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Also known as UIC, the university was formed in 1982 by the consolidation of the Medical Center Campus, which dates back to the 19th Century, and the Chicago Circle Campus, which in 1965 replaced the two-year undergraduate Navy Pier Campus that had opened in 1946 to educate returning veterans. The school, in a developing area west of Chicago's downtown, has 15,600 undergraduates, 6,900 graduate students and 2,500 professional students. Its 15 colleges are: Applied Health Sciences; Architecture & the Arts; Business Administration; Dentistry; Education; Engineering; Graduate College; Honors College; Liberal Arts and Sciences; Medicine; Nursing; Pharmacy; Public Health; Social Work; and Urban P...
Also known as UIC, the university was formed in 1982 by the consolidation of the Medical Center Campus, which dates back to the 19th Century, and the Chicago Circle Campus, which in 1965 replaced the two-year undergraduate Navy Pier Campus that had opened in 1946 to educate returning veterans. The school, in a developing area west of Chicago's downtown, has 15,600 undergraduates, 6,900 graduate students and 2,500 professional students. Its 15 colleges are: Applied Health Sciences; Architecture & the Arts; Business Administration; Dentistry; Education; Engineering; Graduate College; Honors College; Liberal Arts and Sciences; Medicine; Nursing; Pharmacy; Public Health; Social Work; and Urban Planning and Public Affairs.
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Find program that fits your dream
The Chicago area has numerous schools with MBA programs, including two — University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management — whose business schools continue to rank among the best in...Tags: Politics, Education, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Environmental Issues
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A lift or a drag?
Huma Gruaz picked a precarious time in her personal life to enroll in a Master of Business Administration program.
She had just moved to Chicago from the suburbs. She had to figure out how to navigate life after a divorce. And she had just started her...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Graduation, Bradley University, Colleges and Universities, Southern Illinois University
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Multiple options for Chicago-area applicants
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As Facebook grows, millions say, 'no, thanks'
NEW YORK (AP) — Don't try to friend MaLi Arwood on Facebook. You won't find her there. You won't find Thomas Chin, either. Or Kariann Goldschmitt. Or Jake Edelstein. More than 900 million people worldwide check their Facebook accounts at least...
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Urban Prep seniors celebrate 100% college acceptance
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Backpacks, food among Metra's security prohibitions during summit
Forget that cup of coffee or water bottle. And leave your backpack at home.
Those are among the messages Metra is sending to riders who plan to take any of its trains during the three-day NATO summit weekend May 19-21.
Oh, and be prepared to be screened...Tags: Metra, Politics, Colleges and Universities, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Tribune
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No backing away now from 'forward'
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign pushed out one word last week to define his quest for a second term — "forward." So how much does a single word matter? Quite a bit, marketing and branding experts say, even if they disagree on the...Tags: Politics, Leo Burnett, Coca-Cola Co., Marketing, Elections
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Can supplement containing resveratrol help wet macular degeneration?
It sounds too good to be true, but a Chicago doctor is reporting that a drug-like dietary supplement, or nutriceutical, called Longevinex -- which contains the purported anti-aging chemical resveratrol -- may control or even reverse the symptoms of wet...
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Columbia College president to retire in 2013
Columbia College Chicago President Warrick Carter announced in a statement Tuesday that he will retire in August 2013. Carter, who has served as president of the college since 2000, will step down one year before his originally scheduled departure in...
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City set to hear testimony on soda taxes
Tribune reporterHealth advocates and soda supporters will go head to head Tuesday in a City Council committee hearing on a sugary beverage tax. The hearing was spurred by a resolution presented by Ald George Cardenas ((12th) earlier this year that asked the City Council...Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Economy, Business and Finance, Weight, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, George A. Cardenas
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Study shows exercise can help Parkinson's sufferers
Terry Musial, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, has found new hope since she joined a research study at Rush University Medical Center and the University of Illinois at Chicago in which patients exercised twice a week for an hour each. The...
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Pollution can put minds in a fog
Those unpleasant air pollutants that can cause breathing problems and heart and blood vessel troubles could pose an additional health risk, according to a recent study on the cognitive effects of air pollution. Researchers recently found that older women...Tags: Rush University Medical Center, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Colleges and Universities, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues
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