Discover Magazine featured Rachel Poretsky and her lab in a recent article about efforts to monitor COVID-19 using municipal wastewater. Learn more about their work here: https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/scientists-scour-sewage-for-coronavirus-clues
A Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah) story about the “Build Back Better” Act and potential adjustments to the bill includes perspective from Barbara Risman, UIC professor of sociology and distinguished professor of liberal arts and…
WGN-TV News interviewed Dick Simpson, UIC professor of political science, during a segment on the upcoming federal tax fraud trial for Alderman Patrick Daley Thompson.
Please join us at the LAS Distinguished Professor Lecture and Award Ceremony honoring Dr. Anna C. Roosevelt( Distinguished Prof. of Anthropology) on Wednesday, February 23, 2022. Please RSVP to LASEvents@uic.edu to reserve the…
UIC’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be hosting a virtual Scholarship and Award Recognition Celebration on Thursday, March 31st, 2022 from 12-1 pm. Come join us as we celebrate the accomplishments…
Congratulations to Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Dr. Sigrid Willa Luhr for receiving an Early Career Fellowship from the Work + Family Researchers Network! Recipients of this fellowship are from a wide range…
Assistant Professor of Economics Erik Hembre awarded a grant funded by the Social Security Administration to start a new undergraduate summer fellowship at UIC: Social-insurance Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program The program will…
The Washington Post’s political science blog The Monkey Cage published a piece from Alexandra Filindra, UIC associate professor of political science, who writes about her co-authored research that finds racial prejudice, more than convictions…
The American Chemical Society announced Nan Jiang (UIC Professor of Chemistry) was selected as the winner of prestigious Richard P. Van Duyne Award. He will present an award talk during the 2022 Fall…
Leon Fink, UIC professor emeritus of history, offers historical perspective on the anti-work movement in an online story from BBC Worklife that looks at contemporary worker frustrations and some questioning the purpose of…