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Major gains for Chicago in more higher ed spending

After years of financial stress, Illinois higher education is seeing signs of hope. There are ambitious plans such as a ...
CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS | JUNE 19, 2019

$100M grant aims to make UI leader in quantum engineering

A $100 million investment in a quantum engineering project designed to make Illinois a world leader in that emerging technology ...
THE NEWS-GAZETTE | JULY 4, 2019

Illinois Institute of Technology Joins UI-led Discovery Partners Institute

The Illinois Institute of Technology has become the seventh university to join the University of Illinois-led Discovery Partners Institute, ...
THE NEWS-GAZETTE | JULY 11, 2019

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 ...
CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS

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 ...
CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS