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  • Reception Honoring Professor Demetrious Moschandreas

    Reception Honoring Professor Demetrious Moschandreas

    April 9, 2012
    The Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering invites the IIT Community to a reception honoring Professor Demetrios Moschandreas' teaching, research, and professional contributions to IIT. The reception will be held from 2 - 6 pm on Friday May 4 in the MTCC Ballroom.

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  • Architecture Alum Lily Lim (B.Arch. ’99) Wins AIDS Memorial Park Competition

    April 6, 2012
    Bachelor of architecture alumna Lily Lim’s firm, Studio a+i, won first prize in the international AIDS Memorial Park competition. The proposed park will commemorate the more than 100,000 New Yorkers whose lives were lost to the AIDS epidemic. Studio a+i’s proposal for the Greenwich Village site integrated a birch tree grove with mirrored walls, creating an “Infinite Forest.”

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  • ID Student Startup GoKey on KickStarter

    April 6, 2012
    gokey, a silicone wrist band to hold your key, has just launched on KickStarter. The project is the creation of IIT Institute of Design students Cristina Cook and Francesca Passoni.

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  • Trash to Treasure / OneShirt National Collegiate Clothing Challenge

    April 6, 2012
    IIT is participating in the 2012 oneShirt Challenge, the nation’s largest collegiate clothing drive. OneShirt challenges college students everywhere to donate used/unwanted clothing, shoes, coats, etc to charities instead of throwing them away. The goal? Help those less fortunate while…

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  • Attend TEDxIIT on April 14 – Registration Closed

    April 5, 2012
    Members of the IIT community are cordially invited to a historical TEDxIIT 2012 event on Saturday, April 14, 2012 from 9:30 am - 5 pm at the IIT Tower Auditorium. The lineup of Speakers includes Harvard graduate and businessman Jim Stone, overseer of IIT Stuart School of Business and Director of the Knapp Institute; IIT alumni Marc Hans, a Golden Apple Fellow; Muhammed Fazeel, a recipient of Governor Pat Quinn’s “Fifty for the Future” Award, just to name a few.

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  • College of Architecture J&R Weil Loebl Lecture – Bernard Tschumi: “Concept and Material”

    College of Architecture J&R Weil Loebl Lecture – Bernard Tschumi: “Concept and Material”

    April 5, 2012
    Bernard Tschumi Principal, Bernard Tschumi Architects, New York

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  • 2012 Alumni Awards: Collens Merit Award

    2012 Alumni Awards: Collens Merit Award

    April 5, 2012
    Illinois Institute of Technology is proud to announce the winners of the 2012 Alumni Awards. On April 13, 2012 a luncheon will be held in Hermann Hall to honor the nine winners for their contributions to their professions, to the world, and to IIT. Look for brief biographies on each of these alumni in IIT Today through April 12, 2012.

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  • CTBUH-IIT Team Wins Grant for Green Wall Facade Research

    April 5, 2012
    The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and several members of the Illinois Institute of Technology faculty have been awarded a grant from the Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) to study the energy-saving effectiveness of green wall façade systems.

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  • College of Science and Letters Announces Undergraduate Summer Research Stipend Winners

    College of Science and Letters Announces Undergraduate Summer Research Stipend Winners

    April 5, 2012
    The College of Science and Letters (CSL) has chosen eight students to receive this year’s undergraduate summer research stipends. Funded primarily by the college’s board and alumni, the selected students will be given $5,000 for ten weeks of research with IIT faculty during the summer of 2012. The stipends allow students to gain invaluable hands-on research experience, explore their interests, and prepare for their future careers.

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  • Professional Master’s Student Derik Heiss to Speak at Global Space Exploration Conference

    Professional Master’s Student Derik Heiss to Speak at Global Space Exploration Conference

    April 5, 2012
    Derik Heiss, who will graduate from IIT’s master of chemistry in analytical chemistry program this December, will give a talk at this year’s Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX) in Washington, DC on May 23. Heiss’s presentation is titled “Microchannel Air Revitalization System (MCARS) for Closed-Loop Environmental Control and Life Support."

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