UIC Announces Spring Graduates

2009 Jul 7

Rosalinda Mendez, a resident of Blue Island, received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago at the May Commencement.

UIC ranks among the nation's top 50 universities in federal research funding and is Chicago's largest university with 25,000 students, 12,000 faculty and staff, 15 colleges and the state's major public medical center. A hallmark of the campus is the Great Cities Commitment, through which UIC faculty, students and staff engage with community, corporate, foundation and government partners in hundreds of programs to improve the quality of life in metropolitan areas around the world.

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[NOTE TO EDITOR: Please refer to the institution as the University of Illinois at Chicago on first reference and UIC on second reference and in headlines. "University of Illinois" and "U. of I." are often assumed to refer to our sister campus in Urbana-Champaign.]