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  • International Students Attend Annual APS/IIT XAFS Summer School

    July 17, 2013
    Grant Bunker, physics professor and chair, and Carlo Segre, Duchossois Leadership Professor of Physics, welcomed 25 students from five countries to IIT Main Campus for the annual APS/IIT XAFS Summer School, held July 8–12.

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  • Thomas Irving Gives Presentation on Scattering Techniques at International Symposium

    Thomas Irving Gives Presentation on Scattering Techniques at International Symposium

    July 17, 2013
    Thomas Irving, biology executive associate chair and professor of biology and physics, gave the talk “Sub-Millisecond Solution Scattering at the BioCAT Facility at the Advanced Photon Source” at the International Symposium on Diffraction Structural Biology held May 26–29 in Nagoya, Japan.

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  • Jose De Arcos Wins Pengnian Scholarship

    Jose De Arcos Wins Pengnian Scholarship

    July 17, 2013
    Jose De Arcos, a Ph.D. candidate in physics, has been awarded a Pengnian Scholarship to study at Tsinghua University in Beijing this fall. De Arcos, a student of Christopher White, professor of physics and vice provost for academic affairs, focuses on neutrino physics and has worked on the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment in China. At Tsinghua University, he will be in the nuclear science and technology program in the Department of Engineering Physics.

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  • Help the Hungry and the Homeless Through Fast to Feed

    July 17, 2013
    About 84,000 meals are donated daily to the hungry and homeless people in Chicago. Make a difference this Ramadan. Fast to Feed by supporting the hungry and the homeless. On Tuesday, July 23, fast for the day, then join IIT's Muslim Students Association to break the fast at 7:45 pm in the Armour Dining Room, located in Hermann Hall.

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  • Make Certain You Are Signed Up for IIT Alert Emergency Messages

    Make Certain You Are Signed Up for IIT Alert Emergency Messages

    July 16, 2013
    As some of you may know, an IIT Alert and All Clear messages were issued on Tuesday, July 16 in the early afternoon. The IIT Alert system was put in place several years ago to notify the IIT community by cellular phone and email of any potential safety threats to students, faculty and staff. If you are not signed up to receive IIT Alert messages, please take a moment to register your mobile phone and email to receive these important alerts at https://www.iit.edu/iitalert. If you were signed up for IIT Alert and did not receive the July 16 messages (two messages), please email Jeannie Hartig, vice president for marketing and communications, at jhartig@iit.edu. Please note the device (phone type and carrier, or email) to which you should have received the alert.

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  • High School Teachers Learn That It’s a Materials World at ASM Camp

    July 16, 2013
    It didn’t fall in shovelable amounts and was green instead of white, but the cups of “instant snow” that were passed around to a group of Chicago-area high school science teachers in IIT’s Engineering 1 building made as strong an impression as a summertime blizzard. The demonstration of the powdery hydrophilic sodium polyacrylate polymer combined with varying amounts of water (some=fluffy clusters; lots=slush) was just one of many held as part of the ASM Materials Camp®–Teachers the week of July 8–12 on IIT Main Campus.

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  • CSL’s Matt Bauer Helps to Shape New AP Computer Science Course

    CSL’s Matt Bauer Helps to Shape New AP Computer Science Course

    July 16, 2013
    Matt Bauer, associate dean of IIT College of Science and Letters and a senior instructor of computer science, is part of a national initiative to develop a new computer science Advanced Placement (AP) course to expand participation in computing to more women and underrepresented minorities.

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  • Annual IIT LEGO City design-and-build project is featured on WBEZ.

    Annual IIT LEGO City design-and-build project is featured on WBEZ.

    July 15, 2013
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  • Architect Brooks Taliaferro Atwood (ARCH ’99) is finalist on “HGTV Star” competition for undiscovered designers.

    Architect Brooks Taliaferro Atwood (ARCH ’99) is finalist on “HGTV Star” competition for undiscovered designers.

    July 15, 2013
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  • Special Sustainability Forum: IIT Boeing Scholars Present Community Sustainability Projects

    Special Sustainability Forum: IIT Boeing Scholars Present Community Sustainability Projects

    July 15, 2013
    As part of the IIT Boeing Scholars Academy’s summer programming, Scholars have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a weeklong “Serving through STEM (StS) Project” that gives them the opportunity to contribute to a real-world project and see first-hand how STEM-related work can help improve the world. Join us in the E1 auditorium (10 West 32nd Street) on Wednesday, July 24 from 2:30–3:30 pm for the special Sustainability Forum “Serving through STEM: Teen Community Sustainability Projects,” featuring the results of two sustainability-oriented StS Projects completed by teens.

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