Mayor Lori Lightfoot visited Chicago State University's public vaccination center to hold a media briefing thanking CSU for hosting the site and urging Chicago's Black Community to take advantage and get vaccinated. CSU's president Z. Scott welcomed her
University of Illinois at Chicago unveiled its community vaccination site on February 1, 2021, at its First Credit Arena, vaccinating 1500 phase 1a and 1b qualified individuals its first day.
The University of Chicago announced a $75 million gift from James and Paula Crown to the School of Social Service Administration, renaming the school and breaking the record for a grant to a social work program.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported today that Northwestern scientists have come up with a drug with the potential to treat the severe pneumonia associated with COVID-19. In an article Published In Nature, the scientists said this could be important both from those suffering in the current pandemic but also as a treatment for future virus-related disease.
Crain's Chicago Business reporter John Pletz wrote that chemists from the University of Chicago have produced the first usable model of the COVID-19 virus. This model can be used to further understand the complexity of the virus and help with further steps to ameliorate the impact of the virus on society.
A Northwestern University-based research team has unveiled an online COVID-19 data dashboard that aims to show more quickly where infections are surging in states and across the world.
The University of Illinois at Chicago announced a $2.5 million grant to develop an accredited program aimed at preparing people with intellectual disabilities for employment opportunities.
First-year students at The University of Chicago share why they chose the university, and the city, as the place to continue their education.
Researchers at The University of Chicago have begun studying a new vaccine for COVID-19. The study is set to include around 60,000 volunteers from all races, ethnicities, and ages with a goal of 60% minority representation.
Northwestern University and Loyola University Chicago have announced that they plan to increase the amount of in-person classes and students living on campus in the winter.
After a successful summer of virtual internships, many Chicago companies are changing how they go about recruiting student talent.
College freshmen discuss how they're making new friends and trying to enjoy college while still doing online learning.
Recent college graduates from UIC, Chicago State University, and DePaul University discuss the difficulties of beginning your career in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pitchbook Data has listed Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago, along with the University of Illinois, within the Top 10 undergraduate and MBA programs for start-up founders.
Eleven Columbia College alums were nominated for Emmy's for their work in television, with three of them, Aidy Bryant ’09, Nick Shinners '18, and Tiffany S. Griffith '92, winning the award for their respective categories.
The UIC College of Medicine has opened its new $8.8M, 17,000-square-foot, Surgical Innovation & Training Laboratory (SITL).
Three faculty members from Columbia College Chicago's Fashion Studies department discuss the recent changes in higher education, what it's like teaching during a pandemic, and how they're closing the gap between fashion and technology.
DePaul University has begun classes, but the campus is as empty as ever with classes being taught remotely and strict COVID-19 restrictions being put in place.
The University of Illinois Chicago has set the record for its largest enrollment once again, with over 33,518 students enrolling this fall.
An 11-year-old boy, Noah Polansky, raised and donated $250 to the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering for COVID-19 Research, Noah raised the money by baking cookies and selling them around his neighborhood.
Students at DePaul University were given the opportunity to meet with industry experts in festival planning as a part of a summer Lollapalooza course.
Researchers at Illinois Tech have received a $2.5M grant from the National Institutes of Health for the continued research and development of a brain implant that could help people experiencing blindness see.
Incoming freshmen speak on what they're nervous about when it comes to starting college during a pandemic, such as returning for in-person lectures, adjusting to online learning, or being able to make friends remotely.
The University of Chicago has launched a new online database that will collect CT scans and X-rays of COVID-19 patients. These images will be freely available for researchers all around the world to use to better understand the disease.
A look into how each Chicago college and university is preparing for the upcoming Fall 2020 academic term.
Northwestern University has pledged to donate $1 million to the city of Evanston for the advancement of racial equality and social justice, as well as another $500,000 in grants to Evanston and Chicago for the promotion of partnerships between community groups and the university students, faculty, and staff.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has teamed up with Chicago's City Colleges for a program that will allow any students from the past decade to return and complete their degrees and certifications while also wiping out their debt.
