Spring 2010

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Melissa Shyan-Norwalt Inside the Animal Mind Valdas Adamkus Manifesting A Destiny Research Stabilizing Nanoparticles, Direct Digital Design and Manufacturing from the President

“Change is good—you go first.”—Anonymous

It is not easy to embrace a culture of innovation, which we claim as a goal in IIT’s vision statement*, because it implies significant change on a continuous basis. Change takes us out of our comfort zone and challenges us to look at what we are doing in different ways, with the possibility that we should be doing something else staring us in the face. Very few people enjoy this exercise, but it is a critical precursor to advancement. I find students much more amenable to the idea of change; in fact, they often demand such a culture. One of the most enjoyable facets of teaching is addressing the students’ constant insistence on change—in what we teach and how we teach it. I am very pleased to report that our faculty members are also embracing the concept with very good results.

Some indicators that change at IIT is indeed occurring include: • Faculty research is at its highest level: Research awards have more than doubled in dollar value this year compared to two years ago and, for the first time in an academic year at IIT, research awards have surpassed $50 million. • New developments in undergraduate education are progressing: Faculty and students have been working together to update our IPRO/EnPRO experience to version 2.0, and faculty groups are reviewing our general- education offerings and considering the adoption of a comprehensive first-year experience for undergraduates. • New facilities are supporting educational initiatives: Due to the efforts of Vice President David Baker, we will have the first incarnation of the Idea Shop on campus. This new space, which will be a home for the IPRO experience, will host entrepreneurial endeavors and will be available for use starting this summer. • Student retention is improving: First-to-second year retention has improved to 89 percent (our highest ever) due to faculty and staff outreach to students and the efforts of our retention task force. • Educational and research themes across the university are being developed: Multidisciplinary projects in energy, design, sustainability, and improving the quality of life are underway. • The financial strength of the university is being restored: We have instituted Responsibility Centered Management and, for the first time, our colleges are responsible for both income and expenses. The operating budget for next year will show a deficit of only 1.5 percent, the lowest since the early 1980s, and the budget will be balanced the year after.

What’s ahead? We are looking forward to continued faculty leadership as we work to achieve our plan. Perhaps design across the curriculum or a new definition of general electives will be developed and implemented. Maybe we will establish research teams that combine legal principles and social issues with scientific discovery—pertinent today because of the question of the patentability of genetic manipulation, for example. Thinking out of the box while building on our strengths will lead to changes that positively transform the university.

The way to distinguish yourself is to go first. IIT has that philosophy. You will hear more about change in the years ahead.

John L. Anderson President

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As the holder I read with keen interest the subject article I’ve just finished reading the winter 2010 issue of an M.S. degree [“The Nuclear Option,” winter 2010]. I was of IIT Magazine. I found it of interest and well in nuclear engineering very hesitant to open the magazine, wondering done. The cover article was balanced and from Purdue what I would find (maybe an irrational rationale helpful. But I have a question: what are the red University and a B.S. for nuclear). Instead, I am very pleased that arrows in the “class notes” section meant to in mechanical and you are working hard on a solution to the indicate? I seem to be unable to find a footnote aerospace engineering nuclear waste problem. I do have a question, or explanation. Please advise. from IIT, I was however: what’s taking you so long? The delighted to read world desperately needs a solution to the —J. Randall Johnson (ME ’63) the article by nuclear waste problem. If there is any way to Richard Harth in the winter 2010 edition of accelerate your research, I suggest you pursue (Editor’s note: The arrows indicate alumni IIT Magazine [“The Nuclear Option”]. it with gusto! whose notes were gleaned during interviews What many people don’t realize is that In the meantime, you should be conducted through IIT’s alumni-reengagement coal ash contains harmful elements such as campaigning against the spread of nuclear effort, The Velocity Initiative, which launched lead, arsenic, selenium, mercury, cadmium, power until solutions can be found to the in January 2009. While the past three issues chromium, and thallium. And there are two problems of nuclear waste and the mining of the magazine have included reports on the more: uranium and thorium. Yes, uranium and of radioactive material for nuclear power. progress of Velocity, with sidebars explaining thorium—elements normally associated only Supporting nuclear power without having the purpose of the arrows, we have decided with nuclear power. solutions for these issues in place is not ethical. that the class notes section is a more logical Furthermore, if it is true that carbon dioxide I refer you to the following articles to home for the key, and have therefore made buildup in the atmosphere is a legitimate support my position regarding the mining of the move.) problem, and if we are to continue to build and radioactive material. I certainly hope you take operate coal-fired power plants, we will have the time to read them: to permanently sequester billions of tons of www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/ carbon dioxide every year as well as sequester Write back! article/4248 trace elements to keep them out of the www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/ IIT Magazine welcomes all signed letters to the biosphere. Is it not silly that the same people article/4247 editor and edits letters for content and clarity. who for decades have been crying in their Please send correspondence to: champagne over having to store radioactive —Russ Bukwa (EE ’67, M.B.A. ’72) waste for centuries now propose that we store IIT Magazine all that carbon dioxide and trace elements? c/o Letters Well, I am terribly embarrassed. I know my Paradoxically, it is precisely because 3300 South Federal Street, Suite 503 alma mater is smart and skilled enough to these elements and carbon dioxide are not Chicago, IL 60616 know the truth: that global temperatures have radioactive (or only weakly so) that they Email: [email protected] been cycling up and down by several degrees remain both biologically and environmentally for thousands of years, and the last few active forever. decades are clearly no man-made exception. Regarding fuel reprocessing and storage Nevertheless, they (enthusiastically?) join of “radwaste”: if we Americans are too hung the PC crowd with statements like “The U.S. up about plutonium and storing radwaste, I (desperately) needs to slash carbon missions suggest we sell our spent fuel to , China, below 1990 levels by 2020” [“The Nuclear or , as they do not have these hang-ups. Option,” winter 2010]. Or is all that just a At least then, the energy potential of plutonium poorly disguised sales pitch to gain the graces in our spent fuel will not be wasted. of the IIT Board of Trustees chairman, the CEO

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2 | iit magazine NAE Symposium Highlights Photos: George Todt Global Grand Challenges

On April 21–22, more than two dozen leaders Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges in engineering, sustainability, health care, initiative, which seeks to address and solve energy, and science addressed some of the 14 issues the NAE has identified as priorities steepest issues facing society at the NAE for the national security, quality of life, and Grand Challenges for the 21st Century: sustainable future of the United States. Chicago Summit 2010, held at the Fairmont The four topic areas discussed at the Hotel in downtown Chicago. More than 400 Chicago Summit were clean water; carbon, guests attended from all over the country, energy, and climate; urban sustainability; and Moderator Nesita Kwan of NBC 5 Chicago News representing industry and civic, government, global health. with Global Health panel members Eric E. Whitaker, and academic institutions. Each topic area was addressed by a University of Chicago Medical Center; Norbert G. Riedel, Baxter International Inc.; Marie Denise Milord, Hosted by IIT and the Chicago Council on keynote speaker and featured a discussion by ; and Father Thomas Streit, Science and Technology, the symposium was a panel of experts. Keynote speakers included University of Notre Dame a partnership with , Charles O’Melia, Abel Wolman Professor the University of Chicago, the University of Environmental Engineering Emeritus at of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Johns Hopkins University (clean water); John Anderson co-chaired the event, and Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. John P. Holdren, assistant to the President Armour College of Engineering Dean Natacha Presenting sponsors included Exelon and for Science and Technology, and director DePaola served on the wrap-up panel. A. Finkl & Sons Co., with other corporate of the Office of Science and Technology Policy One goal of the national Grand Challenges partners—Boeing, Baxter International Inc., (carbon, energy, and climate); Roger Frechette, initiative is to educate young people about Emerson, Johnson & Johnson, president of PositivEnergy the role of engineering and science in Nalco, Sargent & Lundy, Practice (urban solving global issues. A special educational and the Willdan Group— sustainability); and Tachi component of the Chicago Summit was supporting the summit. Yamada, M.D., president tailored to the more than 200 high school Nonprofit organizations that of the Global Health and university students in attendance. contributed to the funding Program for the Bill & This included a poster competition and and planning of the summit Melinda Gates Foundation a special student session, where students included The Chicago (global health). learned more about the sponsoring Community Trust, IIT Additional keynote universities and discussed the summit Pritzker Institute of Biomedical speakers included topics with fellow students. Science and Engineering, U.S. Secretary The findings from the Chicago Summit and IIT Wanger Institute for of Transportation will be joined with those of the four other Charles Vest, NAE president, Sustainable Energy Research. Ray LaHood, Exelon regional summits taking place nationwide. delivers the dinner keynote address. The Chicago Summit is one Chairman and Chief A final report of outcomes from the of five summits being held throughout the Executive Officer John W. Rowe, and Chicago Summit will be available at country this year as part of the National NAE President Charles Vest. IIT President www.iit.edu/grand_challenges.

IIT Welcomes Andrew V. Agostini [left] is principal and owner of J. L. Woode, Ltd., New Trustees a privately owned investment and real-estate development company. Michael A. Pulick is senior vice president and president, Grainger At its February 17, 2010, meeting, the IIT Board U.S. Business, of W. W. Grainger, the leading industrial distributor in of Trustees inducted two new members. North America.

iit magazine | 3 campusnews Rowe Delivers “State of the University” Address

Photo:Alair Sarah John W. Rowe, chairman and chief executive officer of Exelon, addressed the IIT community in his role as chairman of the university’s Board of Trustees on January 19 in Hermann Hall. IIT President John Anderson invited Rowe to speak to faculty and staff. While acknowledging that IIT has been impacted by the economic downturn and that an action plan for recovery was imperative, Rowe pointed out that advancement opportunities for the university are huge. He cited IIT’s technology focus, strong leadership, new strategic plan, and hallmark initiatives such as the Interprofessional Projects (IPRO) Program as contributing to making the university a powerful academic institution. Rowe told the audience that he reads history nightly, in part because he believes it provides special insight into human organizations. He noted that the early days of IIT Institute of Design, freshly infused with the spirit of ’s Bauhaus cultural movement, could inspire innovative change today. “It’s going to take learning, entrepreneurship, and technology to rebuild a better economy, let alone a better society. It’s going to take people who learn from the kinds of things we teach at IIT. It’s going to take people who can put them all together,” said Rowe. “It literally is going to take a better Bauhaus right here in Chicago. Why shouldn’t we be the ones to do that?”

“New Grid in Town” Spring 2009 Perfect Power at IIT—a premier energy-distribution system of smart grids on Main Campus— achieved its first phase of completion this winter. Representatives from IIT, Galvin Electricity Initiative, S&C Electric Company, and Intelligent Power Solutions, LLC gathered in Siegel Hall on February 12 to make the announcement. The phase marks the completion of the system’s first high-reliability distribution loop, which serves Alumni Memorial Hall, Hermann Hall, Perlstein Hall, Siegel Hall, and Wishnick Hall, and the automation of the university’s north substation. These buildings now have automatic fault detection and distribution information that will allow for greater understanding of electricity usage. The FollowUP automation of the south substation and the installation of the high-reliability distribution loops that serve other campus buildings will be completed over the next four years of the five-year project. Updates on the people and places previously covered “Midwestern Night’s Dream: Imagining High-Speed Rail” Winter 2010 in IIT Magazine Illinois moved closer toward plans for a bullet train network with the passage of a Senate bill on March 18 creating the Illinois and Midwest High-Speed Rail Commission. The 15-member body will report on the best governmental structure for a public-private partnership to design, build, operate, maintain, and finance a high-speed rail (trains capable of traveling in excess of 150 mph) system for Illinois and the Midwest. The commission will also look at ways to integrate high-speed rail into existing and planned Amtrak expansions, airports, and public transportation systems.

4 | iit magazine Students Speak Asks Students to Talk Back

t is not unusual for college students to express strong opinions about the university they attend. More rare, as most students will attest, is whether anyone listens—let alone responds. To address the gap between student opinion and administrative action, President John Anderson and IProvost Alan Cramb initiated Students Speak to provide a Students Speak is intended to be an annual survey that will quantitative base for measuring IIT student satisfaction with support IIT’s long-term strategic goal of achieving excellence across university departments that provide services ranging from meals to all university programs. Fisher already describes it as a “student-led housing to financial aid. The goal was to obtain feedback from as cultural transformation.” As lagging departments are identified and many students as possible in order to facilitate actionable results that improved—Anderson and Cramb have set the goal of 90 percent or are meaningful to a majority of students. higher favorable rating for each area—the scope of the survey and its “Many times administrators hear that something is a problem questions will be modified to focus on continued improvement. only when students complain about it,” says Bruce Fisher, director of IIT’s Center for Research and Service, who advised the team of eight students who led Students Speak. “This makes it difficult to draw Front row [left to right]: Kathryn Weissman (CE 4th year), Elizabeth Corson themes or to identify causal factors.” (CHE 3rd year); back row [left to right]: Danny Varghese (BA 3rd year), Bruce The Students Speak team created and administered a 114-item Fisher, Piyush Sinha (CPE 3rd year), Seth Thomas (AE, ME ’09, M.S. candidate), survey last October, and presented its findings to administrators and Brian Kibbe (ME 3rd year) and fellow students during the spring semester. The survey was unique because it was both student-run and received a high response rate. In total, 2,721 students responded, or 35 percent of all undergraduate and graduate students. Fisher says student-survey response rates typically hover between 5–20 percent; he credits student ownership of Students Speak as a likely factor in the high response. “The high response rate made the numbers more legitimate,” says Elizabeth Corson (CHE 3rd year), a member of the Students Speak team. According to the executive summary of the Students Speak survey report, the “vast majority of students feel that the IIT staff treats them with respect.” Of the 24 departments rated in the survey, 12 received a favorable (satisfied or very satisfied) rating of 74 percent or higher and 17 departments received 71 percent or higher. The summary also reported that, in general, students feel safe on campus. Identified as a concern was the difficulty of navigating the university’s administrative units; seven departments were highlighted as most in need of improvement. Each of these areas addressed student concern directly, outlining their plans for improvement in department summaries that appeared in a special Students Speak survey report published in TechNews, the student newspaper, and in some instances meeting with the survey team in person. “I was really happy about the response from the administration. Everyone has been willing to find solutions, and we’ve already seen a lot of changes,” says Corson. “Students know that if they view something as wrong, they have the opportunity to fix it.”

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Jason Neal, IIT’s new director of intramurals and recreation, enlisted in the United States Army because he “wanted to help make the world a safer place.” A chief reason Neal joined the IIT community last August is equally profound in its sincerity and simplicity: to help students, faculty, and staff live life fully and fitly. “There are problems and there are solutions. For many problems, the answer is, ‘Come to Keating,’” says the ebullient yet practical Neal, referring to Keating Sports Center on Main Campus. Perhaps influenced by his military years (2004–09)—spent partly in Afghanistan and Iraq—Neal provides several examples in a voice that rings out in perfect cadence: “If you want to lose weight—come to Keating. If you want to gain muscle mass—come to Keating. If you want to run faster, jump higher, become more flexible, or learn how to relax—come to Keating!” Neal is quick to cite that if current obesity trends persist, more than 40 percent of adults in the United States will be considered obese by 2018. The sobering projection was released in late 2009 through a study sponsored by the United Health Foundation, Partnership for Prevention, and the American Public Health Association. The National Institutes of Health defines obesity as being approximately 30 pounds overweight. Sports captured Neal at the age of 8, when he became a wrestler and began to realize the impact a good coach could have on his life. From that point onward, Neal aspired to influence others’ lives through word and action. In high school in New York, Neal was on both the wrestling and cross-country teams. As a teenager, he joined the Civil Air Patrol and became cadet commander of a 120-member squadron. Neal then enrolled at Lake Forest College in Illinois, where he studied international relations and completed an internship as a track and field assistant coach at Lake Forest Academy. Before going on active duty in the military, Neal added to his athletics experience by serving in administrative and coaching roles in sports and recreational activities with park district groups, youth groups, and academic communities such as Elmhurst College and Lake Forest Academy. He also became a certified personal trainer through the American Council on Exercise. Neal is hopeful that new recreational offerings in Argentine tango and Pilates, teamed up with more traditional sports fare like racquetball, will bring more members of the IIT community into the fitness fold, providing long-lasting benefits to their physical and mental health. “By investing their time and energy,” says Neal, “they’ll be creating friendships that they may have for the rest of their lives and learning how to adopt a healthy lifestyle, too.”

