University News Archive

  • Architecture Student Work Featured at Idea Tree Exhibit, opening at Chicago Center For Green Technology

    A single local tree, downed during a violent storm that struck Chicago in 2011, lives on in Idea Tree, an inspired exhibit of fresh ideas in furniture and accessories design. Following a successful 1-month run earlier this summer at Chicago's Inland Steel Building, the entire exhibit now moves to the Chicago Center for Green Technology where it will be displayed September 6 through October 12, 2012.

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  • Andrew Koppelman is IIT Chicago-Kent’s 2012 Constitution Day Speaker

    Andrew Koppelman, the John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and professor of political science at Northwestern University, will deliver the 2012 Constitution Day lecture at IIT Chicago-Kent at 5:00 pm on September 24. Koppelman will address the topic "The Tough Luck Constitution and the Fight over Health Care Reform." The lecture will be held in the law school’s Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom, 565 West Adams Street (between Clinton and Jefferson streets) in Chicago. The program is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested.

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  • Google Groups and Sites Replace myIIT Group Studio

    The myIIT portal launched in January 2007 with a Group Studio feature to encourage communication among students, faculty, and staff over common interest areas. With the university's transition to Google Apps for Education/IIT Gmail, the Group Studio interface in myIIT has been discontinued in favor of Google Groups and Sites.

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  • Postal and Office Services Are Ready to Serve

    Postal and Office Services Are Ready to Serve

    The United States Postal Service office at the MTCC is your headquarters for all of your shipping needs. Office Services, located in the basement of Perlstein Hall (Room 41B), may be the best-kept secret on campus! The staff stands ready to meet all of your printing and binding needs, any time during the semester.

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  • IIT Engineering Themes Cleans Up 31st Street Beach

    More than 30 IIT students, faculty, and staff teamed up with the IIT Engineering Themes Student Council, Engineers for a Sustainable World, and the Alliance for the Great Lakes to clean the 31st Street Beach in Chicago.

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  • IIT Institute of Design Offers Special Pricing for Design Research Conference

    Register now for IIT Institute of Design's Design Research Conference (DRC), to be held October 9–10 at the Spertus Institute, 610 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago's Loop.

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  • Architecture Assistant Professor Marshall Brown to Present at MCA’s “Visionary Cities” Symposium

    College of Architecture Assistant Professor Marshall Brown will present at the Museum of Contemporary Art's Visionary Cities symposium on September 22. Visionary Cities is a conference on the state of visionary urbanism featuring noted architects, theorists, and scholars, who debate how to engage the city in the age of extreme urbanization. Tickets are available online.

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  • IIT Real-Time Communications Conference and Expo

    IIT Real-Time Communications Conference and Expo

    The IIT Real-Time Communications Conference and Expo will take place on September 10-12, 2012 in Hermann Hall. This is an opportunity to hear and speak with leaders in the field of Real-Time Communications, including Henning Schulzrinne, the CTO of the FCC, Bernard Aboba, Principal Architect for Microsoft, Harald Alvestrand and Serge Lachapelle, leaders of WebRTC work for Google, and over 50 more speakers and panelists from Mozilla, RIM, NEC, AT&T Labs, AT&T, Verizon and more.

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  • NSF Director Subra Suresh to Present the 2012 Darsh T. Wasan Lecture

    A distinguished engineer and professor, Subra Suresh was nominated by President Barack Obama in 2010, and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate, to serve as the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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  • Celebrate Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month at IIT

    Celebrate Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month at IIT

    September is Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month! The national theme this year is “Diversity United, Building America's Future Today.” We hope that you will join IIT in supporting this movement on campus.

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