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Director Bing Liu, a UIC graduate from Rockford, said his time tutoring ESL students and learning from dedicated teachers helped him find his creative voice.

His new film Preparation for the Next Life, produced by Amazon MGM Studios, is in theaters and streaming and is based on a novel about a Uyghur migrant chasing the American Dream — a tale that mirrors his own early struggles.

On September 30 at 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., participants at Room 200A in the Library of the Health Sciences learned about how PubMed search quirks affected results and how to refine queries—helping reduce irrelevant findings.

The hybrid workshop was available in person and online and was recorded for later viewing.

UIC leads the nation’s largest voluntary effort to protect the monarch butterfly and other pollinators by converting rights-of-way lands into safe habitats using agreements that offer legal assurances to energy and transportation groups (with over 80 partners preserving 1.2 million acres and plans to restore 2.3 million acres).