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The Daily Mail and Associated Press report on a cold-war era study performed at the Armour Research Foundation, which later became the IIT Research Institute, into the effects of the detonation of a nuclear bomb on the moon. Evidence of the still-classified study has come from interviews with Leonard Reiffel, then group vice president of the institute and later deputy director at NASA’s Apollo Program, who directed the inquiry, and the famous late astronomer Carl Sagan, who was a graduate student at the time.

November 30, 2012
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IIT University Technology Park Director Daniel Marselle penned a letter to Crain’s Chicago Business, pointing out that most successful technology startups are started by people in their late thirties, noting that many companies at UTP were founded by serial entrepreneurs and describing the ways in which the park helps startups succeed.

November 28, 2012
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Crain’s Chicago Business reports on progress in the city’s plan to roll out Wi-Fi “innovation zones” to provide ultra-high-speed broadband and expanded free Wi-Fi service to communities. College campuses, including IIT, are among the possible development areas identified by city officials.

November 28, 2012
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Several news outlets reporting on the transport of One World Trade Center’s attenna from Canada to New York note that a design change to the spire earlier this year may keep it from being included in the official height, which would make it only the third tallest building in the US, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat at IIT.

November 27, 2012
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Following a Chicago Tribune editorial urging City Hall to decline to appeal the recently decided case in which the city was found liable for the actions of an off-duty police officer who attacked a bartender, IIT Chicago-Kent Dean Harold Krent penned a letter to the editors recommending the city take a different route and warning readers that the precedent set in this case could make the taxpayers liable for any action taken by a police officer, on or off-duty.

November 27, 2012
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IIT Chicago-Kent Dean Harold Krent talked with WGN News about Yelp, the popular user review website, and what recourse businesses have (or don’t have) to combat negative reviews.

November 27, 2012
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Research presented by Associate Professor Konstantinos Arfanakis and colleagues at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America showing that reading, writing, and other cognitive activity contribute to healthier brains late in life, several news outlets reported.

November 26, 2012
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In the series “Places that Work,” Metropolis Magazine looks at IIT’s McCormick Tribune Campus Center as it approaches its ten-year anniversary, lauding the building’s graceful support of “an assortment of user profiles.”

November 26, 2012
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In a New York Daily News guest op-ed on security in the New York subway, IIT sociologist Noah McClain criticizes “awareness” programs and unproven technologies, promotes alternative approaches rooted in enhancements to everyday life.

November 26, 2012
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Duluth News Tribune discusses the city’s tallest structure, an AT&T tower housing microwave equipment that is slated for demolition, noting that it lacks the required amount of usable floor space to be considered for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s tallest buildings lists.

November 19, 2012
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