Zachary McDowell, assistant professor of communication in LAS, works with his students to improve Wikipedia nonprofit organization pages, through editing assignments, as a way to practice and gain writing knowledge. Read more: go.uic.edu/wikipedianonprofits
Congratulations to LAS alumni Sonya Gupta and Ryan Zomorrodi who earned a fellowship with the Clinton Global Initiative University for creating mapping and health equity project initiatives that address Chicago’s health disparities.
Several LAS researchers have been selected as winners of awards for excellence in education research by the American Educational Research Association. Read more: go.uic.edu/educationresearchawards Researchers: James Pellegrino, UIC College of Liberal Arts and…
Zizi Papacharissi, Professor of Communication and Political Science, was appointed to the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE)! This panel will gather together at the Nobel Prize Summit in Washington DC to…
Assistant Professor of LALS and Anthropology Soledad Alvarez Velasco’s research on migrant caravans in transit to the United States was published in the journal Studies in Social Justice. Congratulations, Soledad!
Professor of Black Studies and Criminology, Law, and Justice David Stovall was interviewed by The TRiiBE about what anti-Chicago Teachers Union rhetoric in Chicago’s current mayoral election says about Chicago.
Jaira Harrington, Assistant Professor of Black Studies, is a featured commentator in two segments on Telemundo’s series on Emmitt Till’s life and death. Segment can be viewed here: https://go.uic.edu/telejaira
The Institute for International Education awarded LCSL a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Award to teach introductory Hindi courses together with Michigan State University’s Asian Studies Center. The proposal, authored by AP of Germanic…
A story from The Hechinger Report on early learning programs building or expanding their social and emotional learning components includes comments from Kate Zinsser, UIC associate professor of psychology and principal investigator at…