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        <a  href="/news/uis-and-community-health-roundtable-host-webinar-implications-covid-19-marginalized-and-0">UIS  and  Community  Health  Roundtable  to  host  a  webinar  on  the  implications  of  COVID-19  on  marginalized  and  aging  populations</a>
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        <div  class="newsletter-txt">The&nbsp;University  of  �山����  Springfield&nbsp;Innovation  Hub,  UIS  Center  for  State  Policy  and  Leadership  and  the  Community  Health  Roundtable  will  host  a  free  public  webinar  titled  “Implications  of  COVID-19  for  Historically  Marginalized  Populations  and  the  Aging  Population”  at  Noon  Friday,  March  16  via  Zoom.</div>
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        <a  href="/news/wbca-names-uis-assistant-coach-kotas-its-thirty-under-30-list">WBCA  names  UIS  assistant  coach  Kotas  to  its  Thirty  Under  30  list</a>
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        <div  class="newsletter-txt">University  of  �山����  Springfield  women’s  basketball  assistant  coach  Jenna  Kotas  has  been  named  one  of  the  Women’s  Basketball  Coaches  Association’s  Thirty  Under  30  honorees,  the  organization  announced  on  Wednesday.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
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        <a  href="/news/year-after-covid-19-closed-campus-life-university-illinois-springfield-carries">A  year  after  COVID-19  closed  campus,  life  at  University  of  �山����  Springfield  carries  on</a>
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        <div  class="newsletter-txt">University  of  �山����  Springfield&nbsp;junior  Lexi  Dhamrait  of  Springfield  was  in  New  Orleans  with  UIS  administrator  Mark  Dochterman  on  an  annual  spring  break  service  trip  when  they  got  word  from  the  university&nbsp;system  that  in-person  classes  were  canceled  for  the  rest  of  the  semester.</div>
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        <a  href="/news/uis-planning-more-person-fall-classes">UIS  Planning  For  More  In-Person  Fall  Classes</a>
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        <div  class="newsletter-txt">The  University  of  �山����  Springfield  could  return  to  a  more  normal  atmosphere  in  the  fall  if  the  pandemic  trends  continue  in  the  right  direction.&nbsp;  The  university  system  has  announced  it  plans  to  offer  more  in-person  classes  starting  in  August,  citing  the  rising  number  of  people  getting  vaccinated  as  a  main  reason.&nbsp;</div>
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        <a  href="/news/uis-graduates-will-have-option-stage-experience-commencement">UIS  graduates  will  have  option  of  a  &#039;stage  experience&#039;  for  commencement</a>
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        <div  class="newsletter-txt">Tasneem  Shaik  said  her  mother  and  father&nbsp;are  coming  from  India  for  her  graduation  from  the  University  of  �山����  Springfield  in  May.



That  experience&nbsp;will  look  a  little  different  than  past  UIS  graduations  in  light  of  the  COVID-19  pandemic.



Students  like  Shaik,  who  is  getting  her  master's  degree  in  computer  science,  are  being  given  the  option  of  having  an&nbsp;in-person  “stage  experience”  days  before  a  May  15  virtual  commencement  celebration.



Students  were  informed  of  the  plan  last  week.</div>
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