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  • WISER Issues Request for Proposals for 2024 Seed Funding Grants Program

    WISER Issues Request for Proposals for 2024 Seed Funding Grants Program

    Illinois Tech's Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) has issued a Request for Proposals for the 2024 Cross-disciplinary Seed Funding Grants (CSFG) program. Proposals must be submitted electronically by close of business (5:00 pm CT) on Mon., April 1, 2024, to the Office of Sponsored Research

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  • Application for the Voyager Scholarship Now Open

    Application for the Voyager Scholarship Now Open

    Applications for the Voyager scholarship, created by the Obama Foundation and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, are now open for the 2024–26 cohort. Applications close March 27, 2024.

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  • FDSN Seminar Series: ‘Lutein, Zeaxanthin, Goji Berries, and Eye Health’

    FDSN Seminar Series: ‘Lutein, Zeaxanthin, Goji Berries, and Eye Health’

    The Department of Food Science and Nutrition presents its spring 2024 seminar series featuring guest speaker Robert M. Hackman, a research nutritionist in the Department of Nutrition at University of California, Davis, who will give a presentation on “Lutein, Zeaxanthin, Goji Berries, and Eye Health.” This seminar will take place on Thursday, February 15, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. over Zoom.

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  • Back to the Future: Discussion with Illinois Tech’s African American Alumni

    Back to the Future: Discussion with Illinois Tech’s African American Alumni

    Please join the Office of the Provost for “Back to the Future: Discussion with Illinois Tech’s African American Alumni.” This event is open to Illinois Tech students, faculty, staff, and alumni and will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, from 3–5 p.m.

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  • MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Bio-Inspired Passive Drag Reduction for Single and Multiple Vehicles’

    MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Bio-Inspired Passive Drag Reduction for Single and Multiple Vehicles’

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents their spring 2024 seminar series featuring guest speaker Shabnam Raayai-Ardakani, a Rowland Fellow and principal investigator at Rowland Institute at Harvard University, who will give a presentation on “Bio-Inspired Passive Drag Reduction for Single and Multiple Vehicles.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, from 3:30–4:30 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center.

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  • Great Problems, Great Minds Seminar Series: ‘Planning With Extended Urbanization—Elements of a Strategic Spatial Planning Vocabulary’

    Great Problems, Great Minds Seminar Series: ‘Planning With Extended Urbanization—Elements of a Strategic Spatial Planning Vocabulary’

    Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Nicholas A. Phelps, a professor and chair of urban planning and associate dean international at The University of Melbourne, who will give a presentation on “Planning with Extended Urbanization: Elements of A Strategic Spatial Planning Vocabulary.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, February 14, from 5–6:15 p.m. over Zoom.

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  • Participate in Longest Paper Chain Challenge at Galvin Library

    Participate in Longest Paper Chain Challenge at Galvin Library

    Join us for the Longest Paper Chain Challenge at 3:30–4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, to celebrate National Engineers Week. Work in teams on the second floor of Galvin Library to design and build the longest looped paper chain using just paper, tape, and scissors. Registration is required.

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  • Customer Discovery Workshop Thursday, February 15, at Kaplan Institute

    Customer Discovery Workshop Thursday, February 15, at Kaplan Institute

    Kaplan Institute's Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) Club will be hosting a hands-on workshop on Thursday, February 15 from noon to 2 p.m. in Tellabs. Gain insights on problem identification, customer discovery, and how to derive customer insights to kickstart your startup idea. All are welcome to walk in and attend.

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  • Students Required to Complete Title IX Training by March 1, 2024

    Students Required to Complete Title IX Training by March 1, 2024

    Illinois Institute of Technology believes in the importance of creating a safe and healthy environment for all of our community members. To that end, the university has partnered with Get Inclusive to provide trainings that will help us all be informed on topics vital to achieving this goal. This online training, in addition to being highly interactive and engaging, is based in research around the best practices for healthy communities.

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  • 2024-2025 Housing Application Opening Soon

    2024-2025 Housing Application Opening Soon

    In the interest of better serving the student population, the 2024-2025 Academic Year housing and meal plan contract has been delayed due to unexpected technical issues until March 11, 2024. When the application opens, you can apply for housing at Illinois Tech for the upcoming Academic Year 2024-2025 in your Housing Portal.

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