University News Archive

  • Creator of “Artificial Leaf” To Give 2013 Kilpatrick Lecture

    A chemist whose “artificial leaf” was named one of the top inventions of 2011 by Time Magazine will be this year’s Kilpatrick Lecturer in Chemistry. Daniel Nocera, the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, will speak on “Alternative Energy for Society and Third-World Applications” on April 17 at 4 pm in the McCormick Tribune Campus Center auditorium.

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  • Celebrate the Start of April at the Taste Of IIT – Today

    Celebrate the Start of April at the Taste Of IIT – Today

    Taste of IIT is being held today—Monday, April 1—from 11:00 am–1:50 pm on the MTCC Bridge!

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  • “Delicious Peace” Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean Film Screening and Fair Trade Raffle

    "Delicious Peace" tells the story of Christian, Muslim and Jewish farmers in a small Ugandan village who put aside their differences to form the Delicious Peace Coffee Cooperative, hoping to improve their lives and provide for their families. The co-op was able to expand and flourish after establishing a partnership with a fair trade buyer in the United States. Join us for this free event, to be held on Wednesday, April 3 from 6:30–8:00 pm in the MTCC Auditorium, to celebrate the interfaith work of Delicious Peace. Tasty fair trade refreshments will be provided!

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  • “Kissing Cancer Goodbye” Fundraiser to Support IIT’s Dana Fogarty

    “Kissing Cancer Goodbye” Fundraiser to Support IIT’s Dana Fogarty

    In April 2012, at the age of 27, IIT Graduate Admission Credential and Admission Specialist Dana Fogarty was diagnosed with stage III squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue and found herself setting a goal she never expected to have to set - beating oral cancer!

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  • Frederica Darema (M.S. PHYS ’72) to be honored by IIT for professional achievement

    Frederica Darema (M.S. PHYS ’72) is among the four winners of this year’s Professional Achievement Award, which honors outstanding achievement in any professional field. This award honors alumni whose achievements in their fields have brought distinction to themselves as well as credit to the university.

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  • Be Blue for Better Together Day

    Be Blue for Better Together Day

    On Thursday, April 4, people across the country will wear blue on Better Together Day to raise awareness about the importance of interfaith cooperation. People of different religious and non-religious backgrounds will mobilize their campuses, communities and companies to show the world we are better together. The Office of Spiritual Life and Service Learning and IIT's Better Together student organization invite you to join them in celebrating Better Together Day! Come over to the MTCC Bridge on the IIT Main Campus during the lunch and dinner hours and sign the #BeBlue pledge. Don't have anything blue? No worries! The first 120 people to sign the pledge will get a blue "Better Together" bracelet!

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  • Computer Science Seminar on Tuesday, April 2

    Computer Science Seminar on Tuesday, April 2

    Behavioral ecology is the study of the ecological and evolutionary basis for animal behavior. Recent advances in data collection technology, such as GPS and other mobile sensors, high definition cameras, satellite images, and genotyping, have brought this field (and many other areas of field biology) into the era of big data. Such data offer the promise of answering some of the big questions about why animals do what they do, among other things.

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  • Robert “Pete” Bragg (PHYS ’49, M.S. ’51, Ph.D. ’60) to be honored by IIT for professional achievement

    Robert “Pete” Bragg is among the four winners of this year’s Professional Achievement Award, which honors outstanding achievement in any professional field. This award honors alumni whose achievements in their fields have brought distinction to themselves as well as credit to the university. Recipients have achieved great success as recognized by any or all of the following qualities:

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  • Seventh Annual Karl Menger Lecture and Awards

    The Department of Applied Mathematics is hosting the seventh annual Karl Menger Lecture and Awards honoring Karl Menger, influential mathematician and professor of mathematics at IIT from 1946 to 1971, on Monday, April 22 and Tuesday, April 23.

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  • Architecture Lecture: Juhani Pallasmaa, “Minding Design: Neuroscience, Design Education, and the Imagination”

    April 1, 2013 6 pm Siegel Hall Auditorium All lectures are free and open to the public. Contact 312.567.3312 or arch@iit.edu for information.…

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