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Fall 2019 / UIC Lectures

Tobacco Control: A sticky, complex problem

February 13, 2020

Tobacco use is the number one preventable cause of death in the United States. However, the structural, interpersonal and personal factors that contribute to tobacco use are complex and require…

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Spring 2019 / UIC Lectures

Performing the Unfinished Work of Memory: The French Atlantic Triangle Reimagined

October 25, 2019

Safoi Babana-Hampton, professor of French, presentation drew on an ongoing research project attending to the socially and politically transformative force of transatlantic cultural and artistic interventions that creatively engage with…

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Theatre Engine: Audience as Research Partner

October 25, 2019

Alison Dobbins, associate professor of integrated media performance design, presentation concerns interdisciplinary research in theatre using technology to integrate the audience into the performance. Shark! The Interactive Musical empowers the audience to…

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Crisco and Confidence: Marketing Ignorance about Processed Food

October 25, 2019

Helen Zoe Veit, associate professor of history, Americans don’t think much about eating cotton. Yet they eat it all the time, and they have for more than 100 years. Early…

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Spring 2019 / UIC Lectures

Roots and Ruptures: To Teach of Black/Land, Literacies and Placemaking

October 25, 2019

Tamara Butler, assistant professor of critical and community literacies, discusses which practices are required to make place? To address this question, Professor Butlerturns to the ethical, creative, and collaborative practices…

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Spring 2019 / UIC Lectures

The Redistribution of the Sensible: Building an Interdisciplinary/ Interventionist Praxis

October 25, 2019

Zachary Kaiser, assistant professor of graphic design and experience architecture discusses how one participation in the world is determined by how one perceives it, and how one perceives it is…

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Spring 2019 / UIC Lectures

Reimagining First-Year Writing for STEM students as Experiential Learning in Science Studies

October 25, 2019

Marisa Brandt, Teaching Professor in the History, Philosophy, & Sociology of STEM discusses how a first-year writing course can help create 21st century STEM students with foundations for interdisciplinary inquiry?…

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Read more about the article Imagining the past through technical documents and personal accounts: Remote Sensing & Our History
Fall 2018 / UIC Lectures

Imagining the past through technical documents and personal accounts: Remote Sensing & Our History

March 18, 2019

Modern satellite imagery has high spatial resolution, multispectral capability, and high temporal resolution. Early aerial photography was panchromatic, on-demand, and of nominal visual quality. While modern remote sensing research tends…

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Read more about the article Caring about Health Services: Humanities- Driven Healthcare Reform
Fall 2018 / UIC Lectures

Caring about Health Services: Humanities- Driven Healthcare Reform

March 18, 2019

Health services research is a multidisciplinary field that examines access to and quality and cost of health care, focusing on research implementation in the healthcare sector and implications for healthcare…

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How Project Managers Foster Interdisciplinary Communication

March 18, 2019

In today’s networked organizations and institutions, project managers must help interdisciplinary teams find effective ways of communicating with each other. Drawing on research conducted for his 2018 bookCommunicating Project Management,…

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