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Article Spurs IIT Memories Your article on Lois Graham [“A Lasting Impression for the Millenniums,” fall FollowUP 2009] tweaked my memory bank in many ways! I was one of the returning vets on the GI Bill and recall having Miss (at the time) Graham as a teacher’s Updates on the people and places previously assistant in some of my classes in Machinery Hall. One recollection was covered in IIT Magazine having a metallurgy class on a Saturday morning and observing the structure of the “new” chemistry building sway and twist in a very strong wind, resulting in it being about 30 degrees out of plumb! “The Greening of IIT” Fall 2008 Her remembrances of Max Jakob and Professor Energy policy, William Goodman caused me to reflect on my emissions, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and air conditioning transportation, classes with these two icons in the mechanical stormwater/ engineering department. Goodman was to be my landscape issues, mentor and role model years later, as I worked for supply chain him and with him on various construction projects management, in the Chicago area. and green Bill Goodman’s passion for his field of expertise building are rubbed off on me and caused me to add air the subjects of the Campus Sustainability Action Plan conditioning courses to my electives as an added load to my aeronautical Working Groups, a new initiative that will develop plans option courses. Back in 1946–47 (my second year at IIT), the aircraft industry for each of the six campus sustainability policy areas took a nosedive and experienced massive layoffs. Being married just one year aligned with IIT’s strategic plan. Each working group is and looking forward to having a family, I decided to switch fields. Goodman’s composed of faculty, staff, students, and outside experts passion came to the rescue, and I switched fields with no regrets. who meet monthly to share ideas, make decisions, and Today, over 60-some years later, I’m still involved in that field after a provide input and feedback. 1978 move to Florida. After a career combining consulting and contracting, The working groups are coordinated by the Office of I currently “work” as an apprenticeship coordinator for our local air- Campus Energy and Sustainability, which is headed by conditioning contractors’ association, helping to train the next generation of Joseph Clair (M.S. MAE ’95). The groups’ findings and skilled technicians. recommendations will be presented at the Sustainability Thank you for your inspiring article on Lois Graham and the opportunity Forum being planned for Earth Day, to be held this year to reflect on pleasant memories. Much good health and happiness to Graham on April 22. in her “quiet life of simple pleasures.” “FDA Acceptance of NCFST Food Sterilization —Jerome Greenstein (ME ’49) Process” Spring 2009 A process developed at the IIT National Center for Food Not That Kind of “Scarlet Fever” Safety and Technology that makes low-acid food safe while at the same time keeping Your recent story about Scarlet Fever taking over the campus [“Leave Only its flavor intact has now been Footsteps,” fall 2009] took me back a few years. The year was 1945 when recognized by the food industry. I had the real scarlet fever. I was quarantined for three weeks and had to The pressure-assisted thermal endure having the doctor coming to the house just about every day and sterilization process—also giving me a shot in the rump. known as PATS—won an IFT Let’s hope that this Scarlet Fever is better than the other version. Food Expo Innovation Award at the 2009 Institute of Food —Dave Roth (CE ’71) Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo in Anaheim, Write back! Calif. The awards program honors outstanding innovation in products, equipment, IIT Magazine welcomes all signed letters to the editor and edits letters for instrumentation, technology, and services. A panel of content and clarity. Please send correspondence to: eight jurors from industry, academia, and government IIT Magazine reviewed 49 entries based on degree of innovation, c/o Letters technical advancement, benefit to food manufacturers 3300 South Federal Street, Suite 503 and/or consumers, and scientific merit. Four entries were Chicago, IL 60616 selected for recognition in 2009. Email: [email protected] Center for Professional Development), is send data other than the intended voice and Five Years Strong, located