News Archive

• Nexus Project focuses on racial bias and equity in disability employment

  Monday, July 11, 2022

  The project helped launch collective to break the persistent link between disability and poverty and finally achieve economic justice for disabled Americans

• Service in learning

  Tuesday, May 10, 2022

  Students use their classroom-acquired knowledge about disability studies for a real-world project with a community organization

• Amanda Montoney named 2022 UIC Student Employee of the Year

  Tuesday, April 26, 2022

  DHD student organizes online and in-person tutoring sessions as ASAP tutor administrator

• Sandra Sufian publishes book on the social history of disability and difference in American adoption

  Tuesday, March 22, 2022

  The book, published by University of Chicago Press, took over 11 years to complete because of its scope and complexity

• Mapping the disability experience

  Wednesday, December 8, 2021

  Project explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted (or not) disabled people’s use and understanding of space

• New certificate in disability legal studies developed by DHD and UIC School of Law

  Thursday, November 11, 2021

  Certificate is the first in the Midwest and one of only two in the U.S.

• Helping teens with disabilities prevent and treat depression, anxiety

  Wednesday, October 6, 2021

  Kristin Berg is co-principal investigator of study awarded $7 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

• DHD in partnership with Malcolm X College to train health workers to fight opioid crisis

  Thursday, August 5, 2021

  Tamar Heller and Kueifang (Kelly) Hsieh are conducting the evaluation of the program