According to a national survey, 57 percent of Americans believe Elian Gonzalez should return to Cuba. The same percent believe that it's a moral rather than legal or political issue. UIC psychologist uses the Elian case to research public response to controversy.
Janean Holden, assistant professor in the UIC College of Nursing, will be given a presidential early career award at a White House ceremony on Wednesday, April 12. She is the first nurse to receive this award. Holden researches how the brain communicates pain.
Samuel Epstein, professor of environmental and occupational medicine at University of Illinois at Chicago, will receive the "Alternative Pulitzer Prize" from Project Censored for his article "American Cancer Society: The World's Wealthiest Nonprofit Institution."
A human genome study by UIC researchers suggests that a single gene may contribute to many of the devastating illnesses associated with old age.
The "math wars" will come to a head next week at the National Council of Teachers of Mathmatics conference with the official release of the revised "Principles and Standards for School Mathematics," an updated version of the 1989 reforms.
The effectiveness of commercially available soy components, called isoflavones, in preventing breast cancer is questioned by University of Illinois at Chicago research.
University of Illinois at Chicago researchers today announced a database project that will make it possible to track assisted-housing units statewide and could encourage housing officials at all government levels to rethink development plans.
UIC's College of Health and Human Development Sciences will investigate the efficacy of occupational therapy with a $300,000 grant from the American Occupational Therapy Association and the American Occupational Therapy Foundation.
Phillip Bowman, professor of urban planning and policy and African-American Studies, has been appointed director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Biomedical tele-immersion will be introduced by the University of Illinois at Chicago into the curriculum of surgical residents beginning in July, measuring if virtual reality technology, high-performance computing and high-speed networking can improve medical education.
Because AIDS is the leading cause of death among Latino women between the ages of 25 and 44 in Chicago, a University of Illinois at Chicago associate professor has launched an AIDS prevention program based on a social learning model.
Research by University of Illinois at Chicago scientists on a brain chemical called reelin is providing new clues to the molecular origins of schizophrenia.
A University of Illinois at Chicago nurse will lead an AIDS prevention and home-based health care program in Swaziland, under an $860,000 grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb and Cabrini Missionary foundations.
UIC's department of bioengineering received a $990,000 grant from the Whitaker Foundation to strengthen programs investigating how living tissue interacts with bioengineered materials.
African-Americans' contributions to Chicago's rich heritage of commercial art and industrial design are the focus of a new symposium, hosted by UIC and the DuSable Museum (2-5-00).
The 1-14-00 "Science" includes a summary of a statistical analysis of patients awaiting liver transplants that is helping resolve a two-year public health policy dispute.
Online pedagogy study by UI researchers concludes that compensation for inherent alienation is needed, the Internet is inappropriate for undergraduate degree programs, and quality online instruction is more costly than traditional instruction.
A Chicago-area school recently began using virtual programs that, projected three-dimensionally, link education, technology, and fun for first- through sixth-graders.
Education writer and school-reform advocate Michael Klonsky, director of the Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been named to the Academic Advisory Council of the National Campaign Against Youth Violence.
A study by a University of Illinois marketing professor suggests that last-minute shoppers may find this year's best bargains in the service industries.
Al Johnson, a driving force in urban entrepreneurship development for many decades, has been named "Man of the Millennium" by the University of Illinois at Chicago's Center for Urban Business.
Parents seeking quality education alternatives for kids enrolled in public schools can find what they're looking for at a small schools exhibition coming to the University of Illinois at Chicago.
"I know that sweatshops exist in Chicago because I regularly see patients with the injuries and illnesses that are caused by sweatshop conditions," says Dr. Peter Orris, professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Great Lakes Center for Environmental and Occupational Safety and Health in UIC's School of Public Health is hosting "Sweatshops in Metropolitan Chicago: A Conference on Workers's Voices," Friday, Nov. 19.
More than 800 students from across North America will meet in Chicago for the third annual Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO!) conference Oct. 22-24.
