Elyssa Cherney

Medical technologist Joyce Chen prepares samples for the saliva-based COVID-19 test at the Molecular Pathology Laboratory at University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago on Dec. 11, 2020.

University of Illinois will end COVID-19 testing requirements for vaccinated students

April 29, 2021 at 6:02 p.m.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will waive weekly COVID-19 testing requirements for students and employees who can show they are fully vaccinated by the fall term. The new policy,...

The Loyola Graduate Workers' Union called the stipend increase an "immense success" but vowed to push for the amount to be formalized in a contract and extended to other graduate students.

Should grad students be considered employees? Loyola University nearly doubles stipends for Ph.D. candidates but doesn’t recognize Graduate Workers’ Union

April 27, 2021 at 10:54 p.m.

Loyola University Chicago will increase earnings for doctoral students by $10,000 following ongoing discussions between the private, Jesuit institution and the graduate student union that it declines to recognize. Starting...

TJ Billard, an assistant professor at Northwestern University, co-founded the Chicago-based Center for Applied Transgender Studies, a nonprofit research organization that brings together transgender scholars.

New transgender studies center in Chicago aims to combat misinformation and lack of trans-led research

April 26, 2021 at 3:17 p.m.

TJ Billard, an assistant professor at Northwestern University, is on a quest to fill the void of research about transgender people, culture and politics. Federal surveys, most notably the U.S....

DePaul University in Chicago will require students to be vaccinated.

DePaul University and Columbia College will require COVID-19 vaccines this fall for on-campus students

April 21, 2021 at 11:54 p.m.

DePaul University and Columbia College Chicago are the first post-secondary schools in Illinois to require COVID-19 vaccines for students returning to campus this fall. Columbia College announced the mandate Monday,...

The University of Chicago in Hyde Park started easing COVID restrictions after an April 8 clampdown.

University of Chicago lifts COVID-19 restrictions after outbreak linked to spring break travel and student gatherings

April 20, 2021 at 8:39 p.m.

Following more than week of canceled in-person classes and a stay-at-home directive for undergraduate students living on campus, the University of Chicago began easing COVID-19 restrictions Tuesday, two days earlier...

Club soccer players work out on the Midway Plaisance near the University of Chicago campus on Oct. 18, 2020. The university in Hyde Park is imposing a stay-at-home order following a spike in COVID-19 cases on campus.

Stay-at-home order issued at University of Chicago as COVID-19 spikes; school eyes link to fraternity parties, cancels in-person classes

April 8, 2021 at 9:56 p.m.

In the largest cluster to hit the University of Chicago this academic year, the school is reporting at least 50 COVID-19 cases involving undergraduates officials announced Thursday. New restrictions are...

Due to COVID-19 safety restrictions, a limited number of Notre Dame students attend a Notre Dame-North Carolina State NCAA college basketball game. The school announced it will require students to get COVID-19 shots.

University of Notre Dame will require COVID-19 vaccines for all students next fall

April 7, 2021 at 9:19 p.m.

The University of Notre Dame will require all students to receive COVID-19 vaccinations in order to attend classes next school year. Students in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs must be...

Western Illinois University in Macomb is among schools that have set up vaccination sites on campus, mostly for faculty and staff.

The rush is now on to vaccinate Illinois college students before they leave campus for summer break. But will the shots be required for them to come back?

April 6, 2021 at 9:35 p.m.

Illinois college students are next in line to receive the COVID-19 vaccine after dozens of county health departments — outside Chicago and Cook County — broadened eligibility Monday to all...

COVID-19 surveillance testing is conducted at the SafeGuard Surveillance lab in Brookfield on Thursday.

An $11 saliva test for COVID-19 helped dozens of Chicago-area schools reopen. So why are administrators scrambling to defend it now?

April 5, 2021 at 2:35 a.m.

Facing immense pressure to keep classrooms open, dozens of schools across the Chicago region have relied on a crucial service: routine COVID-19 screenings conducted by SafeGuard Surveillance. The company, founded...

A woman meditates at Chinatown Square while hundreds hold a "Stop Asian Hate" rally on March 27, 2021, in Chicago.

Asian American university students fear for elders after spate of racist attacks, urge others to speak out: ‘It’s up to us as a community’

April 2, 2021 at 10:00 a.m.

Angelle Cortes, a Filipino American college student living away from home, monitors the Ring video doorbell at her parents' house in Bridgeview to make sure they're safe. "I just still...

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