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UIC to Lead MacArthur-Funded Study of Cities’ Fiscal Health
May 21, 2012
The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a three-year, $950,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to lead a joint study of city governments’ responses to the Great Recession.
Chicago Police Cameras More Effective When Clustered, Study Says
May 14, 2012
Chicago’s network of police cameras is more effective at reducing crime in high-crime areas than in low-crime areas, according to a new study.
UIC Bioengineering Doctoral Student Receives FMC Fellowship
May 9, 2012
Christopher Knowlton, a University of Illinois at Chicago doctoral student in bioengineering, is among four University of Illinois Ph.D. students who received $20,000 FMC Technologies, Inc., Fellowships for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Four UIC Students Win Brundage Scholarships
May 9, 2012
Fourteen University of Illinois students from the Chicago, Springfield and Urbana-Champaign campuses have been awarded Avery Brundage Scholarships for excellence in academics and athletics. Four of the winners attend UIC.
UIC Student Wins State Department Scholarship
May 9, 2012
A University of Illinois at Chicago student has won the U.S. State Department’s Critical Languages Scholarship for intensive language studies in Turkey this summer.
UIC Institute Funds 17 Studies of Race in Health, Justice, Economics, Education
May 9, 2012
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago will use grants and fellowships from UIC’s Institute for Research on Race & Public Policy to conduct 17 year-long studies of racial and ethnic inequalities in health, justice, economics and education.
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis at UIC Tuesday to Discuss Challenges, Opportunities Facing Grads
May 7, 2012
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis will sit down with college students and recent graduates at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Tuesday to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face as they enter the workforce.
Commencement at UIC
May 1, 2012
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Howard K. Koh, and other civic and business leaders are the featured speakers at college commencements at the University of Illinois at Chicago May 2-6.
Two UIC Students Recognized by Goldwater Foundation
April 26, 2012
Two University of Illinois at Chicago students who plan medical careers have been recognized by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence Foundation for their academic achievement. Both plan to earn joint M.D./Ph.D. degrees to become physician-researchers.
Gallery 400 Opens “Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)”
April 24, 2012
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.