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  Research Park energy startup wins White House pitch competition

  Jul 19, 2024 2:45 pm

  Cache Energy, which is headquartered at the University of Illinois Research Park, took first place at the 2024 Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC) Prize Collaboration Event and won $30,000 for its pitch.

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  New UIS lab provides boosts for tech-focused entrepreneurs

  Jul 1, 2024 11:00 am

  “Students can experiment with tools and materials in our new Orion Lab,” said Joshua Smith, computer science instructor and lab director. “I wanted no barriers of entry. It’s free. It’s for all students, faculty, and staff. Even community members can use our tools and supplies.”

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  DPI's IWERC wins $1M grant to study rural teacher retention, shortages

  Jun 17, 2024 2:00 pm

  IWERC's $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will be used to investigate and identify effective retention strategies for science and math teachers (SMT) in high-needs school districts in rural Illinois. This three-year study will be conducted in collaboration with the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools to directly inform and impact teacher retention strategies.

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  UIC team develops hydrogen production method using solar, agri-waste

  Jun 3, 2024 1:45 pm

  The method reduces the energy needed to extract hydrogen from water by 600%, creating new opportunities for sustainable, climate-friendly chemical production. It uses a carbon-rich substance called biochar to decrease the amount of electricity needed to convert water to hydrogen.

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  UIUC students dish up high-scale 'restaurants' at the Spice Box

  May 13, 2024 9:45 am

  In the spring semester of their senior year, hospitality management students rotate through different jobs at the Spice Box, from host to server to different cooking roles. They spend each full week transforming a bare-bones restaurant area to match a new theme while practicing and prepping a new menu’s worth of recipes.

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  Chameleons inspire Beckman team to create new multicolor 3D-printing technology

  Apr 29, 2024 10:30 am

  Chameleons change color by diluting or concentrating granules of pigment within their skin cells. A Beckman Institute at Illinois team used the chameleon as inspiration in developing a single 3-D printer ink that can be programmed on-the-fly to become any color in the visible spectrum.

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  UIUC team creates stretchy sensors for gardening in space habitats

  Apr 15, 2024 9:45 am

  Growing food successfully can be hard enough here on Earth. Growing food in space faces truly out-of-the-world challenges. But a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign team stretched the limits of engineering - literally - to find a creative solution for gardening in space.

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  UIS certification programs help qualify, prepare workers in cannabis sectors

  Apr 1, 2024 1:45 pm

  Recreational marijuana became legal in Illinois in 2020, but industry leaders have struggled to find qualified employees. With the help of a national marijuana education leader, the University of Illinois in Springfield has launched five cannabis certification programs to prepare a new workforce for this growing sector of the state's economy.

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  New Alma Mater test plots coming soon to Urbana-Champaign

  Mar 11, 2024 2:45 pm

  You may already know that the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is home to the Morrow Plots, the second-oldest experimental test field in the Americas. It's about to have a younger, bigger sibling. Located south of Curtis Road, the 55-acre Alma Mater Plots is expected to be the site of long-term agricultural research for the next 150 years.

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  Department of Energy ‘Earthshot’ grants fund UIC research on green tech advances

  Feb 26, 2024 10:15 am

  The latest $264M round of grants included awards to projects led by and involving University of Illinois Chicago researchers in the College of Engineering and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Their research will develop new materials for carbon capture and hydrogen transportation and new processes for the cleaner production of steel.

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