University News Archive

  • COVID-19 Planning Survey Coming Soon

    COVID-19 Planning Survey Coming Soon

    In an effort to facilitate our ability to plan for the fall semester, the university is interested in whether students, faculty, and staff have been vaccinated, plan to get vaccinated, or do not anticipate getting vaccinated.

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  • Campus Visitor Policy Updates

    Campus Visitor Policy Updates

    As vaccination rates continue to improve, we have decided to allow limited campus visits of vaccinated individuals, according to the following campus visitor policy, which will be effective Monday, April 26.

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  • Illinois Tech On-Campus Vaccination Event: Saturday, April 24 in Hermann Hall

    Illinois Tech On-Campus Vaccination Event: Saturday, April 24 in Hermann Hall

    We are pleased to announce that Howard Brown Health will be coming to campus to provide vaccination appointments this Saturday, April 24 from 8:15 a.m.–2:55 p.m. in Hermann Hall.

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  • Passing of Nasir Mirza

    Passing of Nasir Mirza

    It is with great sadness that we announce the recent passing of longtime staff member Nasir Mirza. Nasir had long served as Paul V. Galvin Library’s reserves specialist, first coming to Illinois Tech nearly 30 years ago.

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  • Presidential Search/Transition Update

    Presidential Search/Transition Update

    The presidential search process is proceeding on schedule, and we anticipate that the next president will be in position no later than the start of the fall semester, sometime in August.

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  • Conversation with Michael Benitez

    Conversation with Michael Benitez

    Join us for an in-depth discussion about inclusion and best practices for it. Michael Benitez will share what he has learned over his years working in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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  • New WIIT 88.9 FM Show Voices of Virtue

    New WIIT 88.9 FM Show Voices of Virtue

    Illinois Tech's Roxanne Dubose airs her show Voices of Virtue each Sunday, featuring a mixture of Gospel, praise, and worship for your mental and spiritual weekly refresher and listening pleasure.

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  • Virtual Celebration for Martin “Marty” Cooper (EE ’50, M.S. ’57), Inventor of the Cell Phone

    Virtual Celebration for Martin “Marty” Cooper (EE ’50, M.S. ’57), Inventor of the Cell Phone

    Illinois Institute of Technology Board Chairman Michael P. Galvin (LAW ’78) and President Alan W. Cramb invite you to a virtual celebration on April 23 honoring cellphone creator, Life Trustee, and friend, Martin “Marty” Cooper (EE ’50, M.S. ’57). Marty recently published a memoir titled "Cutting the Cord."

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  • 2021 Annual Writing Contest Winners

    2021 Annual Writing Contest Winners

    Congratulations to the winners of the 56th Annual Writing Contest hosted by the Department of Humanities! The 2021 winners represent the Armour College of Engineering, College of Architecture, Lewis College of Science and Letters, and the College of Computing. 

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  • Voices of the Holocaust Portal Re-launched

    Voices of the Holocaust Portal Re-launched

    Voices of the Holocaust, recently visually and functionally overhauled, provides a portal for the exploration of digitized, restored, transcribed, and translated interviews with Holocaust survivors conducted by Illinois Tech Professor Dr. David P. Boder in 1946.

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