With funding from the National Science Foundation, Starr launched the Polsky Center I-Corps Prograndand helped designate the University of Chicago as an official I-Corps site in 2014.
Typically, a team of three the principal investigator, a student or postdoc, and an industry mentor receives $50,000 and a pass to a 7-week entrepreneurial training course, traveling to an I-Corps site for 3 or 4 days at the beginning and end of the training and participating in weekly seminars in between.
Data from the corps's Web site indicates that Lake Superior has almost reached its record low, set in 1926.
Anti-jihad activists with names like the YouTube Smackdown Corps patrol the site constantly, flagging what they consider to be offensive material.
I assumed that the Chicago press event would be on the museum grounds But it turns out that the Chicago Committee had plans to bus the press corps to another site about 15 minutes away.
The camp lies just north of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, on public land managed by the corps, close to the site where the disputed pipeline is slated to cross under the Missouri river.
Erected at the entrance of a large site where corps employees still work installing pumps, it may not be popular reading matter for the many who pass it each day.
If the corps determines that the site needs cleaning, it does it and then negotiates for payment with the parties responsible for the environmental hazard.
Finally, the Omaha District Commander for the corps toured the borehole site on Lake Oahe on February 29 , 2016
Also, with larger sites, the corps said, the leaks could be reduced or eliminated -- an assertion with which the commission agreed.