at SAT’s Rice Campus. Equipped in video of the VoIP call through this port as well. VoIP Lab Continues part from gifts supplied by industry partners “Once you can set up a call, you can steal such as Alcatel-Lucent, it features several test data,” says Davids. “The dragon is designed to Evolve beds—IMS, SIPConnect, SIP Peering, and to prevent this by using characteristics of the IP PBX—that students use to conduct real- If it’s inefficient and antiquated to use 150-year- world analysis of VoIP system operation old technology and a system of twisted wires and performance. A goal of the lab is and circuits to make phone calls, then why use to research how to improve VoIP them? So asks Carol Davids, director of IIT’s technology while addressing many VoIP Laboratory, which marked its fifth year of the challenges that plague its in 2009. widespread acceptance. VoIP, or Voice-over Internet Protocol, is a “The biggest problem broadband application that allows phone service with VoIP has been location to operate over the “cloud” of the Internet, as recognition. 911 capability opposed to running over the physical wires of is crucial to mass adoption,” traditional telephone lines. Introduced to mass Davids says. Users of VoIP market in 2004, when IIT’s lab opened, VoIP are identified by their VoIP is expected to be used in 20.4 million homes address. Like a SIP (session by 2010. initiation protocol) ID, which Since IIT launched its VoIP Lab, and can be downloaded for use subsequently, the VoIP Conference and Expo on cell phones with Internet in the following year, early adaptors of the services, the VoIP address doesn’t still-emerging technology have included identify where the caller is located. businesses with the financial flexibility to merge An Internet phone service such as the traditional phone (PBX, or private branch Vonage may have the mailing address exchange) and Internet services. Photo:Bonnie Robinson of a caller for billing purposes, but the very “With VoIP you’re blending together phone nature of VoIP allows users to place phone legitimate data (voice or video) to filter out a and Internet service, and therefore, in the calls from anywhere. The VoIP Lab is planning hacker’s data.” long run, you can save on monthly costs as a work with both Texas A&M University and the Students in the lab also developed a SIP result of not running two separate networks,” National Emergency Number Association to phone for the hearing impaired. The SIP phone says Davids, who ran test labs at Motorola and expand testing of systems to support emergency uses JAVA code that enables a hearing-impaired Tellabs. “Companies that use VoIP have the response services over the Internet. caller to use a computer keyboard to type in ability to do a lot of things they couldn’t do Davids says that some customers have been words, which are routed through a text-to- with PBX—link together databases, customer slow to migrate to VoIP because they are more speech translation device and are heard on the service operations, and business operations. comfortable with the settings of their traditional other end of the line as “words.” Students tested For example, as customers call in to place an phone systems. Security is also a concern, one the phone for accuracy by using it to place an order, their records can simultaneously show that is at the heart of a recent project undertaken order for pizza delivery. up on screen, and with a couple pushes of the at the VoIP Lab. The lab’s latest development, VoIIT, a VoIP button, the company can intercept an order VoIP students and faculty developed a patent- service for the IIT community and its friends and make real-time alterations. VoIP also adds pending appliance called vPurity—known and sponsors, is now available for use. VoIIT is data capabilities to a traditional phone service. internally as the “dragon”—for Salare Security, protected against data theft attempts by Salare’s Because of the initial setup cost, companies may LLC that prevents hackers from using the virtual vPurity application. To visit VoIIT, go to http:// not save money right away, but their customers port that supports VoIP calls. Systems that voip.itm.iit.edu and click on the VoIIT link. will have a better experience.” support VoIP calls need to open a port in their The VoIP Lab, a teaching lab within IIT’s firewalls to let calls in and out. A hacker could • http://voip.itm.iit.edu School of Applied Technology (formerly the