IIT Intramurals and Recreation: www.illinoistechathletics.com/f/Intramurals_and_Recreation.php

6 | iit magazine www.illinoistechathletics.com • SHPE-IIT Named Most Valuable Midwest Chapter IIT Athletics Welcomes IIT’s chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers is only one Soccer Leadership year old, but it is already at the top of its class. The 40-member organization was recognized as the 2009 most The Lady Hawks women’s soccer team has valuable chapter for the Midwest region at the annual SHPE Conference, a new head coach in Marc Colwell, who held October 28–November 1, 2009, in Washington, D.C. SHPE-IIT came to IIT from the Junior Irish Soccer also earned high marks from conference judges for a speech delivered Club in South Bend, Ind., where he served by current President Raul Vasquez Jr. (BME 4th year) and Vice President as assistant Jose Luis Guerrero (AE, ME 4th year). director of In 2008, a group of eight IIT students began working independently, as coaching and part of Latinos Involved in Further Education, to bring an official SHPE director of chapter to IIT, first by attending the annual SHPE conferences, and later, by hosting a variety of campus events. One of the group’s main objectives goalkeeping. was to help connect fellow students with jobs and internships. Colwell also “When I attended the 2008 conference, I was offered an internship at has extensive Baxter. I will never forget how exciting it was to get that phone call that I higher education would have an exciting job for the summer. I want other students to have experience and the opportunity to share that same feeling,” says Vasquez. was on the staffs Throughout the past year, since SHPE-IIT was formed, the chapter of Bethel College, has hosted several events with major companies, including Baxter, John Earlham College, Lakeland College, Saint Deere, and Google. For the spring 2010 semester, the group planned Tech Mary’s College, and Transylvania University. Talk events with companies including Google and Exelon, during which “The combination of the academic company employees discussed career opportunities with the students and reputation of the university and the setting offered them an inside look at life within their fields of interest. in Chicago made it a very easy decision,” SHPE-IIT members emphasize that although the organization focuses on the advancement of Hispanic engineers, all students can join the says Colwell, who hails from South Bend, of chapter and benefit from its services. his choice to join IIT. “I was also won over “Starting college is a pretty intense, overwhelming experience,” by the warm welcome I received by the says Eddie Paulino (ARCE 1st year), SHPE-IIT external vice president. team, athletic staff, and the student body “I joined SHPE shortly after starting IIT, and the other members have on my visit.” helped me become more involved and guided me to great opportunities Lee Hitchen, who stepped down as IIT as a freshman.” athletic director, will stay on as coach of the SHPE-IIT members are also working with a junior SHPE chapter at Hawks men’s soccer team. Farragut Career Academy, a Chicago high school, tutoring Farragut students in several subjects and offering third-year students at the school a practice ACT test. The chapter hopes to work with additional schools in the future to continue to diversify its group. SHPE-IIT also plans to reach out to IIT alumni to provide an even stronger networking and mentoring experience for its members.

• www.shpe-iit.org

SHPE-IIT Executive Board members discuss strategies at their weekly meeting. [Left to right] Eddie Paulino (ARCE 1st year), Raul Vasquez Jr. (BME 4th year), Jose Luis Guerrero (AE, ME 4th year), Raquel Alvarez (CE 3rd year), Hong Yong Ip (ME 3rd year), and Lorenzo Perez (CE 3rd year) Photo:Bonnie Robinson iit magazine | 7 campusnews Many Voices, One Vision update

Dennis Roberson, vice provost for corporate relations and strategic Increase the impact of research by focusing on initiatives, was selected to head the implementation of the university’s interdisciplinary themes new strategic plan, Many Voices, One Vision: A Strategic Plan for IIT 2010–2014. Roberson is leading the newly formed Strategic Plan IIT Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research has been the Assessment Advisory Board, which consists of 20 students, faculty, center of a renaissance in research at IIT, accounting for more than $27 and staff from throughout the university who meet regularly to chart the million in new research funding since June 2008. WISER, with its focus progress of the implementation of the plan. on energy and sustainability, is actively pursuing the development of “We have implemented a rigorous way of tracking our progress. You significant partnerships with industry, research, and academic partners; get what you measure and what you encourage,” says Roberson. the continuation of its seed grant research program; the launch of Progress includes developments in the below priority areas outlined in educational interdisciplinary programs in energy and sustainability the plan. university-wide; and the launch of the WISER Distinguished Lecture Series in Sustainable Energy. Distinctively define the IIT graduate Promote innovation and excellence throughout the university IPRO 2.0 is rapidly emerging as an enormous enhancement to IIT’s flagship interdisciplinary program. This includes a new structure with In addition to the launch of the International Soft Landing Center front-end training in skills needed for the operation of a successful of Chicago in UTP ’s Technology Business Center [see below], the IPRO, including project management, leadership, teamwork, and Incubator has begun the construction of 28,000 square feet of wet and presentation skills. IPRO also has an exciting new home in University dry labs in its south wing. Technology Park, the Idea Shop, which will be the high-profile center for all IPRO activities. Elevate engineering’s reputation to international stature The Leadership Academy—which provides developmental training The National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges for the 21st for students with exceptional leadership potential—has generated Century: Chicago Summit 2010, which IIT co-hosted, enhanced the four new goals to add to its original goal identified during the strategic visibility of engineering at IIT, with more than 400 leaders from industry, planning process. These include increasing undergraduate student nonprofit organizations, high schools, and universities attending[see participation in the academy to 40 percent and sophomore participation page 3]. Additionally, Armour College of Engineering has hired several in the Leadership Academy Retreat to 50 percent, launching a new faculty members. freshman leadership retreat, and supporting the development of a new International Academy. • www.iit.edu/mvov

UTP Opens International Soft Landing Center of Chicago

A new collection of furnished offices, the International ■ UTP is also now host to eMotion, Soft Landing Center of Chicago, opened in December a student-owned company founded 2009 on the lower level of the Technology Business Center, through the help of the Interprofessional in University Technology Park. Taking its name from Projects (IPRO) Program and the Knapp the economics concept of a “soft landing,” the seven- Entrepreneurship Center. eMotion provides suite facility is designed to help international technology a safe method of social networking for companies ease their way into the North American market. “tweeners,” girls ages 7–12. UTP will provide “wrap-around” services for international companies—introducing them to local markets; supporting ■ Last December, All Cell Technologies, their needs for language support, technical support, and an IIT-founded company, graduated acculturation; and providing secretarial services. IIT’s from UTP’s Incubator and established strong international tradition, including students and manufacturing facilities in nearby Bridgeport. faculty from all over the world, makes this an ideal location All Cell produces thermal management for expanding companies. Leases are designed to be systems for lithium-ion batteries used in the affordable and flexible. transportation industry.

8 | iit magazine facultynews The Human Side of Technology

For many people with disabilities, Lane also oversees the Interprofessional When Lane began working with the IPRO participating independently in exercise Projects (IPRO) Program course IPRO 310: in the spring 2009 semester, he educated the activities can be intimidating and, sometimes, Assistive Devices for Blind Swimmers and students in conducting surveys and stressed nearly impossible. But with the help of Other Exercise Activities, which was named the importance of understanding the needs Assistant Professor of Psychology Frank Lane a top IPRO project at the spring and summer of the people whom the technology will and his students, these activities may one day 2009 and spring 2010 IPRO Day conferences. eventually serve. Now, the students regularly become routine. In this project, undergraduate students from visit the Chicago Lighthouse, a social-service Lane directs IIT’s Certificate in a variety of disciplines are working together agency for the blind and visually impaired, to Rehabilitation Engineering Technology to research and understand what technology survey its members on which devices would Program, which includes a series of three and assistive devices would be most useful be most useful to them when exercising courses on the relationship between to visually impaired and blind individuals, independently, particularly when swimming, engineering and psychology. The program and to develop the actual devices. Currently, and to test these devices. has benefited greatly from Lane’s five-year, the students are “Working with $500,000 training grant from the United working to create people at the Chicago States Department of Education to educate a perimeter within Lighthouse brings a graduate students and practitioners on a swimming human aspect to what rehabilitation engineering technology (RET) pool using an is often considered a for persons with disabilities. Lane was able electromagnetic technology project,” to make the entire program available online, field device, says Lane. “The with more than 20 educators and students which blind or students’ work has nationwide completing the course over the visually impaired been so successful past two years. swimmers will use because they are Illustration of the perimeter created within a “The most exciting part of this program, to help determine surveying people who swimming pool using an electromagnetic field device and working at IIT, is seeing people from their orientation will actually benefit very different fields come together to use within the pool. The receiver device, which from this technology, rather than just creating their individual expertise to solve a common is installed within a wristwatch, will emit technology for technology’s sake.” problem,” says Lane, who joined IIT in 2006. a noise and vibrate if the swimmer is The group is currently testing the device approaching the perimeter. on IIT students wearing goggles that impair their vision. The next stage of testing, planned for the fall 2010 semester, will include people from the Chicago Lighthouse and will bring the group closer to completing and implementing the prototype device. “I have learned a lot about teamwork, responsibility, and leadership while working on IPRO 310,” says Jeff Reilly (PHYS 3rd year), who has taken the course for three semesters, serving two of those as team leader. “The ability to play a part in the development of something that can make such a powerful difference in people’s lives is a great feeling.”

Members of IPRO 310 [left to right]: Joseph Taylor (COMM 4th year), Michaela Healton (CHEM 3rd year), Aubrey Chipman (BME 3rd year), Kimberly Dykeman (PSYC 2nd year), Michael Schafer (ARCH 4th year), Jeff Reilly (PHYS 3rd year), and Assistant Professor of Psychology Frank Lane

IPRO 310: http://ipro.iit.edu/project-listings/current-projects#Spring2010_310 Frank Lane profile: www.iit.edu/psych/people/profiles/frank_lane.shtml Chicago Lighthouse: www.chicagolighthouse.org

iit magazine | 9 Roya Ayman Roya Ayman, professor at IIT Institute of Psychology, was named a fellow of The Leadership Trust Foundation (Ross-on-Wye, facultynews Herefordshire, ) in recognition of her contribution to the field of leadership.

Marshall Brown Marshall Brown, assistant professor at IIT College of Architecture, received the New Faculty Teaching Award given jointly by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the American Institute of Architecture Students. The award recognizes demonstrated excellence in teaching performance during the formative years of an architectural teaching career.

Patrick Corrigan, Darsh Wasan, and Richard Wright IIT recently awarded three faculty members the title of Distinguished Professor for preeminence in their fields of expertise, based on their scholarly work and the excellence of their teaching. • Patrick Corrigan, IIT Institute of Psychology, whose field of expertise is the stigma associated with mental illness • Darsh Wasan, IIT Armour College of Engineering, whose research interests lie in the areas of colloidal and interfacial Microcosm engineering to solve energy, environmental, and food problems • Richard Wright, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, whose work has reshaped thinking about the foundations of legal liability, particularly with respect to causation, reasonable conduct, and for attributable responsibility

Alireza Khaligh Change Alireza Khaligh (Ph.D. EE ’06), assistant professor at IIT Armour College of Engineering, received a 2010 Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award in recognition of his contributions to engineering education initiatives through the Society of Automotive Engineers. For more than 15 years, Judith Gregory,

Norman Lederman assistant professor at IIT Institute of Design, Norman Lederman, professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Science Education, was named a fellow of the has focused on health informatics and American Educational Research Association for excellence in research. He was also named a fellow of the American Association user-centered design, and has led efforts for the Advancement of Science for distinguished leadership in science education. in Rethinking Health, an ID initiative that

Andrew Metter explores how design thinking could improve Andrew Metter, adjunct professor at IIT College of Architecture, was honored with the 2010 Institute Honor Award from the the country’s health care system. As part of American Institute of Architects for his work on the Serta International Center in Hoffman Estates, Ill. that initiative, her latest project—Wellness

Philip Nash Experience Research—moves design from Philip Nash, professor of materials engineering at IIT Armour College of Engineering, was named a fellow of ASM International, the drawing board and into the lives of the United States-based materials information society. Nash individuals in Chicago’s Latino communities was recognized for his research contributions in metallurgical thermodynamics and phase equilibria of metallic systems, and for who are learning how to better understand mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. and decrease their risk for chronic health Boris Pervan Boris Pervan, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical, issues such as diabetes and obesity. Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, was named a fellow of the Institute of Navigation for his contribution to the advancement of differential GPS technology and integrity assurance, excellence as a teacher, and service to the institute.

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A daily activities calendar is one component of the Wellness Experience Research self-awareness toolkit.

Judith Gregory

“Diabetes is now regarded as a pandemic, Key components of the project are a self- by Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. an illness that is crossing generations,” awareness toolkit of hands-on activities “My intent was to design a cultural probe that says Gregory, who began the first phase introduced to participants in an In-Home would evoke memories and emotions in order of the design research project with 11 Study and participatory workshops held in to get to know the participants on a more families in the predominantly Mexican- November 2009 and this past February. The personal level. For this connection to happen, American community of Pilsen on the city’s kit includes a calendar, where family members I needed to rely on an artifact that was social Southwest Side. “My strategy is to think of can post their daily activities with colorful and culturally inclusive. The basis for the a neighborhood as a microcosm for change stickers; a diabetic diary; a family tree, which design research probe had to be something and to see the family as a resource for the allows families to trace incidents of diabetes, familiar to them and simple enough to relate circulation of knowledge. Individuals within obesity, cancer, and heart disease; digital to their daily lives, while at the same time families span generations and have a variety of cameras for photo/video documentation of powerful enough to elicit complex responses.” social networks—work, educational, virtual, home and social life; and a Loteria game, Ornelas says one participant shared international, spiritual, recreational—thereby developed for the project by ID doctoral that the cards provided an exercise in providing a cross-sectoral dimension to the student Yadira Ornelas. “rediscovering herself,” lending promise spread of wellness information.” Loteria is a popular game in Mexico and to Gregory’s microcosm concept for Gregory and her team of ID master’s is similar to another game of chance, Bingo, transformational social change as moving and doctoral students set out to acquire a although it features images and symbols from the individual outward. After conducting deep understanding of these families’ related to Mexican culture, history, and in-home interviews, the ID team will analyze everyday social and cultural experiences traditions instead of numbered squares. their findings, giving researchers a way to and challenges, and formed research “Ranging from common everyday objects understand the relevance of social metrics as relationships with the Chicago Hispanic to mythological creatures, the symbols well as clinical metrics in combating disease. Health Coalition and the Chicago Community encompass Mexicans’ hopes, values, fears, Health Workers Local Network, organizations and desires,” says Ornelas, who is supported —Marcia Faye that have established ties with the city’s Latino population.

