Fall 2005 | Illinois Tech Magazine

Fall 2005

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President’s Message

Letter from the President

The ball sailed over the net to land untouched on the opponents’ court, cheers erupting all around as my faculty and staff volleyball team clinched a rousing victory over the students. Despite the fact that it was my “spike” that scored the winning point (I have to brag because it...

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The Crowded Sky

Channels and packets and pausing, oh my! If it’s been a while since your last physics class, it helps to think of wireless messages as airborne planes, crisscrossing along narrowly delineated courses. The first step of air traffic control is to know where the planes are every minute at every...

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In Search of a Cure

At IIT, dozens of students and faculty are pursuing cutting-edge research in cancer prevention and care. While they may be conducting their work quietly, they are being noticed. From a new $22 million grant to assess the relationship between cell phones and cancer to funding that supports innovations in x-ray...

Features

IIT 2010: An Interview with President Lew Collens

Outside, it’s an idyllic summer day in Chicago. Inside the office of IIT President Lew Collens, more than good weather is providing the energy. Tonight, a gala will signal the much-anticipated unveiling of the newly restored S. R. Crown Hall. It’s also the first day of classes, which has Collens particularly excited.

Features

Big Things in Small Packages

Professor Chris White’s neutrino research could help unlock secrets of universal proportions Photo by Chris Kirzeder You don’t need to be a physicist to be engaged by Chris White . Perhaps that’s because White is able to explain the most complex of scientific concepts in the simplest of terms and...

Features

A Man for Mars

Jacob Matijevic is developing rovers that are giving us a new outlook on Mars On the evening of July 4, 1997, Jacob Matijevic (MATH ’69) waited along with the rest of the world for the Mars rover called Sojourner to exit the Pathfinder lander and begin its exploration of the...

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Beth Duncan
Jon Kavanaugh
Anne Johnson
Theresa Minarik
Melanie Nimrodi
Abigail Nall
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Beth Wittbrodt

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