The Trump Administration has rescinded it's ruling mandating that international students must take in-person classes.
Chicago Sun-Times reports on how different colleges and universities throughout Illinois are preparing to reopen in Fall 2020.
The University of Chicago has received an $80,000 grant for the development of a handheld COVID-19 test that could deliver results in just five minutes for only $10 per test.
Chicago Tribune Reports: Chicago State University is offering free tuition, textbooks, and covering fees for freshmen who complete a five-week summer program.
America's Urban Campus teams up with Campus Compact Illinois and the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge to create the Chicago and Illinois Campus Voting Challenges
Chicago Sun-Times reports: CSU has launched new academic and scholarship programs to help close the Black and Latinx wealth gap in Illinois.
ABC 7 News reports: Chicago State University provides financial aid and computers for students in need.
Roosevelt offers new tuition grant for students who are struggling financially due to the pandemic.
Researchers at Northwestern have developed a wearable device for patients recovering at home that monitors their recovery process and symptoms.
Pete Wilkins, a key member of Chicago's innovation community, comments on the ways Chicago's universities are stepping up to address the many issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic
As a part of its response to the economic damage to its surrounding South Side neighborhoods, the University of Chicago announced today that it has made emergency grants to small businesses affected by the pandemic.
Illinois Tech announced today it is re-opening laboratories to assist the state in making the chemical materials critical to the processing of tests for COVID-19. Other universities across the state are also helping with production of various components of the testing kits.
Faculty from the University of Chicago's Ecology and Environment Center are working, along with faculty from other Illinois universities, to help the state understand what it is facing as it begins to think about re-opening the economy in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The University of Illinois at Chicago's medical school announced today that 190 medical students, 3/4 of the class of 2020, have chosen to graduate early so they can take up their residencies in support of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The City Colleges of Chicago, like most other higher education institutions have had to move their courses online to meet the challenges of the Coronavirus pandemic. This has affected their students in many ways. But importantly, investments by the system in technology infrastructure to permit distance learning, has made for a smooth transition over the past few weeks.
In response to the job crisis facing many of its students, NEIU developed and posted a site listing a variety of organizations hiring in response to the crisis. Many students need these jobs to be able to continue attending classes and lost them when restaurants and other service companies shut down...
Across higher education in Chicago, student journalists are finding out about the complexities of navigating their work to produce student newspapers, study remotely and just get through the day amidst the coronavirus crisis.
Today the University of Chicago announced a series of initiatives to directly assist the citizens, small businesses and non-profits of its nine neighboring South Side Communities
Northwestern University announced that a research team headed by Prof. Jiaxing Huang of the McCormick School of Engineering has been awarded a National Science Foundation RAPID grant to further develop a self-sanitizing face mask--a critical need in light of the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic.
The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a three-year, $497,799 grant from the National Science Foundation to expand the number of underrepresented minority Ph.D. graduate students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.
The grant will help create a new multidisciplinary educational program of self-advocacy at UIC to help students from underrepresented minority groups achieve success in the STEM fields.
The presidents of nearly 30 public and private universities across Illinois, including many America's Urban Campus institutions, signed a joint letter today enumerating the many problems facing international students, faculty and staff of their institutions when trying to come to or return to their universities.
Governor J.B. Pritzker announced today that the State of Illinois is releasing $500 million in state capital funds to support the Discovery Partners Institute and other buildings for the Illinois Innovation Network across the state. Mayor Lori Lightfoot welcomed the huge development that will anchor the "78", a new mega-development just south of Roosevelt Road on Chicago's South Side. DPI is led by the University of Illinois system and will bring faculty and students from Urbana-Champaign for study and research in the city.
The UChicago Consortium released a study this week underscoring the gap in predicting college success between standardized tests and high school GPA. This issue is becoming a focal point of the debate over equity in college admissions and more and more universities are considering dropping test scores as a requirement for admission.
