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LAW '12

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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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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(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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(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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(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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