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UIC awarded $2.4M DOD grant to assist Illinois’ military-dependent communities

UIC awarded $2.4M DOD grant to assist Illinois’ military-dependent communities

The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Economic Adjustment to support economic research and resiliency in Illinois’ military-connected communities. The 18-month grant, led by UIC’s Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement, will back the development and use of an online tool for regional partners and economic development organizations in the Quad Cities, Rockford, Peoria and Chicago.
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PBS’ ‘Native America’ documentary features research by UIC anthropologists

PBS’ ‘Native America’ documentary features research by UIC anthropologists

In 2007, Christopher Davis was a University of Illinois at Chicago anthropology graduate student working with Anna Roosevelt, UIC professor of anthropology, and other students at an archaeological site in Santarém, Brazil. Davis and Roosevelt returned to the site to discuss the findings while being filmed for the four-part documentary “Native America,” which premieres Oct. 23 at 8 p.m. on PBS.
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NIH deputy director addresses ways to combat opioid crisis

NIH deputy director addresses ways to combat opioid crisis

National Institutes of Health principal deputy director Dr. Lawrence Tabak spoke to an audience of faculty, staff and students at Student Center East Oct. 3 about how the nation’s largest public research funding agency is helping to combat the opioid epidemic. In April, the NIH launched the HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) Initiative, to address the public health crisis of opioid misuse and addiction in the United States.
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Building a public library of bacteria to facilitate drug discovery research

Building a public library of bacteria to facilitate drug discovery research

Approximately $1.7 million in new funding from the National Institutes of Health will enable a multidisciplinary team of University of Illinois at Chicago researchers to build a reference library of bacteria to help scientists quickly identify bacterial strains and analyze their disease-fighting potential. Coupled with a novel web-based bioinformatics pipeline, the researchers hope the library, which will not only provide information to help classify bacteria but also will help identify the antibiotics an individual species might produce, will remove years of work from the drug discovery process.
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Deadlines

RNUA due for college (or 2nd level) review

Oct 29

2018 Researcher and Scholar of the Year Nomination

Nov 19

http://research.uic.edu/funding-opportunities/faculty-awards/researcher-year-awards

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Events

Webinar - What is an ORCID ID and why should you get one?

Monday, October 22, 2018 - 11:30am to 12:00pm

Oct 22

  • Have you been asked for an ORCID ID when submitting a manuscript to a journal or in grant submission systems?  Do you have a common name or have publications under different aliases?   Would you like to keep track of your research outputs all in one place?  Attend this workshop to learn more about ORCID IDs and why you should get one, how to get your free ORCID ID, and how to set up your ORCID profile.  Learn more about ORCID IDs at: https://researchguides.uic.edu/orcid
  • Monday, October 22 at 11:30 to 12:00 PM.

Webinar - Scholarly Publishing: Selecting scholarly publishing venues to maximize your impact while avoiding "predatory publishers"

Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Oct 23

  • Do you wonder how to select a journal in which to publish or wonder about the quality of a journal?  This session will demonstrate tools to identify potential journals in your field, how to determine impact factors for journals (Journal Citation Reports, Scimago), how to find where a journal is indexed for dissemination, and tools to evaluate the quality of journals.  Reputable, peer-reviewed Open Access journals are on the rise, but so are "predatory publisher" that charge publication fees but do little in terms of peer review.
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OVCR Announcements

2018 OVCR Holiday Schedules

Nov 7

Office of Research Services (ORS) 2018 Holiday Schedule

The Office of Research Services (ORS) will observe the UIC reduced service schedule for non-essential services that begins on Monday, December 24th. As such, ORS will close at 5:00 PM on Friday, December 21, 2018, and will reopen at 8:30 AM on Wednesday, January 2, 2019.

To ensure timely review and processing of sponsored project documents due prior to Wednesday, January 2, 2019, please submit all necessary paperwork no later than 5:00 PM, Friday, December 14, 2018.

