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2021

In what ways have the Chicago Bulls become a cultural force beyond basketball galloping around the world?

yichaozhouNovember 2, 2021No Comment
2021-11-03T13:35:51-05:00
Author: Yichao (Charles) Zhou Program of Study: Molecular Engineering PhD   From the basketball team itself, to the face of the league, to the founder and promoter of sports brands, to the worldwide economic and cultural promoter, the Chicago Bulls are a cultural force that sweeps the world like a hurricane. How has this team achieved that?    ...
2021

MCA: a Lighthouse on the Surging Sea of Social Change

jingwenx September 17, 2021 No Comment
2021-11-03T12:01:42-05:00
Author: Jingwen Xu Program of Study: Molecular Engineering PhD Student How can the DNA...
2021

Chicago Blues: From Immigration to Urban Development

Haozhe Zhang September 17, 2021 No Comment
2021-11-03T13:35:20-05:00
Author: Haozhe Zhang Program of Study: Molecular Engineering PhD Chicago Blues is a typical...
2021

Chemicals damaging Lake Michigan

zhecheng September 11, 2021 1 Comment
2021-11-02T14:27:22-05:00
Author: Zhe Cheng Program of Study: Chemistry PhD The environmental situation of Lake Michigan...
2021

The Music of Chicago, a Migration Product

Ricardo Almada Monter September 10, 2021 No Comment
2021-11-03T13:34:23-05:00
Author: Ricardo Almada Monter Program of Study: Chemistry PhD There is no doubt that...
2021

Life of people with disabilities in Chicago: What makes them different?

jiae August 27, 2021 No Comment
2021-11-03T13:33:36-05:00
Author: Jiae Myung Program of Study: Harris School of Public Policy MPP    ...
2021

The Environmental Impacts on the Reversal of the Chicago River

lizj36 August 27, 2021 No Comment
2021-11-02T14:30:16-05:00
Author: Zijun Li Program of Study: Master of Public Policy (MPP) View of Chicago...
2021

A Source of Equality and Inequality: “Ban the Box” Law in Chicago

Ryoya Hashimoto August 27, 2021 No Comment
2021-11-02T14:32:32-05:00
Author: Ryoya Hashimoto Program of Study: Harris School of Public Policy MSCAPP “Ban the...
2021

Refugees In Chicago

lianghm August 27, 2021 No Comment
2021-11-02T14:33:06-05:00
Author: Haoming Program of Study: Master of Public Policy (MPP) We are in the...
2021

Automation might widen the racial income gap in Chicago

Aizhan Mukhyshbayeva August 26, 2021 No Comment
2021-11-03T13:32:22-05:00
Author: Aizhan Mukhyshbayeva Program of Study: Master of Science in Computational Analysis and Public...
2021

Art and Activism: the Life and Works of Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs

wanawat August 26, 2021 No Comment
2021-10-27T15:21:07-05:00
Author: Wanawat Wechakit Program of Study: LL.M. Law School  Do you think art and...
2020

Who Owns the Past? The Oriental Institute and Beyond

balc September 18, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T11:49:11-06:00
Author: Caglayan Bal Program of Study: Humanities, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Western museums,...
2020

Mies: a Star of the German Diaspora in Chicago Architecture

Roberto Albores Gleason September 17, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T10:34:35-06:00
Author: Roberto Albores Gleason Program of Study: Harris MPP In today’s podcast, I will...
2020

Racial Disparities in Healthcare: Prevalence in Chicago During COVID Times

Shubhashree Pani September 13, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T10:35:53-06:00
Author: Shubhashree Pani Program of Study: PSD Chemistry   Racial discrimination in the healthcare...
2020

Traffic Jams in Chicago

Maolin Wang September 11, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T10:50:11-06:00
Author: Maolin Wang Program of Study: PSD Chemistry   The traffic situation in Chicago...
2020

Beyond August 9th Downtown Looting: Mending Interracial Wounds

dcardianto August 29, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T10:53:35-06:00
Author: Dwi Cahyo Ardianto Program of Study: Harris MPP   The Magnificent Mile Looting...
2020

Youth Homelessness in Chicago and the U.S.: Debunking the Myths

jieyi August 28, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T10:07:07-06:00
Author: Jieyi Chen Program of Study: Harris MPP https://inhabitat.com/squarechange-builds-housing-for-homeless-children-one-donated-square-foot-at-a-time/ photo by Shutterstock (2015)  ...
2020

Eustasio Rosales: Chicago’s First Hispanic Composer

dperezgiraldo August 28, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T10:55:31-06:00
Author: Daniela Pérez Giraldo Program of Study: Harris MPP   Small Blurb Introducing the...
2020

Chicago’s Effort to Support Local Restaurants under the Pandemic

Tingjuan Yang August 28, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T10:56:04-06:00
Author: Tingjuan Yang Program of Study: Harris MPP   Picture Source: https://www.bikecitizens.net/food-couriers-employment-gig-economy/   On...
2020

Reconnecting the Communities by the Great Chicago Rivers

ningning August 27, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T10:57:04-06:00
Author: Ninging Lin Program of Study: Harris MPP Chicago rivers are just like a...

