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  Oak Park chooses UIC's Great Cities Institute for racial equity assessment

  May 22, 2023 10:00 am

  The Great Cities Institute is a university-wide, interdisciplinary research institute located within the university’s College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. The village board all but unanimously approved the contract.

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  Japan House celebrates long history on Urbana-Champaign campus

  May 8, 2023 10:00 am

  Since 1975, Japan House’s mission is to interact with both the campus and the community as a whole and share traditional Japanese arts and culture.

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  New UIC early learning website focuses on kindergarten readiness

  May 1, 2023 10:00 am

  The recently launched website, The Ready Child, provides a shared definition of kindergarten readiness, as well as plentiful resources to give users the knowledge and skills needed to help children succeed in kindergarten.

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  Chancellor Jones champions higher ed access at Ohio State lecture (video)

  Apr 24, 2023 10:45 am

  Under Chancellor Jones’ leadership, UIUC has achieved major milestones, including launching the Illinois Commitment program, which makes college education affordable for Illinois students from low-income families.

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  Traveling exhibit, website highlight history of Black nurses in Chicago

  Apr 18, 2023 12:15 pm

  The Mapping Care Project explores the history of nursing education for Black nurses and nursing schools in the Chicago area that served many or only Black nursing students. 

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  UIC College of Dentistry creates new training program

  Apr 10, 2023 9:45 am

  The Dental Assistant Pathway Program aims to alleviate the national dental assistant shortage and provide a no-cost employment pathway for those who may never have considered a career in dentistry.

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  DPI's Software Development Program: Confronting challenge, changing lives

  Apr 3, 2023 9:45 am

  Discovery Partners Institute’s Pritzker Tech Talent Labs Software Development Program aims to reskill and upskill adult learners that are rethinking their careers. Meet three of the apprentices in the program: Matthew, Zipporah, and Ainsley.

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  Details unearthed about well-regarded 19th-century astronomer's life, family

  Mar 27, 2023 11:15 am

  UIUC professor Gregory Girolami discovered previously undisclosed details concerning Margaret Bryan, an English schoolmistress who published numerous astronomy and physics textbooks for young women.

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  Pioneering female politicians’ papers available for review in UIC Library

  Mar 20, 2023 3:30 pm

  The collections span the careers of Cardiss Collins, who represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997, and Esther Saperstein, who served in the Illinois General Assembly from 1957 to 1975 and as a Chicago alderperson from 1975 to 1979. 

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  UIUC partners with Champaign Park District for new STEAM programming

  Mar 13, 2023 2:00 pm

  The park district's new Martens Center will host STEAM-focused learning as part of a two-year partnership with the University. Programming will feature computers, 3-D printers, LEGO projects, and more.

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