Senior Associate Director, University Communications @thisisUIC

Joined April 2009
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13 Aug 2025
New from @ConversationUS: @HistUIC prof. Jeffrey Sklansky writes about the origins of #Labor Day and why Americans don't celebrate May Day like most other industrial nations, even though May Day commemorates a workers' uprising here in Chicago theconversation.com/labor-da… @UICLAS
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21 Jul 2025
Illinois could have four open congressional seats and an open Senate seat all at once. E.J. Fagan, asst. prof. @uicpols, talked to NBC 5 Chicago about the significance of the changes. nbcchicago.com/news/local/bi…
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17 Jun 2025
Alejandra Palacios, staff attorney at @uiclaw's International Human Rights Clinic, joined @wttw to discuss a possible expansion of the Trump administration's travel ban, and how it differs from a ban implemented in the administration's first term news.wttw.com/2025/06/16/tru…
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10 Jun 2025
.@UICCUPPA-based transportation experts P.S. Sriraj of the Urban Transportation Center and @UIC_UPP assoc. prof. Kate Lowe (@kateontransport) weigh in on the situation as Chicago region public transit awaits financial lifelines
Chicago’s Public Transit Is in Limbo trib.al/5RnAPij
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28 May 2025
"If people are excluded from routine care, they may not get vaccinated for all kinds of contagious diseases, increasing the risk of disease for children and susceptible adults," Alexandra Filindra, prof. @uicpols & @UICPsychology, tells @Newsweek newsweek.com/trump-administr… @UICLAS
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20 May 2025
“Imagine a pipeline or any other piece of infrastructure running through your yard with no easement and no permission to be there,” said Rachel Havrelock, founder and director of The Freshwater Lab @thisisUIC chicagotribune.com/2025/05/1…
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20 May 2025
.@uiclaw prof. Steve Schwinn also told @Reuters that upcoming religious rights rulings will likely continue #SCOTUS' trend of limiting the application of the establishment clause & dramatically expanding the application of the free exercise clause reuters.com/world/us-supreme…
20 May 2025
.@uiclaw Steven Schwinn joined @WBEZreset to discuss how the Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision on birthright citizenship could affect people without legal status in Illinois wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-an…
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20 May 2025
.@uiclaw Steven Schwinn joined @WBEZreset to discuss how the Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision on birthright citizenship could affect people without legal status in Illinois wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-an…
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15 May 2025
Chicago’s population peaked in 1950, and the recent increase is likely to be temporary, if the Trump administration continues to severely limit immigration, Rob Paral, @UICGCI senior researcher, tells @chicagotribune chicagotribune.com/2025/05/1… @UICCUPPA @UICnews
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