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• Illinois Technology Association Honors Fifty For The Future

  - 2008-05-19

  Program Recognizes Outstanding Illinois Students Preparing for Careers in Technology CHICAGO -- The Illinois Technology Association ITA is pleased to recognize the 2008 Fifty for the Future (F4F). Extending ITA's mission of building the technology community in Illinois, the F4F program identifies well rounded high potential students and...

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• The University of Illinois at Chicago's Great Cities Institute has received a three-year, $2.25 million grant from the Grand Victoria Foundation

  - 2008-05-01

  THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO's Great Cities Institute has received a three-year, $2.25 MILLION grant from the Grand Victoria Foundation to build a network and help small cities and nonprofit organizations in Illinois access federal grants and create community improvement partnerships.

  Tags: Chicago, FINANCE, NETWORKING, University of Illinois

• Electrolube

  - 2008-05-01

  Electrolube hired Monica Bartosik as technical support representative, based in Chicago. She has a bachelor's in chemistry from the University of Illinois. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

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• The heart of the mission: as a top producer of minority health practitioners, a University of Illinois at Chicago program seeks to improve the quality of medical care in communities of color

  - 2008-04-03

  Terry Mason was a recent college graduate from the South Side of Chicago trying to get accepted into medical school at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1974. Raised in a rough neighborhood with gang violence, he knew it wouldn't be easy. "At that time my grades weren't...

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• The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research

  - 2008-02-21

  The UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO has received a $2.4 MILLION grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research to create a center to study patients as they transition to the end of life.

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• iBIO Announces Keynote Speakers for the 2008 iBIO Industry Expo & Marketplace

  - 2008-02-05

  CHICAGO -- The Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization iBIO is honored to announce that Dr. B. Joseph White, President, University of Illinois; Yoshihiko Hatanaka, President and CEO, Astellas US, LLC; and Dr. Paul A. Willems, Technology Vice President, Energy Biosciences, BP Group will be they keynote speakers at the 2008 iBIO...

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• John Huss Jonak of Park Ridge.(Obituaries)(Obituary)

  - 2008-01-23

  John Huss Jonak of Park Ridge The funeral service for John Huss Jonak, 92, will begin at 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 25, at Clarendon Hills Cemetery in Darien. Visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, at Ahlgrim Family Funeral Home, ...

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• The University of Illinois at Chicago was awarded $1.2 MILLION in grants to promote public safety programs

  - 2007-12-27

  The UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO was awarded $1.2 MILLION in grants to promote public safety programs. Granted by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the funds will be used for programs that focus on methamphetamine abuse, gangs and...

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• "How To Buy, Sell, Make, Manage, Produce, Transact, Consume With Words"

  BNET - 2007-09-18

  A classic paper in 1963 by the legal sociologist Stewart Macaulay studied firms that did business in Wisconsin. He confirmed what everyone in business knows, that business normally depends on a state of trust, not on explicit contracts to be enforced in courts. One large manufacturer of cardboard boxes looked...

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• Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

  - 2007-08-09

  DR. MICHELLE R. HOWARD-VITAL has been appointed president of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. She had previously been interim chancellor of Winston-Salem State University. Howard-Vital earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Chicago and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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