ADEPT Cancer Imager Team Captures Nayar Prize
Kenneth Tichauer and Jovan Brankov graciously accepted the grand prize in Illinois Institute of Technology’s inaugural $1 million Nayar Prize competition on Wednesday, February 6, for their pioneering...
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Nayar Prize Winners Give Cancer Screenings Sharper Image
Two Illinois Institute of Technology professors are accelerating the pace in the race to find tumors in the earliest stages, earning them the final award in the first $1 million Nayar Prize package...
Innovation, Collaboration Sparked by Nayar Prize
What began as pleasant conversations during coffee breaks evolved into a collaboration to develop a new cancer screening imager and two faculty-researchers landing the final award of the inaugural $1...
Amazon Alexa VP Delivers 2018 Darsh T. Wasan Lecture
“The way I think about Alexa is the way AI is revolutionizing daily convenience,” said Rohit Prasad (M.S. EE ’99), vice president and head scientist at Amazon Alexa, as he opened the 2018 Darsh T...
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Class Reaches Gender Parity
This fall Illinois Tech not only welcomed its largest class of first-year students in 30 years, but its Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering ( CAEE) in Armour College of...
John L. Anderson Nominated As Next National Academy of Engineering President
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 2019 nominating committee has recommended John L. Anderson, president emeritus and distinguished professor of chemical engineering at Illinois Tech, as the...
Moving Toward a More Sustainable Power Grid
Qing-Chang Zhong, Max McGraw Endowed Chair of Energy and Power Engineering and Management, has received two grants totaling $638,809 from the National Science Foundation to work on a paradigm-shifting...
Faculty Member Receives AIChE International Honor
Hamid Arastoopour (M.S. GE ’75, Ph.D. ’78), Henry R. Linden Professor of Engineering and director of the Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER), was honored with the AIChE (American...
Opt4STEM Summer Students Explore Energy and Power at Illinois Tech
A group of high school students from Chicago’s Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center had an eight-day opportunity this summer to explore power in various forms through the Opt4STEM Energy Academy...
Shaw Research Group Files Provisional Patent for New Battery
In the world of rechargeable batteries, a typical car battery, for example, requires about 45 minutes or more to go from being minimally charged to fully charged. A research group headed by Leon Shaw...