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  • IIT Leading International Project To Automatically Understand Metaphors in Large Volumes of Text

    May 9, 2012
    An international, interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Associate Professor of Computer Science Shlomo Argamon is developing a software system capable of identifying and understanding metaphors in multiple languages from very large amounts of data gathered from the Internet and other open sources.

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  • QWL Restaurant Outing (Update)

    QWL Restaurant Outing (Update)

    May 9, 2012
    Celebrate the end of the school year with the Quality of WorkLife committee. We still have a few places left for our next restaurant outing at Calabruzzi's Cafe (3302 S. Halsted) on Tuesday, May 22 at 6 p.m.

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  • New Summer B Course on Sustainability

    May 9, 2012
    See how Chicago is working to become more sustainable. Site visits to urban farms & apiaries, aquaponics warehouses, green roofs, the Chicago Center for Green Technology & more! This is an introductory social science course.

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  • Patrick Ferrell and Kylin Fisher Receive 2012 Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Summer Fellowships

    Patrick Ferrell and Kylin Fisher Receive 2012 Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Summer Fellowships

    May 9, 2012
    IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law students Patrick Ferrell and Kylin Fisher have been awarded Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Summer Fellowships. Ferrell and Fisher will each receive $5,000 to support their work in summer public interest law positions.

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  • Main Campus Building Evacuation (Updated)

    Main Campus Building Evacuation (Updated)

    May 8, 2012
    The hazardous material has been removed from campus. Life Sciences is now re-opened. E1 will remain closed until further inspection is completed. If you have personal belongings in E1, you will be permitted to retrieve them.

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  • Summer Course in Urban Recycling

    Summer Course in Urban Recycling

    May 8, 2012
    Matthew Shapiro, Assistant Professor of political science, will be teaching PS 385, "Practices and Policies of Urban Recycling" in summer 2012. Enroll now!

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  • Sigma Xi Awards

    Sigma Xi Awards

    May 8, 2012
    The Graduate College and the IIT Chapter of Sigma Xi are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 Sigma Xi Research Awards. These awards recognize exemplary accomplishments in research, scholarship, and creative activity by IIT faculty members and graduate students. The awards will be presented at the Sigma Xi Awards Luncheon on Wednesday, May 9 in the Pritzker Club.

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  • Master of Landscape Architecture Student Fa Likitswat Wins Schiff Foundation Fellowship

    Master of Landscape Architecture Student Fa Likitswat Wins Schiff Foundation Fellowship

    May 8, 2012
    MLA student Fa Likitswat has won the 2012 Schiff Foundation Fellowship for her work in Adjunct Professor Terry Guen’s fall 2011 graduate studio, “Catalytic Waterways.” The studio explored urban conditions adjacent to Chicago’s river and canal systems in order to design a new sustainable city form that integrates natural ecosystem types into the urban fabric.

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  • 2011-2012 Commencement Speaker: Martin Cooper

    May 7, 2012
    Wireless pioneer, father of the handheld mobile phone, and IIT trustee Martin Cooper will be the commencement speaker for the 2011-2012 Illinois Institute of Technology Commencement ceremony, to be held at 10 am on Saturday, May 12, 2012, on the Main Campus.

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  • Purchasing Tip: Vendors Listed in Banner

    Purchasing Tip: Vendors Listed in Banner

    May 7, 2012
    A list of vendors currently listed in Banner has been posted to the Purchasing portal website.

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