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In Memoriam

Earl Van Alsburg ME ’39 Pfafftown, N.C. Lawrence Wooding EE ’39 Peoria, Ill. Jacob Cohen EE ’40 Skokie, Ill. Edmund Francone ME ’40 Grosse Pointe, Mich. Evelyn Kaplan ARSC ’40 Washington, D.C. Abe Kogan ARSC ’43 Addison, Ill. Joseph Robin ME ’43 Hinsdale, Ill. Paul Terrill ARSC ’43 Coatesville, Ind...

Rewind

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...

Letters

Letter from the President

This issue of IIT Magazine focuses on the research activities of our faculty, alumni, and students. I remember my early days as a faculty member when my academic life was focused on teaching and research. I look back fondly on that time when I was able to work with very...

Online Exclusives

The BSL-3 Whisperer

“I’ve learned to understand what the building is thinking, saying, doing, and feeling,” says Margaret “Margie” Juergensmeyer, IFSH biosafety officer who oversees the BSL-3 pilot plant and laboratory. “I listen to it and can even smell some of the changes that take place.” A Registered Biosafety Professional—one of approximately 250...

Online Exclusives

The 21st-Century Color Palette (Hint: It Changes)

Throughout history colors have been a sign of the times. For Ancient Romans purple was a sign of strength. The Victorians wore black as a symbol of austerity. Green was associated with fertility in Celtic myths. Keira Havens The twenty-first-century—an age marked by blink-and-you’ll-miss-it technology upgrades and #socialmedia sensory overload—is...

Features

Camera as Compass

American photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams said, “Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation, and execution.” Adams’ words aptly describe the distinctive yet disparate photographic directions taken by IIT Institute of Design alumni Barbara Crane (M.S. PHOT ’66) and Robert E...

Research Briefs

Certain Direction in an Uncertain World

Like an invisible yet masterful weaver, Illinois Tech Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics Lulu Kang quietly works behind the scenes to enable scientists and engineers to design and build the best systems possible. As a statistician, she develops efficient data-collection and data-analysis methodologies and theories to create statistical models for complicated engineering and scientific systems.

News Briefs

Transitions

Illinois Tech welcomes the following individuals to the university. Jess Goode , Vice President for External Affairs Brian Walker , W. W. Grainger, President (Technology); Illinois Tech Trustee Denis Weil (M.Des. ’01), Dean, Institute of Design