University News Archive

  • IIT Magazine Explores Crab Lab in Online Exclusive: “There Must Be Something in the Water”

    This winter, IIT’s Life Sciences Building became home to a menagerie of salt-water denizens of the deep: more than 60 green crabs and a male giant Pacific octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini. The sea-nario constitutes the CRAB Lab (Creative Research in Animal Behavior) and comprises four different experiments involving students and faculty from the university’s College of Science and Letters, College of Psychology, and Armour College of Engineering.

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  • 2012 Alumni Awards: International Award of Merit and Alumni Serivce Award

    2012 Alumni Awards: International Award of Merit and Alumni Serivce Award

    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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  • 2012 Alumni Awards: Galvin Award

    2012 Alumni Awards: Galvin Award

    Illinois Institute of Technology is proud to announce the winners of the 2012 Alumni Awards. This year’s winner of the Galvin Award is Robert C. Pew III. In the spirit of Robert W. Galvin, IIT’s first non-alumnus chair of the board of trustees, this award recognizes non-alumni who provide leadership, time, and resources to make a significant impact on the university.

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  • Support Nature Studio – College of Architecture’s First Graduate Design/Build

    Just a mile and a half south of IIT's Main Campus is an urban nature preserve that has provided a safe and inspiring learning environment for children in need for 15 years. Eden Place Nature Center is located in Fuller Park, one of Chicago’s most neglected neighborhoods, adjacent to an industrial train yard and on the site of what once was an illegal dump afflicted with lead contamination.

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  • Tell Us About Your Perfect IIT – Submissions Close Tomorrow

    Tell Us About Your Perfect IIT – Submissions Close Tomorrow

    Have you ever thought about what you'd like to change about IIT? About how IIT could be improved? Tell us how to make IIT perfect and vote on others' ideas!

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  • 2012 Alumni Awards: Professional Achievement Awards

    2012 Alumni Awards: Professional Achievement Awards

    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. Today we feature this year's three winners of the Professional Achievement Award.

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  • Gmail, Google Apps for Faculty and Staff Coming Soon

    Office of Technology Services (OTS) will soon begin migrating all faculty and staff email accounts and calendaring to a Gmail and Google Apps for Education environment. The migration will be scheduled department by department. Individual users will be provided with self-migration tools. OTS staff will be on hand for each department's migration to assist.

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  • Google Groups to Replace myIIT Group Studio – Convert Now

    As the university completes migration of IIT email accounts and calendaring to Gmail and Google Apps for Education, the calendar that is default in myIIT Group Studio groups will be disabled. Effective immediately, no new Group Studio groups in myIIT will be accepted. Current groups may continue to be used but will be disabled as of June 29, 2012.

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  • Man on the Bench Leaving Campus Temporarily for Restoration

    Man on the Bench Leaving Campus Temporarily for Restoration

    The "Man on the Bench" sculpture in Morton Park will be leaving campus on Friday, March 30 to be restored. The sculpture will be back in time for commencement in May.

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  • IIT Third-Year Undergraduate Triple Play

    IIT Third-Year Undergraduate Triple Play

    Anita Thomas (AMAT 3rd year) will present her research, "Sampling Within the k-Means Algorithm to Cluster Large Datasets," at the Infinite Possibilities Conference, March 30-31 at the University of Maryland. Thomas reduced the amount of data needed to obtain accurate clusters, thus decreasing runtime to a reasonable speed.

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