Wellness Experience Research: Diabetes in Chicago’s Latino Communities: http://vimeo.com/9585362 Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition: www.chicagohispanichealthcoalition.org Chicago Community Health Workers Local Network: http://ccts5.cstcis.cti.depaul.edu/hco iit magazine | 11 researchbriefs

Xiaoping Qian Qian’s technique skips this middle step, relying on a mathematical principle known as moving least squares, which can define a continuous surface directly from a set of points. Through this approach, objects can be manufactured directly from scan data. For example, a recent project undertaken by then-student Tim Schmidt (AE, ME ’02, M.S. MAE ’09) and doctoral student Pinghai Yang used point cloud scanning data and moving least squares analysis to fabricate a custom-fitted Photo:Michael Goss facemask. The mask was designed for military applications where protection from poisonous gas was required, so a perfect, airtight fit was essential. “Instead of using commercial software, where you have to spend perhaps weeks or even months of an engineer’s time to reconstruct the digital model of the human face,” Qian explains, “we took scanned data and directly sliced it.” These digital thin sections were sent immediately to a reproducing machine, where the parts are “I’ve always been interested in the made by depositing material layer by layer shape or geometry of objects,” Xiaoping All such techniques produce a vast under computer control. The entire process Qian says, reflecting on his fascination quantity of data, amounting to millions or from scanning to finished object takes with the mathematical modeling and billions of discrete points that appear as minutes rather than weeks. manipulation of forms. a cloud-like spray when visualized on a “We call our approach direct digital Qian, assistant professor of mechanical computer. This output—known as point design and manufacturing,” Qian notes, and aerospace engineering, directs IIT’s cloud data—represents the visible surface adding that the fundamental technique Computational Design and Manufacturing of the object that has been scanned or holds promise not only for manufacturing, Laboratory. Established in 2004, the digitized. Working with point cloud data but also for many other fields that use lab develops new technologies for the is tricky, but Qian’s group has made scanned data. Some of these potential computer-aided design and fabrication of significant strides in the mathematical applications are being explored in the lab, three-dimensional objects—innovations handling of this information. including the measurement of complex applicable in diverse industries including In manufacturing a complicated product, aerospace components, the investigation aerospace, automotive, nanotechnology, scan data is typically converted into an of nanoscale structures unveiled by atomic and medical imaging. Qian’s most recent intermediate representation before the force microscopy, and biological material work involves shape information gathered item can then be machine fabricated. acquired through CT or MRI imaging. by electronic scanners—devices that record Point clouds themselves are typically One project currently underway attempts data about a particular three-dimensional not directly usable for 3-D applications, to precisely measure the separation object or environment. but must first be converted to triangle between faceted lumbar joints—a key Modern 3-D scanners have become mesh models, various surface models, or variable for patients with spinal pain. ubiquitous in product design and CAD models through a process referred to manufacture, allowing for the fabrication as reverse engineering. —Richard Harth of objects requiring very precise measurements. Such scanners often use laser light to precisely map the contours of objects, though other modalities—such as X-ray, as in the case of computed tomography—are also widespread. Computer-aided design: www.search.com/reference/Computer-aided_design Computational Design and Manufacturing Laboratory: www.mmae.iit.edu/cadcam 3-D scanners and scanning technology: www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/3D_scanner 12 | iit magazine Bishnoi also balances her commitment to innovative research with a desire to engage students of all ages. In the last two years, her lab Balancing team has included several of the usual suspects—Ph.D.s and master’s- level students—but has also involved many undergraduates and even high school teachers and their students. Bishnoi brings in high school Act teachers, for example, to help with research involving Daphnia, tiny crustaceans she uses in her research, including the project that was Assistant Professor of Chemistry Sandra Whaley Bishnoi aims for featured in Nano Letters. Then she sends the Daphnia back with the balance in her lab at IIT. The chemist and nanotechnologist’s projects teachers to share with their students. One veteran teacher said that the are neither purely theoretical nor immediately practical. experience made science come alive for her for the first time. “It’s not basic science, where we’re studying fundamental elemental “Before, for her, science was a list of rules,” Bishnoi says of the particles, and we’re also not trying to come up with the next miracle teacher. “Now she has participated in the scientific process, learned drug,” says Bishnoi. “We look for the points where nanotechnology how to generate data and how to analyze that data, and then applied interfaces with biological problems. I like doing work that is going it to understanding a system. She’s so enthusiastic about teaching, to have some near-term application. Every project we’re working which is exciting for me. It means I can have an impact not just on on is probably five years away from becoming a product if it was the students in my classroom or my lab, but on the 20 students in her followed through.” classroom this year, next year, and all the following years.” For example, last year Bishnoi published an article in the highly In the same way, Bishnoi looks for projects and rewards that will regarded nanotechnology journal Nano Letters that focused on a motivate and engage the other researchers that work with her. For new method of stabilizing nanoparticles in biological solutions. Her undergraduate students, that often means the chance to see their research involved stabilizing the nanoparticles so they would not names attached to an article in a peer-reviewed journal. For graduate fall out of solution, then studying them to see how they interacted students, it’s the chance to do original research—to explore unknown with an organism’s macrophage system (macrophage cells absorb scientific terrain. foreign elements and remove them from the body). The work is Bishnoi also understands the source of her own motivation. not immediately related to cancer research, but it soon will be: the “My students all leave my lab with an appreciation for what nanoparticles and mapping techniques that her team used could be nanotechnology is, for how it’s being used in society and for how it’s applied to track cancer cells throughout the body. affecting society,” she says. “My focus is on getting people into the lab Now she’s working on and getting them excited another use for the same about being scientists.” technology: creating biosensors that can detect —Steve Hendershot proteins present in serum or saliva. The project is Malvern Instruments article about Bishnoi’s research: www.azom.com/News.asp?NewsID=20410 funded by the United States Nano Letters website: http://pubs.acs.org/journal/nalefd Air Force Surgeon General. National Nanotechnology Initiative: www.nano.gov

Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy student Photo:Bonnie Robinson Maritza Rodriguez [left] observes Sandra Bishnoi pipetting in her laboratory at IIT.

iit magazine | 13 Designer of His Own

he military transport ship made a stately By Marcia Faye entrance into New York Harbor on August 23, 1949, or so it seemed to one young passenger who, along with The son of civil servants, Adamkus was separated many other World War II refugees, had from his family during most of his teenage years traveled more than 4,300 miles across while he worked as one of three publishers of an the Atlantic Ocean from Soviet-occupied underground resistance newspaper. He was able Lithuania. The ship headed directly to to reunite with his family in 1944 and escape to the dock, bypassing Ellis Island by way of a special Germany but returned to Lithuania for a short period congressional act. As the young passenger made to fight the Red Army as part of the National Defence his way to the exit, the captain plucked him from the Force. He rejoined his family and lived with them in crowd, shook his hand, and said, “Young man, you a displaced persons camp for a total of five years Twill have a great future in America.” before being given permission to come to the States. The captain could not have known how propitious Once in Chicago, Adamkus took a job at an a statement he had made to the 23-year-old Valdas automotive parts factory and became active in the Adamkus (CE ’61, Hon. Ph.D. ’99), who would grow city’s growing Lithuanian-American community, up to hold one of this nation’s highest-ranking roles in where he began to establish his reputation as a the Environmental Protection Agency and serve two unifying leader who worked tirelessly to eliminate terms (1998–2003, 2004–09) as president of the Soviet control of the Baltic region. He co-founded homeland he had to leave behind. a federation of young Lithuanian émigrés, Santara- “Nobody could predict that all this was going to Šviesa, and broadcast his messages through Voice happen,” says the 83-year-old Adamkus, recounting of America. He also organized protests against the his first flush of freedom. “It probably was my destiny occupation in his homeland and was instrumental “The principles to be given these opportunities.” While it may indeed in gathering 40,000 signatures in a youth petition have been his destiny to be on that ship, Adamkus calling for the federal government to intervene in of freedom and had been bound—and determined—to uphold the ongoing Soviet deportations of Lithuanians to democracy for his entire life. Siberia. The petition was presented to then-Vice human rights It is now February 16, 2010—coincidentally, President Richard M. Nixon. the 92nd anniversary of Lithuania’s declaration “Those who came here but spent their formative cannot be learned of independence—just over seven months since years in Lithuania had the motive to fight,” he explains Adamkus concluded his last term as president. He about the commitment to liberation that fueled from books; you is staying at the west suburban Chicago townhouse and forged together his new community in the of a friend he is visiting from his days at Lithuania’s United States. have to grow first high school, the Aušra Gymnasium, in . After he graduated from IIT (family friend Liutas up with those Adamkus recalls how, 50 years earlier, another “Leo” Grinius [EE ’53] introduced him to the Lithuanian family provided shelter after his family university), Adamkus was working as a draftsman at ideas so that they immigrated to the United States. an engineering firm when then-Illinois senator Everett “We lived at 7200 South May Street—I remember Dirksen invited him to work on environmental issues become natural the address even today,” says Adamkus of the home for the federal government. The two years Adamkus of , Lithuania’s president in 1926, and thought he would stay turned into a 27-year career and a part of whose family immigrated to Chicago in 1947. Grinius capped by his appointment as administrator of EPA signed the affidavit of support that allowed Adamkus, Region 5, responsible for all air, water, hazardous you.” his parents, and his two siblings to come to the waste, and other pollution-control efforts in Illinois, United States. “They had a very small apartment; , , , , and . my mattress was thrown on the floor,” Adamkus He served the EPA under six presidents, from Nixon says of the Grinius home. “That was my first night to , before he left in 1997 to run for the sleeping in America.” Lithuanian presidency.

14 | iit magazine Valdas Adamkus (CE ’61, Hon. Ph.D. ’99)

One of his proudest moments at the EPA came After living in the United States for 50 years, in 1983 when, under pressure by lobby forces, he Adamkus returned home. During his two terms as refused to alter a report compiled by his team that president, he achieved one of the highest approval fingered the pollutant dioxin as a carcinogen and ratings among Lithuanian politicians, and is still found high levels of the substance in the Great recognized as a moral authority. Photo:Michael Goss Lakes. The matter received national attention when “He was a great administrator and a very honest Adamkus appeared in a congressional hearing on man, one whom you trusted,” says Stanley Balzekas the case, which involved a major chemical company. Jr., president of the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Adamkus notes that while much work still remains in Culture and longtime Chicago businessman. protecting the environment, during his years with the Balzekas met with Adamkus many times over the EPA, Lake Erie was lifted from its “dead lake” status, years and recalls that the former president always the level of polychlorinated biphenyls in Waukegan made himself available to everyone. “He was a man Harbor were reduced, and Chicago’s air pollution of the world, bringing great stability to Lithuania levels dropped. In 1985, President and the surrounding regions,” he says. “He wasn’t presented him with the Presidential Distinguished looking for any personal gain or notoriety.” Rank Award of Distinguished Executive for his By having the opportunity to experience a free overall efforts. society in the United States, Adamkus was able to But an earlier experience at the EPA ultimately further unite the people of Lithuania to champion shifted the professional course for which he was democracy and a better quality of life. destined. In 1972, President Nixon sent him to “The principles of freedom and human rights Moscow to attend an environmental conference cannot be learned from books; you have to grow up as part of an official U.S. delegation. Through this with those ideas so that they become natural and a event, Adamkus secured a side trip to Lithuania— part of you,” he explains. “My two terms as president his first in almost 30 years—and grew more involved were based around those principles. I still try to live in Lithuanian environmental concerns. By the time by them every day.” ■ the ’s control of Lithuania had weakened and was finally broken in 1990, Adamkus had made several return trips to his homeland, where his name and reputation had became widely known. Several political parties asked him to run as a presidential candidate. Valdas Adamkus presidential biography: www.adamkus.lt/en/family/biography.html Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture: www.balzekasmuseum.org

iit magazine | 15 By Richard Harth

If a picture paints a thousand words, a CT In years scan paints 1 million. past, surgeons A search engine for would commonly conduct exploratory While many mammograms surgery—visually scouting within the patient research teams Yongyi Yang (M.S. AMAT ’92, Ph.D. EE ’94), to diagnose an ailment that a picture, in specialize in professor of electrical and computer this case an X-ray, could not detect. While one imaging engineering, is the principal investigator for exploratory surgery still has its place in some modality or an NIH-sponsored project to develop an applications, today complex ailments and the concentrate on innovative image-retrieval system—a sort most life-threatening diseases are assessed the diagnosis of Google for mammography that conducts A computer-simulated tumor with the aid of advanced medical imaging. of one type of created by MIRC for purposes of searches based on images rather than Medical imaging is also used for basic disease, MIRC evaluating imaging methods keywords. Given a patient’s mammogram, scientific research, and to guide development is unique in its the software fetches and displays several and testing of new pharmaceuticals. breadth of areas explored, drawing on $6.3 similar mammograms from a vast library In spite of its high level of sophistication, million in recent research grants, mainly from of stored images, providing the radiologist medical imaging continues to improve at a several different components of the National with examples of relevant past cases for dramatic pace, and IIT’s Medical Imaging Institutes of Health. In addition to refining comparison. “It’s like a doctor with a really Research Center is at the cutting edge of existing imaging methods, MIRC investigators big brain,” Yang says, referring to the search these technological innovations. are exploring entirely new methods, engine’s instant recall from tens of thousands As Miles Wernick, Motorola Professor and such as thermoacoustic imaging, as of historical records. Should the search engine director of MIRC explains, the group focuses well as sophisticated search engines pull up images closely resembling those of on three broad areas of research—creating and computerized analysis techniques better images through development of new for accessing and making sense of imaging devices and procedures, improving medical images. existing images through new mathematical Although IIT lacks a medical school approaches, and understanding the images of its own, MIRC—a branch of IIT’s that are obtained through the application of Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science advanced computer algorithms. “Something and Engineering—benefits from close most people don’t appreciate,” Wernick says, collaborations with the nearby University of “is that modern medical images are not like Chicago Medical Center and Rush University photographs.” Rather than being captured Medical Center, as well as hospitals and directly, as images are in a digital camera, medical schools elsewhere in the United medical images (such as MRI) are computed States and in Canada. by a complicated mathematical algorithm. The following are a few of the promising “It’s in that computation that the image research areas currently under exploration quality is largely defined,” he adds. at MIRC. The human heart in SPECT images used to 16 | iit magazine assess coronary artery disease the mammogram under consideration, it [Left to right] can inform the physician about past patient 1. PET image of outcomes and offer useful hunches as to the a brain showing glucose metabolism benign or malignant nature of irregularities 2. Image showing regions appearing in the patient at hand. The system of iron accumulation could greatly enhance the usefulness of (blue) and tissue mammograms, which are notoriously tricky degeneration (orange/red) in Alzheimer’s disease to interpret, and may also limit unnecessary biopsies and missed cancers. The project will 3. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) nerve fibers be tested using the University of Chicago’s Hospital Information System, a database containing a large number of patient records. imaging provides an attractive alternative a healthy nerve fiber, water is mainly able to X-ray imaging, replacing harmful ionizing to diffuse along the direction of nerve fiber Images on the go radiation with safe microwave frequencies tracts; therefore, by tracing the direction of While brain imaging is typically accomplished capable of penetrating the skull. Anastasio is highest diffusion, one can make a roadmap of by big, expensive machines like CT or MRI working to perfect the mathematical tools, the tracts. scanners, simpler, more portable devices are including image-reconstruction algorithms, When axons have been affected by also being explored. Mark Anastasio (EE ’92), needed to produce accurate images from this disease, this diffusion property changes and associate professor of biomedical engineering, exotic form of data. provides clues to the onset of disease and its along with colleagues at Washington nature. Arfanakis is using DTI in a large-scale University in St. Louis, is working on Mapping the brain’s study of Alzheimer’s disease in collaboration thermoacoustic imaging—a new technique superhighways with Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Chicago to investigate associated microscopic that may be applied clinically within the next While the term gray matter—referring to changes in white-matter tissue. few years. The hybrid method combines concentrations of neuronal cell bodies in Preliminary findings show that DTI may electromagnetic waves with acoustical the brain—is familiar to most, the brain’s reveal changes in brain tissue long before a properties to deliver 3-D images. A short white matter is equally important. White- subject is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. electromagnetic pulse is used to irradiate matter nerve fibers are highways of the Early diagnosis of the disease will allow biological tissue, which absorbs this pulse, central nervous system that connect different identification of the most appropriate human causing emission of acoustic signals that can brain regions and are a focus of research subjects to participate in tests of new drugs be measured and used in conjunction with a for Konstantinos Arfanakis, BME associate for Alzheimer’s patients. Also, early diagnosis mathematical algorithm to form a 3-D map of professor. He has created an atlas of white- of the disease will allow early intervention, the tissue’s properties. matter nerve fibers based on an MRI which could minimize neuronal damage and One of the significant advantages of technique called diffusion tensor imaging associated impairment of mental function. thermoacoustic imaging is that it can be (DTI). The atlas is now available to the And because conventional DTI techniques achieved using a compact device that can scientific community: to date, more than 30 yield poor image quality in the brain regions be wheeled into a hospital room, eliminating groups in more than 12 countries around the that play a major role in the early stages of the need to transport patients to a separate world are using the IIT atlas. Alzheimer’s disease, Arfanakis is developing imaging facility. It could also be used in DTI is able to map neural tracts by new DTI techniques to improve imaging in ambulances, on battlefields, or in other measuring the amount of diffusion of water these regions. remote settings. Further, thermoacoustic molecules within white-matter tissue. Within