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iit magazine | 3 campusnews Many Voices, One Vision Update

IIT has begun work on priority initiatives outlined IIT has taken preliminary steps to establish the Elevate engineering’s reputation in the university’s new strategic plan, Many Voices, International Academy, IIT’s first residential college, to international stature One Vision: A Strategic Plan for IIT 2010–2014, to educate future global leaders. The academy An upcoming event that will enhance approved by IIT’s Board of Trustees in May 2009. will give students a global perspective that will the visibility of engineering at IIT is the complement their specific academic expertise and NAE Grand Challenges for the 21st Century: Distinctively define the IIT graduate prepare them to lead diverse teams and enterprises Chicago Summit 2010. In fall 2009, a strategy group comprising students, in a global economy. One aim of the academy is Organized by faculty, staff, and alumni examined IIT’s signature to inspire students to address global challenges in IIT, Armour College Interprofessional Projects (IPRO) Program and vital areas such as energy, the environment, and of Engineering, suggested transforming the six-credit-hour IPRO health by promoting international connectedness, and the Chicago requirement into a two-phase sequence dubbed cultural understanding, ethics, social responsibility, Council on Science IPRO 2.0. This change will serve to reinforce and and economic development. and Technology, expand upon the IPRO experience by increasing in partnership student competency and skills building, enabling Focus on interdisciplinary themes with Northwestern the formation of passionate and balanced teams, IIT is researching how to incorporate design ideas University, the University of Chicago, the University and providing additional time to address projects from the College of Architecture and ID into the of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Illinois that surpass one semester. The IPRO 2.0 prototype undergraduate curriculum. The two main design at Urbana–Champaign, the Chicago summit is expected to begin in fall 2010. aspects being considered are how to identify will be held April 21–22, 2010. The National A new initiative is underway to develop opportunities and solve problems using design Academy of Engineering’s five-city summit series interdisciplinary degree programs, which will allow frameworks and other methods as well as aims to draw public attention to the challenges students to attain both undergraduate and master’s how to think and represent objects visually. the United States faces regarding security, degrees within five years. Being considered are Academic activities may include an Introduction sustainability, and the quality of life, highlighting co-terminal 4+1 degrees and degree programs to Design workshop, the prospect of making the role of engineering in helping the country to for future professionals. Also under review is the design education a regular part of IPRO 2.0, maintain excellence in these areas. Among the 14 concept of unlimited undergraduate pathways to and partnerships between the disciplines of grand challenge topics that the NAE has identified, a master’s degree with professional offerings from design and engineering. the four topic areas to be discussed at the Chicago IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, IIT College of summit include global health; carbon, energy, and Architecture, IIT Institute of Design, and IIT Stuart climate; clean water; and urban sustainability. School of Business. For updated information about the Chicago summit, visit www.iit.edu/grand_challenges or email [email protected].

Many Voices, One Vision: www.iit.edu/mvov NAE Grand Challenges for the 21st Century: Chicago Summit 2010: www.iit.edu/grand_challenges

The United States Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration awarded IIT a $4.5 million stimulus grant to complete the Incubator building at University Technology Park. The grant was the largest of those distributed in the EDA’s latest round of funding and one of the largest it has ever given for a technology incubator. This funding, combined with a $2 million matching grant from the State of Illinois, will enable UTP to finish the build-out of 28,000 square feet of additional space, which will house up to 30 startup companies in the biotechnology and clean technology industries. The design of the new Incubator space is nearing completion, and UTP plans to start construction in early 2010. UTP client Therapeutic Proteins, Inc. has begun construction of a Food and Drug Administration cGMP-compliant manufacturing facility within UTP’s Technology Business Center and plans to begin

watch operations in early 2010. TPI produces biological active pharmaceutical ingredients, specifically recombinant proteins, for the pharmaceutical market. TPI participates in regions of the global market where the sale of these raw materials is allowed, and once they can be sold as generic bio-similar products in the U.S., TPI will sell them domestically. UTP also welcomed a new client, Consumer Health Advisors, which offers consumer health- utp management information services to large, self-insured employers and their employees. 4 | iit magazine Photo: Bonnie Robinson

