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Visual Art
Visual Art
Eyzel D. Torres-Vicencio graduated from UIC with her Bachelor's in Rehabilitation Sciences in May 2022 and went on to finish her Master's in Biomedical Visualization in May 2024. Her interest in marginalized areas of health, such as reproductive health, led her to create this series on ovarian cysts during her time in graduate school.
Ovarian cysts are common occurrences in biologically female bodies but information about them is complicated and often misunderstood. This project is one attempt towards bridging that gap in knowledge.
Currently, Eyzel works as a teaching artist and community educator in the Chicagoland area.
Creative Nonfiction & Journalism
Creative Nonfiction & Journalism
Elijah Girik is a fourth year English major with a Professional Writing concentration and a soon-to-be Disabilities Studies minor.
I had the enormous pleasure of first meeting Elijah in Spring of 2022 as a student in my English 282, the class that trains in the theory and practice of writing tutoring; Elijah subsequently joined our Writing Center staff, where we’ve had the good fortune to have him with us as an exceptionally talented and generous staff writing tutor these past three years. I count myself lucky to have had Elijah again as a student in English 388, a Professional Writing course about mental health justice, in English 292, a creative nonfiction workshop, and in English 497, for his senior thesis. What has struck me about Elijah, across all class settings, is not just the originality and necessity of the questions he’s framing (questions worthy of a dissertation) and the inventiveness and depth with which he investigates them (crossing disciplines, mixing scholarly and journalistic methodologies)—but also the courage with which he consistently turned what might have been just a paper for a grade into real world advocacy. Elijah is simply one of the best public speakers I know.
All the more fitting that Elijah was invited to join this spring’s cohort of the Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar to bring yet another perspective to their research. I spoke with Elijah about the throughlines in his research, and how, by engaging with the Newberry collection, it has evolved.
--JHE co-editor, Kim O'Neil
Research Writing
Research Writing
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