ESG News For University of Illinois at Chicago

Illinois American Water is thrilled to announce the launch of the American Water Charitable Foundation 2025 Water and Environment Grant Program. The Foundation invites community partners to apply for grants that promote clean water, conservation, environmental education, climate variability and water-based recreation projects.“Thanks to this grant, we were able to enhance the Red Oak Rain Garden by replacing plants lost to drought and fund signage that amplifies our clean water message,” said El

Insurer responds to youth mental health crisis by supporting nonprofit’s national tour of Send Silence Packing® in 2024 and 2025

The National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing, a groundbreaking initiative of the American Nurses Association, has awarded funding to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) to better prepare nurses to address racism in academic and clinical settings. With this support, AACN will identify and incorporate anti-racist teaching and learning resources and measurement tools for nurse educators into its online Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Faculty Tool Kit.“In keeping with our

Heisa Bouchard Ferrer Scholarship Award honors Spanish-speaking education students

Nearly $6 million in grant funding awarded since program’s inception in 2010, reaching more than 290,000 students nationwide

Celebrating 23 years of giving, program supports seven social impact projects

Over $200,000 in scholarships and cash awards were awarded to national winners at this year’s National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium

The Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing unveils its largest and most diverse class of research fellows

Navy Federal Credit Union announced today the recipients of its ROTC All-American Scholarships. The program honors the best and brightest ROTC seniors across the nation. Launched in 2018, the recipients are chosen by a panel of judges based on the pillars of the ROTC program: Leadership, Military Excellence, Scholarship and Service.From the collective group of nominees, Navy Federal selects 15 to become ROTC All-American Scholarship recipients. Out of the 15 finalists, the top Air Force, Army an

Rafia Will Lead Strategic Initiatives to Advance Access to Integrated Oral Health Care for Ethnically and Socially Diverse Communities

Environment + Energy Leader magazine has recognized the Illinois Basin – Decatur Project, a partnership between ADM (NYSE: ADM) and the Illinois Geological Survey at the University of Illinois, as a Top Project of the Year for 2022. The award recognizes exemplary work being done today in the fields of energy and environmental management.The Illinois Basin – Decatur Project is the world’s first successful completion of a pure storage carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. Led by the University

Recap of CSR stories on Business Wire

ComEd reaches significant progress on multi-year goal in 2021; has committed to conserving more than 11,000 acres to pollinator habitats by 2025

Study will explore capturing carbon dioxide from the air and storing in concreteUniversity of Illinois will lead the front-end engineering design study at U. S. Steel’s Gary Works in Gary, IndianaStudy will focus on the advancement of a direct air capture and utilization system and is anticipated to aid in developing sustainable approaches to carbon reduction

About $1 million in funds will support secondary education of young women who attended the Exelon Foundation STEM Leadership Academies in Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore/Washington

Future of Energy Scholarship Fund launched this year to remove financial barriers, boost diversity and inclusion in STEM and energy careers

Groupon Student Success Initiative aimed at building pipeline of diverse talent between the Chicago-based experiences marketplace and Chicago State UniversityGroupon and Chicago State University to collaborate on future education and DEI initiatives

$250,000 ComEd Future of Energy program seeks to build a diverse, inclusive future energy workforce by increasing the number of women, minorities in STEM fields

Program Fills Training Gaps Across Rare Diseases, Supports Mutual Recognition of Distinct Experiences and Needs to Build a Stronger, More Equitable and Informed Healthcare SystemOutstanding Participants of 2021 Program Awarded David R. Cox ScholarshipApplications Open Through February 25, 2022

The Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing unveils its most global class of research fellows ever.

