Fall 2010

Inside this Issue

President’s Message

Letter from the President

“Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.”— Chinese proverb When I started teaching at the college level in 1971, there was little pedagogy to the profession except “smart in, smart out.” The emphasis was on course content and not on learning, which...

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Endless Possibilities

The first thing that strikes you when you see the new Idea Shop at IIT’s University Technology Park is the wide-open space-all 13,000 square feet of it. The area is designed to stimulate creative, team-based projects, so flexibility and roominess were core design principles. Clearly, there’s plenty of space for...

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Be Willing to Walk Away

Cheryl Hyman (CS ’96), the new chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago, would tell you that there’s  no such thing as a free lunch. But there was a time in her life when she did accept the generosity of a home-cooked meal, a shoulder to lean on, and a bed shared with her maternal grandmother.

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A Life in Pictures

Steven Poster’s career epiphany arrived in a vintage Jaguar, in the form of a pipe-smoking, bearded stranger who emerged from behind the wheel to survey the vacant lot next to Poster’s boyhood home. Hanging from a cord around the driver’s neck was an object the 14-year-old amateur photographer instantly recognized: a light meter. Already inspired by photography, home movies, and the technology behind them, Poster knew then what he wanted to be when he grew up.

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The Chapel That Is Also a Bridge

Field Chapel in Boedigheim, Germany Some would call it a miracle. But for an IIT alumna, and a group of IIT students and their faculty mentor, it was an opportunity to build bridges and to touch the divine. In January 2008, the Reverend Dankwart Moser-Feesche, a minister from the Odenwald/Bauland...

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Slideshow: Spring on IIT Main Campus

Education on Display Architecture student projects are showcased outside S. R. Crown Hall. Each season of the year brings its own fresh look and feel to Main Campus. The spring bids farewell to the academic year and greets a lush array of colors, new visitors to IIT, and quiet months...

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United We Serve

Nancy S. Marder, professor of law, in the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law library In the 1957 film adaptation of the play 12 Angry Men , actors Lee J. Cobb and Henry Fonda, as jurors No. 3 and No. 8, convey the polar opinions that can comprise jury trial deliberations:...

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Chelsea Kalberloh Jackson

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Marcia Faye
Richard Harth
Steve Hendershot
Michelle McKenzie-Voigt
Tanya Pantone

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Nancy Niequist Schoon

Design

Scott Benbrook
Marty Schalm
Nancy Niequist Schoon
Jessica Serafin

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Fall 2010

Inside this Issue

President’s Message

Letter from the President

Features

Endless Possibilities

Features

Be Willing to Walk Away

Features

A Life in Pictures

Online Exclusives

The Chapel That Is Also a Bridge

Online Exclusives

Slideshow: Spring on IIT Main Campus

Online Exclusives

United We Serve

Editor

Contributors

Art Director

Design

Illinois Tech Magazine is published two times a year by the Office of Marketing and Communications

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