Michael Davis and Kathryn Riley of the “Ethics in the Details” project

For the current project, the IIT team is collaborating with engineering faculty and engineering graduate students at IIT, Howard University in Washington, D.C., and the University of Illinois at Chicago, where a nanotechnology research laboratory is being utilized. Examples of ethical issues covered include whistleblowing, national security concerns, conflicts of interest, and cross- cultural differences in ethics. In addition to assessment testing, the grant also supports the creation of an online database of engineering micro-insertion problems that will expand to include other science and technology disciplines. Coined “Ethics In- An interdisciplinary team of IIT faculty “During the early ’90s, we trained about Basket,” the database is a continually evolving members is giving the terms “low-dose” and 20 percent of IIT faculty in how to integrate resource, providing the opportunity for anyone “micro-insertion,” already familiar to scientists professional ethics into their technical courses,” with a suggested micro-insertion problem and engineers, expanded meaning as a way to says Davis. “IIT was a world leader then. to submit their good example for review by more effectively bring ethics into the graduate Since that time, we have been helping other the site’s coordinators. The archive of posted classroom. Michael Davis, senior fellow at the universities do the same.” problems will be available to faculty around Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions The low-dose approach to ethics education the world. and professor of philosophy, along with offers several advantages. It takes far less time “Even the choice of screw threads often has Kathryn Riley, chair of the Department for instructors to revise technical problems consequences for safety, economy, reliability, of Humanities and professor of English, and than to prepare an entire course or large-scale and disposability, and are all, in part, ethical CSEP Director Vivian Weil are implementing module. Also, micro-insertions, continuously issues,” Davis says, about how ethics decisions their concept “Ethics in the Details,” funded applied, allow students to view ethics more as are fundamental to engineering. “As engineering through a $238,663 grant from the National a routine part of engineering and science, not projects get ever bigger and their impact on the Science Foundation. as an event labeled “ethics.” According to Davis future ever more long-term, the significance of The project integrates ethics into the graduate and Riley, early findings on the effectiveness of those issues may be even greater.” engineering curriculum through low-dose micro-insertions indicate that most students “Ethics in the Details” builds upon IIT’s mini-lessons rather than through freestanding notice the presence of even a small amount longstanding success in undergraduate ethics courses or modules. The heart of this integration and respond positively. An important aspect education. NSF awarded three grants to CSEP lies in technical word problems or exercises, of the grant will allow for a further assessment from 1990–2005 for summer workshops which comprise a large part of graduate of project effectiveness beyond what was done attended by more than 160 faculty members. engineering education. At one-day workshops, through self-reporting. The center is also known for the Ethics faculty and graduate-student teaching assistants Bowl, a nationwide are taught how to identify the ethical core of the intercollegiate problem and rewrite the problem to include that competition that poses aspect. Something as simple as adding a human questions on a wide dimension to the problem—using the second- variety of ethics issues. person “you” narrative form, for example—can Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions: http://ethics.iit.edu Now in its 16th year, make the subject more real and personal to the Online Ethics Center of the National Academy of Engineering: www.onlineethics.org the Ethics Bowl was student. Participants also learn how to design a conceived by Robert problem to measure the aspect of ethics being Ladenson, IIT professor addressed and how to select problem formats of philosophy. appropriate for the class. iit magazine | 5 • www.illinoistechathletics.com campusnews

Uncle, Father, Friend James Darrah, former athletic IIT Athletic Directors Play Multiple Positions director and baseball coach

