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  • Community Book Club Discussing ‘Pay Dirt’ by Sara Paretsky

    Community Book Club Discussing ‘Pay Dirt’ by Sara Paretsky

    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 Pay Dirt by Sara Paretsky.

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  • Computer Science Seminar: ‘Distinct Elements in Streams: An Algorithm for the (Text) Book,’ Featuring Vinodchandran Variyam

    Computer Science Seminar: ‘Distinct Elements in Streams: An Algorithm for the (Text) Book,’ Featuring Vinodchandran Variyam

    Join us Thursday, June 6, for a lecture titled "Distinct Elements in Streams: An Algorithm for the (Text) Book" by speaker Vinodchandran Variyam, professor of computer science and engineering at University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The talk will take place from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in Stuart Building, room 111.

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  • Don’t Miss Out on Your 403(b) Retirement Plan Match

    Don’t Miss Out on Your 403(b) Retirement Plan Match

    Are you a faculty member approaching your first anniversary or a staff member approaching your second anniversary, or have you recently hit these anniversaries? You may wish to take a moment to review your current 403(b) contribution percentage and submit a new Salary Reduction Agreement Form to take advantage of the university match, if you are not already doing so.

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  • Senior Government Officials Visit Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH)

    Senior Government Officials Visit Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH)

    Jim Jones, deputy commissioner for human foods at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and Mike Cabonargi, health and human services regional director, recently visited the Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH) in Bedford Park on May 9, 2024. Jones is leading and setting priorities for the proposed unified Human Foods Program (HFP), which will oversee food safety, chemical safety, innovative food products, and nutrition to improve public health.

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  • Submit Your Invention to College Inventors Competition by June 3

    Submit Your Invention to College Inventors Competition by June 3

    If you're a student inventor ready to level up your capstone project or invention, you can submit to the College Inventors Competition—run by the National Inventors Hall of Fame—by Monday, June 3, at 11:59 p.m. 

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  • Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences or Chemical Instrumentation

    Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences or Chemical Instrumentation

    The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation invites your graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to apply for the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences or Chemical Instrumentation. The 2025 AOB Postdoc Program opens May 29, 2024, and LOI submissions are due September 6, 2024, by 5 p.m.

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  • Illinois Tech Today Reduced Summer Schedule Starts After Memorial Day

    Illinois Tech Today Reduced Summer Schedule Starts After Memorial Day

    Beginning the week of May 27, Illinois Tech Today will be distributed every Thursday until the beginning of the fall semester. Content submissions can be made as normal through the submission form on the website.

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  • Summer Friday Flextime Program Guidelines

    Summer Friday Flextime Program Guidelines

    As the summer season approaches, we are pleased to announce the reinstatement of our summer flextime program, effective from the first week of June through the last week of August. Eligible employees are permitted to leave work three (3) hours in advance of their scheduled end of shift for six (6) Fridays, subject to the approval of the employee’s supervisor. Please see the program guidelines linked above for additional information regarding eligibility and scheduling.

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  • Galvin Library Welcomes New Head of Access Services

    Galvin Library Welcomes New Head of Access Services

    We are pleased to announce that Karen Cherone has joined Galvin Library as the new Head of Access Services. Prior to her arrival at Illinois Tech, she was the Senior Library Assistant at the Oscar Rennebohm Library at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin.

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  • Grad Students: Register for the Summer Research Writing Workshop

    Grad Students: Register for the Summer Research Writing Workshop

    The Summer Research Writing Workshop is specially made for grad students who are ready to start writing about their research to help them cultivate their writing skills and achieve their research goals. Every participant who completes the workshop will have a finished dissertation chapter or publishable journal/conference article prepared for submission by the end of the workshop.

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