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  • Turing Award Winner and Illinois Tech Alum Jack Dongarra to Give Lecture

    Turing Award Winner and Illinois Tech Alum Jack Dongarra to Give Lecture

    Join us Wednesday, April 12, at Hermann Hall for a celebration and presentation by Professor Emeritus at the University of Tennessee and an Illinois Tech alum Jack Dongarra, who won the most prestigious award in computing, the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award. Jack’s pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high performance computational (HPC) software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for over four decades has, through the years, accelerated HPC.

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  • Are You Graduating This May? Then Attend Illinois Tech’s Graduate Salute!

    Are You Graduating This May? Then Attend Illinois Tech’s Graduate Salute!

    If you're participating in the Commencement Ceremonies on May 13, your next step in the graduation process is to attend Graduate Salute in the Hermann Hall Ballroom. You may come by anytime between noon and 7 p.m. on either April 24 or April 25. No appointment is needed, and you will need to attend only one of these days.

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  • Midwest Mechanics Seminar: AI/Scientific Computing by Petros Koumoutsakos

    Midwest Mechanics Seminar: AI/Scientific Computing by Petros Koumoutsakos

    Armour College of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering will welcome Herbert S. Winokur, Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Area Chair for Applied Mathematics Petros Koumoutsakos from Harvard University to present a lecture titled, “AI/Scientific Computing: Alloys for Flow Modeling and Control.” This seminar is open to the public and a part of the Midwest Mechanics Series. It will take place on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center from 12:45–1:45 p.m.

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  • Office of Financial Aid: Spring Loan Deadline Is Approaching April 14

    Office of Financial Aid: Spring Loan Deadline Is Approaching April 14

    Friday, April 14 is the last day to accept or modify federal loans for the spring term. Visit your Financial Aid Dashboard on your myIIT portal if you would like to accept or adjust your Federal Stafford loans to cover an outstanding balance or any educational expenses Be sure to check for any outstanding requirements associated with your loans such as a Master Promissory Note (MPN) or Loan Entrance Counseling. You can complete these requirements at www.studentloans.gov.

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  • JD/MBA Dual Degree Information Session Coming April 20

    JD/MBA Dual Degree Information Session Coming April 20

    Learn more about the Chicago-Kent College of Law JD/Stuart School of Business MBA Dual Degree Program at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 20. Hear from Chicago-Kent College of Law and Stuart School of Business faculty and staff on the next steps…

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  • Medical School Application Seminar Coming Wednesday, April 12

    Medical School Application Seminar Coming Wednesday, April 12

    A seminar Wednesday, April 12, will go through the application process for medical school (and other health professions schools i.e. Dental, Pharmacy, Optometry). It will also discuss letters of recommendation and the committee letter process.

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  • FDSN Seminar Series: Genetic Analysis of Traits in Food Crops that Affect the Human Gut Microbiome

    FDSN Seminar Series: Genetic Analysis of Traits in Food Crops that Affect the Human Gut Microbiome

    The Department of Food Science and Nutrition will host Andrew Benson, W. W. Marshall Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology and Allen Food for Health Presidential Chair at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, for a seminar titled “Genetic Analysis of Traits in Food Crops that Affect the Human Gut Microbiome: A New Approach to Drive Crop Breeding Programs Toward Human Health” on Thursday, April 13, beginning at 12:45 p.m. The virtual seminar will take place on Zoom.

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  • Kaplan Institute Pitch Competition Coming Up on Friday, April 21

    Kaplan Institute Pitch Competition Coming Up on Friday, April 21

    The Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship's annual Kaplan Pitch Tank competition is coming up from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, April 21, at Tellabs Innovation Alley in the Kaplan Institute.

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  • 58th Annual Humanities Writing Contest Winners Announced

    58th Annual Humanities Writing Contest Winners Announced

    Congratulations to the winners of the Department of Humanities’ 58th Annual Writing Contest! 2023 winners represent students from the Armour College of Engineering, College of Architecture, Lewis College of Science and Letters, and the College of Computing. An in-person awards ceremony will be held on April 18, 2023, from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m.

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  • Great Problems Great Minds Seminar Series: Small Area Fair Market Rents and Opportunity Moves

    Great Problems Great Minds Seminar Series: Small Area Fair Market Rents and Opportunity Moves

    Join the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker, Robert Silverman, who will conduct a discussion about, “Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs) and Opportunity Moves: Public Housing Authority (PHA) Administrators’ Perceptions of Policy Implementation.” This seminar will take place on Zoom on Thursday, April 6, 2023, from 12:40–1:40 p.m. 

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