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  • Professional Master of Health Physics Program Appoints New Directors to the Academic Board

    Professional Master of Health Physics Program Appoints New Directors to the Academic Board

    July 29, 2013
    S. Y. Chen, director of the Professional Master of Health Physics Program at IIT, announced the appointment of seven directors to the program’s academic advisory board. The board consists of a list of prominent professionals who are well regarded in the field of radiation protection and health physics.

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  • Psychology’s Patrick Corrigan Awarded the Prix Perspectives 2013

    Psychology’s Patrick Corrigan Awarded the Prix Perspectives 2013

    July 29, 2013
    Patrick Corrigan, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and his group won the Prix Perspectives 2013 in Zurich for their work on the Coming Out Proud (COP) program. COP is meant to help people with serious mental illness deal with stigma. The prestigious prize includes an award for 12,000 swiss francs to conduct a randomized controlled trial in Switzerland.

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  • Book Fair in the UTP Atrium

    July 26, 2013
    "Books Are Fun" will be on IIT Main Campus in the University Tech Park atrium on Tuesday, July 30 and Wednesday, July 31 from11:00 am–3:00 pm. The company has a wide assortment of books and gifts at 30–70% off retail. Stop by to browse or buy! "Books Are Fun" is a BBB-accredited business. Check them out on Pinterest and Facebook.

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  • Securing IIT’s Wireless Network

    Securing IIT’s Wireless Network

    July 25, 2013
    Over the past several years, the Office of Technology Services (OTS) has upgraded the IIT Main Campus wireless network to a faster and more secure technology. The secure (encrypted) wireless network, IIT-Secure, is available in most campus buildings and will continue to be deployed throughout the campus. OTS has started disconnecting the non-encrypted IIT-WiFi wireless network. When the IIT-WiFi network is disabled, the OTS managed networks on Main Campus will be IIT-Connect, IIT-Secure and IIT-Console.

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  • Annual IIT Network Registration

    Annual IIT Network Registration

    July 24, 2013
    The annual Main Campus network registration process will begin on Monday, July 29 at 7:30 am. Annual network authentication and registration are necessary to secure the shared technology resources of the IIT community. All wired and wireless devices connected to the IIT network must be registered in order to access email, Internet or network systems. Users at other IIT campuses only need to register when they are on Main Campus.

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  • IIT Emeritus Professor Peter Lykos Has Passed Away

    IIT Emeritus Professor Peter Lykos Has Passed Away

    July 24, 2013
    Illinois Institute of Technology Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Peter Lykos passed away on July 16. Peter Lykos joined the Department of Chemistry in 1955, retiring in 2013. He had a distinguished academic career as a physical chemist and a strong interest in the area of computers in chemistry, now known as computational chemistry. Lykos was a pioneer in the use of computers in the classroom, introducing them to IIT classes in 1959, and was also instrumental in the development of IIT’s Saturday program, teaching computer science to thousands of high school students and their teachers in the 1960s.

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  • IIT Public Safety Welcomes Arturo Martinez

    IIT Public Safety Welcomes Arturo Martinez

    July 24, 2013
    Carl Dobrich, director of IIT Public Safety, has announced the addition of Arturo Martinez as assistant director of public safety for operations.

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  • 2013-14 Federal Work Study Allotments

    2013-14 Federal Work Study Allotments

    July 24, 2013
    The Office of Financial Aid has notified eligible departments of their available Federal Work Study funds for the 2013–14 academic year. Department allocations were based upon the percentage of total work study funds used by the department during the 2012–13 year. Unfortunately, IIT’s total work study allocation has once again been reduced for the upcoming year, resulting in limited resources for departments.

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  • Reminder: IIT/IITRI Faculty and Staff Family Picnic and Boys & Girls Club Donation

    July 23, 2013
    IIT’s annual summer picnic will be held on Wednesday, July 24 from 12:30–3:30 pm at Morton Park on Main Campus. Enjoy a buffet, desserts, games, raffle prizes, and more! Help the children at the Louis Valentine Boys & Girls Club by bringing a pack of pencils, a pad of paper or other type of school supply to the picnic. Please note that monetary donations will not be accepted.

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  • UIC’s Ashfaq Khokhar Is Appointed ECE Chair

    July 23, 2013
    Ashfaq Khokhar has been appointed chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective Friday, August 16, 2013. Khokhar joins Illinois Institute of Technology from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, and the Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences. Currently, he also serves as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIC.

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