Tomography: Key to modern medical imaging

The earliest type of medical imaging—Roentgen’s X-ray—formed a shadow structures. Tomography has led to an ever-expanding alphabet soup picture of the patient’s body onto a photographic plate. The X-ray is still of imaging methods—including CT, MRI, PET, SPECT—each of which widely used, for example, in mammography. However, X-rays are difficult portrays a different property of the body’s structure or function. For to interpret because the information is mixed together: an abnormality example, a PET scan shows how rapidly the body is consuming glucose on the skin cannot be distinguished from one deep within the patient. (sugar); thus, PET scans can show the location of tumors, or regions of the Therefore, most modern methods of medical imaging employ a different brain that become active during specific activities. MRI is like a Swiss Army approach called tomography, which produces images that appear as knife: by changing its computer programming, MRI images can measure virtual slices of the patient’s body. By viewing these slices, the physician many different properties of the body, including blood oxygenation effects can precisely locate and characterize abnormalities in relation to normal that reveal the workings of the brain.

iit magazine | 17 BODY IMAGE Imaging research at IIT’s Medical Imaging Research Center touches all areas of the body.

Head MIRC is developing thermoacoustic imaging, a new technique allowing for a highly mobile imaging platform, combining sound and electromagnetic waves to produce a detailed, non-invasive image of the brain. Diffusion tensor imaging, or DTI, has been applied to the detailed study of the brain’s white-matter fiber tracts. By examining differences in water diffusion through neural fibers, researchers hope to dramatically improve early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s EYE disease and other degenerative brain ailments.

Neck Identifying arterial plaques in the carotid artery through phase contrast imaging will help physicians identify plaques and determine which ones are in danger of rupturing.

Image of the eye Breast taken with a new Microcalcifications in breast tissue and other abnormalities X-ray setup at IIT suggestive of disease are being examined through MIRC’s innovative image retrieval system—a kind of search engine that combs historical patient records, providing physicians with a wealth of diagnostically relevant information. Phase contrast imaging and multiple-image radiography, two advanced forms of X-ray imaging, are being refined to provide more detailed and useful mammography images.

Heart MIRC is developing new 4-D and 5-D approaches to imaging with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) that use advanced image-processing methods to permit new ways of imaging patients with heart disease. MIRC is also developing image analysis methods based on CT scans, which identify vulnerable plaques in coronary arteries.

Joints, Knees, Ankles, Wrists, Elbows, Fingers, Toes, Tendons, Ligaments MIRC investigators are developing techniques of multiple image radiography using three combined images displaying the effects of absorption, refraction, and ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering, providing unprecedented image quality.

Prostate No standard method for imaging prostate cancer currently exists, and existing diagnostic methods are often difficult to interpret. MIRC researchers are exploring the use of multiparametric MRI, hoping to improve algorithms for cancer detection by non-invasive means.

18 | iit magazine Phase contrast imaging Imaging as an Phase contrast X-ray imaging is an area in alternative to biopsy which IIT has high visibility, led by Anastasio, in prostate cancer Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer An estimated 200,000 men will be diagnosed Engineering Jovan Brankov (M.S. EE ’99, with prostate cancer next year, yet there Ph.D. ’02), and Wernick, under three NIH is not an agreed-upon method of imaging research grants: two studying mammography for this prevalent disease. Lacking an and one studying arterial plaques. authoritative imaging tool, doctors must Whereas conventional imaging considers perform uncomfortable biopsy procedures X-rays to behave like rays penetrating the to diagnose the disease. Samil Yetik, ECE body and forming a shadow on an imaging assistant professor, is working with the Slice of a prostate gland showing regions found to be camera, phase contrast imaging views University Health Network, a large health cancerous by one of MIRC’s computer algorithms X-rays as waves, like ordinary visible light. care provider in Canada, to demonstrate a “We’re treating the X-ray system as an new approach to diagnosing prostate cancer. optical system,” Anastasio notes. By using In this method, several kinds of MRI images MIRC researchers have applied to understand wave properties of X-rays, phase contrast are taken during one session, and these medical images, Wernick and colleagues techniques, such as the multiple-image are combined using pattern recognition are trolling the police department’s vast radiography (MIR) technique developed algorithms to produce pictures showing repository of information—one of the largest at IIT, are able to show cancer and other areas of the prostate affected by cancer. This databases of any kind in the country. Their abnormalities of soft tissue with extraordinary method has provided greater than 95 percent goal is to extract from the wealth of existing clarity. Furthermore, the MIR technique accuracy in preliminary studies, and they are police data the patterns of activity that will has technical advantages that may allow planning a larger clinical study to verify these help the police predict future crime. Using mammography to be performed without promising findings. such variables as weather forecasts, recent painful compression of the breast, crime incidents, gang activity, concerns and with a greatly reduced radiation dose. Crime prediction raised at town hall meetings, 911 calls,

Data mining—a strategy for examining and thousands of other variables, they will Predicting the diagnostic large volumes of information in an effort produce maps of projected crime patterns performance of doctors to identify underlying patterns—is at the resembling those seen in brain imaging, in The true measure of a successful imaging heart of a collaboration between IIT, the which hot spots of activity are highlighted. technique is whether it enhances doctors’ Chicago Police Department, and software The project is supported in part through a decision-making abilities. When doctors giant Oracle. Using the analytical techniques grant from the National Institute of Justice. ■ correctly diagnose cancer by using a new type of imaging, the imaging technique is deemed a success. But this raises the question: how can you test the diagnostic PREDICTION DASHBOARD PREDICTED PROBABILITY OF PUBLIC VIOLENCE JULY 10, 2013 performance of doctors? An obvious way is to show doctors hundreds of images, some with cancer and some without, and see whether LIKELY INCIDENTS AGGRAVATED BATTERY (48%) their diagnoses are correct. Unfortunately, HOMICIDE 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE (46%) this approach is not very practical, particularly REASONS FOR ALERT SPECIAL EVENT (GANG ANNIVERSARY) if there is a need to compare many different RECENT GANG CONFLICT (CLICK FOR DETAILS) WEATHER FORECAST imaging methods, requiring doctors to HUMAN INTELLIGENCE examine thousands of images. Under $2.5 FOUR CORNER HUSTLERS MAY RETALIATE AGAINST BLACK SOULS AFTER RECENT million in grants from the NIH, Brankov is SHOOTING AT 28TH AND KOSTNER. developing a software suite that makes these determinations automatically. The software “learns” to predict physicians’ diagnostic performance based on new kinds of medical A mock-up of the display MIRC is creating for the Chicago Police Department; colored blobs images from prior data on their performance are regions where the algorithm expects there will be a likely uptick in crime. in similar prior examples. A portion of Brankov’s work is already in use at Siemens Medical Systems.

National Cancer Institute site on cancer imaging: http://imaging.cancer.gov/imaginginformation/cancerimaging IIT Medical Imaging Research Center: www.iit.edu/mirc iit magazine | 19 As a child, Melissa Shyan- “She swam up me so that her head was Norwalt (M.S. PSYC ’81) was leaning on my left shoulder and her body approached by stray dogs and was pressed against mine,” recalls Shyan- scared horses, and believed Norwalt. “I held her and petted her, and she even then that members of the held me with her pectoral fins. I could feel kingdom Animalia may be more her heart rate start to slow down; she wanted than just creatures of instinct. to be comforted. In comparative cognitive Now an animal behaviorist, psychology, we train animals and ask them Shyan-Norwalt had a special to do things so that we can learn how they experience with a bottlenose think and what they can do. But I don’t always dolphin later in her life that only expect them to have a bond. As people, we strengthened these feelings. develop bonds because we’re sentimental. While enjoying her morning But animals sometimes show you that they coffee at the University of Hawaii at Mãnoa, have really developed a bond with you.” Shyan-Norwalt, then a doctoral student in Shyan-Norwalt says that while it has been experimental psychology, heard a high- shown scientifically that animals do have pitched whistle, much like a teakettle “feelings”—if defined behaviorally or as spouting off. She realized it was coming physiological responses—misconceptions from the dolphin pool and recognized it do occur. It is the job of some applied animal as a distress call: one of the mammals had behaviorists to ensure that the social signals somehow toppled out of the water and was between animals and humans are correctly lying on the concrete perimeter. Except for a interpreted. (After Shyan-Norwalt’s tender few scratches on its back, the female dolphin moment with the bottlenose, the dolphin appeared to be fine and was hoisted back into reverted back to its species-typical ways its water world. Shyan-Norwalt decided to by trying to bite her as soon as its get into the pool to observe the animal more confidence returned.) closely, and got a big surprise.

Photo: Bonnie Robinson 20 | iit magazine An Animal Behavior Society-certified While most of her current pet clients Shyan-Norwalt describes herself as a applied animal behaviorist (CAAB), come from across Ohio and Indiana, Shyan- “debunker” who likes to test commonly held Shyan-Norwalt is one of only 55 individuals Norwalt has traveled to zoos and research assumptions about animals. She is compiling worldwide who hold such a credential. To facilities as a consultant and helped to design data based on her own observations; for qualify for certification, CAABs must have a zoo planned for Korea. Invited to speak example, do dolphins prefer very large pools? advanced degrees in a behavioral science or at veterinary colleges and national animal (For at least one zoo group, no.) Are African veterinary medicine, provide case studies for welfare and shelter conferences, she has been elephants poor visual users? (Actually, they’re review, publish articles in scientific journals, interviewed for local and national TV shows, pretty good.) Her current research focuses on and have years of hands-on supervisory magazines, and newspapers. animal welfare and psychological enrichment experience with animals. Tim Staggs, Shyan-Norwalt’s former student for domestic, exotic, and companion animals Now a psychology professor at Martin at Butler University, assisted her in in zoos and research facilities, trying to University and founder of Companion research on the visual acuity determine whether untested assumptions Animal Problem Solvers, Inc., a of African elephants, about what is considered enriching for a private animal-behavior practice and recalls her as given species is truly so. She also continues operating in Indianapolis, a strong mentor to explore and study new problem-solving , and Dayton, and a visionary. strategies for pet behavior issues. Ohio, Shyan-Norwalt has “She taught “I’m always looking for ways that animals vivid memories of pets from me how to can ‘tell us,’ behaviorally, what they can an early age. Her parents learn, plain and perceive, conceive, comprehend, and made sure there was always simple. Before I problem-solve,” says Shyan-Norwalt. enough room in her baby began working She offers a number of educational carriage to share with with her, I was presentations, including one for pet owners “Junior,” the family’s a first-generation and caregivers interested in how to interpret mixed-breed dog. college student dog and cat facial expressions, body language, “At one point, we had four struggling in school and other communication signals. Based horses, three dogs, two cats, a and on academic on scientific research, the talk exposes parrot, a canary, and a Siamese fighting probation,” explains Staggs, the myths and discusses the realities of fish,” says Shyan-Norwalt, thinking back to now a private-practice attorney. “After meeting dominance in the dog, cat, and human her childhood in semi-rural Lloyd Harbor, a her, I graduated magna cum laude from both species. Shyan-Norwalt says, for example, suburb of New York. “By the time I was 12, I undergraduate and law schools. She was the with almost every mammal a stare is knew that I wanted to become a veterinarian.” first teacher who taught me to work with all considered a form of challenge, but one She instead combined her interests in human that ‘potential’ others had been talking about with a fairly big twist. cognition with comparative cognitive work my whole life.” “If it’s done within species, it could mean, and became what some have endearingly ‘I want to dominate you,’ she says. “If it’s across described as a “pet shrink.” species, it could mean, ‘I want to eat you.’” ■

For several years, Melissa Shyan-Norwalt was a scientist with Iams Company, a manufacturer of premium dog and cat foods, and worked on behavior-modification programs for dogs and cats with adjustment problems. Though she has seen exceptions to the rule, Shyan-Norwalt says that behaviorists use three key principles to positively alter almost any animal’s unattractive habits. “We find a good reinforcer, like food or petting,” she says, “then maximize how the animal understands what is being asked of it—what stimuli it is able to recognize and what mediating cues are needed to teach it the task. Finally, we take baby steps. They are needed to break down the desired behaviors into manageable units that can bring the animal to do what we want, whether that is pressing a lever or not attacking another dog on a walk.”

