In a guest commentary for Barron’s , Zizi Papacharissi (Professor and Head of Communication and Professor of Political Science) weighs in on Elon Musk’s attempt to purchase Twitter and the motivations behind it. Read…
The Center Square which covers Illinois House Republicans’ complaints about “pork” spending in Democrat-crafted budgets, features findings from a Political Science department report on corruption in Chicago and Illinois. Read more here: https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/illinois-house-republicans-decry-pork-spending-as-corrupt-practice/article_68a69c68-d235-11ec-b6a8-cbf8ab39bffd.html…
In an online story and news segment, WTTW-TV “Chicago Tonight” highlights a political science department report on corruption in Chicago and Illinois. Report lead author Dick Simpson, UIC professor of political science, is…
A WGN-TV News segment reviewed findings from a new report from UIC’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy that details erroneously issued parking tickets in Chicago. Report lead author and former…
In a post published by Beacon Broadside , Maria de los Angeles Torres (Professor of Latin American and Latino studies and #UICLAS Distinguished Professor) pens an essay titled “Like Cuba’s Pedro Pans, Today’s Unaccompanied…
Michael Emerson, UIC professor and head of sociology, tells the New York Times that white evangelical churches will experience a “seismic shift” with some embracing pro-Trump messaging and politics and others breaking away from that ideology
Truthout published “Let’s Work for Global, Anti-Imperialist Reproductive Justice This Mother’s Day,” a co-authored op-ed from Nadine Naber, UIC professor of gender and women’s studies and global Asian studies.
A Chicago Tribune article about violence in the Loop reflecting the issues going on in Chicago’s neighborhoods includes comments from David Stovall, UIC professor of Black studies and criminology, law and justice, who says long-term solutions are…
In a Chicago Tribune article about Eboo Patel’s efforts to bring people of different faiths together, Kevin Schultz, UIC professor and chair of history, provides a historical perspective on interfaith leaders collaborating to broaden the…
Sara Siddiqui, an undergraduate senior majoring in Chemistry, has won an NSF GRFP award that supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited US…