IALHEA Diversity Dialogue and Research Forum

IALHEA Diversity Dialogue and Research Forum

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Building and Creating Better Communities: Addressing the

Social Determinants of Health

University of Illinois at Chicago

Student Center East – Illinois Room

You are cordially invited to the IALHEA Diversity Dialogue and Research Forum. The Illinois

Committee on Black Concerns in Higher Education (ICBCHE) and the Illinois Latino Committee on

Higher Education (ILACHE) together with campus partners are involved in a collaborative effort to

increase the participation of students-of-color on college and university campuses across the state of

Illinois. The goals are to increase faculty-student research collaborations; facilitate mentor

relationships between faculty, professional staff, and students of color, and increase the persistence

of students-of-color in academia and enhance their research skills. The event will showcase the

scholarly work of underrepresented students from Illinois.

Registration: The conference schedule is listed below. You can join us for the Dialogue, Keynote,

Networking Lunch, Research Posters/Reception or all of these.

http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=7uawahcab&oeidk=a07ec3x916328351cd3

Guest Speakers

ROBERTO G. GONZALES. Assistant

Professor of Education at the

Harvard University Graduate School

of Education. His research focuses on

the factors that promote and impede

the educational progress of immigrant

and Latino students. Professor

Gonzales is one of the nation’s

leading authorities on the

experiences of undocumented

immigrant young adults in the United

States.

ROBERT WINN, MD, is the

Associate Vice Chancellor for

Community Based Practice and

Director of the University of Illinois

Cancer Center at the University of

Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences

System (UI Health). Dr. Winn is a

Professor of Medicine at the

University of Illinois at Chicago

(UIC), Division of Pulmonary,

Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy,

Department of Medicine.

Tentative Conference Schedule

10:00 Registration

11:00 Welcome Diversity

Dialogue and Panel

12:30 Networking Lunch

1:30 Research Plenary

2:30 Research Posters Session

4:00 Reception

2016 Sponsors:

African American Academic Network (AAAN), Office of the Vice Provost

for Diversity, CHANCE Program, Office of Chancellor Dr. Michael

Amiridis, Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Blacks (CCSB),

Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Latinos (CCSL), DePaul

University, The Illinois Committee on Black Concerns in Higher

Education (ICBCHE), Illinois Latino Council on Higher Education

(ILACHE), Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement Urban Public Policy

Fellowship Program (IPCE/UPPF), Latin American and Latino Studies

(LALS), Latin American Recruitment and Educational Services Program

(LARES), Office of Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR), UIC Honors

College, Urban Health Program (UHP) Central Office, University of Illinois

at Chicago (UIC)

For more information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact

us at ialheadiversity@gmail.com. This event is open and free to the public.