To grow a diverse workforce and address inequality Chicago companies need to innovate with STEMM hiring and promotion. The Illinois STEMM workforce is the sixth-largest in the US and growing fast. With an innovative job market and strong universities, students come to...
The pandemic accelerated development of artificial intelligence and automation. Now students as young as pre-K are learning to code. The pandemic forced laboratories, factories, and warehouses around the world to replace humans with robots. As the world reopens,...
Between COVID vaccines and mass lockdowns, humanity just experienced some of the largest medical and health experiments ever. This made it harder for STEMM students to continue their own studies and transformed STEMM university education. From accessing cadavers for...
These doctors are here to teach everybody, on several platforms. Americans spend at least four hours a day looking at their phones. In 2020, 59 percent of American internet users looked online for health information. Social media is an efficient way to reach diverse,...
It’s never been more important for schools and communities to collaborate to ensure that all students catch up on routine childhood and adolescent vaccines they may have missed during COVID lockdowns.
Of the 20 occupations projected to have the most growth in the US between 2020 and 2030, almost all require some STEMM education and experience.
Fake news isn’t new?it became widespread when early newspapers demonstrated their power over public opinion. And while we now have access to more information than ever before in human history, misinformation has evolved into a potent tool to seed social conflict.
As the world learns to live with COVID-19 as an endemic disease, it’s critical to ensure our students have equitable access to preventive healthcare.
The Delta variant of COVID-19 is throwing a curveball in our return to in-person learning. Following CDC recommendations, Illinois Governor. Pritzker has mandated that all students wear masks in school.
A recent Pentagon report concluded that one of the biggest threats to US national security is the lack of highly skilled workers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEMM) fields. Tech companies complain that they can’t find enough qualified employees.
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