University News Archive

  • IIT Boeing Scholars Academy Staff Highlights the Value of Summer Learning Programs

    IIT Boeing Scholars Academy Staff Highlights the Value of Summer Learning Programs

    March 13, 2013
    Last week, IIT Boeing Scholars Academy Program Director Marya Spont presented at the Illinois Association of College Admission Counseling’s District Seminar, a professional development opportunity for 120 counselors from Chicago and South Suburban high schools.

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  • Dining Services Survey

    Dining Services Survey

    March 12, 2013
    IIT Dining Services wants to know: How is your dining experience? Please take a few minutes to complete our online survey regarding your experiences in The Commons and Center Court. Your responses will help to improve dining services on campus. In return for your participation, we will donate $1 to the RTW Vet Center for each survey submitted.

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  • Read on Spring Break: Books to Talk About

    Read on Spring Break: Books to Talk About

    March 12, 2013
    Plan to engage in a lively discussion at Paul V. Galvin Library in celebration of both Women's History Month and the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf. Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi and The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson are the books that will be featured. One reflects the life of a girl born in Morocco in the 1940s, while the other is a recent account of a young woman's conversion and travels.

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  • Associate Professor of Physics Jeff Terry Gives Colloquium at Columbia University

    March 12, 2013
    Jeff Terry, associate professor of physics, gave the Material Science and Engineering Colloquium at Columbia University. His talk, titled “Synchrotron Radiation Studies of Advanced Nuclear Energy Materials,” focused on the application of synchrotron techniques to measure the electronic structure and the nano- and meso-scale geometric structure of materials of interest to the nuclear community.

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  • 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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