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Better Than a Week at The Beach

“ASB has been a part of IIT in some form or another for many years and has grown to become one of the most popular service-learning opportunities on this campus.” For Utsav Gandhi (EMGT ’14) and 24 other IIT students, “a little house somewhere in the innards of mountain country...

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Celebrating Campus Transformation

Many members of the Illinois Tech community attended the John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony Fueling Innovation: The Campaign for IIT celebrated a milestone on September 25 with the dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony of the John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center and investiture of the John T. Rettaliata...

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Environmentally Motivated

Just months away from attaining her doctorate, Stephanie Kunkel (M.S. BIOL ’11, Ph.D. ’ 14) fills test tubes at her workbench in the Life Sciences Building, her long brown hair under a navy Arizona ball cap she wears in support of the Wildcats basketball team. While Kunkel was introduced to...

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Creating a Life’s Work in African-American Art

Madeline Murphy Rabb’s career in the art world has been anything but a still life. Rabb (DSGN ’75) is founder and president of Murphy Rabb, Inc. , a fine arts advisory firm in Chicago. She has created a career landscape spanning more than 40 years as an artist, arts administrator,...

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Park Boulevard Revisited

Leroy Kennedy, vice president for the IIT Office of Public Affairs and Outreach Programs, discusses the development of the Park Boulevard housing complex—site of the former Stateway Gardens—in a video courtesy of the Chicago Housing Authority.

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1940s Warren Spitz (ARCH ’42, M.S. CRP ’68), Northbrook, Ill., at 93-plus years old, is the oldest licensed architect in the state of Illinois. Leonard J. Petraitis Sharon and Leonard Petraitis (EE ’48, UNK ’55), Pittsboro, N.C., and his wife, Sharon, recently celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. The couple has...

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On the Road to Rochester

#43 John G. Olin (ME ’61) in action Source: IIT Archives (Chicago) The NCAA may have its March Madness Division I Basketball Championship, but decades ago, technology-focused schools had their own much-anticipated competition: the Rochester Institute of Technology Tech Invitational Basketball Tournament. Created in 1959, the tourney was the first...

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Darsh T. Wasan Lecture Faculty, staff, alumni, and students gathered for the 2014 Darsh T. Wasan lecture, presented by Robert S. Langer, in honor of Wasan’s 50 years at IIT. Photo: Bonnie Robinson Henry H. Koci Classroom Dedication [Left to right] Lee Herring joins her father Henry Koci (ME ’45);...

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Better Than a Week at The Beach

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Creating a Life’s Work in African-American Art

Park Boulevard Revisited

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On the Road to Rochester

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