July 25, 2012
Employee retirements on the riseThe University of Illinois has already seen a 50 percent increase in employee retirements so far this calendar year as compared to last.
July 25, 2012
UIC Pyro Paddlers race the river with dragonsUIC’s Pyro Paddlers hit the waters strong Saturday at the Chicago Dragon Boat Race for Literacy.
July 18, 2012
Helping graduate students along the path to successGraduate Mentoring Awards are designed to encourage and award excellence and innovation in all aspects of graduate mentoring. Every year, the Graduate College provides up to four awards of $2,000 each.
July 18, 2012
Merit-based salary increases approved, despite tight budgetAlthough the University of Illinois faces a reduction in its state appropriation, careful fiscal planning means a 2 percent merit-based salary increase for employees.
July 18, 2012
Cool kids on campusStudents, faculty and staff in the know find a remedy for the record heat at Mario’s Italian Lemonade, a long-time summertime hang-out on West Taylor Street.
July 11, 2012
UIC’s helping hands put Higgs particle within scientists’ graspYou can’t see it, but information gleaned from trillions of smashed atoms suggests it’s really there: the elusive subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, deemed essential to the physical workings of our universe. UIC physicists are part of this international scientific search.
July 3, 2012
Easter starts job as UI president“I can’t tell you the privilege I feel serving in this role,” Bob Easter told journalists and staff members Monday as he began his first official workday as 19th president of the University of Illinois.
March 21, 2012
UIC Police first fully accredited university forceThe UIC Police became the first university police force in Illinois to receive full accreditation from the Commission for the Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies, a national credentialing authority for municipal, county and state agencies.
March 14, 2012
Sitcom star returns to his rootsLucas Neff, 2008 theater grad and TV sitcom star, returns to coach current students on acting in front of the camera. Acting is about “willing to be humiliated,” he says.