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Hackathon – MonkeyBars Spring Build

Please join us for this 24-hour developer, designer, and hardware hacking challange. MonkeyBars Spring Build is a Hackathon unlike any Chicago has ever seen. Build is not simply a coding challenge, it is a place where anyone from the hardware hacker to the designer can, with the support and resources from the MonkeyBars team and partners, bring an idea to the realm of reality in just 24 hours.

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Press Release

Brain Fair

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Shoai Hattori

shattori@u.northwestern.edu

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LENDS STUDENTS’ BRAINS TO SCIENCE, TO BENEFIT CHICAGO FAMILIES

Free Citywide “Brain Fair” will Provide Hundreds of Chicago Families with Experiences that Bring Neuroscience to Life

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C2ST in the News

Policy, cost pose challenges to future of nuclear energy

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By Kelly Pflaum, Medill Reports

Nuclear energy continues to play an important role in meeting U.S. energy needs, the source of 20 percent of the country’s elelctricity.

Yet it will be 20 to 30 years before we can expect to see a major revival in the nuclear energy industry, according to Rober Rosner, director of the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago.

Current policy and the safety and cost of operations all present challenges to the future of nuclear energy, Rosner said at a recent nuclear energy program sponsored by the Chicago Council on Science and Technology.

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