WGN Radio's "The Sunday Spin" interviewed David Merriman, professor of public administration and economics, on the implication of the Illinois Supreme Court's decision protecting subsidized health care premiums as part of the state's pension plan.
Dick Simpson, professor in the Department of Political Science and former Chicago alderman, frequently appears as a featured expert in news stories covering state and city government, politics and corruption.
LAS Professor Alex Furman, from the department of mathematics, computer science, and statistics, has been awarded a Simon Foundation fellowship for 2014.
LAS alum Hugh Vondracek (Political Science, 14) has been awarded a fellowship by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phithe nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.
NewsWorks, the website of Philadelphia public broadcaster WHYY, quotes David Merriman, professor of public administration and economics, on the tendency of higher cigarette taxes to drive sales to neighboring counties or states with…
Today's Chicago Women magazine has named LAS professor emeritus of gender and womens studies Judith Kegan Gardiner among their 2014 list of 100 Women of Inspiration.
LAS economics professor Lawrence Officer was interviewed on the Chicago FOX affiliate news program regarding the minimum wage in the state of Illinois.
The Financial Times quotes distinguished professor of economics, English, communication, and history Deirdre McCloskey in an article regarding the issue of income inequality.
A Scientific American article quotes UIC Associate Professor of Physics and Fermilab associate scientist Rick Cavanaugh about ongoing experiments to characterize the Higgs boson, discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in 2012, as…