Nearly 100 incoming freshmen, members of the President’s Award Program, take a candlelight pledge at the award program’s annual ceremony Aug. 22.

Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin

A new study, funded by a $4.25 million federal grant, will follow the health of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities from early adulthood through old age.

Tamar Heller and colleagues will collaborate with the Special Olympics on their research.

Photo: Kathryn Marchetti

A half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in the nation’s capital will be on display Sept. 4 to 8 in Harrison Field.

Photo:TheMovingWall.org

Faculty who have taken sabbaticals agree: they're are essential to scholarship.

Art history professor Robert Bruegmann, author of a controversial book on urban sprawl, took the opportunity to visit cities around the world, including Sao Paolo, Brazil.

“You can well imagine a parent flying with a child seated next to somebody, in the extreme case, watching pornography. There’s always going to be someone who probably steps over the line. What’s interesting is, the question is, ‘how do we deal with this person?’”

Steve Jones, professor of communication, on inflight wireless Internet, Aug. 25 Fox News

When you work in a large organization like UIC, sometimes you need to know who to ask — and what to ask. So we asked the campus community: what services are you looking for? What services do you provide? Here's the result, a work in progress: the first UIC Resource Guide.