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Chicago Summit to Take On Four Critical Challenges: Clean Water; Carbon, Energy and Climate; Urban Sustainability; Global Health
March 19, 2010On April 21-22, engineering, government, non-profit and business leaders from across the United States and abroad, as well as local high school and college students, will convene at Chicago's Fairmont Hotel as the Illinois Institute of Technology and Chicago Council on Science and Technology present the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges for the 21st Century: Chicago Summit 2010. The Chicago Summit is designed to stimulate the engineering, science and policy advances needed to address four key "Grand Challenges" facing the United States: clean water; carbon, energy and climate; urban sustainability; and global health. Full release.