AY18 Effort Reporting

Oct 18

Dear Research Community,

The Effort Reporting System (ERS) is now open and ready for AY18 certifications to be completed. Effort is the time spent on all university activities. The ERS is designed to document effort actually expended by individuals on each sponsored award during AY18 (8/16/17 – 8/15/18) and reconcile effort committed in award document(s).  This effort can be paid directly by the award and/or other funding sources (i.e. cost shared) to ensure effort commitments are met.

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Featured Faculty

Sandeep Jain, Associate Professor
2017 Inventor of the Year

Sandeep Jain is amongst the few clinical scientists in the field who have taken their research discovery from laboratory to the clinic and converted them to new therapies.

His research and clinical practice have both focused on very severe cases of dry eye disease caused by autoimmune disorders, in particular by a condition known as ocular graft versus host disease, which is a serious complication that occurs in patients with blood cancers who have undergone stem cell or bone marrow transplants.

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Kimberly Lawless, Professor
2017 Researcher of the Year, Distinguished - Social Sciences

Kimberly Lawless, associate dean for research in the College of Education, believes that science literacy is a tool, and like any tool, be it a hammer, screwdriver or wrench, you need to learn what it is, what it does and when to use it.

“If you go through the world thinking that you only have a hammer, the only thing you can do is hammer,” said Lawless, professor of educational psychology. “But if you go through life with a complement of tools and you are able to fluidly mix and match those tools to the job that’s in front of you, you’re going to better accomplish the job.”

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Dima Mazen Qato, Assistant Professor
2017 Researcher of the Year, Rising Star - Social Sciences

For more than 10 years, Dima Qato worked as a retail pharmacist and witnessed countless examples of the vital role pharmacies play in the public health system, particularly when it comes to access to and safe use of medications.

However, while many like Qato consider pharmacies to be an essential part of our health care system, the independent and chain retailers are not regulated by or held accountable to any of the groups that provide checks and balances for other essential health services, like care in hospitals and clinics.

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Isabel Cruz, Professor
2017 Researcher of the Year, Distinguished - Natural Sciences and Engineering

Isabel Cruz makes sense of complex data.

“One of the aspects I work on is heterogeneous data — for example, how to make sense of data that is collected with different spatial and temporal granularities,” said Cruz, professor of computer science.

The U.S. Census, for example, collects data every 10 years, but other population data within a city may be taken every month or year.

“So if you want to tell the story of what’s happening in a city, you cannot put apples and oranges together,” she said.

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Richard Novak, Professor
2017 Researcher of the Year, Distinguished - Clinical Sciences

Richard Novak has been working to identify therapies and vaccines for HIV since the 1980s, when the infection first started making the news as it spread among the gay community.

Novak was a young assistant professor of infectious disease at UIC when he pushed for the hospital to open a dedicated HIV clinic because the general infectious disease department wasn’t able to handle the influx of HIV patients. That clinic opened in 1989, and just a few years later, Novak received funding to open UIC’s first dedicated HIV treatment and prevention clinics in the community in 1992.

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Maria Argos, Associate Professor
2017 Researcher of the Year, Rising Star - Clinical Sciences

What are the health effects of arsenic from drinking water and other sources?

That’s a question that Maria Argos aims to answer in her research studies.

Argos examines the levels of arsenic in drinking water primarily in Bangladesh, and the associated health effects for people who live there.

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Parasani Subbaiah, Professor
2017 Researcher of the Year, Distinguished - Basic Life Sciences

“I’m a lipid biochemist,” said Papasani Subbaiah, professor of medicine in the department of diabetes/endocrinology and metabolism in the UIC College of Medicine.

Subbaiah’s career has focused on analyzing the role of lipids — the molecules that make up fat in the body — for more than 40 years. His contributions have added to knowledge in several fields including Alzheimer’s disease and other neuroinflammatory diseases, atherosclerosis and metabolism.

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Terry Moore, Assistant Professor
2017 Researcher of the Year, Rising Star - Basic Life Sciences

Terry Moore is a medicinal chemist focused on discovering new drugs to improve the lives of men and women living with chronic health conditions, like cancer and diabetes.

Unlike many drug discovery labs, Moore’s lab investigates the way that proteins interact with one another in diseases.

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