From Illinois Tech Magazine: Breaking the Cycle
These are the issues that have been at the forefront of Sodiqa Williams’s mind for more than a decade, things that have intersected through her personal and professional lives: Mass incarceration...
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Physics Department Helps Relaunch Prairie Section of American Physical Society, Hosts Fall Meeting
The Department of Physics at Illinois Institute of Technology has helped relaunch the Prairie Section of the American Physical Society and hosted the first virtual Fall Meeting of the Section from...
From Illinois Tech Magazine: Delivering on a Tasty Idea
One day, when he was a graduate student, Linxin Wen (M.P.A. ’15) started knocking on doors in º£½ÇÂÒÂ×’s Chinatown. All he had to sell was an idea, born of his own frustration that many of his favorite...
New Research Aims to Better Understand Volatile Organic Compounds, Could Lead to Rapid Diagnostic COVID-19 Test
There is little known about the biological mechanisms that generate the signals of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of viral-infected lung cells. Recognizing the importance of understanding how to...
New Research Explores the Potential of Increased Fly Ash in Concrete Products
There is no shortage of fly ash in the United States. As of 2017, power plants in the U.S. produced more than 38 million tons of the fine powder coal byproduct, according to the American Coal Ash...
Computer Science Professor to Expand Award-Winning Fake News Research
An Illinois Institute of Technology computer science professor is expanding his award-winning research flagging fake news stories that litter social media channels as false or misleading. Kai Shu...
º£½ÇÂÒÂ×-Kent Professor Co-Authors Book on Psychology and Property Law
º£½ÇÂÒÂ×-Kent College of Law Professor Stephanie M. Stern has published a book that explores how empirical, psychological research can inform our understanding of property law. Property law has...
Designing a Return to a More Inclusive Workplace
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed how we think about the spaces in which we work, most of all signaling the death knell of the open office plan. Offices are complex places, filled with...
Engineering Professor’s Indoor Air Expertise Quickly Becomes Vital in Time of COVID-19
It has been a surreal year for Brent Stephens. Almost overnight, Stephens’s expertise in energy and air quality in the built environment—specifically, indoor air—an area of study that was still...