For many IIT alumni and students, the names John Joseph Former IIT baseball player John Abramic (CHE ’97, Schommer (CE 1912, M.S. 1918), James Darrah, and Lee LAW ’01) says that Darrah strove to use baseball as a Hitchen can elicit feelings of gratitude as strong as those tool to instill positive qualities in his players. “He would raised by a favorite faculty member. IIT garnered a reputation constantly remind his players that the qualities necessary for for its athletic accomplishments in as early as 1912, when the a good athlete—such as putting team goals above all else, celebrated Schommer served not only as athletic director but approaching a challenge with confidence, never fearing also coached Armour Institute of Technology’s three sports failure, and bouncing back quickly from a fall—were essential teams while teaching four different science courses. Since for successful leaders in pursuits beyond college,” explains Schommer’s time, IIT athletic directors have been part of a Abramic, who acknowledges that he attended several IIT history of mentorship both on and off the field. baseball reunions to reconnect with Darrah. With his student-bestowed nickname of “Uncle John” for Darrah recruited Scarlet Hawks Baseball Coach Stephen Born showing care and concern, Schommer was a patriarch of (CPE ’05) to attend IIT, and Born played for him for two years the IIT family. In addition to being a multiple letter-winning before Darrah retired in 2003. “As much of a great baseball athlete and faculty member, he was a trustee, a member of coach that he was, he was also a father figure to a lot of us,” the Development Committee, president of the IIT Alumni says Born. “He was the person we would go to whether it was Association, inaugural director of the student placement concerning something good or bad. We could call him at any service, and state advisor to the Selective Service Board, time, knowing he was there for us.” helping students to complete their degrees before they were Like Darrah, Hitchen joined IIT as a coach. While he drafted into the armed forces. now heads the men’s soccer team, and oversees all of the A longtime IIT coach before he was named athletic director, university’s sports and recreation activities as athletic director, Darrah gave of his time and talents to both students and Hitchen never loses sight of the main reason why players are celebrities, including retired Chicago Bulls player Michael on campus. Jordan, retired football and baseball professional Bo Jackson, and pop star Madonna, who headlined the movie A League of Their Own, filmed in part on Main Campus.

John Schommer, Super-Athlete: http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=John_Schommer

Athletic Director and Men’s Soccer Coach Lee Hitchen talks with Megan Wright, Andrew Lichaj, and Jaime Banuelos (BA ’07).

Photo: Bonnie Robinson 6 | iit magazine “The one thing that I believe in is that every student who comes here wants to graduate. My philosophy is to find a way to

