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Living our Mission: The war on misinformation needs your input!
We’re living in difficult times, but throwing in the towel is not an option. Climate change continues to complicate the lives of all Chicagoans, with mosquitoes becoming more resilient while our environment becomes more and more unstable. We’ve dealt with smoke and smog throughout the summer, and when we can get outside, the weather has…
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Winning is the Beginning: ChiTownBio’s Sprouted
Hello, ChiTownBio community! We have some exciting news to share! Back in September, a number of community members all signed on to form a team to compete in this year’s Biodesign Challenge Sprint. The Sprint is an accelerated version of the Biodesign Challenge that typically runs in the spring of each year. Both offerings challenge…
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Building Momentum: Let’s make things happen!
Hi all, As the fall is quickly approaching (It’s after Labor Day already!), I feel the need to update you on the progress we’ve been making on all fronts. We have a few events to keep an eye on, I’ll be speaking about ChiTownBio at an AIGA event you should attend next week, and will…
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The future is now!
Hello everyone. It’s been a while since we last talked, and I feel like I owe you an update. My name is Andy Scarpelli, and I’m the president of ChiTownBio. In the time since the last time I updated this site, we’ve been experiencing the tumult of the pandemic and some financial woes, but we…
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Where do we go from here? Progress for an exciting 2022
It’s been a while since we updated this site, and I want to make sure I connect with you, Chicago, and fill you in on the workings of our organization in 2021. The last time I wrote on this blog, it was the beginning of the year, and society started to have some signs that…
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Greeting a New Era with Excitement!
Welcome to the new year, everyone! We’re excited about the possibilities this year has in store. And there’s so much more to be excited about. One thing that’s coming in the coming months is the vaccine for COVID19, and we cannot wait to get vaccinated! Why are we so confident? Because we believe in science,…
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Science at Home: Cabbage pH
Since we’re all doing public service and keeping each other safe against COVID by staying home, we thought we should launch a series of at-home experiments you can do with items you can find on your weekly resupply trip to the store. While we have done these experiments at our events, we challenge you to…
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Reintroducing ChiTownBio And Buckling Down On Our Vision
ChiTownBio is dedicated to putting the knowledge, skills, and tools of biotechnology into the hands of all Chicagoans who want to explore the living world and use it to benefit our community. It’s been a long time since I wrote anything for our blog, and it’s time that I reintroduce our mission. We’ve been struggling…
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Lake Michigan: Chicago’s Great Lake and our mission to combat dangers to our environment, leisure, and our shared future
Every year, at the end of September, ChiTownBio hosts a beach cleanup event as part of The Alliance for the Great Lakes day of action. For the last few years, we have been assigned Osterman Beach, and we have led a group of volunteers in scouring the beach for trash and litter and collecting and…
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Plastics make it possible. But what is it?
In 2014, Illinois became the first state to ban microbeads in cosmetics and soaps. By the end of this year (2019), no microbeads will be legally sold in the state. Multiple states have followed suit, including many of the important Great Lakes states. What exactly are microbeads? Microbeads are tiny pieces of plastic that do…