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  • ChBE Spring 2024 Seminar Series: Alex D. Nikolov – Dielectric Polarization Electricity Harvesting From Photon Energy

    ChBE Spring 2024 Seminar Series: Alex D. Nikolov – Dielectric Polarization Electricity Harvesting From Photon Energy

    The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering presents its spring seminar series featuring guest speaker Alex D. Nikolov, a research professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, who will give a presentation on “Dielectric Polarization Electricity Harvesting From Photon Energy.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, from 3:15–4:30 p.m. in room 108 of Perlstein Hall.

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  • Great Problems Great Minds Seminar: Achieving Green Space Equity: Projects, policies, and Systems Change

    Great Problems Great Minds Seminar: Achieving Green Space Equity: Projects, policies, and Systems Change

    Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Alessandro Rigolon, an associate professor in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, who will give a presentation on “Achieving Green Space Equity: Projects, policies, and Systems Change.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, January 24, from 5–6:15 p.m. over Zoom.

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  • Review Your Beneficiary Designations This January

    Review Your Beneficiary Designations This January

    Naming and regularly reviewing beneficiaries (and updating if necessary) is important to ensure that your funds and benefit amounts will be distributed according to your wishes in the event of your death. Fortunately, doing so is quick and easy for your retirement plan account(s), HSA accounts, and life insurance.

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  • Learn How to Make the Most of Your Blue Cross Blue Shield Benefits – January 30 and 31

    Learn How to Make the Most of Your Blue Cross Blue Shield Benefits – January 30 and 31

    Join Viktoria Rill, Illinois Tech's Sr. Director of Total Rewards & People Development, later this month to learn all about how you can maximize your benefits through our Blue Cross Blue Shield medical plan. She'll briefly cover plan basics before jumping into rewards programs, programs that come with free tools to help you manage chronic conditions, our free digital exercise therapy program for members with muscle and joint pain, and more. She'll also talk about benefits that will help you save money on prescriptions, and the many advantages of Health Savings Accounts.

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  • TIAA and Fidelity 2024 First Quarter Live Webinars

    TIAA and Fidelity 2024 First Quarter Live Webinars

    Is attaining a higher level of financial savviness one of your new year's resolutions? Both Fidelity & TIAA, our 403(b) Retirement Plan vendors, are offering a variety of live webinars this spring, designed to help empower you to take greater control of the money matters most important to you.

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  • Staff Check Your Paychecks

    Staff Check Your Paychecks

    January 12, 2024, was the first biweekly paycheck date of the new year. Staff members should review paystubs to ensure accuracy of any benefit changes made during open enrollment, new FSA elections, and 403(b) election changes. Any discrepancies must be reported along with a screenshot verifying successful completion of Open Enrollment no later than Monday, January 22, 2024.

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  • Student Health Insurance Waiver Deadline Extended to This Friday, January 19

    Student Health Insurance Waiver Deadline Extended to This Friday, January 19

    Student Health Insurance Plan waiver deadline extended to January 19: Illinois Tech is committed to the health and welfare of students and requires all students who register for one academic credit hour or more to have health insurance. If you do not wish to be enrolled in the Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) and have comparable health insurance, please complete the electronic waiver online by this Friday, January 19, 2024.

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  • Graduation Applications Due Before January 29

    Graduation Applications Due Before January 29

    If you plan to finish your degree requirements and graduate in spring 2024. The deadline to submit your Graduation Application through the myIIT portal is Monday, January 29, 2024. Co-terminal students only need to apply for conferral through their undergraduate degree.

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  • Great Problems Great Minds Seminar Tomorrow: New Approaches to the Exploration of the Spatial and the Temporal Patterns of Crime

    Great Problems Great Minds Seminar Tomorrow: New Approaches to the Exploration of the Spatial and the Temporal Patterns of Crime

    Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for a seminar tomorrow "New Approaches to the Exploration of the Spatial and the Temporal Patterns of Crime" as part of the Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series featuring guest speaker Naru Shiode, a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Geographic Information Science at Kingston University, January 17, from 5-6:15 p.m. via Zoom.

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  • Register for ChiBrrCon Cybersecurity Conference February 1 at Hermann Hall

    Register for ChiBrrCon Cybersecurity Conference February 1 at Hermann Hall

    Illinois Tech students are invited to ChiBrrCon Cybersecurity conference on February 1 at Hermann Hall, Chicago's homegrown information security conference built by security professionals, for security professionals, and free of vendors (not to be confused with ChiCyberCon offered by Illinois Tech, which will be held in April). There are 30 complimentary sponsor tickets for Illinois Tech. Please register only if you plan to attend.

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