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  DPI Launches First Apprenticeship Program with Cognizant

  May 26, 2022 8:45 am

  The Discovery Partners Institute’s Pritzker Tech Talent Labs is launching its first apprenticeship program in partnership with global professional services leader Cognizant, aimed at advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech industry.

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  DPI, Interapt, CVS Health to launch program to develop diverse tech talent for Illinois companies

  Sep 23, 2022 2:30 pm

  Chicago/Skills will provide tuition-free technology training and paid apprenticeship opportunities to as many as 2,500 people over five years.

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  DPI expands efforts to boost diverse tech pipeline with Google support

  Dec 5, 2022 1:30 pm

  To kick off Computer Science Education Week, Discovery Partners Institute, part of the University of Illinois System, today announced a $200,000 grant from Google to expand its efforts to develop promising and diverse tech talent in Chicago.

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  DPI and UIC CHANCE Announce Expansion of Digital Scholars Program

  Apr 2, 2021 9:30 am

  The Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) and University of Illinois Chicago (UIC’s) CHANCE program today announced the expansion of its Digital Scholars Program to support and develop promising and diverse tech talent in Illinois.

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  DPI aims to diversify Chicago's tech sector

  Jun 9, 2022 8:45 am

  The U of I System-led Discovery Partners Institute's Pritzker Tech Talent Labs are a resource to help increase the diverse supply of tech talent for Chicago-area businesses. DPI Director Bill Jackson writes about why it is so important in an OpEd in Crain's Chicago Business.

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  Discovery Partners Institute, UIC CHANCE expand Digital Scholars

  Jul 5, 2022 10:45 am

  The Discovery Partners Institute and University of Illinois Chicago (UIC’s) CHANCE program, in partnership with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, announced the expansion of its Digital Scholars Program to support and develop promising and diverse tech talent in Illinois.

  Digital Scholars, now in its third year, is an intensive, free, five-week summer program for high school students and incoming UIC freshmen. 

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  Details unearthed about well-regarded 19th-century astronomer's life, family

  Mar 27, 2023 11:15 am

  UIUC professor Gregory Girolami discovered previously undisclosed details concerning Margaret Bryan, an English schoolmistress who published numerous astronomy and physics textbooks for young women.

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  City Colleges guaranteed admission partnership

  Jul 15, 2018 2:45 pm

  A guaranteed admission partnership with City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) has been expanded to include all three U of I System universities and that top transfers will be eligible for scholarships through a new pilot program. More...

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  Chicago awarded $18.5M in federal funds to create new jobs in the region

  Aug 17, 2022 2:00 pm

  The Discovery Partners Institute and P33 will spearhead tech-specific workforce development programs in support of an $18.5 million federal Good Jobs Challenge award announced earlier this month.

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  Chicagoans of the Year: UI Health's Evelyn Figueroa

  Dec 11, 2023 11:45 am

  As busloads of migrants arrived from Texas, UI Health's Evelyn Figueroa knew she was in a position to step up and help people in need. She organized a group of over 150 physicians and nurses that has provided them over 7,000 health screenings this year. 

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  Changing police culture with stories of wrongful convictions

  Jun 14, 2023 11:45 am

  The Illinois Innocence Project at the University of Illinois Springfield developed the Wrongful Conviction Awareness and Avoidance course at the Police Training Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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  Chancellor Jones champions higher ed access at Ohio State lecture (video)

  Apr 24, 2023 10:45 am

  Under Chancellor Jones’ leadership, UIUC has achieved major milestones, including launching the Illinois Commitment program, which makes college education affordable for Illinois students from low-income families.

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  Call Me MISTER graduates hope to inspire, mentor

  May 5, 2022 2:45 pm

  The first three students of UIC's Call Me MISTER initiative will graduate from the UIC College of Education May 6, and be one step closer to becoming Chicago-area teachers and mentors to students who look like them.

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  Cairo food donation garden work wins award for community champion

  Feb 27, 2023 12:30 pm

  An Extension employee’s work to fight food insecurity in her community has earned her Extension’s Excellence in Diversity Award. Sarita Sawyer, community outreach worker, has been instrumental in recruiting diverse volunteers for the Cairo Pilot Food Donation Garden.

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  A new vision for tech in Chicago

  Aug 23, 2022 10:45 am

  Break Through Tech Chicago at UIC is changing the landscape of technology in Chicago and fostering long-term connections between students and national and local companies committed to gender equity. 

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  American Talent Initiative

  Jul 20, 2018 2:45 pm

  The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has joined the American Talent Initiative, a coalition of top universities committed to enhancing the recruitment, enrollment and graduation of high-achieving lower- and moderate-income students. More...

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  Allerton preparing for inaugural year of Illinois' first folk school

  Aug 7, 2023 2:30 pm

  The Farms will offer classes, workshops, and gatherings focusing on art, outdoor education, science, storytelling, and wellness. All experiences value hands-on, experiential teaching and learning, and are facilitated by and for the members of the community.

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  Advancing inclusion in STEM education

  Jul 18, 2018 2:45 pm

  The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a five-year, $1 million grant through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Inclusive Excellence Initiative. More...

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  $5M grant to support national initiative in Latino humanities studies

  Sep 22, 2021 1:45 pm

  The University of Illinois Chicago has been awarded a three-year, $5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a national initiative in Latino humanities studies called “Crossing Latinidades: Emerging Scholars and New Comparative Directions.”

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  $40M donation to support UIC first-gen and low-income students

  Jun 16, 2021 8:30 am

  The University of Illinois Chicago is the recipient of a $40 million donation from philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott. It is the largest gift from an individual in school history. The funds will provide life-changing support for first-generation and low-income students attending UIC.

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  $1.9M NSF-funded initiative to transform UIC undergraduate chemistry offerings

  Aug 25, 2021 1:45 pm

  Supported by a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the University of Illinois Chicago department of chemistry will launch a project consisting of evidence-based research of teaching and learning practices, course and curriculum revisions and faculty development, all with the intention of enhancing STEM education for undergraduate students.

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  17 companies tap more than 100 UIC students to tackle tech challenges

  May 19, 2022 3:45 pm

  More than 100 women and nonbinary students pursuing undergraduate degrees in computer science, data science and other tech disciplines at the University of Illinois Chicago will team up with 17 Chicago and national companies to help solve technology-related business challenges.

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  $1.2M NIH grant backs UIC, Malcolm X College biomedical research program

  Dec 13, 2021 12:30 pm

  UIC and Malcolm X College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, have teamed up for a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support undergraduate students training in biomedical research during the last two years of their studies.