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1 week ago | wbez.org | Bianca Cseke

Good afternoon! Three panels of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt will be viewable to the public in Chicago this month. Here’s what else you need to know today. 1. A new medical license pathway for international doctors could alleviate Illinois’ shortageA law passed in 2023 and in effect this year created a limited license that allows doctors trained abroad to practice for two years under a supervising physician, Kaitlin Washburn reports for the Chicago Sun-Times.

1 week ago | wbez.org | Courtney Kueppers

When Rosario Güiraldes arrived in New York more than a decade ago, she thought she’d never leave. The Buenos Aires–born curator, who is now 40, assumed she’d spend her whole career climbing the ranks in America’s art capital. But after six years as an associate curator at the Drawing Center in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, an opportunity more than a thousand miles and a time zone away came calling.

1 week ago | wbez.org | Kaitlin Washburn

Before moving to Chicago from Russia, Dr. Filipp Prikolab had a thriving medical practice. The 34-year-old ran a department of 26 people caring for elderly patients at a Moscow hospital. Before that, he completed his residency in internal medicine, intensive training programs in geriatric and family medicine and earned his medical degree from First Moscow State Medical University. He started his journey to becoming a doctor when he was a 16-year-old in Ukraine taking pre-med classes.

1 week ago | wbez.org | Mike Davis

A rash of recent executive orders from the Trump administration has rankled artists. Beyond abrupt funding cuts, there are new guidelines that prohibit federal arts funding for programs and productions that promote “diversity, equity and inclusion” or “gender ideology.” Don’t forget shifting rules to change the way cultural institutions like the Smithsonian talk about race in American history.

1 week ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

Many research projects at Northwestern University are coming to a stop. The Trump administration is cutting $790 million dollars in federal funding for the university. That money would go towards a variety of research projects from developing new technologies to disease research. On top of those cuts, the U.S. Department of Defense sent more than 100 stop-work orders to university research staff. To learn more, we spoke to a Northwestern researcher being affected by cuts and work stoppages.