Looking Back

from Vital Signs - Fall 2020

by Vital Signs - UIC Nursing Alumni Magazine

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LookingBack

Celebrating 50

In the late 1960s, then-dean Mary Kelly Mullane (center) broke ground on the new UIC College of Nursing building at 845 S. Damen Ave., which officially opened its doors to students in 1970. Fifty years later, the college is still proudly based at that location, although it has undergone some substantial upgrades since then, including the grand opening of the 15,000-square-foot M. Christine Schwartz Experiential Learning & Simulation Laboratory last year. Also, the college has expanded beyond Chicago to open campuses in Peoria (1972), Urbana (1972), Quad Cities (1980), Rockford (1991) and Springfield (2015). Old-school simulation update: After running this photo in the 2019 edition of Vital Signs, we received a flood of tips identifying the student. We tracked down Candice Carrigan Tucker, BSN ’73, who confirmed that she is the student pictured. She believes this was taken in a skills lab during her first semester of nursing school in the fall of 1971. Tucker got her master’s degree in organizational development and has spent most of her career in Tucson, Arizona, working in hospital education and administration. She still resides there today. Editor’s note: If you recognize any of the other nurses in this photo, please reach out to Deborah Ziff Soriano at

dsoriano@uic.edu.

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