Alumni News

Spring 2020

Women and Children First

For Mitchell Golbus (PSYC ’60), timing, preparation, and opportunity all seem to have comprised the fabric of his life in equal measure. Or perhaps being a reproductive medicine innovator in his career and a medical humanitarian after his “work obligations” ended was his destiny. In the late 1990s, Golbus and his wife, a nurse, were asked to join a nonprofit group going to Antigua, Guatemala, to provide surgical services.

Spring 2020

Photo Gallery

In December 2019 members of the Mies van der Rohe Society and their guests gathered for Hilb's Day, an annual tradition recognizing the winter solstice.

Spring 2020

Upcoming Alumni Events

For information about upcoming Illinois Institute of Technology events and alumni activities, please visit alumni.iit.edu/events . If you are interested in planning a reunion event for your class or sorority, fraternity, or affinity group, contact alumni@iit.edu or 312.567.5000. Homecoming & Reunion Weekend and Alumni Awards Ceremony Friday, September 25 and...

Spring 2020

Obituaries

John Ason, MATH ’68, Westfield, N.J., was a professional angel investor for nearly 20 years. One of his first investments in the early days of the internet was diapers.com. In 2010 Amazon.com acquired its parent company Quidsi for $545 million. Prior to becoming an angel investor, Ason worked at AT&T Bell Labs for 25 years, retiring in 1996. At AT&T he began in software and technology development, then moved into the marketing and business management of large software projects sold by AT&T to overseas-based phone companies. A popular conference speaker, Ason traveled extensively to meet with entrepreneurs and help develop angel investing ecosystems.

Spring 2020

In Memoriam

James Dunne CHE ’38, Robert Collopy CHE ’40, Edward Sidney ME ’40, Sylvan Tanner ARSC ’41, Alan Grant EE ’46, M.S. ’48, Robert Czeropski CHE ’47, William Jenkins EE ’48, George Brooks EE ’49, George O’Brien ME ’49, Charles Bremigan ME ’50

Spring 2020

Before You Go

Farshogar Umrigar (EE, M.S. EE ‘17), product manager for Veriown Inc., recently visited the CSMART laboratory at the Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation, part of the Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research at Illinois Institute of Technology. Using OSIsoft computer technology, Umrigar is looking at graphs on his laptop depicting all of the renewable resources attached to Stuart Building on Mies Campus: