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November 6, 2012
‘Gyroscopic’ Exhibition Features Richard Koppe’s Fish and Bird SeriesAbstract paintings and drawings by a noted artist who taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago will be shown at a well-known gallery to support art scholarships.
November 5, 2012
Kids Consume More Soda and Calories When Eating OutChildren and adolescents consume more calories and soda and have poorer nutrient-intake on days they eat at either fast-food or full-service restaurants, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
November 5, 2012
U.S. Hispanics at High Risk for Cardiovascular DiseaseHispanics and Latinos living in the U.S. are highly likely to have several major cardiovascular disease risk factors, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and smoking, according to a new, large-scale study.
November 2, 2012
Election Night: UIC Students Gather for Election Results and FunMore than 100 UIC students of all political persuasions will gather Tuesday night for an Election Results Party to watch live-streaming election returns and play political trivia games.
October 31, 2012
UIC Library’s IDEA Commons Wins Two Architectural Design AwardsThe IDEA Commons, a cutting-edge learning and meeting environment at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Richard J. Daley Library, has received two awards for design from the American Institute of Architects’ Chicago chapter.
October 29, 2012
UIC Theatre Presents American Take on Russian FarceThe University of Illinois at Chicago Theatre’s second play of the season is based on “The Suicide,” a Russian satire so sharp that Josef Stalin banned it before even a single performance and exiled its author, Nicolai Erdman, to Siberia.
October 29, 2012
Conference Examines Religion and WarThe links between God and war will be examined during a two-day conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
October 25, 2012
UIC College of Nursing Hosts 15th Annual ‘Power of Nursing Leadership’Beverly Malone, chief executive officer of the National League for Nursing and a past president of the American Nurses Association, will be the keynote speaker at the 15th Annual Power of Nursing Leadership Event Nov. 2 at the Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave.
October 25, 2012
UIC Nursing Professor Elected to Institute of MedicineDiana Wilkie, professor and Harriet H. Werley Endowed Chair for Nursing Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
October 24, 2012
Antibiotics That Only Partly Block Protein Machinery Allow Germs To Poison ThemselvesPowerful antibiotics that scientists and physicians thought stop the growth of harmful bacteria by completely blocking their ability to make proteins actually allow the germs to continue producing certain proteins — which may help do them in.