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  Wall Street Journal: COVID-19 testing could be a viable long-term business bet

  Jun 7, 2021 8:15 am

  The University of Illinois System, SHIELD Illinois and Shield T3 are featured in a Wall Street Journal Story about how COVID-19 testing could remain a key component for resuming normal life in the U.S.

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  State of Illinois budget update

  Jun 1, 2021 4:30 pm

  In a massmail sent today, University of Illinois System leaders shared that state appropriations for the U of I System would remain at current levels for the coming year under a budget approved over the holiday weekend by the Illinois Legislature that will be sent to Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who is expected to sign it into law.

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  CDPH to utilize innovative covidSHIELD test in select city schools

  Jun 1, 2021 10:00 am

  The University of Illinois System today announced that it will begin providing its innovative saliva-based covidSHIELD test to select K-12 Chicago schools through funding from the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH). The $20 million in funding will go to the system’s nonprofit SHIELD Illinois unit, which provides testing throughout the state. 

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  IBM and UIUC to launch new Discovery Accelerator Institute

  May 26, 2021 9:15 am

  IBM and The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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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  IDPH & DPI announce statewide system to monitor COVID-19 in wastewater

  May 25, 2021 7:45 am

  The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and the Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) 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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