General News
Faculty Receive Golden Apple Teaching Awards
Congratulations to the following faculty members who were selected by the Class of 2022 to receive Golden Apple Teaching Awards: Phase 1 – Excellence in Teaching Paul Chastain II, PhD Clinical Associate Professor, Director of [...]
Distinguished Service Award presented to Dr. Michael Potts
Dean Alex Stagnaro-Green presents the 2022 Distinguished Service Award to Dr. Michael Potts at the Convocation Ceremony. Michael Potts, MD, is the 2022 recipient of the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford’s [...]
Congratulations Class of 2022!
Drs. Tara Gill, Noemi Rico, Oren Feldman-Schultz outside the Coronado Theater. The University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford held its 48th Annual Convocation Ceremony for the Class of 2022 on Saturday, May 7, [...]
Dr. Tsaras receives UICOMR 2022 Distinguished Teaching Award
Geoffrey Tsaras, MD, MPH, received the College of Medicine Rockford’s Distinguished Teaching Award at the Convocation Ceremony on May 7. The award is presented each year to a faculty member who has demonstrated a longstanding [...]
Distinguished Community Award presented to SHIELD Illinois team in Rockford
Accepting the award were SHIELD Illinois Operations Manager Shiow-Jiau Yung, Lab General Supervisor Jocelyn Carr, Assistant Dean for Operations Carol Schuster, and Collection Site Supervisor Bella Swan. The University of Illinois College of [...]
Fox receives Dean’s Distinguished Service Award from College of Medicine executive dean
Geri Fox, MD, MHPE, received the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award in recognition of her outstanding leadership and service to the University of Illinois College of Medicine as associate dean for wellness curriculum, as well as [...]
MBT student Nishtha Pathak receives Chancellor’s Student Service Award
Nishtha Pathak received the UIC Chancellor's Student Service Award the the 50th such ceremony in Chicago. Nishtha Pathak, a student in the UICOMR Master of Science in Medical Biomedical Technology Program, was recently [...]
Research Day Award Winners Announced
Congratulations to the following Research Day 2022 award winners: Best Basic Science Research Poster Award Sponsored by: Department of Biomedical Sciences Winner: Priyadharshini Vijayakumar Poster Title: Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress Mediated Neurodegeneration Induced by CoCrMo Nanoparticles Best Basic Science [...]
Phase One – The Core. – ERN
The thoroughness of the physical exam is to be Balanced With efficiency. From the crown of their head Down to the nail of their great toe. I am a novice. I run through [...]
Friends of Your Taste Buds – Oats
by Mwangi Wamaina Salutations, friends. Illinois is a land towered by maple trees, basswood, hickory, oak, dogwood, ash, and the ever-constant evergreens1; it is a land where tree squirrels climb, Eastern cottontail rabbits jump, coyotes [...]