Racing against time, and the virulent outbreak of the Coronavirus in China, a team of Northwestern scientists are working to find a vaccine for the highly contagious bug, CBS reported.
The Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship on the Campus of Illinois Institute of Technology was announced today as one of 8 2020 National Architecture winners world-wide. Only three of the winners were in the United States. Designed by Chicago Architect and Illinois Tech faculty member, John Ronan, the Kaplan Institute is home to the university's Institute of Design, its innovative Interprofessional Projects program for undergraduates and the home for innovation education across the university.
The University of Illinois Board of Trustees voted this week to reduce tuition at its Chicago-based medical school for both in-state and out-of state students--2.1% for in-state and 16% for out-of-state.
Rush University College of Nursing rose to the No. 1 spot among 183 schools eligible for the graduate nursing programs category in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best Online Programs list released today.
A Roosevelt University psychology professor and her colleagues have received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study learning among kids visiting a science exhibit at Chicago Children’s Museum. Now in her second year at Roosevelt, Assistant Professor of Psychology Mia Marcus and fellow researchers from Loyola and Northwestern Universities see family visits to museums as opportunities for both playtime and learning.
After two seasons of close losses in the BIG EAST playoffs, the DePaul League of Legends and Rocket League esports squads came through victorious this past fall, with thrilling victories over their fellow BIG EAST foes in a pair of tournaments.
Empowering students to form the habits of active and informed citizenship is a key part of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s mission. UIC’s efforts in this area were recognized Tuesday when the university was among a select group of higher education institutions, educators and students to be honored by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge for excellence in student voter engagement.
Northwestern University professor Nichole Pinkard received a CME Group Foundation grant to expand her work increasing access to computer science for K-12 students who live in underserved areas of Chicago
On October 30, Mayor Lightfoot sat down with the leaders of the 21 AUC universities and colleges to discuss her ideas for partnerships to address the city's most pressing issues. the luncheon meeting was hosted by Dr. Morton Schapiro, president of Northwestern University. Mayor Lightfoot's three challenges to higher education centered on equity, universities' role as anchor institutions and collaborative research on city issues.
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago’s tech university and an America’s Urban Campus Member, announced Thursday receipt of a gift if $150 million from three business leaders, Mike Galvin, Craig Duchossois, and John Rowe, and their spouses. This funding will underpin scholarships and student focused facilities to educate Illinois Tech students for the ever changing digital world of tomorrow and help Chicago fuel its growing tech industries.
Northwestern trustee and alumnus Jeff Ubben ’87 MBA and his wife, Laurie, of San Francisco, have made an estate commitment of $50 million to support scholarships for undergraduate, graduate and professional school students
This fall, the University of Illinois at Chicago celebrates the opening of three health care simulation centers. The facilities, which are run individually by the university’s College of Medicine, College of Nursing and College of Pharmacy, use specially trained actors, advanced and computerized manikins of all ages, and simulated environments to help students and health care professionals practice clinical skills, communication and decision-making skills, and get hands-on training in medical diagnosis, treatment and care.
To understand one of the principal forces remaking Chicago, take a walk from Wrigley Field south on Clark Street, then turn down Sheffield Avenue. On just about every block, it seems, there’s a bar decked out with a Big Ten banner. Northwestern. Indiana. Wisconsin. Michigan State. Maryland.
Anthony Abrams opened the door and grinned – much like the subject of a home makeover show who has just seen his ramshackle abode transformed into a palace. “Oh my God, this looks like a hotel,” said Abrams, 18.
Students at the Illinois Institute of Technology will soon be able to pursue a degree in artificial intelligence, making the school one of the first in the country to offer a degree solely focused on AI.
When DePaul University student Mike Baumann talks with his classmates, hearing what stresses them out, he thinks to himself, “Wait until you’re older.” Because of his age, Baumann, 32, feels out of place around other students in his undergraduate business classes. But there’s another reason his perspective differs — he’s a veteran.