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Chicago Latino Caucus Meets With UIC Leadership
Members of the Chicago City Council Latino Caucus met with University of Illinois at Chicago Chancellor Michael Amiridis, U of I trustees, and other university officials on Oct. 22nd to discuss how Latinos are performing at UIC, Chicago’s largest university, and to explore ways of creating more working partnerships to help the institution do even more for the communities it serves. Amiridis said UIC could be the gateway for the development of the West Side and nearby communities such as Pilsen, Chinatown, and North Lawndale. Alderman George Cardenas of the 12th Ward, chair of the Latino caucus, said his members will create ...
Events
Events
Film Screening and Discussion On Sociology of Race, Housing, and Urban Policy in Chicago
UIC Sociology is proud to host award-winning filmmaker Ronita Bezalel, whose first film on Cabrini Green won an award for catalyzing dialogue on housing issues in Chicago. The event will feature a screening of Bezalel's most recent film, 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green, after which Professor Maria Krysan, a scholar of racial residential segregation, will interview the film maker on what the film tells us about the sociology of race, housing, and urban policy in Chicago. The event will be held at 6 p.m. on October 6th, at the UIC Great Cities Institute, 412 S. Peoria Street, Suite 400, in Chicago. The event is ...In the Community
Chicago Latino Artchive and Latino Art Now! unveiled at the National Museum of Mexican Art
Two new web-based projects showcasing past and present Latino art in Chicago will be introduced during a special presentation from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on October 6th, at the National Museum of Mexican Art, 1852 W. 19th Street, in Chicago, by the Inter-University Program for Latino Research IUPLR, a national Latino research consortium based at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Artists, collectors, curators, scholars and community members are invited to celebrate the launch of the Chicago Latino ArTchive and the Latino Art Now! Chicago Virtual Gallery. The projects, developed by the UIC-based IUPLR, will go live at the event and ...
Health News
UI Health To Open Mile Square Health Center in Drake School in Bronzeville
The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System will renovate and operate a new federally-qualified, school-based health center at Bronzeville’s John B. Drake Elementary School in 2017. The Drake Health & Wellness Center will serve approximately 400 students, including students from Drake Elementary, nearby schools, and Dearborn Homes, one of the last remaining public housing communities of the former State Street corridor. The center will become the 13th in UI Health’s Mile Square network of federally qualified health centers. At a press conference Sept. 23 at Drake Elementary, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, State Sen. Mattie Hunter and Alderman Pat Dowel joined representatives from UI Health, ...Student Highlights
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Junfeng Wu Named Greenleaf Scholar
Junfeng Wu, a PhD student from the UIC Business Organizational Behavior/Human Resources program, has been selected as a 2016 Greenleaf Scholar by the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. Wu will receive financial support from the Greenleaf Center, as well as inclusion in the Center’s Annual International Conference and the National Forum. Wu, who came to UIC from Renmin University in Beijing, approaches leadership research through the dynamics of shared perspectives among members of a group. His work explores the impact of servant leadership on group creativity and the trade-offs between group coordination and perspectival convergence among individuals. Wu will join ...Professors at Work
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Brain Disruptions Similar In Many Emotional Disorders
Researchers have long known that emotional disorders have a lot in common. Many often occur together, like depression and social anxiety disorder. Treatments also tend to work across multiple disorders, suggesting shared underlying elements. But perhaps the most common shared characteristic is that almost all emotional disorders involve persistent negative thinking. In an analysis of existing studies that used MRI images to study the brain’s white matter, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago describe common brain abnormalities found in multiple emotional disorders. Their findings are published in the journal NeuroImage: Clinical. “This study provides important insights into mechanisms shared across multiple ...Job Opportunities
Community Partners
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ArtReach Hosts 5-Alarm Chili Cook-Off Oct. 23rd
Join ArtReach for the first annual Chili Cook-off to support youth programming at the Firehouse. Chicago chefs will put their tried-and-true recipes to the test for guest judges and a grand prize. Admission includes tastings of several delicious chilis, a one-of-a-kind handmade bowl, beer, musical entertainment and glass and ceramic demos - not to mention great company and a great cause! The Firehouse Art Studio, located at 1123 W. Roosevelt Road, is a collaborative community art space shared by Art Reach and Firehouse Glass Studio that brings fire-based art programming, from ceramics to glass blowing, to residents of all ages and ...UIC Community Relations Newsletter
