University News Archive

  • IIT Architecture Students Andrea Zuniga and Daniel Caven Win ComEd Powerful Design Contest

    ComEd announced the winners of its “Powerful Design” contest, in which local architecture students created design concepts for a new training facility on Chicago’s South Side, on May 1. IIT architecture undergraduate students Andrea Zuniga and Daniel Caven created the winning entry, entitled “Seed of Light.”

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  • Opt-In to Early Gmail/Google Apps Migration

    Office of Technology Services (OTS) is offering faculty and staff an opportunity to opt-in for early migration of your username@iit.edu account to Gmail ahead of your department's mass migration. The new Gmail accounts offer several benefits, including more storage and integration with Google Apps.

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  • IIT & Green Festival at Navy Pier — We Need You!

    Join IIT and the Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) at Green Festival, the nation's largest sustainability event, being held Saturday and Sunday, May 5 - 6 at Navy Pier. IIT will showcase our commitment to energy research and Stuart School of Business's Masters in Environmental Management and Sustainability program.

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  • IIT Magazine Online Exclusive: From Clean Water Grows Opportunity

    IIT Magazine's Marcia Faye looks at the work the IIT Chapter of Engineers Without Borders are doing as part of Haiti Outreach in the magazine's newest online exclusive.

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  • Last Meal Day of the Year at The Commons

    Last Meal Day of the Year at The Commons

    The last meal of the semester in The Commons will be Dinner on Saturday, May 5. All meal plans, including the Commons Lunch Blox, will expire with that meal.

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  • IIT Students, Faculty Attend Student Lobby Day in Springfield, IL

    IIT Students, Faculty Attend Student Lobby Day in Springfield, IL

    Each year, the Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities lobbies on behalf of the needs of private colleges and universities and students. On Wednesday, April 25, the federation held their annual Private College Student Lobby Day in Springfield.

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  • TEDxIIT 2012 Gaining Momentum

    Saturday, April 14 was a rare occasion when the IIT community truly came together for a single event. IIT Provost Alan Cramb, Vice Provost for Student Access, Success and Diversity Initiatives Jerry Doyle, and IIT Stuart Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center Executive Director Nick Rokop all made their appearances at TEDxIIT 2012. The independently organized TED conference by IIT students took place on IIT’s main campus and was broadcast live worldwide.

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  • Vibes Media  and the Lean Tech Group Sponsor Best Software Engineering Projects in CS487

    Vibes Media and the Lean Tech Group Sponsor Best Software Engineering Projects in CS487

    Vibes Media, a Chicago company that builds technology to support the mobile marketing needs of national, regional, and local brands, has sponsored the prizes awarded to the best projects in the spring 2012 Software Engineering class taught by Virgil Bistriceanu.

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  • Architecture Adjunct Janet Krehbiel Pieracci Opens New Exhibit in Baltimore

    Adjunct Associate Professor Janet Krehbiel Pieracci's work will be featured in a new exhibit at The Lutheran Center in Baltimore, running from May 17 through August 3. The exhibit, entitled Forced Migrations: Holding Memory of People and Place, examines issues of displacement in China, Darfur, Guatemala, and Afghanistan.

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  • Commons Lunch Blox Expire May 4

    Commons Lunch Blox Expire May 4

    Attention all Commons Lunch Blox Meal Plan Participants; your meals will expire after lunch on Friday, May 4. If you have excess meals you can bring a friend or two to lunch in The Commons and pay with your Blox Meals.

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