Animal Behavior Society: www.animalbehavior.org Companion Animal Problem Solvers, Inc.: http://home.earthlink.net/~companion-animal-problem-solvers

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Joyce Foster James Lemke Mark Peiser ➔ Charles L. Lipkin 1940s (ME ’53, M.S. ’59), Huntsville, (PHYS ’59), La Jolla, Calif., is (DSGN ’62), Penland, N.C., (ME ’65), Naperville, Ill., ➔ Jerome Klipp Ala., recently retired as an founder of Achates Power, a was one of six individuals retired as chief engineer (ME ’43), Carlsbad, Calif., aerospace engineer. He clean-tech startup that has to receive the 2009 North and owner of CL Consulting has spent his recent years as served for 32 years with raised $12.1 million in venture Carolina Award. The state’s Engineering in 2007, and a consultant in construction NASA’s Marshall Space Flight capital to develop a cleaner, highest honor, the award also after serving in many defects. A Licensed Center, six years supporting more efficient automotive recognizes contributions made engineering and management Professional Engineer in the Canadian Space Agency, engine. Lemke is an adjunct in fine arts, literature, public positions with Andrew California, Klipp has been and 15 years as an aerospace professor of electrical and service, and science. Peiser is a Corporation. He enjoys model licensed in more than 20 states consultant. Foster worked computer engineering at glass artist whose works are in building, choral singing, bicycle and in Israel. closely with Wernher von the University of California, collections in institutions such riding, and traveling with his ➔ Ralph Arboe Braun from the mid-1950s San Diego. as the Art Institute of Chicago, wife, Barbara. (ME ’44), Hot Springs Village, to the mid-1970s and the Smithsonian’s National ➔ Roger B. Hirsch Ark., turned 87 in December more recently, worked on Museum of American History, 1960s (ME ’66), Evanston, Ill., is 2009. During his career, projects for the International ➔ Phillip I. Rosenberg the Lucerne Museum of Art, president of Unitrol Electronics, Arboe won contracts for Space Station. (EE ’60), Highwood, Ill., is a and the Tokyo Museum of Inc., where he has been the Minuteman Missile, got principal with Newmark Knight Modern Art. ➔ Donald I. Hoke involved in developing and Purdue University’s two- Frank Epic. He has two grown (CHEM ’53), Chagrin Falls, ➔ Joseph Leonardi producing electronic systems year engineering programs children, is an avid tennis Ohio, is retired from the (EE ’63), Coto de Caza, Calif., for the control of resistance accredited for a four-year player, and enjoys traveling to Lubrizol Corporation. has been a sales director welding machines. Hirsch program, and started his own Aspen, Colo. He has two sons and responsible for carrier, agent, is a professional jazz pianist business, OEM Industries, Inc. four grandchildren. government, and education and also restores antique He has two grown children, ➔ Arthur G. Salzman (M.S. ARCH ’60), Evanston, sales at Time Warner Cable clocks in his spare time. as well as grandchildren and ➔ Kenneth Mendelson Ill., retired as a consulting Business Class since December He and his wife, Carol, have great-grandchildren. Arboe (PHYS ’55), Milwaukee, architect in December 2007. 2008. He and his wife, three grown children and enjoys swimming and working Wis., retired from Marquette He has been singing and Martha, have two children, eight grandchildren. in his yard. University as a professor performing as a serious ages 22 and 19. emeritus of physics. He ➔ Michael M. King amateur since 1973. 1950s remains involved with the ➔ Morton Rosen (CHEM ’66), Washington, ➔ Harold Rechter American Physical Society and ➔ Lauren Arthur Barry (IE ’63), Chicago, retired and D.C., is chair of the (CHE ’50), Scottsdale, Ariz., the American Association of (EE ’61), Seattle, is retired sold his business, Polyfoam Department of Chemistry at retired from the Chicago Physics Teachers. from The Boeing Company, Packers, in 2002. He and his George Washington University. Fire Brick Company as vice wife of 46 years, Leora, have He is a leader in his Advisory Nicholas Raimondi Commercial Airplanes president and director of Division. He and his wife two sons, ages 41 and 38. Neighborhood Watch program (CE ’55), Chicago, is a retired research. He and his wife, have six children and Rosen volunteers in various and on the board of directors civil engineer. He was the Linda, like to hike in the desert enjoy hiking, biking, and nonprofit and business of the George Washington president of National Survey areas near Scottsdale. traveling worldwide. advisory situations. Hillel. He and his wife have Service, Inc., a professional one child, age 22. ➔ Toru Bill Ogasawara land surveying firm operating ➔ Norman Lemley Charles Goldstein ➔ (EE ’51), Seattle, retired in Illinois and its surrounding (FPSE ’61), Arlington, Va., is a (ME ’64), Sumter, N.C., is Mike Mickley from The Boeing Company, states. Raimondi has two sons maritime safety and security retired after a 45-year career in (CHE ’66), Boulder, Colo., is Commercial Airplanes Division, who are both registered land consultant. He has served on engineering and management. principal technologist with after 30 years of service. surveyors, continuing the government delegations to the He and his wife of 47 years, Mickley & Associates. He In retirement, Ogasawara work of the firm. He and United Nations International Susan, have three children and and his wife, Pam Lambert, plays pickleball and billiards, his wife, Estelle, enjoy their Maritime Organization and five grandchildren. have two children and two and is in his 17th year as a four grandchildren. grandchildren. Mickley’s with the United States Coast Alan Kawitt volunteer organist at a local Guard for 36 years, retiring interests include playing Donald Novotny (LAW ’65), Chicago, received nursing home. both as a civilian (member of jazz trombone and studying (EE ’56, M.S. ’57), Madison, his United States Coast Guard the Senior Executive Service) new science and alternative- ➔ John R. Wettroth Wis., professor emeritus at license as a captain master of and as a military member medicine practices. (BE ’51), Arlington, Va., retired the University of Wisconsin- the U.S. Merchant Marine in (captain, USCG Reserve). after 30 years of service with Madison, received the 2009 summer 2009. Kawitt practices ➔ Claude Flandro Lemley and his wife, Laura the United States Navy. He Nikola Tesla Award from the maritime law. (CHE ’67), Sagamore Hills, (DSGN ’62), have two has four grown children, is a Institute of Electrical and Ohio, is vice president of direct grown children. member of the Kiwanis Club, Electronics Engineers. He ➔ Donald J. Kerlin sales for ControlSoft, Inc. and enjoys sailing. recently completed his 50th (FPSE ’65), Alexandria, He and his wife, Carol, are year of teaching. Va., is chief of the Program easing into retirement in the ➔ Charles Stade Management Branch, Office Cleveland area. (CHE ’52), Oak Park, Ill., ➔ James Dayton of Auxiliary and Boating worked in computer science (EE ’59), Cleveland, is a co- Safety, in the United States ➔ William Velon until his retirement. He is owner and chief technology Coast Guard Headquarters, (CE ’67), Orland Park, Ill., is interested in photography, officer of Teraphysics Corp. Washington, D.C. He and semi-retired and is a private traveling, and writing He and his wife, Carol, are his wife, Marcella, have four investor. He has a son and a scholarly papers. empty nesters. children and six grandchildren. daughter, and is active in his local church.

22 | iit magazine ➔ Jerome Zis ➔ Unmeel Mehta (M.S. EE ’67), Saratoga, Calif., (M.S. MAE ’68, Ph.D. ’72), retired from Analog Devices Los Altos, Calif., is division Cheryl Hyman Appointed as product line director for scientist at NASA Ames City Colleges of Chicago Chancellor amplifiers. He enjoys being Research Center. For most with his grandchildren, of his career, Mehta has Cheryl Hyman (CS ’96), who served as vice president of traveling, playing in local worked on computational operations strategy and business intelligence at ComEd, was bands, and repairing fluid dynamics and space appointed chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago on April 1. woodwind instruments. transportation. He has two Hyman’s path to overseeing a $476 million per year children, ages 26 and 24. education system with 5,700 employees is an inspirational ➔ Charles Herckis one, especially to people who may feel that there is no way (CE ’68, M.P.A. ’94, M.P.W. ➔ Zuhair Suidan out of their present circumstances. When she was 17, Hyman ’97), Oak Park, Ill., has been (MAE ’68, M.B.A. ’70), dropped out of Orr High School and left the Chicago home she working on cutting into a New Canaan, Conn., founded shared with her drug-addicted parents. Over time, she charted major gas transmission line Suidan Associates consultancy a new course for her life, obtaining degrees from IIT, North to install a new crossing after retiring from IBM. He Park University, Oliver-Harvey College, and Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate under the Rio Grande River and his wife, Jean, have four School of Management. Hyman joined ComEd in 1996 and held positions in a variety of in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. At the grown children. departments there before becoming a vice president. 2009 American Society of While at ComEd, Hyman was active in the Exelon African American Members Civil Engineers Pipeline William Dorner Association and was instrumental in ComEd’s corporate sponsorship of the Black Star Conference, Herckis presented (EE ’69), Mount Prospect, Ill., Project, an organization committed to improving the quality of life in black and Latino a paper about cutting into is managing director and communities of Chicago and nationwide by eliminating the racial academic-achievement and redirecting the flow of chief executive officer of gap. Hyman also serves as chair of the project’s advisory board and was elected to the a 90-inch water line to Dorner Associates, Inc., an board of directors of The Night Ministry, dedicated to helping homeless and runaway youth. allow for construction of a industrial inkjet-printing She has been sworn in under the State of Illinois as a court-appointed special advocate for new runway at O’Hare specialty company providing abused and neglected children who are wards of the juvenile court system. International Airport. services worldwide.

➔ Merrill Hoyt ➔ Paul Gartz (LAW ’68), Chicago, is (EE ’69), Seattle, travels ➔ Larry Hoeksema ➔ Robert Roth widely as an Institute of 1970s (ARCH ’71), San Diego, is (DSGN ’73), Seattle, works at currently a sole practitioner. He ➔ Robert Borowski Electrical and Electronics a principal with Architects the University of Washington is president of Friedman Place, (CHEM ’70), Bethesda, Md., Engineers Distinguished Mosher Drew Watson developing programs to a residence for adults who is a principal analyst for Lecturer, speaking on systems Ferguson and currently serves encourage deaf and hard-of- are visually impaired, and Analytic Services, Inc. He is engineering for twenty-first as president of the San Diego hearing students to enter the president of Counseling Center also a retired United States century business development Architectural Foundation. He field of computing. He and his of Lake View. Hoyt is married Army officer. and has three children. and trans-national systems- and his wife, Karen, enjoy partner, John, enjoy boating on of-systems. Gartz has two ➔ Donald Lelonis running and hiking along the Puget Sound. ➔ William Jarosz children, ages 29 and 27, and Southern California coast. (MET ’70), Strongsville, Jon Knudson (MATH ’68), Boston, retired enjoys travel/cultures, boating, Ohio, retired from Advanced They have four children and (LAW ’74), Vashon, Wash., from Fidelity Investments, and sports. Ceramics Corporation after several grandchildren. and his wife, Korina, recently where he was vice president of more than 30 years of service. ➔ Henry Hyman ➔ William Maguire celebrated the third birthday systems architecture. He now He has four children and (M.S. SOCT ’69), Pismo Beach, (M.S. DSGN ’72), Homestead, of their son, Jon Kenneth enjoys composing, performing, 14 grandchildren. and listening to music. Calif., retired from a career in Fla., is a professor of art Knudson, named for his cousin, writing, radio, and television, ➔ Eugene Polley and art history at Florida Ken Knudson, who died in a ➔ Dennis Lyzniak and is currently curator of (ES ’70), San Diego, runs International University. plane tragedy near Palwaukee, (CE ’68), Miami Lakes, the National Cigar History his own tax- and business- Ill., in January 2006. Knudson ➔ Ramsis Sarofim Fla., retired from Parsons Museum. His wife, Marilee consulting practice and practices law on Vashon Island (M.S. CE ’72, Ph.D. ’76), Corporation as vice president (M.S. SOCT ’69), also retired coaches the Little League team and races sailboats. Lisle, Ill., has worked at major of transportation. He currently as the chief financial officer of of his 11-year-old son, Aaron. volunteers with the Boy Scouts a publishing company, and is companies in Chicago and Jim Lavine of America. Lyzniak and his now active in city and county ➔ Stuart Zwang has provided consultations (LAW ’74), Houston, is wife, Clara, have four children politics. The Hymans have two (CHE ’70), Highland Park, overseas in the areas of power president-elect of the National and enjoy volunteering and grown children. Ill., is a principal with the plants (nuclear, hydro, and Association of Criminal managing the Community First Inspection Network and fossil), transmission lines and Defense Lawyers and a partner Theatre of Miami Lakes. Bernard Paul manager of Home Raters, Inc. substations, bridges, and in the firm of Zimmerman, (LAW ’69), DeKalb, Ill., has A National Collegiate Athletic petrochemicals. He has written Lavine, Zimmerman & ➔ Tom McMurchie represented municipalities for Association soccer referee, technical papers on structural Sampson, PC. In 2007, Lavine (MATH ’68), Sammamish, 40 years. He has authored Zwang and his wife, Lorri, engineering published in major received the Robert C. Heeney Wash., is engineering manager chapters on local government have two children, Nicholas international conferences in Memorial Award, NACDL’s and chief system architect topics published by the Illinois and Rebecca. the United States, Canada, most prestigious honor, given for Strobe Data, Inc. He and Institute for Continuing France, , , Sweden, annually to the one criminal his wife, Carol, have four Legal Education and has also ➔ Balfour Donald and China. Sarofim has defense lawyer who best daughters, ages 40, 27, chaired the Illinois Municipal (CHEM ’71), Costa Mesa, three children. exemplifies the goals and and 16-year-old twins. League’s Home Rule Attorneys Calif., retired from American values of the association and ➔ McMurchie is the inventor of Committee. Paul is married Airlines as a captain. Stephen Barlow the legal profession. the board game Tsuro, and and has four children, three He enjoys photography (FPSE ’73), Cherry Hills, Colo., ➔ enjoys mountain hiking and who are in college and one and woodworking. is a partner with Lockton Margo Tuite trail running. who is an IIT Chicago-Kent Companies. He is married (M.S. PSYC ’74, Ph.D.’81), College of Law graduate. ➔ Laura Fanning and has two children, ages Chicago, retired from (DSGN ’71), Little Rock, Ark., 16 and 14. the City of Chicago retired in 2008 and is creating Department of Public Health art, volunteering in animal as a clinical psychologist. rescue, and enjoying life with her husband and 2-year-old granddaughter.

