University News Archive

  • Global Grand Challenges Summit – Live Webcast

    March 11, 2013
    The IIT community is invited to watch a live webcast of the Global Grand Challenges Summit, which is taking place in London on Tuesday, March 12, and Wednesday, March 13.

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  • Andrés Garza Named Executive Director of Career Management Center

    Andrés Garza Named Executive Director of Career Management Center

    March 8, 2013
    Andrés Garza has been named as executive director of the Career Management Center (CMC) at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Vice Provost for Research Dennis Roberson announced this week. Garza will be responsible for the management and operation of the center, which provides a lifelong career resource for IIT students and alumni and provides individualized, tailored recruiting services to employers.

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  • Ryan Gann Elected to American Institute of Architecture Students Board of Directors

    March 8, 2013
    Ryan Gann, a fourth year architecture undergraduate has been elected to serve on the 2013-2014 American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) Board of Directors as the Midwest Quadrant Director. Elections took place at the organization’s annual meeting, FORUM, hosted this year by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) chapter of the AIAS in Savannah, Georgia.

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  • IIT Community Electronic Waste Collection Event this Saturday, March 9

    March 8, 2013
    IIT will hold a Community Electronic Waste Collection event from 9 am - 1 pm this Saturday, March 9. Please bring any and all unwanted electronics, including: laptops · computers · tablets · televisions · cellphones · printers · monitors · DVD players · video game consoles · scanners · computer mice · fax machines · keyboards · and anything else with a plug!

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  • Wiel Arets to Lecture at Unity Temple

    March 8, 2013
    On March 11, 2013 at 7 p.m. Wiel Arets will lecture at Unity Temple in Chicago, discussing recent works of WAA, his appointment as Dean of the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture, and "A Wonderful World," his optimistic outlook towards the future our of continuously "shrinking" world.

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  • IIT Build-it Competition: An Impromptu Design Competition for Chicago High Schools

    IIT Build-it Competition: An Impromptu Design Competition for Chicago High Schools

    March 8, 2013
    IIT will hold the first ever IIT Build-It Competition: An Impromptu Design Competition, from 8:30 am - 3 pm on Saturday, April 6. Build-It is an applied science competition where teams of high school students compete against each other to design and build the best solution to an engineering problem using the materials provided.

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  • IIT College of Architecture Invests Wiel Arets as New Dean

    March 7, 2013
    On Wednesday, March 13, IIT College of Architecture will celebrate Mies van der Rohe's 127th birthday, his influence on Chicago, and the investiture of Wiel Arets as the Rowe Family College of Architecture Dean Endowed Chair. Seventy-five years ago, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe arrived in the United States to lead the College of Architecture and profoundly influence the world’s taste and built environment. Now the college begins another era of influence as it celebrates the investiture of Wiel Arets.

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  • DuPage Area Engineers Week at IIT’s Rice Campus

    March 6, 2013
    More than 1,900 people attended the 29th Annual DuPage Area Engineers Week—"Engineering a Gateway to Tomorrow’s Technology"—in February at IIT's Rice Campus in Wheaton.

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  • Harry Mallgrave Inducted into Royal Institute of British Architects

    March 6, 2013
    College of Architecture Professor Harry Francis Mallgrave was inducted as an Honorary Fellow into the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) on February 6, 2013, at a black tie dinner and awards ceremony in London.

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  • Boris Glavic Receives IIT ERIF Grant for Interdisciplinary Research with Psychology

    March 6, 2013
    Boris Glavic, assistant professor of computer science, and Eric Houston, assistant professor of psychology, have been awarded a one-year IIT Educational and Research Initiative Fund (ERIF) grant for $25,000 for an interdisciplinary approach for assessing treatment motivation among patients undergoing antiretroviral therapy, integrating multidimensional scaling with data provenance techniques."

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