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Summer 2023

Illinois Tech Appoints Kenneth T. Christensen as Provost

Illinois Tech Appoints Kenneth T. Christensen as Provost

Illinois Institute of Technology appointed Kenneth T. Christensen to the role of the university’s provost and senior vice president for academic affairs in June 2023. Christensen had been serving as Illinois Tech’s interim provost.

Summer 2023

Illinois Tech Expands New Partnerships; Applicant Interest Spikes

Illinois Tech Expands New Partnerships

The Illinois Institute of Technology has entered into several partnerships to enhance student experiences and provide better access to non-traditional applicants, and recent data shows a remarkable surge of applicant interest in the college in 2023.

Spring 2023

Letters

Excerpts from a handwritten letter from reader Ronald A. Dickman (BE ’67) , who supplied many comments about the fall-winter 2022 issue of Illinois Tech Magazine. Here is a selection of some of Dickman’s commentary on this issue. “The letter from Charles Ticho (EE ’48) brought back many memories. I...

Spring 2023

Students Design Homes for Chicago’s Englewood Neighborhood

Students Design Homes for Chicago’s Englewood Neighborhood

Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture students are partnering with a Chicago developer and alderman to build homes in the city’s Englewood neighborhood for what is called a “missing” demographic in the home building world: middle class families.

Spring 2023

Showing Chicago-Area Kids the Sky Is Not the Limit

Showing Chicago-Area Kids the Sky Is Not the Limit

In February 2023 AeroStar Avion Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofit that serves as an educational pipeline for underrepresented groups, teamed up with Illinois Tech for an event titled Engineering HER Future in Space in which 40 middle school and high school students engaged in individual and team activities such as drawing planetary orbits and learning how to use design thinking to draft a rocket.

Spring 2023

Grainger Prize Awarded to Stablecoin Benefitting Mexico’s Unbanked

Grainger Prize Awarded to Stablecoin Benefitting Mexico’s Unbanked

The second annual Grainger Computing Innovation Prize was awarded to a team of Illinois Institute of Technology students for its invention of a cross-compatible, simple-to-use stablecoin payment solution that would address the financial access gap for millions of Mexico’s unbanked.

Spring 2023

Headliners

What The Last of Us did for U.S. games is it showed that we could handle tremendous complexity in a narrative structure about social issues. And in an action game, a game historically made for the ‘hardcore player,’ The Last of Us starts helping us rethink what we can do in AAA games.

Spring 2023

Students’ ‘Tree of Life’ Takes International Prize

Students’ ‘Tree of Life’ Takes International Prize

A team of Illinois Institute of Technology students took the top prize in the 2022 Keysight Innovation Challenge for its novel “Tree of Life” Internet-of-Things device, which collects data from the soil and the atmosphere around it to determine the best trees to plant for maximum carbon dioxide capture and optimum growing conditions.

Winter 2022

Letters

Having reconnected with Illinois Institute of Technology via publications such as Illinois Tech Magazine, Virgilio Caballero (M.S. ENVE ’72) expresses his disappointment about having to miss this year’s 50th reunion.

Winter 2022

An Honor Befitting the Man

An Honor Befitting the Man

Illinois Tech unveiled its renamed downtown campus building, Conviser Law Center, at a formal dedication ceremony in recognition of Richard J. Conviser’s lifelong service to Chicago-Kent College of Law and the legal community. Conviser is also a longtime professor of law at Chicago-Kent and a co-founder of BARBRI, the world’s largest bar-exam preparation course.

Winter 2022

History, at Your Fingertips

History, at Your Fingertips

Innovation—in more ways than one—is on display in the east lobby of Michael Paul Galvin Tower, which is now home to a physical-digital interactive experience that honors the impact of the Galvin Family on Illinois Tech and provides a chance for visitors to better understand the university’s founding mission.

Winter 2022

Soaring to New Heights

Soaring to New Heights

The university welcomed its largest class of first-year students in recent history when the fall 2022 semester began in August. Here’s a little more about the newest class of Scarlet Hawks

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