Greetings from Illinois Institute of Technology. Our students have enjoyed a well-deserved break with temperatures that were more like mid-summer than spring.

We begin the new semester with the announcement that Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering Matthew Peet was awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for 2012. The funding will support his efforts to create reliable algorithms for improved understanding and control of complex fluid-plasma dynamics, such as those that occur in a nuclear fusion reactor.

As one of the Midwest's top Ph.D.-granting universities, with several nationally ranked programs, IIT is committed to the advancement of the human condition through quality teaching and research. Through our schools of engineering, the sciences and humanities, design, architecture, law, business, and psychology, we are educating students to excel in a complex global society. Our faculty research initiatives are addressing some of the most compelling topics of our time, from hybrid vehicles to biomedicine to cancer research.

The university is committed to developing and fostering a climate of inclusiveness, with a diverse faculty, staff, and student body. I have appointed a committee, representative of every part of the university, to consider ways to improve diversity and the climate of inclusiveness on the campus. That committee is reviewing our diversity statement. It is also working to develop implementation plans for the goals for diversity set forth in our strategic plan. More information will be coming from the committee as it progresses in its work.

I encourage you to explore this website to learn more about the people—students, faculty, and staff—that make IIT distinctly unique.

Sincerely,

John L. Anderson

Many Voices, One Vision
Strategic Plan 2010-2014