University News Archive

  • IIT Stuart MBA Student Receives $4K Grant from Gerondelis Foundation

    IIT Stuart MBA Student Receives $4K Grant from Gerondelis Foundation

    IIT Stuart School of Business student Nikolaos Zikas (MBA 3rd year) was recently selected by the Gerondelis Foundation to receive a $4,000 academic grant to support his graduate studies.

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  • Plan to Attend the Third Annual Boeing Scholars Academy Ethics Bowl

    Plan to Attend the Third Annual Boeing Scholars Academy Ethics Bowl

    On Wednesday, July 10, 100 high school students will be participating in the third annual Boeing Scholars Academy Ethics Bowl, as part of the IIT Boeing Scholars Academy summer program. During the afternoon, teams of students will discuss a series of two cases directly related to this summer’s theme, “Challenging Borders, Reshaping Our World.” The ethics cases studies were developed based on ideas from a brainstorming session held with Boeing Scholars Academy students on June 26, and center around the issues of legal limits on over-the-counter medications and how issues of environmental sustainability play out in in one high school’s cafeteria.

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  • Office of Financial Aid Is Closed for Move

    Office of Financial Aid Is Closed for Move

    The Office of Financial Aid is closed for relocation and will reopen on Thursday, July 11 at 8:30 am. The office is moving from IIT Tower to Perlstein Hall 203, joining the Graduate Admissions suite. The office will have a separate entrance on the north end of the suite, and welcomes students to stop by to say hello after the move! Access to email and phones will be limited during the move. Please email finaid@iit.edu with any questions during this time and expect a reply back within 3–5 business days.

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  • The Oyez Project Chosen As a Winner of the Knight News Challenge on Open Gov

    The Oyez Project Chosen As a Winner of the Knight News Challenge on Open Gov

    The public will soon be able to explore and understand the work of the supreme courts of America's five largest states as never before, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law was one of eight projects chosen as a winner of the Knight News Challenge on Open Gov, which focused on tools that improve the way citizens and governments interact.

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  • IIT Stuart Student Awarded Scholarship for Impact on Global Practice of Risk Management

    Jialin Zhao, a third-year doctoral student in management science at IIT Stuart School of Business, was recently selected to receive a $1,000 scholarship from the 2012 recipient of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA) Higher Standard Award.

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  • Securing IIT’s Wireless Network

    Securing IIT’s Wireless Network

    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. In late July, OTS will begin 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: a gateway for current IIT students, faculty and staff to set up their wireless devices to use the IIT-Secure network. All users should select IIT-Connect the first time they use wireless on Main Campus or before attempting to connect to IIT-Secure and follow the instructions to set up their device. After initial set up is complete, IIT-Secure will be their preferred wireless network. IIT-Connect is also the wireless network for IIT guest and tenant use. IIT-Secure: IIT’s primary wireless network. Users must use their myIIT login to use the network. IIT-Console: a wireless network dedicated to gaming systems in student housing. The legacy “iit” network will remain visible in some locations. However, when the wireless infrastructure in those buildings is upgraded, “iit” will be replaced by IIT-Secure.

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  • WISER Announces 2013 ISFG Program Award Winners

    IIT’s Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) has announced the 2013 Interdisciplinary Seed Funding Grants (ISFG) program award winners. Initiated in 2009, the ISFG program is designed to provide funding for a one-year period to support and enhance new…

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  • IIT Stuart MS Finance Ranked Among Top Global Programs by Financial Times

    IIT Stuart MS Finance Ranked Among Top Global Programs by Financial Times

    IIT Stuart School of Business has ranked among the world's best programs in the 2013 global ranking of pre-experience master's programs in finance, published today by Financial Times. IIT Stuart's Master of Science in Finance degree program is ranked 26th globally, 3rd in the United States and the only ranked program in the Midwest.

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  • The X-Cube Kicks It Up a Notch

    Last winter, IIT Magazine reported on Dane Christianson, now a third-year mechanical engineering student, and his X-Cube twisty puzzle invention. On June 7, Christianson opened a Kickstarter crowdfunding page to help raise money to manufacture the puzzle for possible distribution through Marbles the Brain Store and within one week, surpassed his goal of $30,000. (As of today's posting, more than $46,000 has been raised for the X-Cube.)

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  • IIT IFSH Sprout Safety Alliance Wins the FDA Group Recognition Award

    IIT IFSH Sprout Safety Alliance Wins the FDA Group Recognition Award

    Participants in the IIT Institute for Food Safety and Health Sprout Safety Alliance will be recognized at the 53rd Annual United States Food and Drug Administration Honor Awards Ceremony with the Group Recognition Award. This award recognizes “superior achievement of the agency’s mission through teamwork, partnership, shared responsibility, or fostering collaboration and coalition to achieve FDA goals.”

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