Repurposing formerly unproductive land for renewable energy provides surrounding communities with a sustainable, clean energy source, and creates new opportunities in low-income, urban areas. Undergraduate public health students have been working with Bruce…
Grocery shopping has long meant a trek for Boyede Sobitan, ’03 NURS, MHA ’07. In college, it took him about 30 minutes to drive from UIC to Old World Market, an African shop…
It was years and years in the works. Neighborhood groups squabbled with developers who argued with aldermen. Landscapers had issues with investors who argued with construction teams. The project languished and then picked…
Dmitri Azar, dean of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, explains that translational medicine — from the research bench to the hospital bedside and out into the greater community — is the…
Born in Mexico and raised in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, medical student Alexandra Cano wants to apply everything she’s learned at the University of Illinois College of Medicine to improve the health of…
Dr. Luan Phan has tremendous hope for military veterans suffering from PTSD. As the director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders clinical and research programs at the University of Illinois College of Medicine,…
Right now, the University of Illinois College of Medicine and its Cancer Center are revolutionizing the way our communities approach treatment for cancer. Director of the UI Cancer Center and Associate Vice President…
Through a generous $2.5 million grant, Medtronic Philanthropy fostered the Illinois Heart Rescue (IHR) collaboration. Physicians from the University of Illinois College of Medicine spearhead the collaboration between the Chicago Fire Department, EMS…
UIC School of Public Health’s Community Outreach Intervention Projects (COIP) serves Chicago communities in an unconventional way—employing former drug addicts as outreach workers to educate people on HIV/AIDS prevention.
