University News Archive

  • Help the Hungry and the Homeless Through Fast to Feed

    July 17, 2013
    About 84,000 meals are donated daily to the hungry and homeless people in Chicago. Make a difference this Ramadan. Fast to Feed by supporting the hungry and the homeless. On Tuesday, July 23, fast for the day, then join IIT's Muslim Students Association to break the fast at 7:45 pm in the Armour Dining Room, located in Hermann Hall.

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  • Make Certain You Are Signed Up for IIT Alert Emergency Messages

    Make Certain You Are Signed Up for IIT Alert Emergency Messages

    July 16, 2013
    As some of you may know, an IIT Alert and All Clear messages were issued on Tuesday, July 16 in the early afternoon. The IIT Alert system was put in place several years ago to notify the IIT community by cellular phone and email of any potential safety threats to students, faculty and staff. If you are not signed up to receive IIT Alert messages, please take a moment to register your mobile phone and email to receive these important alerts at https://www.iit.edu/iitalert. If you were signed up for IIT Alert and did not receive the July 16 messages (two messages), please email Jeannie Hartig, vice president for marketing and communications, at jhartig@iit.edu. Please note the device (phone type and carrier, or email) to which you should have received the alert.

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  • High School Teachers Learn That It’s a Materials World at ASM Camp

    July 16, 2013
    It didn’t fall in shovelable amounts and was green instead of white, but the cups of “instant snow” that were passed around to a group of Chicago-area high school science teachers in IIT’s Engineering 1 building made as strong an impression as a summertime blizzard. The demonstration of the powdery hydrophilic sodium polyacrylate polymer combined with varying amounts of water (some=fluffy clusters; lots=slush) was just one of many held as part of the ASM Materials Camp®–Teachers the week of July 8–12 on IIT Main Campus.

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  • CSL’s Matt Bauer Helps to Shape New AP Computer Science Course

    CSL’s Matt Bauer Helps to Shape New AP Computer Science Course

    July 16, 2013
    Matt Bauer, associate dean of IIT College of Science and Letters and a senior instructor of computer science, is part of a national initiative to develop a new computer science Advanced Placement (AP) course to expand participation in computing to more women and underrepresented minorities.

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  • Special Sustainability Forum: IIT Boeing Scholars Present Community Sustainability Projects

    Special Sustainability Forum: IIT Boeing Scholars Present Community Sustainability Projects

    July 15, 2013
    As part of the IIT Boeing Scholars Academy’s summer programming, Scholars have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a weeklong “Serving through STEM (StS) Project” that gives them the opportunity to contribute to a real-world project and see first-hand how STEM-related work can help improve the world. Join us in the E1 auditorium (10 West 32nd Street) on Wednesday, July 24 from 2:30–3:30 pm for the special Sustainability Forum “Serving through STEM: Teen Community Sustainability Projects,” featuring the results of two sustainability-oriented StS Projects completed by teens.

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  • Online Parking Registration Begins Today

    Online Parking Registration Begins Today

    July 15, 2013
    Online parking registration begins today, July 15, for students, faculty and staff. Continuing and first time permit holders must visit the Parking Services website to make a permit selection. Contact the ACaPS Office at 312.567.8968 with questions.

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  • IIT Stuart Alumnus Develops Award-Winning Sustainability Plan for City of Highland Park

    July 12, 2013
    IIT Stuart alumnus Bryan Tillman (MS ’12, MBA ’12), senior project manager for sustainability for Kymanox, was recently recognized for his contributions to advance the City of Highland Park’s sustainability plan, which received the national Climate Protection Award Small City Honorable Mention at the 2013 U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting.

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  • Solo and Small Practice Incubator Is Now Accepting Applications

    Solo and Small Practice Incubator Is Now Accepting Applications

    July 11, 2013
    The Solo and Small Practice Incubator (SSPI) is a one-year program designed to offer a select group of entrepreneurial-minded recent IIT Chicago-Kent graduates with valuable experience and ongoing training to help build their professional careers as solo or small firm legal practitioners. The program is intended to accelerate the successful development of newly admitted lawyers in an "incubator" environment. Applicants accepted for 2013–14 will begin the program in November.

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  • Architecture Students Participate in Out of the Woods Project

    July 10, 2013
    A large and powerful storm passed through the western suburbs of Chicago on July 1, 2012, leaving behind a trail of destruction. Reed Keppler Park, located in West Chicago, was hit hard. Reed Keppler Park lost nearly 200 trees making up approximately one-third of their tree population. Most of these trees were red and white oaks, many more than 100 years old. The West Chicago Park District, Ron Meyers (a local woodworker and sawmill owner/operator), local architect Jeff Perkis and architecture students from Illinois Institute of Technology have been working since January to turn tragedy into opportunity. Students in IIT College of Architecture Studio Associate Professor Paul Pettigrew’s Architecture and Furniture course have designed and fabricated rings, tables, benches, lamps and more using wood from the storm-damaged trees. More than 50 functional object and furniture pieces will be on display, for sale and raffled off at West Chicago’s annual Railroad Days festival July 11–14, marking the one-year anniversary of the storm. Proceeds from the raffled and sold furniture pieces will go to both Reed Keppler Park and The Conservation Foundation.

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  • IIT Named a “Best Buy” School in Fiske Guide to Colleges 2014

    IIT Named a “Best Buy” School in Fiske Guide to Colleges 2014

    July 10, 2013
    Illinois Institute of Technology has been named a “Best Buy” school in the 2014 edition of Fiske Guide to Colleges.

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