UIC Honors College

Meet the Fall 2024 Ambassadors! Honors Ambassadors are Honors College students who take a leadership role by helping recruit and welcome new students into UIC and the Honors College. Honors Ambassadors assist new students joining the Honors College in their transition to the university and the Honors College community.

Want to share your experiences with future honors students in a 1-2 minute video clip?
Want to add another line to your resume/CV?
Want some Honors College swag in exchange for 30 minutes of your time?
WE NEED YOUR HELP!

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Congrats to Emily Shi who will be abroad this school year as part of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program! 🌏🎉 Emily is an UIC and Honors College alumna. She will be focusing on Taiwanese women’s perception of menstrual pain and how those perceptions affect the diagnosis of endometriosis.

Honors College staff enjoying ice cream rain or shine! 🌧🍦

Love being in front of the camera? Want to be featured on the Honors College website?

The Honors College is looking to interview honors students from any discipline about their experiences with the following Honors Program areas. These videos will be short features ranging 1-2 minutes, and will be taped at Burnham Hall, unless otherwise indicated.

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Natasha Crooks, assistant professor in UIC’s College of Nursing and Honors College Faculty Fellow, wants to help improve Black girls’ sexual and reproductive health by empowering an often-overlooked resource: girls’ male caregivers.

Read the full UIC Today article below: (Photo: Martin Hernandez/UIC)

https://today.uic.edu/black-dads-helping-girls-sexual-reproductive-health/

The Honors College will resume operations 06/20.

The colors:
Red to stand for struggle and sacrifice
Black to stand for the people
Green stands for the natural wealth of the land of Africa

The UIC Honors College continues to celebrate diversity and inclusivity this Pride Month ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤!

to when the Honors College's very own Assistant Dean Boyd DJed 📀🎵 the New Student Retreat! We can't wait to see you this summer! 😎

Honors College Summer Hours: Monday thru Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM 🌞

In a paper for Cell Reports Physical Science, a multi-institutional team led by UIC engineer and Faculty Fellow, Meenesh Singh unveils the new process for green hydrogen production.

University of Illinois Chicago engineers have helped design a new method to make hydrogen gas from water using only solar power and agricultural waste, such as manure or husks. The method reduces the energy needed to extract hydrogen from water by 600%, creating new opportunities for sustainable, climate-friendly chemical production.

Learn more! Click on the link below

https://emails.uofi.uic.edu/newsletter/82/1708232882.html

What an incredible and significant milestone in the history of not only the Honors College but UIC as a whole! 🌟 We, as a campus, recently celebrated the retirement of Stacie McCloud, Associate Dean of the Honors College, with Jay Mueller, Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff in the UIC Office of Diversity, Equity, and Engagement.

Stacie's remarkable journey spans an impressive 32 years of dedicated service within the Honors College. From her start as an Honors student to staff, she has built what embodies the spirit and essence of the Honors College itself.

Throwback to Ignite🔥! The annual admitted student event was made a success thanks to our support of student workers, HCAB members, and staff. Here is Sanjay showing off his UIC swag

Honors student featured as Inspiring Grad from UIC Today! ✨ Hyun Kim recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This Fall, he will attend medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. Kim was recently the keynote speaker at our 2024 Honors College Convocation.

Read the full article in our bio! (photo credit Hyun Kim)

Wasan Kumar, a 2021 UIC Honors College graduate, has been named a 2024 Knight-Hennessy Scholar, joining a select group of students from around the world who will receive up to three years of financial support to pursue graduate degrees and global leadership development at Stanford University.

The Knight-Hennessy program, with 90 scholars in what is only its seventh cohort, selects scholarship recipients based on a “demonstration of the independence of thought, purposeful leadership and a civic mindset.” Kumar is the first UIC-affiliated awardee.

Lola Fratto was a recipient of a scholarship 🌟 from the Honors College that helped them study abroad ✈🗺 in Barcelona, Spain at the Eolia Conservatory of Dramatic Arts.

✨Photo 1: La Cerdanya in Catalunya
✨Photo 2: A beautiful park in Barcelona
✨Photo 3: Palm Sunday at the Cathedral of Barcelona
✨Photo 4: No explanation is needed!

“'If you are stigmatized by behavior or a health condition, this can reduce your likelihood of seeking care,' Peterson said in an article for the School of Public Health, where she is a research assistant professor." -UIC Today

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Spyros Kitsiou, associate professor of biomedical and health information sciences in the College of Applied Health Sciences, recently joined the GovCIO program HealthCast to talk about how mobile health devices can help research, and clinical care. "'Sometimes it feels like we’re playing a catch-up game because by the time we establish some of this preliminary evidence, that technology has evolved and requires sometimes additional testing,' said Kitsiou, who is also associate chief research information officer in the UIC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. 'This is a critical challenge in our field, which I think underlines the need for development of new, innovative study design methods to address this challenge.'" -UIC Today To read more, visit the link in our bio!

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We are proud to announce our winners for 2024!

✨ 2024 Faculty Fellow of the Year: Dr. Georgeta-Elisabeta Marai

✨ 2024 Capstone Supervisor of the Year: Dr. Alexandra Naba

✨ 2024 Instructor of the Year: Dr. Anna Kozlowska-Barrios

Cuando me vean volar recuerden que ustedes me pintaron las alas... "When you see me fly, remember you painted my wings". To CAP off our Honors Class of 2024 photos, we wanted to showcase some of the creative mortarboard caps!

Some more captured moments from Convocation! 🌟🌟🌟🌟

"Maki, a professor of psychiatry, psychology and obstetrics and gynecology in the College of Medicine, spoke during a recent visit from First Lady Jill Biden and actress Halle Berry, who came to promote the new White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research. Maki’s research focuses on menopause and cognition." -UIC Today

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Congratulations to the Honors Class of 2024! You did it! ✨May your future shine bright as you embark on the next chapter of your journey. Thank YOU for choosing the Honors College as a home during your academic trajectory. 🌟

Thank you all who helped, staff, faculty, students and campus partners behind (and in front) of the scenes! We couldn't have done it without you! And remember 📢GET YOUR GRAD PASSES OUT📢