University News Archive

  • IIT Leading International Project To Automatically Understand Metaphors in Large Volumes of Text

    An international, interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Associate Professor of Computer Science Shlomo Argamon is developing a software system capable of identifying and understanding metaphors in multiple languages from very large amounts of data gathered from the Internet and other open sources.

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  • Patrick Ferrell and Kylin Fisher Receive 2012 Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Summer Fellowships

    Patrick Ferrell and Kylin Fisher Receive 2012 Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Summer Fellowships

    IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law students Patrick Ferrell and Kylin Fisher have been awarded Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Summer Fellowships. Ferrell and Fisher will each receive $5,000 to support their work in summer public interest law positions.

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  • Main Campus Building Evacuation (Updated)

    Main Campus Building Evacuation (Updated)

    The hazardous material has been removed from campus. Life Sciences is now re-opened. E1 will remain closed until further inspection is completed. If you have personal belongings in E1, you will be permitted to retrieve them.

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  • Sigma Xi Awards

    Sigma Xi Awards

    The Graduate College and the IIT Chapter of Sigma Xi are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 Sigma Xi Research Awards. These awards recognize exemplary accomplishments in research, scholarship, and creative activity by IIT faculty members and graduate students. The awards will be presented at the Sigma Xi Awards Luncheon on Wednesday, May 9 in the Pritzker Club.

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  • Master of Landscape Architecture Student Fa Likitswat Wins Schiff Foundation Fellowship

    Master of Landscape Architecture Student Fa Likitswat Wins Schiff Foundation Fellowship

    MLA student Fa Likitswat has won the 2012 Schiff Foundation Fellowship for her work in Adjunct Professor Terry Guen’s fall 2011 graduate studio, “Catalytic Waterways.” The studio explored urban conditions adjacent to Chicago’s river and canal systems in order to design a new sustainable city form that integrates natural ecosystem types into the urban fabric.

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  • 2011-2012 Commencement Speaker: Martin Cooper

    Wireless pioneer, father of the handheld mobile phone, and IIT trustee Martin Cooper will be the commencement speaker for the 2011-2012 Illinois Institute of Technology Commencement ceremony, to be held at 10 am on Saturday, May 12, 2012, on the Main Campus.

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  • Submissions for Freshman 15

    Submissions for Freshman 15

    As part of the First Year Experience program, Campus Life will be launching a program called the Freshman 15. This program, which is a list of 15 campus programs/events, is geared towards helping our first-year students fully experience what it is to be an IIT student.

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  • Anne Dudek is 2012 Martin Roche Travel Scholar

    Master of Architecture student Anne Dudek was chosen as AIA Chicago's 2012 Martin Roche Travel Scholar. Dudek will use the $5,000 grant to travel to China, where she will research living conditions for migrant workers in citie

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  • End of Year Show – Institute of Design

    Inspired by the 75th anniversary of the IIT Institute of Design, this year's show is a dialogue between the past, present and future. Please join us on May 11, 2012, for an interactive exhibition of selected work by students and faculty.

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  • IIT Stuart Knapp Entrepreneurship Center Venture Accelerator Demo Day

    IIT Stuart Knapp Entrepreneurship Center Venture Accelerator Demo Day

    Eight IIT student/young alumni teams selected for the 2012 spring program will present their startups at the IIT Stuart Knapp Entrepreneurship Center Venture Accelerator Demo Day from 6 - 9 pm on Tuesday, May 8 at the Downtown Campus.

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