Bringing Change Through Co-Design
Tommie Collins’s (M.Des.+M.B.A. ’21) plan was never to stay in his native Chicago. Instead his dream was to, as he puts it, “be the next Mies van der Rohe somewhere on the East or West coast.” But...
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Illinois Tech Coursework Directly Leads to First Step of Career
Prince Hodonou (CS ’21) drew a step-by-step line from his coursework at Illinois Institute of Technology to landing the first job of his career with JPMorgan Chase right after graduation. In the...
Driven to Support Those with Disabilities
There was a time, between going to school and working three jobs, when Natasha Crespo had to take a hard look at her priorities. The first in her family to get a college degree, she was working...
Robots All the Way Down
When Sydney Kaplan (B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Business minor, M.E. Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering) joined a robotics club in her first year of high school, she just thought it was cool. “Now...
Creating an Inclusive Future for Architecture
To Yara Taha (B.ARCH. 5th Year), the future of architecture is not just sustainable—it’s inclusive. In the final years of her Bachelor of Architecture program at Illinois Institute of Technology, that...
2021 ECE Day: Seminars and Student Research Competition
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology held its annual ECE Day event. It hosted research panels, a research seminar, a student research competition...
New Research by Biology Ph.D. Student Providing Insights into the Habits of Western Bean Cutworm
New research from Illinois Institute of Technology biology Ph.D. student Dakota Bunn (Ph.D. BIOL Candidate) is providing insight into the habits of the western bean cutworm, a pest to corn and dry...
Illinois Tech Wins Department of Energy Net Zero Retail Building Design Challenge
An interdisciplinary team of architecture and engineering students from Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) have won the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon in the Retail Building Division.
Department of Physics Welcomes Rakshya Khatiwada
As young girls growing up in Kathmandu, Nepal, Rakshya Khatiwada and her sister would climb atop the roof of their family home, gaze up into the night sky full of stars, and “formulate ideas about how...
Faculty Across the University Are Honored with Teaching Awards
During an academic year marked by hybrid learning, socially distanced classrooms, and COVID-19 testing, a number of Illinois Institute of Technology faculty members rose high above the challenges of...