assist,” he says. When some athletes were having difficulty with Photo:Michael Goss a biology course, Hitchen even hired a tutor to provide them with extra learning opportunities. Students say that Hitchen, a British expatriate, can relate to them and share advice based on his own experiences living abroad. “As a first-year student from Australia, I have found Coach Hitchen’s support to be one of the most conspicuous forces in my success in settling in here,” says Megan Wright (BIOL, 1st year), a member of the soccer team. “I have found him to be extremely professional while also being very approachable and down to earth.” Between his second and third years, soccer player Andrew Lichaj (BADM, 4th year) was going through a rough period. Facing courses that were especially challenging and his father’s battle with cancer, Lichaj came close to no longer being an IIT student. Assistant Professor Jon Larson and “Coach Hitchen never gave up on me and always wanted to Professor Patrick Corrigan help,” says Lichaj. “To me, he isn’t just my coach; he is also my really good friend.” Editor’s Note: Check out the Upcoming Alumni Events $5 Million Grant to Fund listing on page 33 for information on the Southern California New Center on Stigma Baseball Gathering March 8–12. If you are a former IIT athlete who would like to host an alumni athletics reunion, or to stay current For many people the first signs of illness mean seeking about IIT athletics, please contact Robbie Deveney, senior director treatment, whether at a pharmacy or doctor’s office. But of alumni and donor relations, at 312.567.5053. two-thirds of individuals with mental disorders never pursue professional care to address their illness, and two-thirds of those who do seek treatment drop out of their mental- health program prematurely. Unlike a condition such as the Scarlet Hawks Swim and Dive to Success common cold, these overlooked mental disorders are not umpkins were not the only awe-inspiring projectiles being launched on IIT’s largely benign and can range from short-term anxiety to Main Campus this past fall. Nineteen IIT swimmers and divers became severe psychiatric disorders, like schizophrenia. P national qualifiers at theS carlet Hawks’ first official meet of the season, To study the barriers that prevent people with mental held on October 30, 2009. At the season’s halfway mark, six women had qualified illnesses from seeking help, IIT established the National in 19 individual and five relay events; 12 men had qualified in 29 individual and Consortium on Stigma and Empowerment in September five relay events. These athletes will participate in the National Association of 2009. IIT Professor of Rehabilitation Psychology Patrick Intercollegiate Athletics Swimming and Diving National Championships in March Corrigan is the principal investigator at the new center, 2010. Here are some highlights: which is being supported by a five-year, $5 million grant • Victoria Masney (ARCH, 1st year) qualified for three swim events at the first from the National Institute of Mental Health. The center is meet—in the 200-yard medley relay, 50-yard freestyle, and 100-yard butterfly. a collaboration with senior scientists from Yale University, Her time in the latter event was one second off the Lady Hawks’ record. At mid- Rutgers, and the University of Pennsylvania, plus IIT season, Masney added two more qualifying swims, in the 100-yard freestyle Assistant Professor Jon Larson. and 200-yard butterfly. “In general, we believe there are great treatments out there for mental illness, but in reality, only one-ninth of people • Besides qualifying for five events, swimmerM ax Ramminger (BADM, 2nd year) with mental illnesses are using them. New treatments are broke the Scarlet Hawks’ team record in the 100-yard freestyle at the Phoenix not very effective when people are not using those that are Invite, the final meet of 2009. currently available,” says Corrigan, whose research has • In December, Ramminger, Joe Taylor (HUM, 4th year), Neto Miller (HUM, 2nd received support from the National Institutes of Health for year), and Andrew Mehr (HUM/PS/PSYC ’09) competed in the 2009 AT&T Short more than 12 years. “The consortium seeks to address that Course National Championships in Federal Way, Wash. The meet featured a problem and develop ways to overcome the stigma associated number of American and international Olympians. with mental illness.” By removing the barriers to care, Corrigan says, • Ian McNair (PHYS, 1st year), a sectional diving champion who was ranked individuals with mental illness are empowered and the 16th in Illinois as a high school student, took second overall on the 1-meter and treatment of mental illness can be improved. “The center 3-meter boards at the Phoenix Invite and set national qualifying times in both. gives us the luxury to be innovative and push the envelope McNair qualified and took first on the 3-meter board in a meet against divers with this issue,” he says. from Lindenwood University and also qualified on the 1-meter board during IIT’s first meet against theU niversity of Chicago. iit magazine | 7 facultynews

