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How bold ideas at SRI2025 will inspire lifelong climate changemakers

Ask Ashish Sharma about the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress (SRI2025), and he’ll assure you it’s a vibrant ...

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Career advice from “Trailblazers in Tech”

Moderator Jessica JnoBaptiste and panelists Maya Sheriff, Mena Castillo, and Edge Quintanilla at Trailblazers in Tech. A lot of tech ...

Chicago Forum audio transcript

If you missed the Chicago Forum for Responsible AI for Industry: Fintech — or if you want to go back to ...

14 insights on responsible AI in industry

The audience at the Chicago Forum for Responsible AI in Industry: Fintech Artificial intelligence, or AI, is everywhere now. It ...

Mapping Chicago’s tech ecosystem

Study participants illustrate potential tech career paths. A new research project from the Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative (IWERC) ...

Report: Only half of computer science teachers in Illinois meet recommended qualifications

IWERC releases third report on state of computer science education in the state Chicago — (Mar 25, 2025) A new report ...

Know your deltas: The difference between 8, 9, and 10

Hemp at 40x magnification. Credit: Edward Dowlman via Wikimedia Commons. You’ve probably seen signs for delta-8 in smoke ...

Where are they now? Lateef Idris*

Lateef Idris finished DPI’s tech workforce training program in the spring of 2023. Name: Lateef Idris Current job title: ...

DPI hosts its first game design class for young women and gender-expansive youth

Students at the first narrative game design workshop specifically for young women and gender-expansive youth. When DPI’s Discover ...

Illinois affected by a record number of billion-dollar climate disasters in 2024, mostly severe storms

12 events cost the state a total of nearly $4 billion in damages — 9 were severe storms with tornadoes, hail ...

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DPI previews K–12 climate education platform at meteorology conference

Ishika Sharma and Ansh Kumar discuss Sky Scouts with the US Department of Energy’s Gary Geernaert. Climate researchers and ...

Hemp Loophole Causing Chaos In City Hall, Springfield — But Smoke Shop Owners ‘Ready To Fight’

Ald. Marty Quinn is pushing an ordinance that would force smoke shops selling hemp-derived THC to close while Democratic ...

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DPI at the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress

A mural at SRI asks, “what inspired you today?” with drawings and words including “hope” and community” The Sustainability Research ...

Growing knowledge, connections with the Cannabis Research Institute

Cannabis Research Institute logo. After its formal launch in November, the Cannabis Research Institute is now headed into Year 2. ...

DPI hosts City Scholars this spring

An image from Find and Connect, the app on which Billy Huang worked as a City Scholar. Billy Huang and ...