
July 9, 2012
Chicago Jazz Stars Teach Grades 5-12 in Summer Program at UICSome of Chicago’s most prominent jazz artists will instruct 160 students in grades 5-12 in the fourth annual summer jazz camp at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in collaboration with the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic.
July 2, 2012
Writing Workshop for Young Black Males Spawns National CurriculaA summer writing institute for adolescent black males based at the University of Illinois at Chicago is advancing literacy around the country through two curricula based on it.
June 22, 2012
UIC Humanities Scholar Named Dean of Liberal Arts and SciencesAstrida Orle Tantillo, professor of Germanic studies and history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been named dean of the UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, pending approval of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.
June 5, 2012
Hull-House Museum Opens Off-Site Exhibits on Conservative Vice LordsA new exhibition organized by the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum asks, “Can gang members become forces for positive social change?”
April 24, 2012
Gallery 400 Opens “Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)”Gallery 400 on April 27 will open “Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations),” a group exhibition that organizes works according to a color spectrum to explore color as both formal and social force.
April 23, 2012
UIC Presents First Garofalo SymposiumThe School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago will host the Garofalo Symposium, the first presentation of a planned annual event to honor the late Doug Garofalo, cutting-edge architect and UIC professor of architecture, on April 27.
April 10, 2012
UIC Hosts Renowned Mexican Poet and ActivistThe University of Illinois at Chicago will host a public lecture by award-winning Mexican poet and activist Javier Sicilia.
March 23, 2012
Hull-House Museum Opens Free Art Lending LibraryThe Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago has revived and elaborated on a service once offered by Addams herself — an art lending library.
March 23, 2012
UIC Theatre Presents Brechtian ‘Full Circle’Chicago- and Los Angeles-based performer Dado will direct acting students at the University of Illinois at Chicago as they present Charles Mee’s “Full Circle,” based on Bertolt Brecht’s “The Caucasian Chalk Circle.”