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Admission is free and open to the public.
2015 Global Health and Wellbeing Research Seed Grant Winners
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Global Health and Wellbeing Research Seed Grant Program.
Sandra Magana (Applied Health Sciences); Parents taking action Colombia
This study pilots a parent educational intervention, Parents Take Action, designed for Latino parents of children with autism in the US, with parents in Bogata, Columbia in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Bogota.
Janet Lin (Emergency Medicine); Scaling up community disaster risk reduction in Haiti
This study uses an open innovation paradigm model to build the capacity of YMCA d’Haiti as an incubator environment for the growth and dissemination of disaster risk reduction activities.
Jessica Herrick (Medicine); Neurocysticercosis: A natural human model of epileptogenesis
This study with the National Institute of Neurological Sciences (NINS) in Lima, Peru. aims to identify candidate biomarkers that may predict the development of epilepsy in patients with NCC and to establish the methodology for these analyses will be essential for future epileptogenesis studies.
Miiri Kotchke (Bioengineering); Mixed methods approach for design of neonatal warming suit to prevent hypothermia in low-resource settings
This study enhances the cross-disciplinary collaboration in mixed-method research for medical device design with global health applications through examining the use of the neonatal warming suit in rural India to address the high prevalence of hypothermia.
Director Córdova receives National Museum of Mexican Art Sor Juana Award
GCI Director Teresa Córdova was one of six women honored at a reception on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at the National Museum of Mexican Art, where she received the Sor Juana Women of Achievement Award for her work in university programs. The award recognizes and honors women worldwide for their outstanding civic, social, artistic and lifetime contributions. The other awardees are:
Elba Aranda – Suh, Social Services and Education
Maria Gaspar, Arts and Art Activism
Clara Lopez, Social Services
Esther Quintero Guzman, University Programs
Elvia Y. Torres, Community Engagement and Mexico Advocate
Chicago still spending borrowed money on landscaping, lawsuits
Mayor Rahm Emanuel presides over the City Council meeting in Chicago on Oct. 21, 2015. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
The Chicago Tribune quoted Michael Pagano, GCI Fellow and Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, on the “opportunity cost” of the City of Chicago’s use of taxable debt to finance long-term projects.
“What that (the use of taxable debt) tells me is that the city has few unused resources — meaning reserves — but that it also has needs that it has to address right away,” said Michael Pagano, dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs.
“Over the next 20 years, the additional payment you’re going to be making means that money is not going to be available to do other things. So there’s an opportunity cost.”
Just sustainabilities: re-imagining e/quality, living within limits
Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban, Environmental Policy, and Planning at Tufts University
Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 3:00 PM at Student Center East Room 605
Free lecture, light refreshments provided
RSVP (to gini@uic.edu) recommended, but not required
Questions: Email Carla Pierre Gini at gini@uic.edu
This program is hosted by the UIC Office of Sustainability.
Co-sponsored by:
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS)
The Institute for Environmental Science and Policy (IESP)
Office of the Chancellor
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA)
Institute for the Humanities
Office of Diversity
School of Public Health
Department of Communication
The Illinois Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety Education and Research Center (ERC)
Great Cities Institute
Social Justice Initiative
Latin American and Latino Studies Program
Gender and Women’s Studies Program
International Studies Program
Race and Resources: Economic Inequalities from the Household and City Block to the Nonprofit Boardroom
When: Wednesday, October 28, 12-2:00 pm
Where: College of Nursing Event Center, 3rd Floor, 845 S. Damen Ave., Chicago, IL 60612
Panelists from the UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs are:
Kelly LeRoux, Public Administration
Brenda Parker, Urban Planning and Policy
Rachel Webber, Urban Planning and Policy
The Brown Bag Series provides brief but substantive overviews of the research on race, ethnicity, and public policy being produced by UIC scholars and funded by IRRPP. The panelists will discuss their projects, explore the connections between them, and use their work as a way to interrogate the themes in race research that cut across disciplinary lines. Lunch is provided.
Webinar Screening: Racial Attitudes and Public Opinion
Caught Between Protesters and Israel, Palestinian Security Forces Shift Tactics
A man approached Israeli security forces in the West Bank. Palestinian forces are re-examining their coordination with Israel. Credit Hazem Bader/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The New York Times quotes Andy Clarno, former GCI research scholar and UIC assistant professor of sociology and African American studies, in an article on Palestinian security forces at recent West Bank protests and overall security coordination efforts in the region.
“They are in an impossible situation,” said Andy Clarno, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who has researched security cooperation, referring to the Palestinian security forces. “They are being squeezed on both sides. They are being told to crack down, and the kids see them as the front line of the occupation.”
Just One Week Away: City/Cité: A Transatlantic Exchange
Dear GCI followers,
French intellectual thought and activism has made its way into U.S. conversations since even before Alexis de Tocqueville made his observations of U.S. democracy back in the early 1800s. Today, U.S. intellectuals and activists readily make use of the ideas of Michel Foucault, particularly his analyses of discourse and the connections between power and knowledge. Bourdieu, and French post-structural feminists such as Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous have influenced U.S. intellectual methods of analysis. Recently, the work of Thomas Piketty, a French economist, published his notable book, Capital in the Twenty First Century, in which he lays forward the connection between economic growth and the concentration of wealth. Missing in his analysis, and indeed in much of French thought, is the incorporation of race and racial discrimination as a key variable that adds to the explanation of inequality, including income inequality. U.S. intellectuals and activists have more expansive research and analysis, both historical and current that incorporates race as a key concept for understanding not only income inequality, but dynamics of cities as well.
Great Cities Institute is very excited to be welcoming intellectuals and activists from France in the Symposium, City Cité: A Transatlantic Exchange. The French visitors will participate in panels with both esteemed UIC professors and area activists. Thomas J. Sugrue, our keynote speaker, has written several books on race, inequality and urban policy. We look forward to his presentation at 11:15 a.m. on “The Urgency of a Transatlantic Exchange.” Sugrue will also participate in a panel entitled, “Building Bonds of Trust across Racial and Ethnic Lines.” Other panels will provide insights and discussion on employment issues in an era of austerity and neighborhoods in transition.
There is some urgency in this transatlantic exchange as transatlantic trade agreements are being debated on both sides of the ocean with much at stake including the well being of local economies and communities. Austerity policies, exacerbated inequalities, concentration of wealth, rising violence, and threats to well being are all topics that will be discussed during this very important symposium. Please join us for Day One at UIC. If you are able, you can also head down to the University of Chicago for Day 2. We thank the Consulate General of France in Chicago for this wonderful partnership and invite you all to join us. Please see this link for more information and to RSVP.
Sincerely,
Teresa Córdova
Director