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Graduate College News

Graduate College News & Announcements

Fulbright Grantees Headed Overseas for 2025-26

Two UIC alums and a current doctoral student will spend the 2025-26 school year abroad after accepting offers from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.  Each year, the Fulbright student program selects recent college graduates,…

$200 Application Scholarship

Last fall, we piloted a small scholarship for students applying for the NSF GRFP. We saw a large number of applications — coincidence or correlation? This year, Dean Eddington is extending the incentive…

Recipients of Spring 2025 Awards

The Graduate College is pleased to announce the results of our internal competitions with spring deadlines: Award for Graduate Research; Graduate Mentoring Award; and the Provost Graduate Internship Award. Recipients of the spring…

Recipients of Spring 2025 Recruitment Fellowship Offers

The Graduate College is pleased to announce recipients of its recruitment competitions: the Summer Research Opportunities Program Early Admissions Fellowship, the Access to Excellence Fellowship, the University Fellowship, and the the Pipeline to…

Recipients of Fall 2024 fellowships and awards

The Graduate College is pleased to announce the winners of several internal competitions with autumnal deadlines: • Barnhurst-Doherty Award (inaugural!) • Award for Graduate Research (fall) • Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and…

Fellowship and Award Announcements

Thank  you for your patience and understanding! *Barnhurst-Doherty Award (inaugural!) *Award for Graduate Research (fall) *Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award *Fellowship for International Research *Outstanding Thesis and Dissertations Awards *Provost…

Dean’s Challenge hosts first match-up

On Feb. 1, UIC college deans and students participated in the first match up of the Dean’s Challenge, a fun event of friendly competition between the university’s colleges. Two-person teams of the dean…

Term extension for Provost Colley

Karen Colley, PhD, will continue to serve as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs for an additional year, through the end of June 2026.