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IIT President John L. Anderson

The conference room in IIT’s Downtown Campus could swallow an elephant-or in this case a massive, 30-person table, meticulously polished, sparkling, and free of fingerprints. John L. Anderson walks directly to a seat at the head of the table, nearest to a window overlooking the city. It’s an appropriately big...

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Rewind Revisited: IIT Navy V-12

In an effort to increase the number of college-educated officers called to serve their country during World War II, the federal government initiated a nationwide education effort in 1943 known as the V-12 Navy College Training Program . IIT’s reputation as a leading academic institution headed by a patriotic president—Henry...

Alumni News

In Memoriam

Arthur Goldsmith EE ’37, M.S. EE ’40 Annandale, Va. Willard Kruse CHE ’39 Dickson, Tenn. Sigmund Mentzel EE ’40 Valparaiso, Ind. Leonard Reinke ARCH ’41 Oshkosh, Wis. John Landeck EE ’42 Des Plaines, Ill. Leonard Koch ME ’43 Oro Valley, Ariz. George Cherimpes CHE ’44 St. Charles, Ill. Victor Moy...

Athletics

Training Tabled

Never did Chapin Wehde imagine what the next year would entail when the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic struck home in March 2020. Illinois Institute of Technology’s head athletics trainer, assistant director of athletics, and senior women administrator, Wehde spent 11-plus months organizing, writing protocols, and doing all that she and her team—which includes assistant athletic trainers Sarah Wegrzyn and Evyn Nolette—could do to keep Scarlet Hawks student-athletes healthy. It was, in Wehde’s words, “so unreal.”

Alumni News

The Blue Flame Rises Again

Fifty years ago this past October 23, The Blue Flame—an innovative, aerodynamic, rocket-powered version of the ultimate dragster—broke the land-speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover, Utah, at 630.388 miles per hour. That momentous event shared its beginnings at Illinois Institute of Technology thanks, in part, to a legacy roster of fuel-inspired automotive and energy luminaries that includes Ray Dausman and Richard “Dick” Keller, IIT Research Institute technologists; Henry R. Linden (Ph.D. CHE ’52), president of the Institute of Gas Technology; Thomas Morel (M.S. ME ’69, Ph.D. ’72); and faculty members Andrew Fejer, T. Paul Torda, and Sarunas C. Uzgiris (M.S. ME ’63, Ph.D. MAE ’66). To commemorate that record and the team’s derring-do, Keller recently published the memoir Speedquest: Inside The Blue Flame, with motor-racing journalist David Tremayne. October 23, 2020, was also proclaimed Blue Flame Day in Illinois, Utah, and Wisconsin.

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A Box of Instant Smiles

Lucie Weir and her daughter Joanna carry a bin of donations collected for SouthTown 9.12 Project Chicago. Photo: Bonnie Robinson Lucie Weir’s ‘Aha!’ moment galloped in at a neighborhood Kentucky Derby party last year. “A group of parents were there and one couple was telling me that their son, serving...

Research Briefs

When Companies Starts Tweeting, Society Benefits

A trio of researchers at Stuart School of Business at Illinois Institute of Technology is investigating the relationship between the social media activity of companies and the level of their corporate social responsibility, or CSR—that is, voluntary activities that benefit society, such as donating to charities or adopting fair-trade policies.

On Campus

Illinois Tech Headliners

“There have been a lot of people let out of jail after many years...because of some evidence that was refuted later on.” Industry Professor Bill Lidinsky , director of the Cyber Forensics and Security Lab, in an Al Jazeera article about the falsification of thousands of cases of drug testing...