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Microsoft is Coming to Campus

September 12, 2012
What’s Coming Up Next from Microsoft? Meet Microsoft employees working on everything from Windows 8 to Windows Phone to Servers to the Cloud!
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Folding Bike Raffle

September 12, 2012
Like bikes? We do. The Office of Campus Energy and Sustainability has teamed up with local bike shop Kozy's Cyclery tobring you a really cool folding bike! At 300 likes to our Facebook page, the office will be raffling off a 2012 Dahon Boardwalk S1 for free! You can also see it on display in the IIT Homecoming Parade.
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Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month Pre-Kickoff Cookout

September 12, 2012
A Latino Heritage Month Pre-Kick-off Cookout will be held on Farr Field from 3 – 7 pm on Thursday, September 13. There will be free food, games, and music.
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Machine Learning Reading Group

September 12, 2012
The Machine Learning Reading Group at IIT meets every other Thursday from 11:00 am–noon at Stuart Building, Room 233 to discuss papers on machine learning, data mining, artificial intelligence, and related areas. The first meeting will be on Thursday, September 13. Click here for more information.
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Public Safety Forum (Updated)

September 11, 2012
IIT Department of Public Safety will be on the MTCC bridge from 11 am - 3 pm on Tuesday, September 18 to talk with students and staff about safety and security on campus, especially bicycle security. Public Safety will provide demonstrations on the correct methods and devices used to secure bicycles and raffle off five U-Lock bicycle lock devices.
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Actuarial Science Club Welcome Tea and New Courses

September 11, 2012
The Actuarial Science Club will hold a welcome tea on Friday, September 14 in E1-102 from 1:30–2:30 pm. Additionally, Lulu Kang, assistant professor of applied mathematics, has developed two new courses to benefit students pursuing careers as actuaries: MATH 484 “Regression and Forecasting” and MATH 564 “Applied Statistics.” Check out the club's Facebook page to find out about recent activities. Contact Xiaodong Zhang, M.S. (AMAT candidate), the club's president, at xzhan118@hawk.iit.edu for more information.
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International Careers Event

September 11, 2012
A roundtable discussion entitled "Global Experience—Making a Local Impact on Your Career" will be held on Wednesday, September 12 from 5:30–7:30 pm at Harold Washington College, Room 1115 (30 E. Lake Street in downtown Chicago). Co-sponsored by WorldChicago, Harold Washington College, and Illinois Institute of Technology, this careers-focused event will welcome current professionals from business, technology, nonprofit, and the arts and architecture sectors as discussion leaders.
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IIT Open Access Student Advocacy Group Meeting

September 10, 2012
The Internet and other emerging technologies have made possible a cheaper and more efficient model where anyone can access high quality scholarly literature. Come to the first meeting of IIT’s Open Access Student Advocacy Group to learn more and to help show that IIT supports an open access publishing system. The event will be held in the Paul V. Galvin Library on Tuesday, September 11 from 12:50–1:40 pm.
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SWE General Body Meeting

September 10, 2012
The Society of Women Engineers is holding the first general body meeting of the year on September 13 from 12:50–1:30 pm in E1 103.
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ADA Awareness Day

September 7, 2012
An ADA Awareness Day event will be held on Monday, September 10 in S. R. Crown Hall. It is a great opportunity for students to experience what it is like to move around campus while being physically and/or visually impaired, and to try to experience the event's motto: “You can’t really know a person until you walk a mile in their shoes.”
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