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Illinois Institute of Technology Is Opening a Life Sciences Lab in Fulton Market

Crain's Chicago Business

Add the Illinois Institute of Technology to the growing list of life sciences players moving into Fulton Market. Illinois Tech is taking a full floor, or 34,295 square feet, of lab space in the Fulton Labs building at 400 N. Aberdeen St., which also houses the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago and Portal Innovations. “We want to immerse researchers in the budding life sciences innovation ecosystem that’s going on in Fulton Market,” Provost Kenneth Christensen said. “We want to be part of that.”

Air-Based Battery Technologies Like Illinois Tech’s Promise Unprecedented Storage and Performance

Battery Technology

A team of researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology recently made headlines when they developed a new type of lithium-air battery that has the potential to provide significantly higher energy density than traditional lithium-ion batteries. As described in the research paper, a novel aspect of this design was the use of a solid electrolyte made of a ceramic-polyethylene oxide composite, which is safer and more efficient than the liquid electrolytes used in traditional lithium-air batteries.

Americans Are Still Putting Way Too Much Food Into Landfills, Says Professor Weslynne Ashton

Associated Press

“I think it is possible to get zero organic waste into landfills,” said Weslynne Ashton, a professor of environmental management and sustainability at the Illinois Institute of Technology. “But it means that we need an infrastructure to enable that in different locations within cities and more rural regions. It means we need incentives both for households as well as for commercial institutions.”

Midwest Wireless Consortium Lands Innovation Tech Funding

Society of Manufacturing Engineers

“This is quite an honor and a ringing endorsement for our work pushing the boundaries of advanced wireless technology,” says Cynthia Hood, associate professor of computer science and engineering and Illinois Tech’s faculty lead in the consortium. “This Strategy Development Grant will enable us to further our research, collaborate more deeply with our partners and accelerate the implementation of advanced wireless solutions in the Midwest.”

Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen Receives $1 Billion in Federal Funding

Crain's Chicago Business

The Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen, which includes Illinois Institute of Technology as a member, has received $1 billion in federal funding to develop hydrogen as a clean energy source as part of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed in 2021. The Biden administration estimates that MachH2 will create 12,100 construction jobs and 1,500 permanent jobs.

Chicago Middle, High School Students Gather for ‘STEAM and Dream Event’ on Illinois Tech Campus

WGN-TV

Two hundred middle school and high school students gathered for the STEAM & Dream summit, hosted by American Family Insurance and CHAMPS, a nonprofit that mentors youth, on Illinois Institute of Technology's campus. Three friends from Milwaukee started the program in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to help support children to didn’t have access to laptops. Since then, STEAM and Dream summits have spread to other cities as program leaders aim to inspire the next generation of tech leaders.

AI Food Tracking Technology Can Help Companies Prepare for New FDA Traceability Requirements, Says Associate Director for Nutrition Research Indika Edirisinghe

MarketScale

“It is not easy to just like adding like a barcode and you track the barcode throughout. It’s not going to be easy like that because (this) is massive,” said Indika Edirisinghe, Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. “And so we have to have AI technology developed and period, that’s it. We have to find a database that is driven by science so that the database has the knowledge to make scientific decisions relevant to this one. And I think that the tracing system has to come from AI technology.”

Chicago-Kent Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro Will Be Watching Dynamic Between Supreme Court and 5th Circuit This Term

Christian Science Monitor

“You might say, why does the court have this focus on administrative law (this term)? Or you might say, why is the 5th Circuit issuing these remarkably extreme opinions?” says Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “The 5th Circuit is doing some very extreme things, and the Supreme Court is almost always going to grant” appeals so those decisions can be reviewed.

Chicago-Kent Law Professor Harold Krent Explains How Things Will Change Now That Illinois Has Ended Cash Bail

The Progressive Magazine

“In each case, the prosecutor needs to persuade the judge that, based on the type of crime alleged, the surrounding circumstances, history of violence or flight, or collateral evidence of vengeance that continued incarceration is appropriate,” according to Harold J. Krent, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “For a murder that was gang related, the prosecutor can argue that the tensions between the gangs may place the arrestee in a situation (if released) in which violence is likely. ... Or, for someone arrested for felony possession of narcotics, the prosecutor may have no reason to predict violence upon release if there was no prior whiff of violence.”

Professor Harold Krent Breaks Down SCOTUS Case That Could Decide Fate of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Bloomberg Law

“Under the 2010 law that created the agency, Congress gave it an open-ended funding mechanism which would actually be drawn from another agency, the Fed,” said Harold Krent, professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “So the argument was (that) this is somewhat of an unusual appropriations decision ... and both sides had a hard time finding some kind of line to draw to distinguish permissible congressional appropriations from impermissible ones.”