Ci3 Game Changer Chicago Receives $1 million Grant
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is again lending its support to the innovative use of gameplay and design to engage youth in lessons of health and life. The foundation has awarded $1 million over two years to Ci3's Game Changer Chicago Design Lab (GCC Design Lab) to advance its work developing game-based learning experiences that promote sexual and reproductive health, academic success, civic engagement, and overall well-being among urban youth. Read more
UChicago students bring back civic engagement ideas from national conference

This year’s IMPACT National Conference, held last month in California, played host to 15 University of Chicago students accompanied by five staff. They traveled to the meeting to engage with other students from around the nation who share a similar passion for community service. Sean Wiley, a first-year at Chicago Harris, and Kenzo Esquivel, second-year in the College, attended the conference and reflected on how the experience will help them be stronger leaders on campus and in the community. Read more

Accelerator Summit
Ben Nickerson (third from left) listens to KLEO's Torrey Barrett.
Accelerator Hosts Leadership Summit for Students
On March 2, UChicago students and local nonprofit leaders gathered together at the Nonprofit and Community Leadership Summit. The event was part of the Community Program Accelerator's multi-faceted strategy to provide University students with the opportunity to pursue learning outside of a classroom setting while simultaneously benefitting the community. Following the event, Benjamin Nickerson, a fourth-year in the College, was excited about the ways he and other students could work with these organizations. Read more
Mikaela Betts
Student Spotlight: Mikaela Betts
A native of Oakland, Calif., UChicago fourth-year Mikaela Betts has always had an interest in public education and education reform. For the last two years, she has gotten a first-hand look at the system through the University’s Neighborhood Schools Program (NSP). She has tutored fifth through eighth graders in core subjects at Fiske Elementary and worked with ninth graders in NSP’s GEAR-UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) at Hyde Park Academy. Mikaela has also coached softball at UChicago Charter School's Woodlawn Campus.

Mikaela credits NSP with helping her develop connections and experience that played an integral role in her winning one of only eight 2015 Woodrow Wilson Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships for Aspiring Teachers of Color. The honor includes a stipend to apply toward graduate school, a three-year teaching commitment in a high-need public school, mentoring and guidance, and lifelong membership in a national network of Woodrow Wilson Fellows. Mikaela has chosen to apply her stipend to UChicago’s Urban Teacher Education Program, which she will begin in the fall. Read more
Upcoming events
MODA Exhibit

MODA, the student fashion organization at the University of Chicago, presents four capsule collections created by student designers from MODA's Designer Boot Camp program, in partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A select group of MODA designers will exhibit their design process and final garment pieces for the first time on campus. 

Opening Reception: 
Friday, April 10, 2015 
6 - 9 p.m.
Exhibition runs through May 8, 2015

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Gidwitz Lobby
915 E. 60th St.
Chicago

Next Frontier of Climate Change

The New Republic and Energy Policy Institute at Chicago (EPIC) will host EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and other guests in a discussion about climate change action and implementation at the state and local level, and shed light on the Administration's plan to introduce climate policy in 2015. Other special guests include Amy Francetic of Clean Energy Trust, Katherine Gajewski with the City of Philadelphia, and New Republic contributor Jeffrey Ball from Stanford University.

Friday April 10, 2015
9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Chicago Booth
Harper Center, 
Room 104 
5807 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago
Selma at 50

Chicago Theological Seminary's 2015 Spring Conference will inspire you to tackle some of the most urgent social issues today by turning dialogue into action. Join the CTS community to examine issues such as racialized violence, police brutality, and poverty and learn more about their effects on Chicago communities. The conference will feature keynote addresses by Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, It will also include two themed-based panel discussions, and a community organizing training.

April 24-25, 2015

Chicago Theological Seminary
1407 E. 60th St.
Chicago
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The University of Chicago is shaped and inspired by the city of Chicago. Our growing partnership with our neighbors has the potential to enhance the quality of life and economic development of the South Side and the global reach of this vibrant city. UChicago has devoted the research and creative thinking of some of the nation’s top scholars, as well as millions of dollars in investment in recent years, to support local schools, jobs, health care, arts, housing, and public safety. Learn more about our civic engagement work at uchicago.edu/community.
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