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➔ Rich Adamczewski ➔ Bruce Lanyon ➔ Edward Koizumi ➔ Chuck Manchen John Neuenschwander (M.S. IE ’75), Oak Park, Ill., (ARCH ’77), San Francisco, (DSGN ’80), Oak Park, Ill., is (CS ’81), Phoenix, Ariz., is (LAW ’83), Kenosha, Wis., is is a senior systems analyst is the director of Project a model, props, and special a senior analyst with CVS/ the municipal judge for the for Loyola University Health Management Services at The effects maker. He also mentors Caremark. He and his wife, City of Kenosha. Until his System. He and his wife, Doris, Presidio Trust. In his spare students through IIT Institute Pam, have two sons. retirement last year, he also and their three grown children time, Lanyon practices Anusara of Design workshops. Koizumi served as a professor of history enjoy attending concerts and yoga and participates in an and his wife, Carol, are ➔ Anne Burman at Carthage College. His book the opera, and have been occasional triathlon. restoring their old house in (LAW ’82), Anchorage, is chief A Guide to Oral History and enjoying the United States west suburban Oak Park. legal advisor to the Alaska the Law was published by while traveling in a pop-up ➔ Robert Heller District Corps of Engineers Oxford University Press camper for nearly 20 years. (Ph.D. PSYC ’78), ➔ Bala Mathiprakasam for regulatory and civil works. in 2009. Adamczewski and his wife Lincolnwood, Ill., after more (Ph.D. MAE ’80), Leawood, She enjoys photography, have also participated in many than 20 years in private Kan., retired as principal snowshoeing, and hiking. ➔ Larry Sills volunteer opportunities. practice, re-entered the research scientist with Midwest (LAW ’83), Solon, Ohio, is academic world by joining Research Institute, where he ➔ Kenneth Burns a senior vice president and ➔ Michael Cerino Adler School of Professional researched human body- (CHE ’82), Thornton, Colo., is portfolio manager with (EG ’75), Alexandria, Va., Psychology as core faculty and cooling technologies. He and a financial advisor at Morgan Wells Fargo Advisors in the heads the Explosive Ordnance program director of its newly his wife, Pavalamani, enjoy Stanley Smith Barney. He Cleveland area. He and his Disposal Technology developed school counseling traveling to and Asia. and his wife, Cynthia York, wife, Janet, have three children Department of L-3 program. work side-by-side as financial and one grandchild. Communications. He and his Sherita Ceasar advisors and enjoy every wife, Nicole, have two girls, ➔ William Hoff (ME ’81, M.S. ’84), minute of it. They are both ➔ Kong-Chung Wang ages 13 and 10. (PHYS ’78), Golden, Colo., is Philadelphia, has been very active with community (M.A.S. CHE ’83), Cupertino, an associate professor in the awarded a place in CableFAX activities and dote on their Calif., is chief operating ➔ Robert Zagar Engineering Division at the magazine’s “2009 Most nieces and nephews. officer with Chemists Without (M.S. PSYC ’75), Chicago, Colorado School of Mines. He Influential Minorities in Cable: Borders. He is enjoying a is chief executive officer of is married and has two sons, The Second 50,” an annual Thomas Cloonan second career in the nonprofit Dr. Robert John Zagar, PC ages 20 and 18. survey of cable’s diverse (EE ’82), Lisle, Ill., chief sector after 20 years in the and Zagar Safety Group, Inc. power brokers and strategy officer with the high-tech industry. He and his wife volunteer in ➔ Dilip Rao inspirational leaders. ARRIS Group, Inc., has Chicago’s Polish community (M.S. MAE ’78), San Jose, been named a fellow of the Demetrios Kottaras and enjoy traveling overseas to Calif., is a supervisor and Shimon Dick Institute of Electrical and (LAW ’84), Oak Lawn, Ill., is visit family and friends. advisory engineer in nuclear (M.S. EE ’81), Buffalo Grove, Electronics Engineers. an associate judge of the Cook analysis at AREVA. He enjoys Ill., has been promoted to County Circuit Court. Prior to ➔ Kent Brooten music and travel. general manager of Motorola ➔ Jeff Hulett this appointment, Kottaras was (EE ’76), Kent, Wash., is Israel from his role as director (EE ’82), Encinitas, Calif., is a circuit judge assigned to the national sales manager for ➔ Elena Sheehan of Israel Markets Operation. founder and chief technology Child Protection Division. Crane Interpoint. He and (M.S. PHOT ’78), San Dick will also assume officer of Vektrex Electronic his wife, Cheryl, have been Francisco, has retired from the presidency upon his Systems, a company providing Demitris Kouris married for 35 years and have teaching photography predecessor’s full retirement. reliability systems for LED (M.S. CE ’84), Fort Worth, three grown children. Brooten but continues to make manufacturers. He and his Texas, is dean of the College has been a Scoutmaster for the photographic art. She recently Richard Hayes wife, Melissa, live in a restored of Science and Engineering past 33 years, and is an ultra- was artist-in-residence at the (ARCH ’81), Chicago, joined 1948 beach cottage, run at Texas Christian University. marathon runner, a mountain Skopelos Foundation for the Risinger + Associates as vice marathons together, and travel Before coming to TCU, climber, and a woodworker. Arts in . Sheehan has president in October 2009. often to visit Vektrex clients in Kouris was on the faculty of three granddaughters. Hayes came to Risinger Europe and Asia. Arizona State University and ➔ Margaret O’Mara + Associates from pb2 the University of Wyoming, Frossard Jeffrey Warnick Architecture & Engineering, ➔ Chris Winston where he also headed the (LAW ’76), Chicago, is a justice (LAW ’78), Arlington Heights, where he was vice president (ME ’82), Pittsburgh, serves Department of Mechanical with the Illinois Appellate Ill., is an associate judge of of architecture. as project manager/business Engineering. Kouris is a fellow Court. She enjoys teaching the Cook County Circuit Court. analyst on various Maximo® of the American Society of and volunteering in the Warnick was previously Brian Hoekstra implementation projects at Mechanical Engineers. Chicago area. with Prusik, Selby, Daley (PHYS ’81), Scottsdale, Ariz., Projetech. He and his wife, & Kezelis, PC. is chief executive officer Mary, have two children, ages ➔ Tanya Solov ➔ Terry Bowie and member of the board 12 and 8. (BA ’84, LAW ’89), Chicago, (MGT ’77), Silver Spring, Md., ➔ Richard Lysakowski of directors of IA Global, Inc., is director of the Illinois is the deputy chief financial (CHEM ’79), Medford, a business process Secretary of State’s officer with NASA. He and his Mass., began his own trade outsourcing and financial Securities Department. wife have two children. Bowie organization, the Collaborative services corporation. enjoys golf, drag racing the Electronic Notebook Systems 1966 Mustang he built, and Association. He is interested volunteering with the in entrepreneurship and Boy Scouts. options trading. See What’s New Through Velocity ➔ Steven G. Cheehy 1980s The Velocity Initiative is revealing new and exciting (MAE ’77), Woodbridge, Va., ➔ Robert Eaker is an associate principal with (FPSE ’80), Renton, Wash., information about your fellow classmates. In this and AECOM. He and his wife, is a corporate fire protection future issues of IIT Magazine, all alumni class notes Debbie, have four children. and safety engineer with that resulted from a Velocity interview are marked The Boeing Company. He has lived in the Seattle area for 22 with the ➔ icon. To submit your own class note years and enjoys family, golf, online, visit www.iit.edu/alumni or write to us at and fishing. [email protected].

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Growing up some 15 miles from systems in Willis Tower, notes that across designing a high-performance hotel next to downtown Chicago in west suburban the United States existing buildings account Willis Tower. The firm signed on to do the La Grange, Ill., Sara Beardsley (ARCH ’02) for 40 percent of energy needs while new hotel but asked the owners to first consider found her gaze continually drawn to the buildings require only 1 percent. greening the tower as a way to meet the city’s famous skyline. Years later, she is “The Willis Tower greening and new hotel’s energy needs. leading a team responsible for reshaping sustainability efforts will serve as an According to Beardsley, a feasibility study one of the skyline’s most prominent education tool for the rest of the buildings done on Willis Tower helped to determine landmarks. While its name change from across the world,” says Jalayerian, who which green ideas would reap the greatest Sears Tower to Willis Tower made local and is also an adjunct research professor benefits for both design projects, and national news in 2009, the tallest building in in the Ph.D. program at IIT College of it showed that the savings potential on the Western Hemisphere is now undergoing Architecture. By the time Willis Tower’s the existing tower could make a much a quieter revolution—it’s going green. major greening efforts are expected to be larger impact in terms of reducing carbon Beardsley, project architect for the complete in 2016, a savings of 80 percent of emissions than even the highest-efficiency proposed $300 million renovation, says that the annual base building energy usage will new building. The goal of both projects is to just about every major system—from the be realized. illustrate how sustainable technology can windows to the elevators to the plumbing— Willis Tower has made advances over the be best used in an existing building and a in the 37-year-old Chicago commercial past two decades in reducing its annual new building. icon will be brought up to speed for these electricity consumption and water usage, “Reducing the energy demands of sustainable times. What’s more, the project and improving its lighting efficiency, but Willis Tower would be equivalent to will showcase how to effectively retrofit the current project is considered to be the powering the hotel many times over,” says other skyscrapers. most significant sustainable modernization Beardsley. “Once the greening project is “There’s so much potential in existing project of an existing building ever complete, the hotel and tower are going to buildings,” says Beardsley, who serves as a undertaken. The building’s owners decided take less energy together than Willis Tower senior architect at Chicago-based Adrian to reduce the tower’s carbon footprint takes today.” Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, the firm even further after performing a feasibility Some renewable strategies—wind heading the project. “It’s almost like having study with Beardsley and other AS + GG turbines, solar panels, and a green roof a well of energy.” members, whom they approached about at 1,100 feet—are being tested as part of Mehdi Jalayerian, senior vice the project, says Beardsley, who joined president and managing principal of the AS + GG for its emphasis on energy- International and Special Projects Division efficient and sustainable architecture. of Environmental Systems Design, Inc., the company contracted to reposition AS + GG Architecture: www.smithgill.com — Marcia Faye the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing Willis Tower Project: www.willistower.com/icon iit magazine | 25 alumninews

Beverly Berneman ➔ Napoleon Garcia David Marx Richard Jacobson Gail O’Connor (LAW ’85), Northbrook, Ill., (EE ’88), Orlando, Fla., is (Ph.D. PHYS ’91), Normal, (ME ’94), Highland Park, Ill., (LAW ’96), Chicago, has was admitted to practice by technology manager of the Ill., received tenure and is chief executive officer of the been named to the 2009 “40 the United States Supreme Rosen College of Hospitality was advanced to associate Jacobson Group, a national Illinois Attorneys Under Forty Court in Washington, D.C. Management at the University professor of physics at Illinois professional and human to Watch” by the Law Bulletin She is the chair of Querrey & of Central Florida. He and his State University. capital-services firm serving Publishing Company. She is a Harrow’s Intellectual Property wife, Bernadette, enjoy going the insurance, health care, and solo family-law practitioner Practice Group in their Chicago on cruises and revisiting the Montel Gayles financial services industries. focusing on custody litigation. office. Berneman also practices Chicago area. They have two (LAW ’92), Chicago, joined Jacobson recently began In addition to representing bankruptcy law. children, ages 20 and 15. the Chicago office of Hinshaw authoring a blog, offering parents, O’Connor is often & Culbertson as a partner in insight on timely topics appointed by the judges in the ➔ Daniel Huang William Griffin the firm’s litigation practice in affecting the firm’s Domestic Relations Division to (Ph.D. CHE ’85), Palo Alto, (LAW ’88), Glencoe, Ill., is October 2009. He previously niche industries. represent children who are the Calif., is a fellow at Novartis. senior vice president and served as chief procurement subject of custody disputes. He and his wife, Daphne, have Midwest public affairs practice officer for the City of Chicago. ➔ Robert Pierce three daughters. leader for Hill & Knowlton. (CE ’94), Chicago, is a ➔ Susan (Held) Andersen Griffin served as press ➔ Stanley Hill Certified Internal Auditor (LAW ’97), Austin, Texas, is ➔ Yvonne (Gnatowski secretary and chief of staff for (LAW ’92), Holden, Mass., is and works for the American global labor and employment Swan) English former Chicago mayor Jane the owner of IP Law, LLC. Hospital Association. Pierce counsel for Whole Foods (M.S. CS ’86), Dana Point, Byrne. In 1981, he formed his enjoys international travel. Market. She has three children, ➔ Calif., is a landscape architect own public affairs firm, Brady John Sevic ages 11, 9, and 6. and principal of her firm, Griffin, Inc. After earning his (M.S. EE ’92), Los Gatos, ➔ Bill Hartman Legends Design Studio, Inc. law degree, he became a law Calif., markets wireless (M.Des. ’95), Brookline, ➔ Janina Malone She and her husband, partner in the firm of Lison & semiconductors and often Mass., is director of research (LAW ’97), Portland, Ore., Ken, enjoy sketching, and Griffin, PC. travels to China. He is on and strategy at Essential, a is a principal with Janina A. sailing and swimming in the Editorial Review Board consultancy in downtown Malone, PC. She and her southern California. Leonard Greer for the Institute of Electrical Boston. He and his wife, Laura, husband, Baxter, have a (BA ’89), Glen Rock, N.J., and Electronics Engineers have two children, ages 13 and 4-year-old son. ➔ Mostafa Analoui is senior vice president Microwave Theory and 11. Hartman enjoys running, (M.S. EE ’87), New York, is for marketing for CVS/ Techniques Society. Sevic has skiing, and visiting with his ID Peter Spingola the head of Healthcare and Caremark’s pharmacy benefit a 6-year-old daughter and is friends whenever they manage (LAW ’97), Park Ridge, Ill., Life Science Investment at The management business. Prior a member of the Los Gatos to cross paths. has been named to the 2009 Livingston Group, where he to joining CVS/Caremark, Bicycling Club. “40 Illinois Attorneys Under works in global investment Greer held an executive-level ➔ Tim Shea Forty to Watch” by the Law and global innovation and position at ActiveHealth and Mark Brown (LAW ’95), Arlington, Va., Bulletin Publishing Company. health technology initiatives. several senior marketing roles (LAW ’93), Highland Park, is a partner in the biotech/ He is a partner with Chapman He enjoys spending time with at Medco Health. Ill., recently obtained a $1.2 chemical group at Sterne, & Spingola, LLP, concentrating his family. million verdict from a Cook Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, PLLC, on complex commercial Donald Tegeler County jury in a medical an intellectual property firm and intellectual property Gregg Deeb (LAW ’89), Geneva, Ill., is a malpractice case involving in Washington, D.C. He and matters. Among his courtroom (MAE ’87), Corpus solo practitioner in Geneva. the “lost chance” to provide his wife, Katherine, have three successes is a $22 million Christi, Texas, has been life-saving medical treatment daughters. In his free time, judgment for Swift Engineering promoted from operations to a 44-year-old woman Shea coaches his daughters’ from two Fortune 500 defense manager to vice president 1990s who died from a ➔ Tim McCarthy soccer team. contractors for technology that of manufacturing and rig subarachnoid hemorrhage. (BA ’90), San Diego, settled launched the next generation sustainment at Orion Drilling David Slutzky in southern California after of unmanned air vehicles. Company, and is responsible Gawain Charlton-Perrin (LAW ’95), Charlottesville, serving in the United States for all facets of new rig design (LAW ’93), Hinsdale, Ill., Va., and his wife, Melissa, ➔ Elizabeth Stewart Marine Corps. He currently and existing rig modification works in the lawyers’ risk founded the environmental (LAW ’97), Naperville, Ill., is owns his own consulting upgrades. Before joining management program at CNA and economic policy firm employed as a legal assistant company and is always looking Orion, he was on active duty insurance company. E2Inc. As a recognized expert at Barnes & Thornburg, LLP. for new entrepreneurial in the United States Marine on environmental policy She is married to John Miller; opportunities. McCarthy ➔ Corps for 20 years, retiring as a Daniel T. Brown issues, Slutzky served in the they have three children, ages enjoys playing golf, coaching lieutenant colonel. (LAW ’94), Alexandria, Va., is White House as a senior 25, 17, and 6. his daughter’s basketball team, a partner in the Washington, policy advisor, where he led and working out. ➔ Nile W. Gossett D.C., office of LeClairRyan. the International Task Force James Abbott (BA ’87), Oak Park, Ill., is He and his wife, Kathy, enjoy (LAW ’98), Geneva, Ill., ➔ Jean-Pierre Ruiz of the President’s Council on president and chief executive traveling with their children, joined the Chicago office of (LAW ’90), Bellevue, Wash., is Sustainable Development. officer of Best Practices ages 12 and 9. Litchfield Cavo as a partner in managing partner of EcoStar He is a part-time urban and Training, Inc. He enjoys June 2009. Abbott practices Law, PLLC, a boutique law firm environmental planning spending time with his family, Anurag Gupta in a wide variety of general specializing in providing legal professor at the University going to sports games with (M.B.A. ’94), Carmel, Ind., commercial litigation and trial services to small businesses of Virginia. friends, volunteering, working is president of Brightpoint settings, including product and nonprofit organizations, with young people, and going Europe, Middle East, and ➔ John Kelly liability; toxic torts; medical as well as representing the to the gym. Africa. Prior to his new (M.A.S. ENVE ’96), San malpractice; professional interests of people who take role, he was senior vice Francisco, and his wife, and executive liability; care of companion animals. In ➔ Nisha Kumar president for global strategy, Shaheerah Kelly (CHE ’96), construction, labor, and his spare time, Ruiz reads, is (LAW ’87), Washington, D.C., investor relations, and are both working toward employment; and municipal learning to play the guitar, is a senior attorney-advisor corporate communications clean air in the United States law. He was previously with and bicycles. with the United States for Brightpoint, Inc., a global Environmental Protection Bollinger, Ruberry & Garvey. Department of Energy. She leader in the distribution Agency’s San Francisco office. enjoys traveling, reading, and of wireless devices and in They have two daughters. practicing yoga. Kumar has providing customized two children, ages 16 and 14. logistic services to the wireless industry.

