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September 16, 2024

Crossing Latinidades helps students build community 

The recent funding means the initiative will continue to to enhance Latinx humanities studies and grow the pool of Latino doctoral students

September 16, 2024

Arsenic exposure linked to faster onset of diabetes in south Texas population 

Multiyear study finds that high levels of toxic metals in urine lead to high blood sugar

Two female students stand next to each other smiling.

August 6, 2024

Mellon Foundation extends Crossing Latinidades initiative with $5M grant

The Mellon Foundation awarded UIC its first three-year $5 million Latino humanities grant in 2021.

An illustration of brown prairie land beneath a partly cloudy sky, with a large white housing complex on stilts stretching out across most of the area.

July 29, 2024

Architecture students explore big and small ideas for housing shortage 

The At Home with the Collective project challenged students to design flexible, affordable homes

July 16, 2024

Apps and AI could help personalize depression diagnosis and treatment 

Over $10 million in NIH grants will fund studies using digital tools to improve mental health

UIC Students at a recent codeathon event at the Fitch Group.

July 2, 2024

Break Through Tech Chicago expands with semester-long consultancy

Break Through Tech Chicago has connected hundreds of students to more than two dozen organizations

Two men in lab coats crouch to examine tubing in a laboratory.

May 30, 2024

New method makes hydrogen from solar power and agricultural waste 

Biochar-assisted electrolysis from UIC reduces energy use sixfold

A man in a sweatshirt with glasses on his foreheads talks with a woman in a gray suit in a medical clinic examination room.

May 20, 2024

Clinical trial testing licorice root for prostate cancer begins this spring 

From lab to clinic to community, trial highlights pathway of UIC research

A woman in a graduation gown and cap speaks at a podium with a red circle and the letters UIC.

May 3, 2024

Historian Barbara Ransby elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

Ransby is the sixth UIC faculty member to be elected to the prestigious academy

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April 18, 2024

Three scientists named fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science 

Nemat Oliver Keyhani, Alexander Mankin and Deepak Shukla recognized by peers for their biology research

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