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Two UIC Liberal Arts faculty were named national fellows for the 2026–27 academic year, as professor Claire Decoteau joins the Harvard Radcliffe Institute to advance her project on reproductive healthcare and professor Jeffrey Sklansky will research American retirement at the Newberry Library.

Agnes Balla (director of research policy at the UC Office of the President) and Christina Sansone from UIC will discuss how Illinois’ new cannabis and hemp laws affect research.

Their talk will outline changes impacting university studies and future research projects.

Researchers from UIC received a five-year NCI grant ($2.67 million) to develop pediatric brain tumor treatments using a peptide that crosses the blood-brain barrier.

They will test the approach with collaborators and study its impact on high-grade gliomas.