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  • Community Book Club Discussing ‘The Tobacco Wives’ This Month

    Community Book Club Discussing ‘The Tobacco Wives’ This Month

    Are you looking to connect with others? Do you love reading all kinds of books? If you answered yes, the Community Book Club is for you! This month’s book is The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers. 

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  • Call for Nominations — Staff Excellence Awards

    Call for Nominations — Staff Excellence Awards

    Each year the university community has the opportunity to recognize outstanding staff members who have exemplified Illinois Tech’s spirit of excellence with accomplishments in the following areas, and we encourage you to nominate staff members for this prestigious award for 2023: addressing issues related to diversity, identity, inclusion, or other social justice topics; implementing innovative solutions to improve the efficiency of university operations; developing an innovative solution that improves the experience of Illinois Tech students (prospective or current) or alumni; developing an innovative contribution to support excellence in teaching and research; and other outstanding contributions.

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  • FDSN Seminar Series: ‘Legal Issues for Food and Beverage Start-Ups,’ Featuring Sean Swidler

    FDSN Seminar Series: ‘Legal Issues for Food and Beverage Start-Ups,’ Featuring Sean Swidler

    The Department of Food Science and Nutrition presents its fall 2023 seminar series featuring guest speaker Sean Swidler, founder of Swidler Law Group, who will give a presentation on “Legal Issues for Food and Beverage Start-Ups.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Zoom from 12:45–1:45 p.m. on Thursday, October 19.

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  • Cloud-Related Career Fair Hosted by AWS Will Be October 24

    Cloud-Related Career Fair Hosted by AWS Will Be October 24

    AWS (Amazon Web Services) is hosting a Virtual Career Fair from 1–4 p.m. Tuesday, October 24, to help students both prepare for and gain access to hiring opportunities. This event will be a great opportunity for you to engage with employers looking for tech talent.

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  • Congratulations to All the 2024-2025 Tuition Exchange Scholarship Opportunity Recipients

    Congratulations to All the 2024-2025 Tuition Exchange Scholarship Opportunity Recipients

    This year, Illinois Tech was happy to be able to approve all of the applications our employees submitted for a chance at a Tuition Exchange Scholarship for themselves or their dependents beginning with the 2024–2025 academic year.

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  • Use Benefit Value Advisor and Get Rewarded to Get Your Mammogram

    Use Benefit Value Advisor and Get Rewarded to Get Your Mammogram

    Don’t skip your routine mammogram! October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Consider using Benefit Value Advisor and Member Rewards to find the most cost-effective, high-quality location for your mammogram and earn a cash reward. And Member Rewards has other imaging procedures, too: Ultrasound, CT scan and MRI to name a few.

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  • Dr. Scott Smith to Speak at 2023 Nagib-Kalpakjian Lecture

    Dr. Scott Smith to Speak at 2023 Nagib-Kalpakjian Lecture

    The Nagib and Kalpakjian Annual Lecture on Manufacturing will be held on Friday, November 17, 2023, from 1:45–2:45 p.m. in room 104 (auditorium) of the John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center. We welcome Dr. Scott Smith who will present, “The Story of Thin.” After the lecture, in the first-floor atrium, the department will honor the Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering faculty emeriti. A reception will immediately follow.

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  • Great Problems Great Minds Seminar Series: ‘Humanistic GIS: Towards a Research Agenda,’ Featuring Bo Zhao

    Great Problems Great Minds Seminar Series: ‘Humanistic GIS: Towards a Research Agenda,’ Featuring Bo Zhao

    The Department of Social Sciences presents its Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series featuring guest speaker Bo Zhao, an associate professor and a director of the Humanistic GIS Lab in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington, who will give a talk on “Humanistic GIS: Toward a Research Agenda.” This event is open to the public and will take place on October 13 from 3:15–4:30 p.m. over Zoom.

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  • Students Required to Complete Title IX Training by November 1, 2023

    Students Required to Complete Title IX Training by November 1, 2023

    Illinois Institute of Technology believes in the importance of creating a safe and healthy environment for all of our community members. To that end, the university has partnered with Get Inclusive to provide trainings that will help us all be informed on topics vital to achieving this goal. This online training, in addition to being highly interactive and engaging, is based in research around the best practices for healthy communities.

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  • Free STI/HIV Testing Event on October 11–12

    Free STI/HIV Testing Event on October 11–12

    Come get a free STI/HIV test next week. Walk up to the Big Blue Mobile Unit on 35th and State on Wednesday, October 11, from 3:30–6 p.m. and Thursday, October 12, from 2–6 p.m.

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