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New Focus: Institute of Psychology

Prior to President Lew Collens’ arrival in 1990, some people thought of the Psychology department as primarily supporting undergraduate course requirements, not knowing that it had a history of graduating more Ph.D.s than any other department in the university. That changed after the National Commission for IIT. The university community...

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“To be sure, bold protests that attract attention, even if most of it is condemnatory, can play a critical role in creating the conditions for political change.” Christopher W. Schmidt , Chicago-Kent College of Law professor, in the op-ed “What Trump-Era Protesters Can Learn from the Lunch Counter Sit-Ins of...

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All Hail to the Armours and the Lewises

While Illinois Tech’s official seal has symbols representing the merger of Armour Institute, Lewis Institute, and Chicago-Kent College of Law, the university’s coat-of-arms honors the two families—the Armours and the Lewises—whose combined educational vision laid the cornerstone of today’s Illinois Tech. And while the seal is used as an identifying...

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AFRICA - Building a Library and Community in Ghana

Ghanaian students using the library/study space constructed through an IIT College of Architecture design/build project Photo: Frank Flury The rural village of Twifo Hemang, Ghana, was home this summer to a group of IIT College of Architecture students and alumni, who, under the leadership of Associate Professor Frank Flury, built...

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Living the Dream

Her heart pounding, cosmetics chemist and ultramarathoner Emma Caldridge strides up a steep Columbian mountainside. With a band of armed guerrillas hot on her trail, she is racing to reach the Lost City, a source of unique indigenous plants that will serve as an antidote to a weapons-grade nervous system...

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Where Steel Meets Science

This spring, an electro-mechanical clan composed of four robots-R. M. S. Dick Roslund, Fenrir, Penguin, and Reaper-went wheel-to-wheel against a bevy of other fantastical devices at one of the nation’s oldest continuing robotics contests, the Jerry Sanders Creative Design Competition (JSDC). For members of Illinois Tech Robotics, the notion of robots combating as twenty-first-century Roman gladiators is where steel meets classroom science, head on.

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Growing Scientists

While Robert Dawe (BME ’06, Ph.D. ’11) was an IIT student, he felt that his research on Alzheimer’s disease could have a potential impact one day. The most common cause of dementia among older individuals, the irreversible, progressive illness may affect as many as 5.1 million Americans, according to the National Institute on Aging. But Dawe says the significance of his work became more tangible while he was an Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Scholar.

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The Age of Dangerous Information: The Internet After September 11

Millions of Americans frantically sought information during the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks. The general populace wanted to know all they could about both the history and background of those who might have perpetrated these crimes, as well as the details of the damage. Following the East Coast...

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New Focus: Institute of Psychology

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All Hail to the Armours and the Lewises

AFRICA - Building a Library and Community in Ghana

Living the Dream

Where Steel Meets Science

Growing Scientists

The Age of Dangerous Information: The Internet After September 11