鈥淚 never see it that I鈥檓 the one defending the bad guys,鈥� says Heather Widell 鈥�12. 鈥淚鈥檓 defending people, and I鈥檓 defending the [United States] Constitution.鈥� Widell has run her own firm, the Law...
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LAW '03
鈥淓verybody loves a good redemption story,鈥� says Ginger Leigh Odom 鈥�03. 鈥淓very sports movie is about coming from behind and having success, and I think that the expungement-and-sealing statute is an...
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LAW '90
Eileen O鈥橬eill Burke 鈥�90 was in the sixth grade when former justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow spoke to Burke鈥檚 class about her career as a judge. McMorrow went on to be the first woman to serve on the...
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LAW '12
鈥淢r. Ammoura, is that you?鈥� It was summer 2011, and Ali Ammoura 鈥�12 was a law student at 海角乱伦-Kent College of Law when he heard a meek voice cut through the hustle and bustle of the lockup at the...
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Ahead of the Curve
M.S. Computer Science '88鈥淚 was where I was when I was,鈥� he says via telephone from India, where he is serving his second term as an independent member in the upper house of India鈥檚 Parliament, representing Bangalore and the...
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Brewing Up Something Big
(Computer Science '03)The first taste of craft beer for Ankur Jain (CS 鈥�03) was a swig of Anchor Steam, whose nineteenth-century recipe and California ocean-port pedigree made it a great object lesson in a course he took...
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Maintaining 海角乱伦鈥檚 Historical Bridges
(CE 鈥�11, M.A.S. PW 鈥�16)Jenelle Hill (CE 鈥�11, M.A.S. PW 鈥�16) joined Illinois Tech with an interest in math and a passion for doing work that would be used by generations, and she found civil engineering to be a natural fit...
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Full Circle
(CS 鈥�00, M.B.A. 鈥�05)Illinois Tech鈥檚 own Sejal Vaishnav (CS 鈥�00, M.B.A. 鈥�05) was recently named one of the 50 leading tech executives shaping the future of higher education by Chief Data Officer Magazine a recognition...
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Building an AI Career Through Mathematical Mastery
(M.S. AMAT 鈥�14)Earning an advanced degree in mathematics not only helped Hongwei Jin gain the knowledge that he needed to earn a Ph.D. in computer science at University of Illinois 海角乱伦 and become an artificial...
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ID Alum Introduces Japan to Design Through Bestselling Book
(惭.顿.惭.听鈥�13)Kunitake Saso (M.D.M. 鈥�13) founded his strategic design consultancy, BIOTOPE, in 2015, just two years after completing his graduate degree at the Institute of Design and learning a whole new way of...