A UIC engineer and his German colleagues report in the Oct. 14 issue of Nature that they have found a way to "shave" ultra-hard diamond into graphite-like layers that may be useful for computer chip substrates and other industrial applications.
The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy has received a $7.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create one of the nation's first centers to research dietary supplements.
The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration has launched two new e-business / e-commerce education programs to address the growing demand by managers and information technology consultants who want to excel in the information economy.
A team of researchers has shown that deactivating one of the body's key cancer-protection shields may offer a surprisingly simple way for doctors to lessen the debilitating and life-threatening side effects of chemotherapy or radiation.
A new book by University of Illinois at Chicago professor Robert Bruno disputes claims that the era of the working class is dead, and says it may even be bouncing back.
The most effective way to reduce teenage smoking is for states to concentrate on comprehensive tobacco-control programs, according to a University of Illinois at Chicago report.
The earliest fossil of a ground-based ape has been identified by a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher and colleagues at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Yale University and Northern Arizona University.
A study at the University of Illinois at Chicago is the first to use aromatase inhibitors to stop the growth of endometriosis and may lead to more effective treatment for infertility, pelvic pain and tumors.
Officials and scholars from the United States and Canada will gather at the University of Illinois at Chicago Sept. 16-17 to help lay the groundwork for concerted regional management of urban water resources.
Scott Barrows, internationally known biomedical artist and co-developer of the process for age progression of faces to find missing children, will become head of the biomedical visualization program at the University of Illinois at Chicago in August.
The University of Illinois at Chicago department of disability and human development has received a $3-million grant to help ensure that people with disabilities are included in the national effort to promote health and prevent disease by increasing physical activity.
Recent shooting sprees, like the Fourth of July weekend rampage by Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, can be directly linked to a strong tradition of free speech that protects even the most offensive forms of expression, said a professor of criminal justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
UIC researchers are convinced that small imperfections in the fit of prosthetic joints are at fault in rare but bothersome cases of prosthetic joint failure, and they have developed tools and a technique to address the problem.
A team of University of Illinois at Chicago researchers has obtained a five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue testing plants from around the world for their ability to prevent cancer.
Confronted with a population of more than 92,000 institutionalized children and thousands more roaming the streets, a team of 14 Romanian child welfare officials came to the University of Illinois at Chicago to learn how to improve the quality of child care services in their country.
A researcher at University of Illinois at Chicago is among a group of researchers who have designed and tested a program to help older adults overcome their fear of falling and proved its effectiveness in a five-year study. She also enumerates Fall Prevention Tips for older adults.
Medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy experts at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy have developed one of the world's most comprehensive, current and easy-to-use reviews of the safety, efficacy and quality of 28 medicinal plants.
Using an advanced microscope facility, researchers have identified a key step in the development of sensory cells in the inner ear known as hair cells.
A new group of international scholars is taking to the Internet to start a think tank on Internet issues. The group, association(of).internet.researchers, will be a resource for policymakers, media and academics shaping the future of the Internet.
A team of engineering students from the University of Illinois at Chicago has won the 1999 Ethanol Vehicle Challenge, demonstrating both their engineering prowess and the commercial promise of ethanol, a corn-based fuel.
The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration is one of only 370 U.S. colleges and universities to have earned accreditation from the AACSB, the International Association for Management Education.
Bacterial vaginosis, a condition that can lead to serious health complications in women, may be caused by a sexually transmitted virus that infects vaginal lactobacilli, according to a University of Illinois at Chicago study.
Leaders from Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin gathered with First Lady of Illinois Lura Lynn Ryan today to announce the formation of a regional training center on substance abuse and addiction at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Donna E. Shalala, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, will deliver the commencement address at the graduation ceremony of UIC's School of Public Health on Friday, May 7.
Bill Daley delivers the commencement address in front of 1,400 University of Illinois at Chicago and their families.
In 1963 anthropologist Paul Hockings took his first census of a tribe-like community in the mountains of southern India. Now his 32-year study is being praised for getting to the heart of development issues in South Asia.
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