All Entries by Hillary Bird

April 28, 2025

Top 10 innovations from UIC researchers

From the first infant incubator to designing election ballots, UIC researchers have left their legacy

A woman smiles while sitting at a computer in a cafe.

April 21, 2025

Uchechi Mitchell: Detecting if racial inequities make people age faster

Associate professor named 2024-25 Rising Star in Social Sciences

A man in a light blue shirt sits in a university office with walls covered in a child's artwork.

April 21, 2025

Danny Bernard Martin: Exploring what it means to learn math while Black

Professor named 2024-25 Distinguished Researcher in Social Sciences

An NCAA-branded Wilson basketball sits on a floor with a grey background.

April 18, 2025

Study: Twitter community clapped back at racist, sexist posts

Researchers found online commenters pushed back when actions to two NCAA players — one white, one Black — varied widely.

Three students stand in a dark rehearsal room behind props of music stands. A man in a beanie is on the left, a woman with long, purple hair is in the middle and a man on the right is holding a blue bowl and a beer.

April 16, 2025

UIC alum’s play to be shown on main stage

Aniello Fontano’s play opens April 19 at the UIC Theatre.

March 25, 2025

Documenting a life: Q&A with UIC’s Elizabeth Todd-Breland

The UIC history professor co-authored a memoir with Chicago labor leader Karen Lewis

A large study room with child-sized carpets, toys, chairs and a lounger is shown with sunlight beaming in through a window on an upper wall.

March 16, 2025

UIC parent-students will soon get a study place of their own

Family-friendly study space opens March 24 on west side of campus

Students hanging in the quad with the Richard J. Daley Library in the background.

February 24, 2025

UIC filled with brutalist style that inspired Oscar hopeful

Campus architect David Taeyaerts explains this bold style that’s all over campus

UIC theatre professor Tanera Marshall poses for a portrait in front of a dry erase board with a music stand to her left.

February 24, 2025

UIC professor helped ‘Brutalist’ actors find their voices

Tanera Marshall helped actors Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Joe Alwyn develop characters’ Hungarian accents

UIC students build a bookcase during a service activity on Jan. 20, 2020.

January 20, 2025

MLK’s hope for service reflected in UIC scholarship winners

As many as 25 students each year can be awarded the King scholarship

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