Federal Award Funds Breakthrough Startup
When Illinois Institute of Technology recently received federal funding to help researchers move their projects from the lab to the marketplace, they wanted undergraduates to get involved in a big way...
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Applying AI to Health Care: Health Tech Talent Institute Aims to Tackle Workforce Gap
When you hear of staffing shortages in the medical field, they often involve nurses or home care workers. But in the age of artificial intelligence and analytics, another profession is already...
Building Bonds Through Fulbright Journey
Gurram Gopal, interim chair of the Department of Information Technology and Management at Illinois Institute of Technology, spent two weeks visiting campuses of Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB)...
Illinois Tech’s New $6 Million NSF Grant to Further Research That Will Translate into Societal Solutions, Diversifying Chicago’s Tech Sectors
Illinois Institute of Technology has received a significant investment of $6 million from the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Accelerating Research Translation (ART)...
EcoCAR Team Holds Launch for the Arrival of Project Car
A 2023 Cadillac LYRIQ has arrived on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. Soon the Illinois Tech EcoCAR team will start taking it apart. On October 28, 2023, the EcoCAR team held a reception...
Visionary Entrepreneur Edward “Ed” L. Kaplan to Receive Honorary Doctor of Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology
CHICAGO—May 12, 2023—Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) will award Edward “Ed” L. Kaplan (ME ’65)—an influential entrepreneur, philanthropist, and innovator—with an Honorary Doctor of...
Innovation Day, 3D Art, and Ice Cream
Nataki Muhammad, owner of an ice cream shop in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, wandered through a sea of booths as excited Illinois Institute of Technology students presented answers to real-world...
Electrifying Opportunity: Illinois Tech Showcases Its Plans for a Future with Gaming
The separate and rapidly converging areas of gaming, academia, industry, and community joined together on Friday, August 20, at the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship...
Pitch@IllinoisTech Winner, HEIRS Farm, Aims to Provide Fresh Food for the South Side
Access to fresh, healthy, culturally relevant food can be severely limited on the South Side of Chicago, something Ashley-Marie and Gyasi Sutherland found out firsthand when the couple moved to one of...
Follow the Leader: Alumni CEOs Help Define the Entrepreneurial Mindset
The Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship at Illinois Institute of Technology is firmly committed to instilling the entrepreneurial mindset into every student, regardless...