University News Archive

  • Pi Day with Campus Life

    Pi Day with Campus Life

    Celebrate Pi Day with the Office of Campus Life! Staff will be giving out free mini-pies to students on Thursday, March 14 in the OCL suite in the MTCC. Drop by for free coffee and tea—and your copy of the IIT Pi Song—from 11:00 am–4:30 pm.

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  • Muslim Journeys Film Screening: “Prince of Slaves”

    Students, staff and faculty are invited to view the film "Prince Among Slaves" which recounts the true story of an African Muslim prince who was captured and sold into slavery in the American South. After 40 years of enslavement, he regained his freedom, became a national celebrity and dined in the White House. This is an incredible story about an incredible man who endured the humiliation of slavery without losing his dignity or his hope for freedom. The film will be shown on Thursday, February 28 from 3:00-6:00 pm in the MTCC Auditorium.

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  • ChBE Seminar: Deborah Leckband, “Design Rules for Thermally Tunable Adhesive Coatings for Tissue Engineering”

    ChBE Seminar: Deborah Leckband, “Design Rules for Thermally Tunable Adhesive Coatings for Tissue Engineering”

    Join the ChBE Department for a lecture by University of Illinois - Urbana and Reid T. Milner Professor Deborah Leckband on Wednesday, February 20 at 3:15pm in the Perlstein Hall Auditorium.

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  • ChBE, BME, Chemistry and Pritzker Institute Seminar: Assembly Line Biosynthesis of Polyketide Antibiotics – February 27

    IIT Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering will host a seminar, "Assembly Line Biosynthesis of Polyketide Antibiotics," co-sponsored by the Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the Division of Chemistry, welcoming Stanford University Wells H. Rauser and Harold M. Petiprin Professor of Engineering Chaitan Khosla. Khosla's primary research interest focuses on the interface of chemistry and medicine.

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  • Engineers Week Expo at IIT Rice Campus this Saturday

    Engineers Week Expo at IIT Rice Campus this Saturday

    Illinois Institute of Technology will host the 29th Annual DuPage Area Engineers Week this month at the Rice Campus in Wheaton. Part of 2013 National Engineers Week, the DuPage area activities will include the Engineers Week Expo from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 23.

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  • Benjamin Franklin Project Distinguished Lecture: “Democracy and the Built Environment”

    The Social Sciences Department will host the Benjamin Franklin Project Distinguished Lecture, “Democracy and the Built Environment,” on Tuesday, February 26, 7:00 pm, in the McCormick Tribune Campus Center Auditorium. The event will feature Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia, and Marshall Brown, assistant professor of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

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  • 32nd Street Visitor Parking Entrance Detour

    32nd Street Visitor Parking Entrance Detour

    The entrance of the A4 parking lot at 32nd & State is closed through March 1, 2013 to facilitate the installation of a solar canopy for electric vehicle charging stations. Visitors and permit holders should enter and proceed to A4 from the A3 parking lot entrance at 31st & Wabash. The south paystation will be accessible during this time.

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  • IIT Alum/Energy Executive to Discuss Option for “Growing the World’s Fuel”

    2013 WISER/Galvin Center Seminar Series: "Growing the World's Fuel," Thursday, February 21

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  • IIT February Sustainability Forum: Social Enterprises

    Our next forum is from 12 - 1:30 pm this Friday, February 22 in the MTCC Ballroom (new location!). Space is limited, so make sure to RSVP here soon.

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  • Zasadzinski To Chair APS Meeting Session in March

    Paul and Suzi Schutt Endowed Chair in Science and a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) John Zasadzinski will chair a session at a meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) in Baltimore, Md. on March 18. The session title is “Superconductivity: Tunneling Phenomena.”

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