CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 19, 2016. Erik Gellman, associate professor of history with expertise on social movements and urban history, has been selected to receive the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Public Scholar grant award for the 2016-17 year. A scholar of African American, labor and modern U.S. history, Gellman will[Read More…]
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DePaul University Art Museum Receives Gift of 114 Works by Chicago-Based Artists
Donation from Chuck Thurow builds ‘legacy of art in the city’ “Son So & So” by Candida Alvarez is work or acrylic and graphite from 2001. This is one of 114 works of art donated by Chuck Thurow to the DePaul Art Museum’s permanent collection. (Image courtesy of DePaul Art[Read More…]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Finds Consumers Complain of Needless Hurdles in Applying for Lower Student Loan Payments
CFPB Calls on Student Loan Servicers to Strengthen Practices, Publishes “Fix It Form” for Servicers to Adopt WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2016. Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Student Loan Ombudsman released a report finding consumers complain of servicing problems that make it difficult to get lower student[Read More…]
Senator Durbin, Attorney General Madigan Call for Improved Protections and Benefits for Student Loan Borrowers
CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–August 15, 2016. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan today called on the U.S. Department of Education to improve protections and benefits for student borrowers by strengthening student loan servicing. They also called for the passage legislation that would allow current federal borrowers to[Read More…]
Congresswoman Robin Kelly Announces GSU Awarded Library of Congress Grant to Enhance Science Curriculum
UNIVERSITY PARK–(ENEWSPF)–August 15, 2016. Congresswoman Robin Kelly announced today that Governors State University has been awarded a $202,115 federal grant to develop science curriculum for grades K-12 that will incorporate digital primary sources housed with the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress Teaching and Primary Sources grant will enable[Read More…]
University of Chicago Grad Student’s Discovery Could Enable Rapid Screening of Anti-Cancer Compounds
Unique process creates knotted chemical structures Graduate student Di Liu co-authored an article describing how to create tiny, knotted chemical structures that may provide a way to rapidly screen hundreds of chemicals for anti-cancer activity. Photo by: Joel Wintermantle CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 11, 2016 By Carla Reiter It isn’t often that a[Read More…]
South Suburban College Foundation Elects New Membership, Readies For Scholarship Drive
SOUTH HOLLAND, IL –(ENEWSPF)–August 11, 2016. The South Suburban College Foundation (SSCF) recently held its annual meeting at South Suburban College (SSC) in South Holland to review and close fiscal year (FY) 2016 and to elect new membership and officers for FY-17. Two representatives from Illiana Financial Credit Union’s[Read More…]
South Suburban College Offering Free Highway Construction Careers Training Program in August
SOUTH HOLLAND, IL –(ENEWSPF)–August 10, 2016. South Suburban College will be offering a Free Highway Construction Careers Training Program this fall at their Oak Forest Campus. Orientation and Assessment Testing will be August 23-25 at the Oak Forest Center, with the program set to begin on September 19, 2016.[Read More…]
‘Graffiti aHEAD: A Documentation of the Midwest Graffiti Writers’ Opens in Dorothea Thiel Gallery of South Suburban College on August 28
An exhibition of artwork from Indiana Artist Felix “Flex” Maldonado Jr. Indiana Artist Felix “Flex” Maldonado Jr. Opens a Solo Exhibition “Graffiti aHEAD: A Documentation of the Midwest Graffiti Writers” in Dorothea Thiel Gallery of South Suburban College. SOUTH HOLLAND, IL –(ENEWSPF)–August 10, 2016. The Art & Design Department[Read More…]
DePaul University Art Museum Showcases International Art Exhibition ‘On Space and Place’
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–August 9, 2016. For the first time, viewers of the ART21 or “Art in the Twenty-First Century” television series will be able to see work by artists featured in the new season at the DePaul Art Museum on the Lincoln Park Campus of DePaul University. The exhibition will provide[Read More…]
