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RPI's Natacha DePaola Named Dean of Armour College of Engineering
Provost Alan Cramb announced the appointment of Natacha DePaola as dean of Armour College of Engineering. DePaola joins IIT from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), where she has been chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering since 2005 and on the faculty since 1994.
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Provost Cramb Receives AIME Honors
Provost Alan Cramb was recently honored at the 2009 AISTech Conference in St. Louis with the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) Honorary Membership. One of the highest honors the institute bestows, the AIME Honorary Membership is awarded "in appreciation of outstanding service to the institute or in recognition of distinguished scientific or engineering achievement in the fields embracing the activities of AIME and its member societies.

ChBE's Vijay Ramani Receives NSF CAREER Award for Electrochemical Energy Conversion Research
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Vijay Ramani has received the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to support his work on Multi-functional Materials for Electrochemical Energy Conversion.
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IIT Engineers Rank Among Nation's Top-Salaried Employees
According to the online 2008 College Salary Report issued by PayScale, Inc., students who earn B.S. degrees in engineering from IIT rank number 12 for highest mid-career and starting median salaries among graduates from U.S. engineering colleges.
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Galvin Electricity Initiative and IIT Bring Perfect Power to Chicago
Bob Galvin, former CEO of Motorola and creator of the Galvin Electricity Initiative, along with ECE chair Mohammad Shahidehpour and representatives from ComEd, Endurant Energy, and S&C Electric, introduced the Perfect Power Project at IIT, a groundbreaking approach to energy distribution and management.

Provost Cramb Appointed Acting Dean of Armour College
Effective with the start of the 2008 academic year, Dr. Alan W. Cramb, IIT's new provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs, assumed the role of acting dean of Armour College.
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IIT Announces Wanger Institute for Sustainability and Energy Research
IIT announces the establishment of the Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) that will provide the foundation for a campus-wide energy sustainability effort to create learning opportunities for students and faculty from across academic disciplines.

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