26 | iit magazine Clinking glasses of freshly pressed juice to toast the completion of the grape harvest with field workers in France’s Loire Valley was just one of tw -wheeled life’s unexpected pleasures that Bob Hoel (BE ’70) has experienced by swapping four wheels for two. Hoel, who was inducted into the Active Transportation Alliance 2009 Hall of Fame for his bicycle advocacy efforts, and his wife, Nancy, take at least one vacation each year where their crusader custom-made red, white, and blue DaVinci tandem bicycle is their primary mode of local transportation. At home in western suburban Elmhurst, Ill., Hoel is known as the “Bike Guy” for his roles as director of advocacy for the Elmhurst Bicycle Club and as chair of the Bicycle Task Force for the City of Elmhurst. Hoel admits that he began bicycling in the mid-1990s because a recurrent ruptured back disc ended his running regimen. Since then, he has embraced bicycling and on the average, logs 3,000–5,000 miles between his three bikes annually, estimating that 75 percent of that mileage is spent running daily errands. “You need a way to safely haul eggs and chips,” says the practical Hoel, noting that besides a helmet, a backpack is an integral accessory. Between that and his over-the-wheel panniers, Hoel has carried up to 40 pounds of purchases on his silver Specialized Sirrus 24-speed, his workhorse around- town bike. “National statistics say that the rate of errand biking has now hit 1 percent; that’s up from 0.7–0.8 percent two years ago,” he notes. Hoel decided to pursue bicycle advocacy in 2008 after a few encounters with drivers who were “blatantly aggressive in effectively using a 4,000-pound vehicle to intimidate.” He felt that a city-appointed task force would ultimately offer the greatest benefits to bicyclists and help to encourage new riders, and approached Elmhurst officials through organized efforts within his local bike club. Recently retired after a 34-year career with RR Donnelley and Sons Company, Hoel says after nine months of planning with club members, the city gave him the go-ahead to launch the task force. “A wonderful collaboration has been allowed to go forward to serve the Elmhurst community relative to biking because of his efforts,” says Thomas P. Borchert, city manager, who notes that the current mayor, Peter DiCianni, has reauthorized the Bicycle Task Force to help identify additional ways that Elmhurst can become a more bicycle-friendly community. Elmhurst residents can now find plenty of useful information on the city’s website, including a recommended route map to the Elmhurst Metra station, Illinois bicycle laws, and bike safety tips. Hoel also serves on IIT’s Sustainability Committee and is advising members on how to make bicycling to Main Campus an attractive and doable option for more individuals. “Bob uses his own entrepreneurial skills and experience—a unique combination—for community organizing,” says Rob Sadowsky, executive director of Active Transportation Alliance, North America’s largest transportation advocacy organization. “By connecting with local leaders and building partnerships through his bicycling plan, he is making Elmhurst a more livable community.”

—Marcia Faye

Active Transportation Alliance: www.activetrans.org

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➔ Christina Bonner William Gibbs ➔ Karthika Arunachalam Michael Hagan (LAW ’98), San Francisco, is 2000s (LAW ’04), Chicago, has (M.S. CS ’05), San Diego, is (EMGT ’07), Albuquerque, Roger Hahn senior manager of intellectual been named to the 2009 a software engineer in LGE N.M., is a first lieutenant in (LAW ’00), Fairfax, Va., property licensing for Dolby “40 Illinois Attorneys Under Mobile Research. She and the United States Army. He and his wife, Autumn, Laboratories, Inc. She received Forty to Watch” by the Law her husband enjoy traveling, deployed to Iraq as senior welcomed home fraternal an M.B.A. from Thunderbird Bulletin Publishing Company. hiking, and being with friends. logistics officer for an twins, Ivy and Ellie, on School of Global Management An associate with Corboy AH-64D Apache Attack and October 9, 2009. Their Korean in 2006. & Demetrio, Gibbs focuses ➔ George “Mackie” Derrick Reconnaissance Battalion. names are Yoonjoo (“brilliant on automobile collisions, (CHE ’05), Anchorage, is a rig diamond”) and Sarang ➔ Patrick Sullivan medical negligence, railroad workover engineer with BP Nathan Hinch (“love”), respectively. (M.S. FMT ’98), Madison, negligence, and premises Exploration Alaska. He and his (LAW ’07), Winfield, Ill., N.J., works as a trader. wife, Laurie, were married in opened Hinch Law in ➔ Richard Labrador liability cases. He recently was He is involved in his September 2009, and enjoy Wheaton, a firm that focuses (LAW ’00), Chicago, is co-counsel in a case with a children’s activities, including biking and skiing around on construction, real estate, assistant public defender at record-breaking $29.6 million coaching soccer. the world. business, and environmental the Law Office of the Cook verdict for an individual law. He was previously with County Public Defender. injured in the derailment of ➔ Kimberly A. Terrell Shahid Haque-Hausrath the engineering firm Sheaffer He enjoys reading, art, and a Metra train. (CPE ’98), Washington, D.C., (LAW ’05), Helena, Mont., International, where he outdoor activities, including is founder, chief executive David Hovey Jr. was awarded the 2009 Neil served as operations biking and camping. officer, and principal of Katz (M.A.R. ARCH ’04), Phoenix, Haight Pro Bono Award manager/in-house counsel. International Management from the Montana State Bar Mitchell B. Gordon Ariz., received an Honor Award Solutions, LLC, a technical Association for his work in ➔ Jessica Fender (LAW ’01), Chicago, has been for Relic Rock at the 2009 project-management company providing free legal services (LAW ’08), Chicago, named to the 2009 “40 Illinois Celebrate Architecture Awards with a NASA niche. She is also to low-income Montanans. completed a clerkship with Attorneys Under Forty to Gala, sponsored by the Arizona a scuba diver and is active Haque-Hausrath dedicates his the United States Court of Watch” by the Law Bulletin Chapter of the American in the Washington practice primarily to helping Appeals for the Federal Circuit Publishing Company. Gordon Institute of Architects. metropolitan community. immigrants obtain legal status in Washington, D.C. She is a family law attorney David Hovey and Associates, in the United States. currently works in the Chicago at Pasulka & White, LLC. the firm established by his ➔ Lana Vukovljak office of Schiff Hardin, LLP. Committed to educating the father, David C. Hovey (ARCH (M.S. TCID ’98), Oak Park, ’67, M.S. ’71), also received Rachel Zahorsky Ill., is a chief executive officer public about legal issues, he (LAW ’06), Streamwood, Ill., Erica Cortez is host of the public access an Honor Award for Optima with American Association of Camelview Village. was quoted in a September (LAW ’09), Chicago, joined Diabetes Educators. She and television show “Let’s Talk 2009 Chicago Lawyer article Ungaretti & Harris, LLP Justice!” on Chicago’s her husband, Jeko, are avid ➔ Nicole Thibodeau about alternative careers. as an associate in the CAN-TV network. skiers. The Vukovljaks have (LAW ’04), Anchorage, is Zahorsky has been a reporter litigation department. two sons. with the ABA Journal since ➔ Patrick Markey self-employed as a contract attorney. She and her husband October 2008. Lillian Hritz (LAW ’02), Chicago, is the owner of the Law Offices have two children, ages 4 (M.S. CS ’99), Tombstone, and 2. Ariz., has been recognized of Patrick Markey, PC since by Cambridge Who’s Who 2006, concentrating in family for demonstrating dedication, law and collaborative divorce. leadership, and excellence He became a fellow of the in education administration. Collaborative Law Institute of She is statewide instructional Illinois in 2009. Hugh Story Memorial Rose Garden technology project coordinator Colette Walsh for the Office of the Pima On March 19, the Hugh Story Memorial Rose Garden was dedicated in San Diego. (LAW ’02), Cranford, N.J., is County School Superintendent The garden honors Story (ME ’43) for the many landscape beautification projects he a labor and employment law and is recognized as an coordinated through the community-oriented Point Loma Association, of which he was attorney with the United States authority on technology president and founder. He was affectionately known as “Point Loma’s Johnny Appleseed” Postal Service in New York. integration and for his efforts in planting more than 700 trees to enhance the appearance of many derelict She and her husband, Tom, professional development. properties in the area. moved from Chicago to New ➔ Sandra Le Jersey in September 2009. Photos: Charlotte Story (CHE ’99), Arlington, Va., is Seth Darmstadter an associate attorney with (LAW ’04), Chicago, was R. E. Bushnell & Law Firm, an profiled in the September 2009 intellectual property law firm issue of Chicago Lawyer in in Washington, D.C. She and an article about IIT Chicago- her husband, Justin Spears, Kent’s appellate advocacy have a 2-year-old son and are teams. He was a member of expecting their second child. the trial advocacy team while at Chicago-Kent and continues to participate with the team as a coach. Darmstadter is an associate with Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson, Three of Hugh and Marilyn Story’s five practicing complex commercial children [left to right]—Kim Waters, and insurance coverage A plaque in memory of Hugh Story Magita Story, and Hugh Story Jr.— counseling and litigation. He appears in the garden. with their mother, Marilyn Story also has a quarterly column in Chicago Lawyer.

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Stuart Graduation Reception Lunch at MoMA Canada Convention Associate Dean Thomas Anderson celebrates with Walter Ciciora (EE ’64, M.S. ’66, Ph.D. ’69) and Robbie IIT alumni and staff at the 2010 National Society of December 2009 graduates from IIT Stuart School of Deveney, IIT senior director of alumni and donor Black Engineers Convention in Toronto with NSBE Business at a reception held at the Downtown Campus. relations, enjoy lunch after the New York City Museum Executive Director Carl Mack [left to right]: Andre of Modern Art tour of Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops Phillips, Lou Hureston (EE ’82), Michelle Kalnasy, in Modernity. Photo: Shar Smullyan Andrea Berry (CS ’84), Mack, IIT Senior Director of Alumni and Donor Relations Robbie Deveney, Michael Hill (CS ’82), and IIT Vice Provost for Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid Jerry Doyle

NS BE Networking Lou Hureston (EE ’82) with students Marco Ndoping Endowed Chair Recognition (EE 4th year), Yeamlaksira Awol (CE 1st year), and Remi Adejinle (CHE 4th year) at the 2010 National S. R. Cho (M.A.S. CHE ’66), member of the IIT Society of Black Engineers Convention in Toronto International Board of Overseers, is flanked by [left] Darsh Wasan, IIT vice president of international Arizona Gathering affairs, and [right] IIT President John Anderson. Cho Peter Koliopoulos (ARCH ’86) and his wife, Lynn, was presented with a medallion for the Hyosung S. R. hosted President John Anderson and Phoenix IIT alumni Cho Endowed Chair in Engineering, of which he is the at their home this spring. Photo: Tim Trumble benefactor. Cho was joined by [left] board members Jamshyd Godrej (MAE ’72), Kaarina Koskenalusta, and [far right] Sam Pitroda (M.S. EE ’66). The group gathered in Mumbai for the India Commencement Ceremony on February 27. Photo: A K Mustufa

A Tech Tradition IIT alumni and parents watch the Scarlet Hawks baseball team play in Southern California during spring break. Photo: Jenna Albrigh Lohans Celebrate Mies Landscape architect Peter L. Schaudt [left] with architect and grandson of Mies van der Rohe Dirk Lohan, Lohan’s wife, Catherine, and son Carsten The IIT International Board of Overseers met on Photo: Bonnie Robinson February 27 in Mumbai, India. Photo: A K Mustufa 30 | iit magazine Homecoming Weekend 2010 Golden Society Reunion 2010 Alumni Awards Recipients Saturday, September 25, 2010 Alumni Medal Martin Cooper (EE ’50, M.S. ’57) Martin Cooper, who conceived of and created the cellular telephone, is a Life Trustee of Illinois Institute of Technology. He is the executive chairman and co-founder of ArrayComm LLC, the leading provider of smart antenna technology. Celebrating Kunihiro Misu (M.S. ARCH ’66) the Classes of 1960 and Earlier Kunihiro Misu is chairman of the world-renowned architecture firm Nikken Sekkei Ltd. As a member of the Illinois Institute of Technology International Board of Overseers, Misu has done much to connect alumni the world over.

Collens Merit Award Outstanding Young Alumnus Award Les Hardison (ME ’50) Michael McCullar (ME ’00) Galvin Award Professional Achievement Award Craig J. Duchossois Andrea Berry (CS ’84) William Gross (ME ’52) Alumni Service Award Watts S. Humphrey (M.S. PHYS ’50) Norbert Kaiser (IE ’63) Mahesh A. Iyer (M.S. EE ’91, Ph.D. ’95) Global Service Award Loretta Moore (M.S. CS ’86, Ph.D. ’91) Kalyanji Gala (M.S. IE ’66) Al Ver (CHE ’68) Tetsuyuki Hirano (ARCH ’79) Paul Wattelet (PHYS ’62) Lifetime Achievement Award Sidney Coleman (PHYS ’57) Generations Come Together Henry Linden (Ph.D. CHE ’52) We welcome you back to IIT’s Main Campus during John Mitchell (EE ’50) Homecoming weekend to celebrate more than a century of tech traditions and to commemorate The inaugural Galvin Award, created to honor non-alumni the induction of the Class of 1960 into the Golden who provide leadership, time, Society, an honorary society established to recognize talent, and resources to make alumni who have celebrated the 50th anniversary of a significant impact on the their graduation from IIT. All alumni from the Class university, was presented to Trustee Craig Duchossois. He of 1960 and earlier are encouraged to attend and could not attend, but daughter, reunite with old friends. Ashley Duchossois Joyce, and sister, Kimberly Duchossois, This year’s Golden Society Reunion luncheon will accepted on his behalf. be hosted by IIT’s Gunsaulus Society on Saturday, September 25, 2010. If you plan to arrive on Friday, September 24, we will be hosting an evening party in IIT President John Anderson gives The Bog, and we invite you to stay for the weekend the Alumni Medal to Kunihiro Misu (M.S. ARCH ’66). to enjoy IIT’s Homecoming activities and carnival on Saturday, September 25, 2010. If you missed your 50th reunion year, join us this year to receive your medallion and take a walk down memory lane.

Email us at [email protected] for Homecoming updates, or check the Web at http://alumni.iit.edu, and stay tuned for more information as the date nears.

