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Crain’s Chicago Business reports on plans to expand biotech research at UIC and Northwestern University, noting IIT’s recent expansion of biomedical/biotech research facilities and speaking with Department of Biomedical Engineering Interim Chair David Mogul.

September 25, 2012
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Professor of Materials Engineering John Kallend and 99 others performed a formation wingsuit skydive in Souther California on September 22, attempting to establish the first Guinness world record, the Daily Mail reports.

September 25, 2012
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CBS 2 Chicago stopped by IIT’s Fall Career Fair, talking with students, alumni and employers at the successful event that brought 168 employers offering 3000+ positions.

September 20, 2012
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WBEZ’s Lee Bey takes a trip to Villa Park to admire a modernist bank designed by retired architecture professor Peter Roesch and inspired by an unrealized restaurant design by Mies van der Rohe, under whom Roesch studied in the 1950s.

September 20, 2012
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Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Executive Director and Studio Associate Professor Antony Wood will lead a panel discussion on the intersection of fire safety and sustainability at the upcoming Fire Safety Design and Sustainable Buildings Symposium, the Fire Protection Research Foundation reports on their blog.

September 19, 2012
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DesignApplause interviews Architecture Professor John Ronan, who talks about recent projects, his design process and working environment, and teaching at IIT.

September 19, 2012
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IIT Chicago-Kent Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Law and the Workplace Martin Malin talked with several news outlets about the slim chance that a judge would grant the city’s injunction and force striking teachers back to work.

September 18, 2012
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Huffington Post talks with teachers, parents, and grandparents about the ongoing teachers strike, including the great-aunt of a student at IIT/Perspectives Math and Science Academy, a charter school she describes as “a wish come true” compared to the neighborhood’s public schools.

September 18, 2012
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A Chicago Tribune story about Theaster Gates, the director of the arts and public life initiative for the University of Chicago who is working to “remake 55th Street into a dynamic cultural corridor” notes that Gates has enlisted IIT Architecture Assistant Professor Marshall Brown and his students for the project.

September 17, 2012
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Architecture Adjunct Associate Professor Thomas Jacobs writes in Chicago Architect magazine about fragmentation of the architecture industry, the challenges that small firms face in securing federal contracts, and his testimony before Congress on these topics and the strengths of small architecture firms.

September 14, 2012
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