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…
Dick Simpson, UIC professor of political science, was interviewed during a WTTW-TV News segment on the Chicago mayoral race potentially involving Arne Duncan and recent comments from Duncan about crime and policing in…
Cecilia Gerber, UIC distinguished professor of physics, and Constance Jeffery, UIC associate professor of biological sciences and UI Cancer Center member, will join the 2021 class of AAAS Fellows, which includes 564 scientists,…
In a conversation with Boston Review, Beth Richie, UIC professor and head of criminology, law and justice and professor of Black studies, and her co-authors of “Abolition. Feminism. Now” discuss why racialized state violence…
Joaquín Chavez, UIC associate professor of history, was a guest on the television channel for the Catholic journal “America,” where he discussed the beatification of Salvadoran Jesuit Rutilio Grande, who in 1977 was assassinated in…
William Parkinson, UIC professor of anthropology and curator at the Field Museum of Natural History, was one of three panelists to join the BBC World Service program “Forum” for a discussion about the use of…