JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2006
» Welcome from Alumni Board Chair, Art Slowinski, MVSC '94
» Alice and Brian Katz Establish Biomedical Visualization Scholarship
» Department Head Serves as Delegate to White House Conference on Aging
» Feb. 11: UIC Men's Basketball Game - UIAA Special Price Day
» Feb. 3: UIC City Partner Gala - "Commemorating the Navy Pier Experience"
» Have Lunch With Your Favorite Author
» Make a Gift - Support the AHS Annual Fund

Welcome from Alumni Board Chair, Art Slowinski, MVSC '94
I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday and New Year! The AHS Alumni Board met a couple of weeks ago to discuss our upcoming alumni event and we have decided to reunite and network at a local sporting event this summer. Details will be coming. Please do not hesitate to e-mail me at ahsalum@uic.edu with your programming ideas and good news – we really enjoy hearing from all of you.

Be on the lookout for the latest issue of AHS Magazine featuring many of our outstanding alumni. If you do not receive your copy in the mail, please let me know.

Alice and Brian Katz Establish Biomedical Visualization Scholarship
It is with great honor and pride that the College of Applied Health Sciences announces the establishment of the Alice and Brian Katz Scholarship in Biomedical Visualization (BVIS). Alice and Brian’s gift to BVIS is the largest in the 83-year history of the program and will be used to help students in the graduate program. Dr. Katz is the former director of the program.

Dr. Katz was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Medical Illustrators last summer. Dr. Katz is a Professor Emeriti to the Biomedical Visualization program and an architect of the current curriculum. The profession has seen UIC emerge as a unique leader under Dr. Katz’s careful direction, and her dedication is unequalled in the history of the dynamic curriculum.

Department Head Serves as Delegate to White House Conference on Aging
Disability and Human Development Department Head, Dr. Tamar Heller was appointed to serve as Senator Barack Obama’s delegate to The White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA) held December 12-14 in Washington D.C. The WHCoA occurs once a decade to make recommendations to the President and Congress to help guide national aging policies for the next ten years and beyond. Dr. Heller was successful in getting recommendations in support of aging caregivers for those with life-long disabilities into the final resolutions and strategies.

UIC Men's Basketball Game Feb. 11 - UIAA Special Price Day
The University of Illinois Alumni Association and the Department of Athletics invite you to see the Flames battle Loyola – Chicago for only $5. Call the athletic ticket office at (312) 413 – UIC1 to order your discounted tickets.

Saturday, February 11, 2006
7:00 p.m.
UIC Pavilion, 525 South Racine, Chicago, IL

UIC City Partner Gala - "Commemorating the Navy Pier Experience"
Join the UIAA and the AHS Alumni Board on Friday, February 3 at 5:30 p.m. to honor the 2006 UIC City Partner and UIC Corporate Partner Award recipients. There will also be a special celebration of the 60th anniversary of the opening of Navy Pier. Do not miss your chance to share memories and network with other UIC Alumni in the Grand Ballroom at Navy Pier.

For more information please visit www.uiaa.org or call the UIAA at (312) 996-8535.

Have Lunch With Your Favorite Author
The Authors Club features lunch with fellow UIC alumni at the Union League Club of Chicago. Meet the guest author and hear about his or her work. Books are available for purchase and signing at the event. Upcoming authors include:

Wednesday, February 15 – Victoria Clarke, Lipstick On a Pig: Winning in the No- Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game.

Friday, February 17 – Liz Perle, Money, A Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash

For more information and to register please visit www.uiaa.org or call Jennifer Lewis at (312) 355-3996.

Make a Gift - Support the AHS Annual Fund
The AHS Annual Fund provides the college with current use funds that our dean and department heads use for immediate program enhancement. Annual fund gifts of any size from $25 to $5,000 have been used to provide student travel awards to professional conferences, upgrade instructional technology in our classrooms, improve student learning and living spaces, and have been designated to a specific scholarship or award.

To make a gift to the AHS Annual Fund, please call Caryn in the advancement office at (312) 413-0197, or visit the University of Illinois Foundation at www.uif.uillinois.edu and click on "make a gift now."

Thank you for your generosity!