In the Media

Professor of Economics Khairy Tourk Discusses China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Professor of Law Emeritus Martin H. Malin Discusses the Impact of Employers Using Arbitration

Co-Director of the Program in Criminal Litigation David A. Erickson Explains the Difficulty of Charging a Hate Crime in Regards to Recent Fatal Hit-and-Run in Chicago

Martin H. Malin, Professor Emeritus of Law, Featured in Story Highlighting an Appeals Court Ruling on Qualified Immunity

Law Professor Discusses Allegations of Amazon Retaliating After Charges of Racially Hostile Work Environment

Landscape Architecture Professor Ron Henderson Discusses Why Homeowners Are Transforming Their Front Yards into Social Spaces

Illinois Tech Spinoff Influit Moves to Commercialize Its Ultra-High Density Liquid Batteries

“Everything we’re doing right now is geared toward the specific goal of developing what we call the closed-loop energy cycle, whereby your batteries are not solid materials, they are liquids,” said Influit co-founder and CEO John Katsoudas. “You can treat the battery as a fuel that gets pumped in to mobility devices—cars, trucks, airplanes, anything that needs to be electrified. Every one of our contracts is funding a different aspect of the totality development of that ecosystem. All of the technology has come together—we have a crystal-clear path before us.”

Associate Professor of Food Science and Nutrition Alvin Lee Discusses the Persistence of Viral Contamination of Low-Moisture Foods

Illinois Tech Part of Computing Partnership That Was Awarded Grant from the National Science Foundation

The multidisciplinary Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms, and Learning, or IDEAL, conducts advanced research and training in the field of data science. It aims to broaden research and education participation by underrepresented groups and will include high school and undergraduate students, as well as teachers (partnering with Math Circles of Chicago) and the public (through lectures in partnership with the Museum of Science and Industry).

Mies Crown Hall Prize Announces Shortlist for Emerging Practice Awards

The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize announced that ten built projects spanning North and South America have been shortlisted for the 2022 MCHAP.emerge prize, a biannual award that recognizes built work by practices less than 10 years old. In June, the Illinois Institute of Technology-affiliated award program announced a shortlist of 38 “outstanding projects” completed between 2018 and 2021 for its main prize.