UIC Chancellor Miranda Tours UICOMP
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The Peoria regional campus welcomed UIC Chancellor Marie Lynn Miranda to our campus March 26 for a student-led tour, conversations with faculty and researchers, and meeting with campus leaders. The Chancellor also enjoyed a reception with faculty, staff, students and leadership from healthcare affiliates.
Chancellor Miranda stated that the work of the Peoria campus is essential to the University’s mission of serving a diverse population, and she credited UICOMP’s strong collaboration with its healthcare partners – Carle Health and OSF HealthCare.
She saw firsthand how technology enhances medical student learning and how virtual reality supports physicians in surgery planning as well as enhancing student learning. She also heard more about College of Medicine faculty members who created an app for learning histology and then explored the lab work of researchers in neuroscience, cancer and Alzheimer’s. As part of her tour, she learned about the new Center 4 Health Research (C4HR) which focuses on population health, health equity, enhancing outcomes and informatics research.