UIC News reports that Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, associate professor in the LAS Latin American and Latino studies department, will be among the speakers at the forthcoming 2014 Urban Forum, taking place Thursday, September 18 from 8:45 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. at the the UIC Forum.
In an article published by Crain's Chicago Business, Robert Kaestner, professor in the LAS Department of Economics, is quoted regarding the expansion and refurbishing of hospitals in urban areas.
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.
In an interview with CBS 2 Chicago, Dennis Rosenbaum, UIC professor of criminology, law and justice, says that despite the recent media coverage of Chicago violence that crime rates in the city have decreased over the last two decades.
In a column appearing in the online publication Zocalo Public Square, Maria de los Angeles Torres, UIC professor of Latin American and Latino studies and executive director of the Inter-University Program on Latino Research, writes about the recent cases of unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S. border and her own experience as one of over 14,000 Cuban minors sent to the U.S. in "Operation Pedro Pan" in the early 1960?s.
Deirdre McCloskey, UIC Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication, spoke with the Institute of Economic Affairs Television (ieaTV) regarding her views on "inequality, the amazing growth in the wealth of the working class over the past three hundred years, and how wealth and commerce has been viewed over the centuries."
Physicists have identified the quantum glue that underlies a promising type of superconductivity a crucial step towards the creation of energy superhighways that conduct electricity without current loss.
The New York Times quotes Matthew Motyl, UIC assistant professor of psychology, and Maria Krysan, UIC professor of sociology, in an article about consultants and websites that assist New York area home buyers with data-based home searches and identifying communities that fit their preferences.