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Chicago Department of Public Health and the Discovery Partners Institute Announce Citywide System to Monitor COVID-19 in Wastewater 

The analysis will continue for two years with $2.14 million in funding by CDPH The Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), ...
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DPI, UIC, UIUC, Wilbur Wright College and Non-Profit Partners Launch First Computer Science Fair for High School Students and Families 

Inaugural event will be held Dec. 11 at DPI to motivate and inspire students to study CS in Illinois The ...
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DPI, Wilbur Wright College Build a More Diverse Computing Pipeline with Support From Google 

The Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) and Wilbur Wright College announced a new program today to develop promising and diverse tech ...
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DPI awards more than $1.5 million in second round of R&D seed grants 

The Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) announced today $1.5 million in seed funding to 12 research teams from the University ...
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28 receive U of I System honor for leading COVID-19 response 

URBANA, Ill. – University of Illinois President Tim Killeen on Monday honored 28 key leaders of the system’s COVID-19 ...
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Illinois Department of Public Health and the Discovery Partners Institute Announce Statewide System to Monitor COVID-19 in Wastewater 

Illinois Department of Public Health and the Discovery Partners Institute Announce Statewide System to Monitor COVID-19 in Wastewater Analysis ...
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DPI and Wilbur Wright College Announce Partnership To Build More Diverse Tech Talent Pipeline 

The Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) and Wilbur Wright College today announced a new partnership to support and develop promising and ...
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U of I’s College of Education and DPI Launch Computer Science Teaching Endorsement and Network 

U of I’s College of Education and DPI Launch Computer Science Teaching Endorsement and Network Effort will address shortage ...
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DPI and UIC CHANCE Announce Expansion of Digital Scholars Program 

The Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) and University of Illinois Chicago (UIC’s) CHANCE program today announced the expansion of its ...
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DPI Begins Ramp Up; Hiring Six New Leaders 

The Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) has hired six tech leaders to develop promising and diverse tech talent and increase funding ...
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Pritzker Foundation Donates $10 Million to DPI to Develop More Inclusive Tech Talent 

The Pritzker Foundation announced today it is giving $10 million over the next five years to The Discovery Partners Institute (...
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Discovery Partners Institute Hires IWERC Director 

The Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) has appointed Meg Bates the founding director of the Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative (...
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The Chicago model: Building a global innovation powerhouse in America’s heartland

While Chicago has long been known as a global center of business, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, food and agriculture, and ...
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How Chicago’s sewers are helping predict COVID outbreaks

State and local health departments are using wastewater to identify hotspots of the virus, detectable in human waste nearly from ...
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Chicago’s early warning COVID detection program gets extended

The city COVID wastewater surveillance program, run by the Health Department and the Discovery Partners Institute, monitors community spread of ...
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