HBCU Corporate Scholars Program will allow 24 students in Exelon service areas to attend historically Black colleges and universities

Illinois Tech and UIC students are latest group of ComEd Scholars to receive financial support, mentoring and internship opportunities

Donation provides scholarships and supports engineering programs for female students at the University of Illinois Chicago’s College of Engineering

$5.2 million in philanthropic support for significant scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities

To enhance its focused efforts and purpose around environmental sustainability, global technology and industrial software leader Emerson (NYSE: EMR) today announced the appointment of its first chief sustainability officer. Mike Train, who has served as president since 2018 and a member of Emerson’s Office of the Chief Executive (OCE) since 2016, will step down as president to take on this new and important role for Emerson. Emerson also announced the promotion of Lisa Flavin, who currently serv

2020 was a big year for @physIQ. Throughout the year, announcements of breakthrough studies, important partnerships and collaborations, and an additional #FDAclearance, were just a few of the notable accomplishments.

Please donate to MiraMed Circle of Warmth this winter as part of your holiday giving to help street medicine continue essential work this winter.

Students from Illinois Tech and the University of Illinois Chicago are latest group of ComEd Scholars to receive financial support, mentoring and internship opportunities

Program expansion will triple the number of Fellows who receive intensive academic and career readiness support over the next 10 years Graduates from New York, Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles have a 100% college acceptance rate; more than half are first in their families to go to college

Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC), a leading provider in billing and practice management for the anesthesia and pain management specialty, is pleased to announce that its 2019 Circle of Warmth campaign has achieved resounding success. Working with the Empowerment Plan, the MiraMed Circle of Warmth had a goal to raise enough money to provide 1,000 coats to those in need throughout the country. ABC, as part of the MiraMed Circle of Warmth, not only met its goal, they exceeded it!Our Family of

MiraMed Global Services, Inc. (MiraMed), a leader in healthcare business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions, is pleased to announce that its 2019 Circle of Warmth campaign has achieved resounding success. Working with the Empowerment Plan, the MiraMed Circle of Warmth had a goal to raise enough money to provide 1,000 coats to those in need throughout the country. MiraMed, as part of the MiraMed Circle of Warmth, not only met its goal, they exceeded it!The MiraMed Family of Companies came togeth

Five Illinois Communities Receive Six-Year Grants

College and High School Students Earn National Awards For Community Service Impact

Toshiba and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Honor Student Innovation with Prizes and Trip to Washington, D.C.

Northern Trust announced today that it has appointed Shana Hayes as Director of Community Affairs, which is responsible for the company’s philanthropic strategy globally. Hayes will report to Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Kelly Mannard. Hayes will be responsible for setting a philanthropic strategy that reflects Northern Trust’s longstanding role as leading corporate citizen, refining corporate giving programs to create more measurable

PPG (NYSE:PPG) today announced that the PPG Foundation completed grants totaling $715,000 to 11 U.S. universities considered premier institutions in the disciplines of polymer science and engineering, chemical engineering, materials science and synthetic organic chemistry. The 2018 grants were made on behalf of PPG’s corporate science and technology function. The grants supported an array of programs and initiatives, including graduate student fel

Donation provides scholarships and supports engineering programs for female students at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Engineering

World’s Brightest Business, Computer Science, Bioengineering and Energy Science Students Join Distinguished Leaders, Growing Scholars Community to over 1,300

American Water (NYSE: AWK), the largest publicly traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company, today announced that Michael Bentel, a doctoral student at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), has been chosen as the recipient of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) 2018 American Water Scholarship. The scholarship is an annual award of $5,000 presented to a graduate level student to assist with the development of professionals intereste

Funding supports fellowships, educational programs

#PlayMatters: JetBlue Customers, Crewmembers and Local Communities Bring Play Back to Underserved Areas in Boston, Los Angeles and New York Over the Past 12 years, JetBlue and KaBOOM! Have Partnered to Build 27 Playgrounds, Providing Safe Play Spaces for More than 60,000 Children and Their Families

Regional Winners Move on to Final Phase of Competition: National Finals in Washington, D.C. Neil Wary (Elmhurst, IL) Wins Top Individual Honors; Brandon Zhu and Daniel Zhang (Midland, MI) Win Top Team Honors

This year, the DigitalGlobe Foundation (DGF) celebrates its 10th anniversary—marking a decade devoted to advancing the use of geospatial imagery to address local and global challenges and championing the education of the next-generation of geospatial leaders. The foundation is the 501(c)(3) organization underwritten by DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution Earth observation satellite imagery and advanced geospa