Careers that Care, Chicago Edition
Thursday & Friday, March 26–27
Chicago

Meet the people behind the policies, programs, and practices that make communities thrive. On this two-day Career Trek to Chicago, you’ll connect with professionals from government agencies, nonprofits, and wellness organizations who spend their days creating safer, healthier, and more supportive communities.

Discover how caring can be more than a calling, it can be a career.

We will be meeting with the following organizations...

Directed by Brian R. Farrell, Daria Fisher Page, and Ryan T. Sakoda (UI College of Law), "Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research" will bring together scholars, community leaders from across the U.S., and professionals who work with rural populations and in rural spaces. During the symposium, attendees will be invited to collaborate in theorizing rurality, share how it impacts their work, examine how rurality is represented and celebrated, and begin to discuss challenges...

This is a keynote lecture for the 2025-2026 Obermann Symposium: "Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research."

Esther Pereen, University of Amsterdam: "Reimagining the Rural from Idyll to Hinterland: Exhausting Rural Childhoods”

Across the social and cultural realms, the rural is often imagined through idyllic and pastoral genres that allow it to be conceived as a refuge from globalization. Pereen's European Research Council–funded project RURAL IMAGINATIONS, concentrating on...

In addition to his latest book, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories, Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Illumination, The Brief History of the Dead, and The Truth About Celia; the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer; the children’s novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery; and a memoir of his seventh-grade year called A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He has...

Directed by Brian R. Farrell, Daria Fisher Page, and Ryan T. Sakoda (UI College of Law), "Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research" will bring together scholars, community leaders from across the U.S., and professionals who work with rural populations and in rural spaces. During the symposium, attendees will be invited to collaborate in theorizing rurality, share how it impacts their work, examine how rurality is represented and celebrated, and begin to discuss challenges...

Title: "Making It Known: Creating and Sharing Plain Language Summaries in CSD"

Speakers: Charlotte Hilker, M.A., CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist at Mercy Medical Center and a research associate in the Psycholinguistics Lab at the University of Iowa. Lindsey Nichol, M.A., CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist and a research associate in the Psycholinguistics Lab in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa.

An estimated 85% of medical research...