Illinois awards $350K for women’s preventative health care
October 6, 2019
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Public health officials in Illinois have awarded $350,000 in grants to help improve the health care of women of reproductive age. The Illinois Department of Public Health announced earlier this week that the competitive grants are going to 14 organizations and public health...
Graduate students look to band together
Benjamin Conboy, News Editor
January 29, 2018
Graduate students are taking the first steps in forming a student association that would hear grievances, complaints and demands from the graduate student body and take them up with the university. The group would be similar to how the Student Government Association (SGA) represents the student body...
Graduate students fight university for health insurance
Benjamin Conboy, News Editor
January 22, 2018
Ph.D. students are fighting the university administration over access to health care, claiming the workload of teaching classes should warrant providing them equal benefits as other professors. University of Chicago, Northwestern University and Loyola University all provide full health coverage for th...
