Fall 2009

Inside this Issue

President’s Message

Letter from the President

It’s All About Our Vision “What do I want to be when I grow up?” This question has been asked of us many times, and is often answered without much thought with a simple “I don’t know.” While this answer may be acceptable for individuals, it can be ruinous for...

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Many Voices, One Vision

The closing sentence of the executive summary of IIT’s new strategic plan, Many Voices, One Vision (MVOV), is short on words but long on determination. While planning documents serve to outline the goals, aspirations, and projections for an institution’s success, the most powerful words are those that say, unequivocally, that...

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Passion Ignited by a Lifetime of Learning

Natacha DePaola new engineering dean The Carol and Ed Kaplan Armour College Dean of Engineering Chair Natacha DePaola’s path to dean of IIT Armour College of Engineering was paved with inspiration, dedication, and—toothpaste. DePaola recalls that when she was 8 years old and growing up in Venezuela, she eagerly looked...

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All Into Consideration

As an internationally known expert in chemical-reaction technology and process scale-up with The Dow Chemical Company, Hank Kohlbrand (CHE ’73) has traveled the world. Among a veritable bazaar of mementos from his visits to faraway lands, on display in his office at Dow headquarters in Midland, Michigan, is a marble elephant Kohlbrand purchased in India. Within the elephant is carved a smaller elephant and within that one, an elephant that is smaller yet. What gives the piece its unique appeal, says Kohlbrand, is the artistic rendering of all three elephants together, forming a most interesting whole.

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Leave Only Footsteps

When he was a kid, Raymond Ballard (CHE, 4th year) wanted to be a veterinarian. When he was in his teens, he thought about becoming an airline pilot. But in high school, he met a physics teacher who changed all that. “His name was Bill Ennis, and he was inspirational,” says Ballard, smiling. “He had a great career, including working in a particle accelerator lab at Fermilab. He gave it up to teach high school physics. He said if he could get 20 students to do what he had done, his impact on science would be 20 times greater.”

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Behind the Blast Doors, ’Bots Rule

Building 3424 on IIT’s Main Campus seems tame enough. Visitors enter through a revolving door, check in at the reception desk, and go their respective ways, perhaps to the Department of Mathematics and Science Education or to the wing that houses Shimer College. But for those on their way to...

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Pat Cronin
Marcia Faye
Richard Harth
Steve Hendershot
Julie Morley
Linda Packer

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Nancy Niequist Schoon

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Fall 2009

Inside this Issue

President’s Message

Letter from the President

Features

Many Voices, One Vision

Features

Passion Ignited by a Lifetime of Learning

Features

All Into Consideration

Features

Leave Only Footsteps

Online Exclusives

Behind the Blast Doors, ’Bots Rule

Associate Vice President for Marketing and Communications

Editor

Contributors

Art Director

Design

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