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The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and the Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) are launching a statewide system to monitor the virus that causes COVID-19 and its variants in wastewater, providing public health officials with early warnings of a potential outbreak on a county-by-county basis.

Arts education graduates find roles in other fields, creative workforce report finds 

Only 20% of Illinois arts graduates work in arts jobs as their primary occupation. CHICAGO – Creatively trained workers can be ...
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IWERC releases first of five reports on computer science education in Illinois 

Roughly one in 14 high school students takes a computer science course in a given year CHICAGO – The Illinois Workforce &...
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Illinois climate researchers develop methodology to predict temperatures at street scale 

Urban climate resilience bolstered with smart use of data and sensor technology CHICAGO – In a new study published in the ...
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