News Briefs

Spring 2018

Transitions

Illinois Tech welcomes the following individuals to the Board of Trustees Judson B. Althoff (ME ’95) Executive Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Business, Microsoft Corporation Carter H. Eckert Sr. (CHE ’64) Retired Richard Neil Levy (LAW, M.B.A. ’97) Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Victory Park Capital Mitchell Harris “Mitch” Saranow Chairman...

Fall 2017

Transitions

Illinois Tech welcomes Michael D. Horan as vice president for finance, chief financial officer, and treasurer. R. Russell Betts , Distinguished Professor of Physics and dean of the College of Science, will serve as the interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs starting on January 1, 2018 .

Fall 2017

Mutually Beneficial Mission

For 12 Illinois Tech students, a plastic soft drink bottle, child’s toothbrush, and ibuprofen tablets rose far above the level of common, everyday items during the group’s week in Managua, Nicaragua, this past summer. Along with faculty advisor Kathryn Spink, director of Pre-Health Professions Programs , the group participated in...

Fall 2017

Illinois Tech Headliners

“People knew these foreclosures were unfair, but they were unable to articulate they were more than unfair—they were unconstitutional.” Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Bernadette Atuahene , in the Detroit Metro Times, about the city’s foreclosure crisis this past summer “They’re replacing [baseload, reliable] low-carbon energy with low-carbon energy that...

Summer 2017

Nayar Prize

The ADEPT Cancer Imager, capable of spatially mapping the variable characteristics of cancers at the cellular level In addition to being a member of the faculty team selected in 2016 to advance to the second phase of Illinois Tech’s Nayar Prize I, Kenneth Tichauer, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, was...

Summer 2017

Transitions

Illinois Tech congratulates Michelangelo Sabatino , Illinois Tech professor and director of the Ph.D. Program in Architecture, on his appointment to interim dean of the College of Architecture. The university thanks the following individuals for their service: Wiel Arets, Rowe Family College of Architecture Dean Endowed Chair (will remain on...