Illinois Tech In the News Archive

IIT Vice President and Institute for Food Safety and Health Director Bob Brackett Talks Food Safety Tech on “The Knife and Fork Show”

January 31, 2013
IFSH Director Bob Brackett joined Food Chemical News Editor in Chief Jason Huffman to share his list of food safety-technologies that he finds most exciting heading into 2013.
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In “The Power Of Starting Something Stupid – Five Ways To Authenticity,” Forbes quotes Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer from her speech at IIT’s 2009 commencement ceremony, in which “she encouraged students to find courage to do the things you are not ready to do.”

January 31, 2013
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Harvard Magazine reports on xDesign, the university’s university-wide design conference, where IIT Institute of Design Dean Patrick Whitney delivered a keynote lecture, in which he talked about how we are “moving from that into an age of responsive design.”

January 31, 2013
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A Scientific American article about a new system for disassembling skyscrapers out of Japan quotes the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat at IIT, noting that the number of buildings over 200 meters has almost triple since 2000.

January 31, 2013
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IIT Chicago-Kent Distinguished Professor of Law Lori Andrews talked with Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” about online privacy and a new phenomenon of debt collectors posing as models on Facebook.

January 30, 2013
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A Daily Herald story about Mark Evans, an Air Force veteran who started Pizzas4Patriots, which has since 2008 sent thousands of pizzas to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan every Fourth of July and Super Bowl Sunday, notes that his son Kent is an IIT MMAE student on an Air Force ROTC scholarship.

January 28, 2013
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Chicago Tonight’s “Local Congressman Hires First Illinois DREAMer” looks at José Quintero, the first Illinoisan to gain temporary legal status and work authorization under executive orders signed by President Obama in 2012, who now works for Congressman Luis Gutierrez and hopes to pursue an architecture degree at IIT.

January 24, 2013
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A Huffington Post piece about the importance in the workplace of creativity gained from arts programs, notes that an IIT class “uses the Goodman Theater’s (Chicago) production of A Christmas Carol as part of its STEM curriculum to teach physics through stage mechanics and special effects in the show.”

January 23, 2013
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IIT Chicago-Kent Professor and Intellectual Property Law Program Director Edward Lee published “The Day Wikipedia Went Dark” in Boston Review, looking back one year at January 18, 2012, when many of the most popular websites went “black” to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a controversial bill that was abandoned shortly thereafter.

January 22, 2013
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A San Diego Union-Tribune article about the “second phase” of the Art of Science Learning Initiative, a National Science Foundation-funded project taking place in three cities over four years, notes that the first phase took place at IIT in 2011.

January 22, 2013
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Illinois Tech In the News Archive

IIT Vice President and Institute for Food Safety and Health Director Bob Brackett Talks Food Safety Tech on “The Knife and Fork Show”

In “The Power Of Starting Something Stupid – Five Ways To Authenticity,” Forbes quotes Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer from her speech at IIT’s 2009 commencement ceremony, in which “she encouraged students to find courage to do the things you are not ready to do.”

Harvard Magazine reports on xDesign, the university’s university-wide design conference, where IIT Institute of Design Dean Patrick Whitney delivered a keynote lecture, in which he talked about how we are “moving from that into an age of responsive design.”

A Scientific American article about a new system for disassembling skyscrapers out of Japan quotes the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat at IIT, noting that the number of buildings over 200 meters has almost triple since 2000.

IIT Chicago-Kent Distinguished Professor of Law Lori Andrews talked with Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” about online privacy and a new phenomenon of debt collectors posing as models on Facebook.

A Daily Herald story about Mark Evans, an Air Force veteran who started Pizzas4Patriots, which has since 2008 sent thousands of pizzas to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan every Fourth of July and Super Bowl Sunday, notes that his son Kent is an IIT MMAE student on an Air Force ROTC scholarship.

A San Diego Union-Tribune article about the “second phase” of the Art of Science Learning Initiative, a National Science Foundation-funded project taking place in three cities over four years, notes that the first phase took place at IIT in 2011.

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