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2021

Binding not only a Community: Bookbinding at Hull-House

bacciSeptember 15, 2021No Comment
2021-11-03T13:35:03-05:00
Author: Tommaso Bacci Program of Study: Divinity School PhD   Nowadays the craft of bookbinding seems like an acceptable hobby for voracious readers, for aficionados of antique items, or in general for whomever enjoys the flicking sound of folding, cutting, and stacking paper together and the smell of fresh paper, leather, and glue. It might sound surprising, then, the...
2021

Cycling in Chicago: When Bicycle Culture Collides With Urban City

hzqin August 26, 2021 No Comment
2021-11-02T14:35:43-05:00
Author: Huazhi Qin Program of Study: Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences...
2021

Revisiting Bronzeville: Is Chicago’s Black Renaissance at Dawn or Dusk?

weiqiw August 25, 2021 No Comment
2021-11-02T14:46:56-05:00
Author: Weiqi Wang Program of Study: Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences...
2021

Green Mill Cocktail Lounge: Uptown’s splendor during the Jazz Age

yuyeh August 25, 2021 No Comment
2021-11-03T13:31:14-05:00
Author: Flory Huang Program of Study: Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences...
2021

The Second City in the Second City

jinglanhong August 25, 2021 No Comment
2021-11-02T14:53:00-05:00
Author: Jinglan Hong Program of Study: Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences...
2021

Exploring the Metropolitan Correctional Center: the Leniency and Harshness in Confinement

xinyi7718 August 23, 2021 No Comment
2021-10-27T13:50:37-05:00
Author: Xinyi Zhao Program of Study: Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences...
2020

Maxwell Street: A History of Racial and Cultural Integration

albusgao September 17, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T10:33:08-06:00
Author: Albus Gao Program of Study: SSD MAPSS   I have been a blues...
2020

From Monroe St. to Louisville: When Moral Obligations become Radical Acts

nioshi September 13, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T10:47:00-06:00
Author: Nioshi Program of Study: SSD MAPSS As you take a (virtual) tour down...
2020

Murals in Chicago: an Open Conversation concerning Immigration History, Civil Rights and Cultural Identities

Chuqing Zhao August 27, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T11:01:41-06:00
Author: Chuqing (Louisa) Zhao Program of Study: SSD MAPSS Three years ago, when I...
2020

Boystown: Understand inclusivity from multidimensions

caoruochen August 27, 2020 3 Comments
2020-11-03T11:09:23-06:00
Author: Cao Ruochen Program of Study: SSD MAPSS Located in the north part of...
2020

Finding Chicago – The Rhythm of tango in the City of Chicago

wzhang7 August 26, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T11:18:06-06:00
Author: Wei Zhang Program of Study: SSD MAPSS The Rhythm of tango in the...
2020

An Embodiment of Empire: Lincoln Park Conservatory Revisited

qiyuyang August 26, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T11:22:56-06:00
Author: Qiyu Yang Program of Study: Humanities MAPH A sense of tranquility embraces me...
2020

What Goes Around Comes Around- ‘Reverse Discrimination’ in Chinatown Rental Market

Yier Ling August 26, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T11:33:40-06:00
Author: Yier Program of Study: SSD Computational Social Science Much to many people’s surprise,...
2020

Pullman: A Time Capsule To The First Industrial Utopia in the United States

mysun August 26, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-03T11:37:05-06:00
Author: Mingyang Sun Program of Study: SSD MAPSS Heading south along the S Cottage...
2019

Exploration of Andersonville, a Congregation of Swedish immigrants — Comparison of Chinese and Swedish Immigration

yongfeilu September 19, 2019 No Comment
2020-09-18T09:56:52-05:00
Author: Yongfei Lu Program of Study: SSD Computational Social Science On the morning of...
2019

The Propagation and Adaption of Shin Buddhism in Chicago

wuxing September 18, 2019 No Comment
2020-09-18T09:56:52-05:00
Author: Wuxing Shi Program of Study: Divinity Religious Studies The Propagation and Adaption of...
2019

Stranded by gentrification: The German navigating a changing neighborhood

ckoerner August 29, 2019 1 Comment
2020-09-18T09:56:52-05:00
Author: Carina Koerner Program of Study: SSD MAPSS (MA Program in the Social Sciences)...
2019

Pilsen: The Land of Immigration

joonsukkang August 28, 2019 No Comment
2020-09-18T09:56:52-05:00
Author: Joonsuk Kang Program of Study: PSD Statistics Two years ago, I moved to...
2019

Feeling Mexican Styles in Pilsen

mhyang August 27, 2019 No Comment
2020-09-18T09:56:53-05:00
Author: Minghao Yang Program of Study: SSD Computational Social Science Pilsen, which refers to...
2019

The Identity of Pilsen—Spanish Language Presence, Cultural Appropriation, and Gentrification

yfann August 27, 2019 1 Comment
2020-09-18T09:56:53-05:00
Author: Yuxin Fan Program of Study: Humanities MAPH For any visitors to neighborhoods formed...

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