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  • IIT Climbing Club General Body Meeting

    The IIT Climbing Club's next general body meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 26 at 9:30 pm in the MTCC Executive Conference Room. We will be discussing budget ideas for next semester and accepting nominations for next year's executive board positions. We will also offer a belay tutorial to anyone who is interested in learning.

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  • IIT Boeing Scholars Academy Staff Highlights the Value of Summer Learning Programs

    IIT Boeing Scholars Academy Staff Highlights the Value of Summer Learning Programs

    Last week, IIT Boeing Scholars Academy Program Director Marya Spont presented at the Illinois Association of College Admission Counseling’s District Seminar, a professional development opportunity for 120 counselors from Chicago and South Suburban high schools.

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  • Campus Screening of Award-Winning Transgender Film “Girl Inside” (Updated)

    Campus Screening of Award-Winning Transgender Film “Girl Inside” (Updated)

    The award-winning movie Girl Inside is the account of a young adult transitioning from male to female and her "emotional, intellectual, and spiritual journey of self-discovery . . . (amidst) the physical journey of hormones and surgery. Sometimes funny, sometimes painful, this sweet coming of age story is both an intimate portrait and a thoughtful exploration of what it means to be a woman." (Women Make Movies) Sponsored by the IIT Department of Humanities and the Office of Campus Life, the film will be shown on Wednesday, March 13 from 7:00–10:00 pm in the MTCC Auditorium.

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  • SGA Election Volunteer Sign-Up

    The IIT Student Government Association needs your help running one of our two voting booths on Election Day, Tuesday, March 26. Sign up to help here.

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  • Dining Services Survey

    Dining Services Survey

    IIT Dining Services wants to know: How is your dining experience? Please take a few minutes to complete our online survey regarding your experiences in The Commons and Center Court. Your responses will help to improve dining services on campus. In return for your participation, we will donate $1 to the RTW Vet Center for each survey submitted.

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  • New TIAA-CREF 403(b) Life Cycle Funds – Seminars This Week

    New TIAA-CREF 403(b) Life Cycle Funds – Seminars This Week

    Here's some great news about your retirement funds! Illinois Institute of Technology has worked with TIAA-CREF to expand the retirement plan menu to include the TIAA-CREF Lifecycle Index Funds, which are now currently available. The addition of these funds to the existing menu will offer employees more diverse investment options.

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  • Read on Spring Break: Books to Talk About

    Read on Spring Break: Books to Talk About

    Plan to engage in a lively discussion at Paul V. Galvin Library in celebration of both Women's History Month and the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf. Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi and The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson are the books that will be featured. One reflects the life of a girl born in Morocco in the 1940s, while the other is a recent account of a young woman's conversion and travels.

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  • Associate Professor of Physics Jeff Terry Gives Colloquium at Columbia University

    Jeff Terry, associate professor of physics, gave the Material Science and Engineering Colloquium at Columbia University. His talk, titled “Synchrotron Radiation Studies of Advanced Nuclear Energy Materials,” focused on the application of synchrotron techniques to measure the electronic structure and the nano- and meso-scale geometric structure of materials of interest to the nuclear community.

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  • A Wiel Arets Architects project, an Allianz office and retail complex currently under construction in Wallisellen, Switzerland, is featured in by Arch Daily.

    A Wiel Arets Architects project, an Allianz office and retail complex currently under construction in Wallisellen, Switzerland, is featured in by Arch Daily.

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  • Global Grand Challenges Summit – Live Webcast

    The IIT community is invited to watch a live webcast of the Global Grand Challenges Summit, which is taking place in London on Tuesday, March 12, and Wednesday, March 13.

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