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  • IIT WISER to Co-Sponsor 2013 UIC Summer Institute on Sustainability and Energy

    IIT WISER to Co-Sponsor 2013 UIC Summer Institute on Sustainability and Energy

    April 16, 2013
    IIT’s Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) will serve as a co-sponsor of the 2013 Summer Institute on Sustainability and Energy (SISE), to be hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago from August 5–16. The SISE theme, “Sustainable Transportation,” will feature a two-week intensive workshop for graduate and senior-level undergraduate students from a broad range of disciplines. Several IIT faculty will serve as instructors for the program. Participants should have an expressed interest in sustainability and energy as evidenced by either educational or practical experience.

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  • Inclusive Language Focus Groups

    Inclusive Language Focus Groups

    April 16, 2013
    The Office of Campus Life is trying to make a BIG impact on campus and bring everyone closer together as a community. We're hoping that you will take part in this effort. Over the next couple of weeks, Campus Life will be holding one focus group each week to better understand what verbal language students at IIT use consistently and feel are inappropriate, and/or not inclusive of all genders/sex/ethnicities. We want to know what can be done to make language more inclusive for all students.

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  • April Sustainability Forum: Shaping Our Sustainable Path

    April 16, 2013
    Have you ever wanted to give the IIT Office of Campus Energy and Sustainability a piece of your mind? Bounce ideasoff of staff members? Get real reasons why certain sustainable practices haven't been implemented at IIT? (Like, green roofs, for example?) Bring your questions, concerns, comments and ideas to the April Sustainability Forum, which is all about collaboration. We'll start by telling you what we've done so far, and spend most of our time letting you tell us what you think. The forum will be held on Friday, April 19 from noon–1:30 pm in S. R. Crown Hall.

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  • Earth Day Celebration

    April 16, 2013
    UFARM IIT (also known as IPRO 314) is hosting an Earth Day Celebration at the Community Garden on IIT MainCampus. Come learn more about the garden, how to be a part of it, how to grow your own food, and more! The event will be held on Saturday, April 20 from 1:00–4:00 pm in the Community Garden, which is located in the Greek quad.

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  • Ross Barney Architects Project Featured in Chicago Architect Magazine

    Ross Barney Architects Project Featured in Chicago Architect Magazine

    April 15, 2013
    IIT College of Architecture adjunct professor Carol Ross Barney's firm, Ross Barney Architects, has a project featured in the March/April 2013 edition of Chicago Architect magazine. Chicago Architect is published by the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The project is a temple for the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, Ill. You can read the article by clicking here.

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  • Celebrate National Library Week April 14-20

    Celebrate National Library Week April 14-20

    April 15, 2013
    National Library Week is April 14–20 and this year’s theme is Communities Matter @ Your Library. Paul V. Galvin Library is an integral part of the IIT community and we want to celebrate National Library Week with you! Our Undergraduate Research Specialists will be on the MTCC bridge from 12:40–1:50 pm this Monday through Thursday to celebrate libraries and bring awareness to library resources. There will be snacks and prizes, and you’ll even get a chance to tell us how YOU feel about libraries.

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  • IIT Wins Big in Parker Hannifin Chainless Challenge

    April 15, 2013
    Five MMAE undergraduates—Bob Meyer, Dan Milewski, Sean O'Halloran, Josh Buck, and David Moreno [left to right in photo, with advisor Professor Matthew Spenko]—finished third overall in the Parker Hannifin [Corporation] Chainless Challege, held the week of April 7 in Irvine, Calif. This marks the second time IIT has participated in the invitational event, whose objective is for teams to replace the chain of a bicycle with a fluid-power-driven system.

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  • IIT Students Excel at Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium

    IIT Students Excel at Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium

    April 15, 2013
    More than 160 undergraduates in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, economics, humanities and engineering, among others, and from nearly a dozen institutions participated in the Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium held on April 6 at the Hermann Hall Conference Center on IIT Main Campus. IIT students excelled at the annual event, winning in three categories: Overall Poster Presentation—Barrett Leslie Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology—Catalina Rivera Math, Computer Sciences, Engineering, Physics—Xin Zheng: A Novel Approach in Detecting the Normal and Shear Forces at the Fingertips with Minimal Hysteresis

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  • Burton Lewis (CE ’48) to be honored with Collens Merit Award

    April 15, 2013
    Burton Lewis (CE '48) is this year's winner of the Collens Merit Award, which honors an individual nominated by the university staff or faculty for their outstanding commitment to the future of IIT through philanthropic contributions paired with involvement in his or her gift.

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  • Architecture Assistant Professor Sean Keller in Graham Foundation “New Geographies” Panel Discussion April 18

    Architecture Assistant Professor Sean Keller in Graham Foundation “New Geographies” Panel Discussion April 18

    April 14, 2013
    Volume 5 of the Graham-funded New Geographies journal aims to recast the Mediterranean as a contemporary phenomenon and spatialize its region-making processes as a larger geographic entity in the twenty-first century. On April 18, Antonio Petrov, editor-in-chief of Volume 5, considers major topics of the new issue with Sean Keller, Clare Lyster, and Hashim Sarkis in a panel discussion moderated by Stephen J. Ramos.

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