UIC Honors College

Let's show up and make UIC history! We need you, Honors students, to show up (link to register in our bio!) Join your fellow students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends as we create the largest UIC Human Circle Mark in university history. Together, we'll welcome the newest class of Flames, celebrate the start of a new academic year and make our greatness known.

All registered participants will receive a free UIC hat and t-shirt!!!

Honors Fellow featured in UIC Today article highlighting recently published guide to noninvasive early detection of diseases! Ying Hu, Associate Professor and Honors Fellow, was a lead researcher for a UIC published guide for capturing and analyzing the extracellular vesicles that immune and cancer cells create. (Photo credit: Jenny Fontaine/UIC)

Seats still available! HON 200 Learn to Play through Tabletop Gaming 🎲♠

This course will examine the history, future and roles of tabletop games. Students can expect to discuss the mechanics, themes, and values of tabletop games through discussion, lectures and play. In addition, students will work in groups to market and pitch a new tabletop game aimed at educating a topic of their choice (actual playability is completely optional) by applying knowledge
learned in class.

For this , we wanted to highlight Assistant Dean for Student Services Kathryn Burns-Howard, presenting the Donald & Leah Riddle Prize for Outstanding Graduate to Honors student Ricky Chen!

We are pleased to share that Dr. Rosilie “Rosie” Hernández has been named the new Dean of the Honors College starting this Fall semester. Since joining UIC in 2001, Professor Hernández has been a dedicated leader and advocate for student success and currently serves as Senior Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs.

We are excited to have Professor Hernández lead the Honors College in our next chapter.

Link to UIC Today full letter from Karen Colley, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

We wanted to share some snapshots 📸 from Janellie Flores, a rising Nursing student and senior, from her current Summer 2026 Study Abroad experience in Italy!🌟

Through the program Positive Psychology: Looking at Resilience and Wellness in Siena, Italy, Janellie and others learn various strategies and habits to enhance wellness and manage stress more effectively.

Full program description: This program features a new study abroad elective course in the Psychology Department. This course focuses on the science and practice of resilience and learning strategies and habits for increasing wellness and managing stress more effectively. Students will travel to Siena, Italy for two weeks and engage in different wellness activities including mindfulness and yoga classes, hiking along the Elsa River, and visiting a cheese and wine factory. Students will also visit the University of Siena and meet faculty and students to learn how other cultures use resiliency and other positive traits to mitigate stress and promote good mental health.

In Honor of Juneteenth, our office will be closed on June 19th

Coming soon, a new video feature! Hear from Biological Sciences major Arnav Sharma as he shares his journey into research. Arnav details everything from what working in a lab is like, why he chose his major, navigating between West and East campus and how to keep (mostly) calm when presenting your findings at Harvard and the Undergraduate Research Forum (URF).

Arnav would like to give a special thanks (pictured left) to his Principal Investigator, Dr. Richard D Minshall.

Zhuoer Lin, an Honors Fellow and assistant professor in the School of Public Health, was featured in UIC Today discussing how underrepresented populations are often excluded from clinical trials for Alzheimer’s treatments found in their recent study. (Photo by Jenny Fontaine/UIC)

Full UIC Today article in our bio!