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  U of I leads new $15 million institute to understand climate change and disasters

  by Gretchen YordyOct 12, 2021 10:45 am1 View

  A new national, collaborative initiative to enable geospatial data-driven scientific discovery will create a $15-million institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to better understand the risks and impacts of climate change and disasters. 

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  UIS Music Program and Illinois Symphony Orchestra form innovative partnership

  by Gretchen YordyOct 5, 2021 10:45 am1 View

  The University of Illinois Springfield Music Program and the Illinois Symphony Orchestra (ISO) have joined forces in a new Partnership in Education and Civic Engagement intended to enrich the cultural, educational and career-training opportunities of UIS students, to enhance music education in the Springfield-area and to extend the reach of both organizations into the community.

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  Combining sunlight and wastewater nitrate to make ammonia

  by Gretchen YordySep 8, 2021 10:30 am1 View

  Engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago have created a solar-powered electrochemical reaction that not only uses wastewater to make ammonia, but also achieves a solar-to-fuel efficiency that is 10 times better than any other comparable technology.  

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  Groundbreaking self-driving test track coming to Central Illinois

  by Gretchen YordyAug 11, 2021 12:15 pm1 View

  The Rantoul Village Board approved a lease agreement with the University of Illinois on Tuesday night that is the latest step toward construction of a multimillion-dollar autonomous-transportation testing facility and track on the grounds of the former Chanute Air Force Base.

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  IBM and Grainger College of Engineering to launch new Discovery Accelerator Institute

  by Gretchen YordyMay 26, 2021 10:00 am2  Views

  IBM and The Grainger College of Engineering at UIUC plan to launch a large-scale collaboration designed to increase access to technology education and skill development, and to combine the strengths of academia and the industrial sector to spur breakthroughs in emerging areas of technology.

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  DPI and UIC leading IDPH initiative to monitor wastewater for COVID-19

  by Gretchen YordyMay 24, 2021 11:00 am1 View

  The Illinois Department of Public Health and the Discovery Partners Institute today announced 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.

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  U of I to lead two of seven new national artificial intelligence institutes

  by Gretchen YordyOct 2, 2020 10:00 am1 View

  The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will host two new artificial intelligence institutes funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

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  UIC opens $8.8 million Surgical Innovation & Training Laboratory

  by Gretchen YordySep 16, 2020 10:00 am1 View

  Operating robotic scissors, University of Illinois Chicago Chancellor Michael Amiridis snipped a ribbon to officially open the University of Illinois College of Medicine Surgical Innovation & Training Laboratory, on Sept. 15. 

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  Urbana researchers develop emergency ventilator prototype

  by Gretchen YordySep 15, 2020 10:15 am1 View

  A team led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering produced a prototype emergency ventilator in just 12 days.

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  Portable, point-of-care COVID-19 test could bypass the lab

  by Gretchen YordyAug 31, 2020 11:00 am1 View

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers developed a microfluidic cartridge for a 30-minute COVID-19 test. The cartridges are 3D-printed and could be manufactured quickly.

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