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UIS dedicates new facilities to train DCFS investigators and first responders
Apr 25, 2016 03:37 PMThe University of Illinois Springfield, in partnership with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), dedicated the new Residential Simulation Lab (a simulated training house) and a mock courtroom on campus on Monday, April 25, 2016.
UIS alum Robert Felker honored for Outstanding Advocate Leadership
Apr 25, 2016 09:00 AMThe University of Illinois Foundation today announces W. Robert Felker, graduate of the University of Illinois Springfield and partner at Gator Trading in Chicago, as the 2016 William E. Winter Award for Outstanding Advocate Leadership.
Killeen statement on stopgap funding agreement
Apr 22, 2016 02:40 PMThe University of Illinois system appreciates and welcomes the bipartisan effort in Springfield to provide partial, stopgap funding for the state’s public universities, which have been forced to manage through the first 10 months of fiscal year 2016 with no state appropriation.
UIC Day of Service
Apr 19, 2016 03:37 PMMore than 300 students, faculty and alumni came together Saturday to give back to the community during the 7th annual UIC Day of Service.
Seventh-graders learn astrophysics through mixed-reality computer simulation
Mar 30, 2016 11:45 AMResearchers at the University of Illinois hope to inspire greater numbers of young people to become astronomers—or at least to embrace learning science—with a new computer simulation that engages children’s bodies as well as their minds in learning about how objects move in space.
Killeen: Strategic plan will emphasize systemic approach
Mar 17, 2016 09:10 AMThe U. of I system’s long-term strategic plan will leverage the combined academic power of all three campuses to uphold the land-grant principle of “serving the public good,” while continuing to offer students a diversified, world-class liberal arts education.
UIS students spending Alternative Spring Break volunteering in New York City
Mar 16, 2016 03:37 PMA group of students from the University of Illinois Springfield is spending their spring break helping to fight hunger and homelessness in New York City as part of Alternative Spring Break (ASB).
UIC mathematician named Sloan fellow
Mar 03, 2016 03:37 PMUniversity of Illinois at Chicago mathematician Kevin Tucker has been named a 2016 Sloan research fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
UIS receives $1.5 million gift for student union
Mar 03, 2016 10:15 AMRichard and Charlene Osborne, of Chicago, Illinois, and Scottsdale, Arizona, have made a $1.5 million commitment to the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) in support of the student union building.
Student’s SpiderSense featured on Discovery
Feb 09, 2016 03:37 PMA device that can help the blind see and save the lives of firefighters, police officers and soldiers. That’s how UIC doctoral student Victor Mateevitsi pitched an invention that senses for you when he appeared on the Feb. 3 episode of Discovery Channel’s “All-American Makers.”