University Regent Robert Galvin [left] with Alumni Medal winner Martin Cooper (EE ’50, M.S. ’57)

Photos: Bonnie Robinson alumninews Alumni Holiday International Discovery Tours Grand Journey October 14–26, 2010 This great itinerary starts in Madrid, then heads north to Segovia, Avila, Salamanca, and Burgos. You’ll continue on to the wine country of La Rioja, Nearly 1,200 alumni nationwide have been interviewed about their enjoy stops in Bilbao and Zaragoza, and conclude IIT experiences through The Velocity Initiative, the university’s alumni reengagement effort. This spring, Velocity focused on reestablishing ties the journey in Barcelona. with more Chicago-area alumni. For more information, please contact Through Velocity, http://iit.ahitravel.com or Marian Quirk at many alumni have 312.567.5000. said they want to engage with IIT as volunteers. The Alumni Admission Recruitment Program Board Volunteer Calling all San Diego-, Phoenix-, and Seattle-area Management Committee alumni, as well as alumni from Hawaii: We need was developed as a your help recruiting at upcoming college fairs! standing committee of the Alumni Board As an alumnus or friend of IIT, you have a distinct to meet the volunteer connection to the university through your personal needs of alumni and experiences. Sharing your IIT knowledge during the the university. The college selection process can be helpful to prospective alumni serving on the students and parents. The Alumni Admission Program committee are working offers volunteer opportunities for you to share IIT to assess and create facts and stories. The time you invest is up to you. opportunities in the top For additional information, please contact four areas of volunteer Marian Quirk at [email protected] or visit interest: job recruiting www.iit.edu/undergrad_admission/alumni. and placement, mentorship, speakers’ bureau, and admissions. The committee chair is Michael Hill (CS, EE ’82), and those who sit on the committee are Jeff Anderzhon (ARCH ’73), Andrea Berry (CS ’84), Marva Boyd (EE ’87), Reginal Campbell (ITM ’05), Athar Khan (EE ’99), Lee Sheridan (CHE ’65, M.S. ’67), and Senior Director of Alumni and Donor Relations Robbie Deveney. In February, the Velocity team welcomed Adriana Rios (ARCH ’09) as a full-time Velocity ambassador. She joins other full-time ambassadors and current student ambassadors in their efforts to reconnect IIT with alumni in Chicago and beyond.

• http://alumni.iit.edu/velocity

D iscoveries Fun facts about IIT alumni interviewed through Velocity:

• An EE alumnus in Florida won a 2010 Design Innovation Award from the Consumer Electronic Association. • An EE M.S. alumnus who worked for Texas Instruments for 23 years holds 13 patents. • A 1938 CHEM alumnus who began his impressive career as a chemist for the United States Army during World War II has been a political activist for the aging for more than 30 years and currently writes a newspaper column. • The National Society of Professional Engineers named an ENVE Ph.D. alumnus as the 2009 Federal Engineer of the Year.

32 | iit magazine Upcoming Alumni Events

For information about upcoming alumni events listed below and other alumni activities, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations at 312.567.5040 or [email protected]. Thirsty Thursday and Family Day at the Morton Arboretum White Sox Game Saturday, June 12, 2010 Thursday, July 8, 2010 Sixth Annual Pumpkin Launch The Morton Arboretum Join us for a midday Thirsty Thursday in October 2010 4100 Illinois Route 53 The Bog for games, bowling, and food. Then IIT Main Campus Lisle, Ill. head to the ballpark to see the White Sox Chicago take on the Los Angeles Angels (1:05 p.m. Join the IIT Alumni Association for a day Student groups show off their contraptions. start). Tickets are available on a limited of family fun at the Morton Arboretum. See which one can hurl a pumpkin basis; contact the Office of Alumni Relations Enjoy tours, children’s activities, and the the farthest. to reserve your space. Complimentary opportunity to mingle with fellow alumni in on-campus parking will be available. the western suburbs. Darsh T. Wasan Lecture Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Alumni Association Marathon Group Thirsty Thursday and Cubs Game Bank of America Chicago Marathon™ IIT Main Campus Thursday, June 17, 2010 Sunday, October 10, 2010 Chicago Goose Island Attention, athletes! Are you running in the This year’s lecture will feature keynote 3535 North Clark Street 2010 Chicago Marathon? Tell us who you speaker Susan Solomon (CHEM ’77), senior Chicago are so we can cheer you on as you pass IIT! scientist with the National Oceanic and Join us for a midday Thirsty Thursday A banner featuring the names of competing Atmospheric Administration. The first at Goose Island in Wrigleyville, followed students, faculty, staff, and alumni will person to explain how chlorofluorocarbons by Cubs vs. Oakland (1:20 p.m. start). be on display along the marathon route destroy the ozone layer, Solomon shared in Tickets are available on a limited basis; through Main Campus. Runners will also the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for her role as contact the Office of Alumni Relations to be recognized in IIT Today, the university’s co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel reserve your space. weekly e-newsletter. on Climate Change.

Homecoming Saturday, September 25, 2010 Homecoming weekend brings alumni and students Golden Society Reunion together to celebrate their lifelong connection to IIT. If Saturday, September 25 you have not visited IIT in recent years, this is the perfect The Golden Society Reunion recognizes alumni who are celebrating the opportunity to see the many changes to its landmark 50th anniversary of their graduation from IIT. Members of the Class of campus. Join IIT students in showing your school spirit, 1960 will receive their Golden Society medallions, be recognized for this and rediscover the traditions that made your time at IIT anniversary milestone, and have a chance to visit with former classmates. memorable. Homecoming events will include walking tours, a carnival with games and activities for all ages, and friendly competitions for alumni.

Families enjoyed the many games and crafts offered during last year’s Homecoming Carnival in Hermann Hall. Photo: Bonnie Robinson iit magazine | 33 THE GUNSAULUS SOCIETY AT IIT IS PROUD TO SPONSOR 2010 Golden Society Reunion Luncheon Saturday, September 25, 2010 Celebrating the Classes of 1960 and Earlier

Join us at the 2010 Golden Society Reunion

Luncheon to celebrate eight decades of tech

traditions. During Homecoming weekend, IIT will

induct the Class of 1960 into the Golden Society,

an honorary society established to recognize alumni

who have celebrated the 50th anniversary of their

graduation from IIT. The Gunsaulus Society invites all

alumni of the Class of 1960 and earlier to eat, drink,

and be merry with old friends at IIT’s Main Campus

on Saturday, September 25, 2010. The Classat ofthe 1959 2009 inductees Golden Society revisited Reunion. Main Building

IIT established the Frank Wakely Gunsaulus Society to recognize all those who have provided an estate commitment to the university regardless of type or amount. The society celebrates those who envision a bright future for a school dedicated to preparing students from all backgrounds to fill meaningful roles in an ever-changing society.

Don’ t keep your gift a secret!

If you have named IIT as a beneficiary of your estate, please let us know so we may properly thank you and include you as a member of our esteemed Gunsaulus Society.

For more information about the Gunsaulus Society or to learn about how you can make a lasting impact at IIT through a charitable gift annuity, please contact Elaine Clay, assistant director of planned giving, at 312.567.5028 or [email protected].

Gunsaulus | SOCIETY obituaries inmemoriam

John Gilman Sidney Guthman Milton Searl Peter Rolewicz ARSC ’32 BE ’49 LAW ’63 ME ’46, M.S. MET ’48 Los Angeles Davisburg, Mich. Chicago A materials scientist and adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, John Gilman was also a member of the National Academy of Torgny Westerberg Otto Nerad Stephan Tsai Sciences. While an IIT student, he was the recipient of a William Campbell CE ’32, M.S. ’33 ARCH ’50 Ph.D. EE ’65 Inverness, Ill. La Grange Park, Ill. Silver Spring, Md. Fellowship in metallurgical engineering. In 1962, Gilman received a Distinguished Service Award from the IIT Alumni Association. Elizabeth Dixon Robert Butcher Kenneth Stack HE ’38 CE ’51 MAE ’68 Wellfleet, Mass. Palm Bay, Fla. Hemet, Calif. Franz Altschuler DSGN ’48 William Grosse John Murphy Alexander Nowicki Franz Altschuler began making his mark in Chicago’s art scene when he CHE ’41 IE ’51 EE ’69 Houston Waukegan, Ill. Huntley, Ill. became illustrator for Playboy soon after the magazine’s inception in 1953. Besides working at Playboy, Altschuler taught at IIT Institute of Design in the William Brausa Donald Kirsh David Struckhoff late 1950s and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1970s. His CHE ’42 CHE ’53, M.S. SOC ’71 Bellflower, Calif. M.S. BEA ’60 Joliet, Ill. illustrations also were featured on book covers, and in textbooks and annual Des Plaines, Ill. reports. For many years, Altschuler lived in Chicago’s Old Town community Jean Jacobs Frederick Wein and was active in the Old Town Triangle Association, where he worked to ARSC ’42 Walter Bartky LAW ’74 preserve the neighborhood’s artist colony environment. Columbus, Ohio PHYS ’54 Plainsboro, N.J. Chicago Altschuler is survived by his wife, Dori, and a sister. William Loben George Brousalis ME ’42 Thomas Ogilvie EE ’82 Bayonet Point, Fla. ARCH ’54 Munster, Ind. Frederic Roberton Miami DSGN ’51 Paul Mayer Rajendra Founder of the Chicago firm Design Consultants Incorporated, Frederic CHE ’42 Richard Solomon Borwankar Ph.D. CHE ’84 Roberton had a long career in innovative product development and graphic Los Angeles FPSE ’55 Naperville, Ill. Chicago design. He served in various leadership roles at IIT, including as a member of Irwin Lachman the Board of Trustees and on the IIT Alumni Association Executive Committee. CE ’43 Leonard Booth Elpidio Quiballo Roberton also was president of the association from 1975–76 and received an Sherman Oaks, ME ’56 M.B.A. ’85 Clarendon Hills, Ill. Award of Merit from the organization in 1984. Calif. Portland, Ore. Leo Orsi Arnold Dworkin Joseph Rago Donald Hilbring CHE ’43 LAW ’56 LAW ’86 Edmond, Okla. Glencoe, Ill. Geneva, Ill. M.P.A. ’90 Donald Hilbring began his longtime career as a patrol officer with the Chicago Sheldon Plotkin Constantine Jeffery McNary Police Department in 1968, rising through the ranks to commander of the CHE ’43 Farmans M.P.A. ’87 Palm Desert, Calif. LAW ’56 Hanover Park, Ill. Wentworth District. His final position was as a watch commander in the Torrance, Calif. South Chicago District. Hilbring also moonlighted as a math teacher for Mortimer Lowy Ellen Clark many years in the Chicago Public Schools system. In 1992, Hilbring was ME ’44 Edward Fauth LAW ’89 the recipient of a Community Recognition Award from the IIT Office of Los Angeles M.S. ME ’56 Evanston, Ill. Aurora, Ill. Community Development. Roy Norrlander Allen Sander ME ’47 Arthur Leach M.P.A. ’89 Rockford, Ill. CHE ’57 Huntley, Ill. Platon C. Deliyannis Bloomington, Ind. Department of Mathematics Herbert Levinson Marc Berlin Platon Deliyannis served as chair of the Department of Mathematics (now CHE ’48 John Patronik LAW ’91 IE ’57 Miami Applied Mathematics) from 1975–1981 and on the faculty for more than 35 Sedona, Ariz. South Holland, Ill. years, retiring from the university in 2001. His son, Constantine Deliyannis George Adams Jennifer Steensland (PHYS ’80), is an associate professor in the Department of Astronomy at ME ’49 Melvin Triplett LAW ’03 Indiana University Bloomington. Columbus, Ohio EE ’61 Barrington, Ill. Los Angeles “Platon was a superb colleague, a fine scholar, and one of the best teachers Robert Downer Bernard Stoltie I have ever known,” says Jerry Frank (M.S. MATH ’69, Ph.D. ’72), who served BE ’49 Joseph Pinnello Attendee/ as professor of mathematics from 1976–2008 and as chair of the Department Cottage Grove, Wis. EE ’62, M.S. ’68 non-degree Arlington Heights, Ill. New Haven, Conn. of Mathematics from 1986–1992. Deliyannis hired Frank, and was his friend Robert Scharding and colleague for more than 40 years. EE ’49 Deliyannis is also survived by his wife, Virginia, a daughter, and New Cumberland, Pa. several grandchildren. iit magazine | 35 rewind Transforming Education, by Marcia Faye

On April 23, 1940, Armour Institute of Technology and Lewis Institute merged to become Illinois Institute of Technology. Five months later, IIT began operations with Henry T. Heald as Literally president and with a new university seal, which combined Armour’s torch symbol and Lewis’s tree symbol. When Chicago-Kent College of Law joined IIT in 1969, a third symbol—an open book—was added to the seal, which remains as such today. In the early 1970s, IIT Institute of Design offered its first courses in the then-burgeoning field of computer graphics. Distinguished Professor Emeritus Charles Owen taught ID students how to write application programs and use graphics in the output with the help of XFORM, a software program that he created. alonso Miranda (M.S. DSGN ’83) and Maria Lanita Miranda utilized XFORM to do an animation in matrix form, transforming the university seal into the IIT logotype. Moving across the matrix, one set of coordinates holds steady while the other changes; moving down the matrix, the opposite occurs. The individual illustrations are computer- generated interpolations of even steps through the animation. “The Institute of Design was 15 years ahead of its competition worldwide in the use of computers in design,” says Owen.

To learn more about IIT history, visit the extensively revised and newly designed website of the IIT Archives, http://archives.iit.edu.

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ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT

STEM+ We believe students with degrees in STEM+ fields will be the future Science and Psychology leaders who drive change in areas of global significance: energy Technology independence, improving people’s health, protecting the environment, Engineering and strengthening national security. Mathematics + Business and Architecture Recipient of a full-tuition scholarship for both her academic and athletic achievements, Stephanie Salem is an IIT student excelling in STEM+ fields. She is one of a select group To learn more about the of 25 students and the only business student participating in IIT’s Kern Innovation and IIT STEM+ Educational and Entrepreneurship Academy, where she is helping engineering students channel their good Scholarship initiative, visit ideas into business ventures such as startup companies. Salem is also on IIT’s Innovation and admission.iit.edu/stem+. Entrepreneurship Academy Leadership Council and won top honors in two competitions—the 2009 Chicago Innovation Chase and the 2009 IEA Idea Challenge—for her contributions to With 11 new tenure-track faculty at IIT Stuart School of product design and development in the marketplace. Business, undergraduate students take classes with world-class If you know prospective students like Stephanie—who share your passion for STEM+ fields— professors implementing a we invite you to refer them to us. Please contact Gerald P. Doyle, vice provost, undergraduate dynamic curriculum focused on admissions and financial aid, at 312.567.5203 or [email protected]. strategic competitiveness. To learn how you can become involved with IIT Stuart School of Business, contact: Harvey Kahalas Dean, IIT Stuart School of Business 312.906.6596 [email protected] 3300 South Federal Street, Suite 503 Chicago, IL 60616-3793

Homecoming 2010 Saturday, September 25, 2010

Generations Come Together

This year, join alumni, friends, and current students to celebrate more than a century of tech traditions. Show your school spirit and rediscover the connections that made your time at IIT memorable. Food and family fun will be available for all during these commemorative events. Email us at [email protected] or check the web at http://alumni.iit.edu for Homecoming updates, and stay tuned for more information as the date nears.

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