Halloway receives a top UIC research award
Shannon Halloway will receive UIC Rising Star Award
Associate professor Shannon Halloway, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAHA, has been selected to receive the Rising Star Award in the clinical sciences category of UIC’s Research and Scholarship Annual Awards.
Organized by the UIC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, the awards program recognizes outstanding representatives of the UIC community whose drive to solve problems and expand knowledge create local and global impact. Specifically, the Rising Star Awards are bestowed on individuals who show exceptional promise to become future leaders.
A profile of Halloway, who is the Heung Soo and the Mi Ja Kim Endowed Faculty Scholar in the College of Nursing, was published by UIC Today to celebrate their awards.
All awardees will be honored at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 22, at the Field Museum as part of UIC Research Week.
Halloway’s research examines whether positive changes in lifestyle behaviors can slow unhealthy brain aging and protect those at risk for dementia, aiming to identify which changes—and how much—lead to better cognitive outcomes over time. This is the first endeavor of this kind and this size in the United States.