University News Archive

  • Call for Nominations – Staff Excellence Award

    Call for Nominations – Staff Excellence Award

    IIT would like to recognize employees who have submitted innovative ideas and best practices during the 2012 calendar year. The success of our students, faculty and university would not be possible without the outstanding support and services the IIT staff provides. This is your opportunity to nominate a staff member who exemplifies IIT’s spirit of excellence for a Staff Excellence Award.

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  • IIT Mathematica User Group First Meeting November 15

    The Mathematica site license at IIT is a great resource that begs to be fully tapped, and the IIT Mathematica User Group (IITMUG) is a step in that direction. The first IITMUG meeting at IIT will be held from 12:45 - 1:45 pm on Thursday, November 15 in E1 106.

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  • Frank Flury’s 2009 Design/Build Project To Be Featured in Forthcoming Book

    Contemporary Follies, a new book by Kieth Moskow and Robert Linn, lists Associate Professor Frank Flury's 2009 design/build studio project among its outstanding examples of contemporary design that address our place in nature.

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  • College of Architecture Faculty and Student Work Recognized at AIA Chicago’s 2012 Design Excellence Awards

    IIT College of Architecture faculty and students have been recognized in AIA Chicago’s 2012 Design Excellence Awards. At the October 26 event, five faculty-led firms received awards, including an award for a spring 2012 College of Architecture studio project.

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  • IIT Chicago-Kent Professor Ronald W. Staudt Elected President of the College of Law Practice Management

    IIT Chicago-Kent Professor Ronald W. Staudt was elected president of the College of Law Practice Management (COLPM) at the organization's futures conference and annual meeting October 25–27 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Helping Hands Canned Food Drive

    Drop off canned food at The Commons to help our neighbors. Too often members of our community struggle with food insecurity and this is one way you can help.

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  • IIT Student Team Wins APICS Chicago Case Competition

    Five students from the Industrial Technology and Management (INTM) Program took first place in the 2012 Chicago Case Competition hosted by The Association for Operations Management (APICS) in October. This was the fourth annual competition and the fourth time that the IIT team has won.

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  • Google+ Important Requirement: Sign Up Using Accurate Birthdate

    As part of your Google Apps for Education at IIT account, you have access to create a Google+ social media page for interacting with other Google+ users on topics of common interest. To create your page, login into Google Apps for Students or Faculty/Staff in myIIT. Once in the Google environment, click the name+ link upper left on the page to get started.

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  • Switch Your Google Docs Interface to Google Drive (Updated)

    As part of your Google Apps for Education at IIT, you have access to a Documents list where you can upload documents, create Google docs, forms, spreadsheets and more. Google is changing the interface for Documents to Google Drive this month. If you have already opted-in to use Google Drive, you will not see any change. If you do nothing, when your account is switched to the Google Drive user interface, it will replace your existing Documents List, without losing any of our existing files.

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  • IIT Trustee and Harris myCFO President Joe Calabrese to Present “Investing in Illusions”

    On Thursday, November 15, at 4 pm, IIT Trustee and President of Harris myCFO Joe Calabrese will present “Investing in Illusions” at IIT’s downtown campus. Most financial and economic models assume that humans are rational, decision-making units always seeking to maximize the “utility” of their decisions. In real life we know that nothing could be further from the truth.

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