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A New First Time Ever Sociology Course for Fall 2012: Symbolic Interaction

August 3, 2012
Looking for another social sciences credit--one that really makes you think? Then maybe Symbolic Interaction (SOC 385-01) is for you.
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IIT/RUSH Joint Program Deadline Extended

August 1, 2012
The IIT/RUSH joint BS/MD program deadline has been extended to August 15.
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Fall Course in Energy and Environmental Policy

July 18, 2012
Matthew Shapiro, assistant professor of political science, will be teaching PS 338, "Energy and Environmental Policy," an intermediate-level course on energy and the environmental policies, in fall 2012.
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New and Returning Courses for Fall

July 12, 2012
Still figuring out what classes to register for? The College of Psychology and Department of Humanities have several new and returning courses available this fall, as well as a new speaker series on Digital Humanities.
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Two New History Courses Offered this Fall

July 5, 2012
Check out the two new history courses—Computing in History and Disasters!—being offered this fall semester.
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New Digital Humanities Series in the Fall

July 5, 2012
For the 2012–2013 academic year, the Department of Humanities will hold a speaker series titled Goals and Boundaries in the Digital Humanities. The series will feature speakers from outside IIT and from departments across IIT to discuss the current state of the art in digital humanities and explore disciplinary issues within the emerging field.
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Spanish Language and Culture Course Returns this Fall

July 5, 2012
Spanish language and culture courses are back, after a two-year-long effort by representatives of the Student Government Association. The Department of Humanities is once again offering a series of four sequential Spanish courses over a two-year period, with the cycle beginning anew each fall semester.
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In announcing the return of ThinkChicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel pledged to keep successful tech startups in Chicago and highlighted recent IIT computer science/psychology graduate Neil Gupta, whose startup Tabule, offering an application-based classroom productivity tool, was incorporated with seed money from Catapult this month.

July 2, 2012
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IIT Research Assistant Professor Bhoopesh Mishra, who works on the MRCAT/EnviroCAT x-ray beam line at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory and recently published a study on how to use bacterium to prevent mercury from becoming airborne in the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, is profiled by Phys.org.

June 26, 2012
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Students Learn About Uncertainty Quantification at the SAMSI Modeling Workshop

June 21, 2012
Barrett Leslie (AMAT 4th year) recently completed the undergraduate workshop at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI). The weeklong program was held at SAMSI in Research Triangle Park and at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C.
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