Fighting Obesity by Growing More Fat Cells
TRANSCRIPT Basically what we’ve done is we’ve made a microfluidic model of lipocytes, or fat. There’s rising rates of obesity in the United States and worldwide, and everything needs an experimental...
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Who Experiences Trauma During Parent-Child Separations at the Border?
TRANSCRIPT In the context of what’s going on right now with immigration and what ICE agents are doing in terms of separating families, I honestly don’t know if we can even know how painful that must...
Illinois Tech Food Scientists Pioneer New Food Safety Techniques
TRANSCRIPT We use a technology called pulsed-light processing for inactivating microorganisms in various food products. This is a broad-spectrum light with wavelength range ranging from 100 to 1,100...
A Breakthrough in Understanding Chlamydia, the World’s Most Prevalent STD
TRANSCRIPT In a recent study that was published by my lab, we discovered how is it that Chlamydia trachomatis obtains its energy and its relationship with the host cell. Chlamydia trachomatis is the...
Howard A. Tullman Offers His Vision for Illinois Tech’s New Innovation Hub
TRANSCRIPT My name is Howard Tullman, and I’m the new executive director of the Kaplan Institute, which is going to be all about innovation and a resource for all of the students on campus. I’m mostly...
How Do Tariffs Affect the U.S. and Global Economy?
TRANSCRIPT Most economists do not have a positive view of the tariffs because it’s a situation where we have no winners; everyone loses. From an economic viewpoint, the tariffs are harmful because...
How Active Fantasy Sports Can Transform Couch Potatoes
TRANSCRIPT This is a project that we call Active Fantasy Sports, and it is a game designed to help people exercise and be more physically active. And it’s built on the infrastructure of an existing...
Student Allan Huang Named Lincoln Laureate for “Improving the City He Loves”
TRANSCRIPT Being able to attend IIT was definitely a huge blessing to me. I was exposed to more caring professors, smaller classes that allow the student-professor interaction to increase, as well as...
Turning the Tables: Architecture Students Redesign Their Desks
TRANSCRIPT Dominique Sokan (ARCH 2nd Year): So each year in studio you get these plain desks with white tops and metal stands, and it doesn’t really fit every single individual. So this project was to...