It has been said that bartenders make the best psychologists. Assistant Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology Konstantin Cigularov, who grew up the son of a hospitality professor in Bulgaria and owned a cocktail bar during his undergraduate years, Mixing Up a put that statement to the test. Discovering his fascination with human behavior by watching and talking with people, particularly Lifesaving Solution in bars and restaurants, he decided to move from Bulgaria to the United States to earn a master’s degree in psychological services. Later, Cigularov decided to pursue a Ph.D. to find a way to merge both business attitudes and actions, expectations, and communication about safety. They also and psychology. At the time, he knew very little about industrial/organizational (I/O) recommended safety orientation programs, offered in both English and Spanish, psychology, but applied to Colorado State University, where he eventually earned a ensuring that all employees have a clear understanding that safety comes first on second master’s degree and a Ph.D. in the discipline. Since then, Cigularov has been that job site, and all job sites. focusing much of his attention on promoting safer, healthier, and more productive According to reports by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, workplaces and communities. His three main research areas are occupational safety there were 5,071 deaths on the job nationwide in 2008. In Nevada, there were 25 and health, training/program development and evaluation, and work motivation. workplace deaths reported from January 2008 to June 2009, which has led OSHA “As a good bartender, I mix all three of them up well for a nice cocktail,” to review the entire state’s occupational safety and health program. The research Cigularov says. conducted by the Safety Management Applied Research Team comes at a crucial In August 2008, Cigularov joined a team of occupational health professionals time when OSHA’s new administration is moving from reacting to work-related presented with the challenge of evaluating and helping to improve safety on the injuries and fatalities to creating a plan for preventing them. OSHA encourages largest private construction project in United States history, the CityCenter and states to develop and operate their own job safety and health programs, and the Cosmopolitan project in Las Vegas. In the first 18 months of the construction project, plan developed by Cigularov and his team serves as a prime example of how cities there were eight worker fatalities and in June 2008, workers walked off the job and states can utilize outside teams of experts to help educate employers and keep site because of safety concerns. At that point, Las Vegas Sun reporter Alexandra workers safe. Berzon stepped in, investigating the situation and reporting her findings.S ince Since Cigularov and his colleagues, along with two IIT graduate students studying summer 2008, the Safety Management Applied Research Team, of which Cigularov under Cigularov, made their recommendations, there have been no fatalities at the is a member, has worked closely with the Center for Construction Research and construction site. Additionally, Berzon’s investigative reporting on the construction Training and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health to help survey project earned her the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The team presented a more than 5,000 construction workers, 100 supervisors, and 70 superintendents portion of its research findings at the 8th International Conference on Occupational and senior executives working on the project, analyze the survey results, and make Stress and Health in Puerto Rico and plans to present the remainder of its findings recommendations based on their findings. at the 25th Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference The team’s proposals focus on a “top-down approach,” suggesting that in Atlanta in April 2010. supervisors must make a commitment to safety, and reinforce and reward employees for taking safety precautions. Cigularov explains that I/O psychology has a large —Tanya Pantone focus on leadership, training, and motivation—three areas that needed to be strengthened within the construction project. The group dedicated a portion of its attention to determining what motivates workers to take safety precautions and to advising supervisors to encourage employees to display positive and constructive

Alexandra Berzon’s Las Vegas Sun article: www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/nov/18/reports-perinis-safety-wanting Berzon article after recommendations were made: Konstantin Cigularov www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/feb/19/perini-heeds-safety-critique/#/comments Center for Construction Research and Training Site Safety Reports: www.cpwr.com/research-sitereport.html

Photo: Bonnie Robinson 8 | iit magazine IIT is one of three academic institutions selected to receive up to $8 million in total funding for wind energy research through the American Virtual Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Mohammad Karl Stolley Shahidehpour, Bodine Professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Sustainability Engineering, is principal investigator of the interdisciplinary IIT-led consortium, which will focus on the installation of a test turbine While sustainability is, for most people, a buzzword for environmental preservation, for Karl Stolley, at an existing wind project in Marseilles, Ill. assistant professor of technical communication and co-director of the Usability Testing and Additionally, IIT will purchase up to two turbines Evaluation Center, sustainability means developing websites and other online materials that stand that will be used to perform reliability studies. the test of time. Through his research, Stolley explores digital sustainability and how, by contextualizing Natacha DePaola, professor and dean of IIT production practices in the history of a medium and predicting how the medium may develop next, Armour College of Engineering, was invested as it is possible to create artifacts on the Web that will be accessible many years later. He wants the Carol and Ed Kaplan Armour College Dean of people to understand how and why websites should be revised over time to fit current standards. Engineering Endowed Chair at a ceremony held “Writing always needs to be revised,” says Stolley. “With Web pages, people fear that if they on October 21, 2009. DePaola was also honored touch it, they will break it. That is no longer the case.” in October with a 2009 Woman of Achievement Award from the Chicago Alliance of Women. The Building a sustainable website is not only beneficial to that site, but also to the stability of both award was given to 12 outstanding women in the Web as a whole and other sites that may link to it. Many sites link to others on the Web and Chicago who were nominated by their peers and depend on those secondary sites to continue existing and functioning in order to remain credible. In chosen by the program’s sponsors for their career the early days of the Web, re-launching was more common because when new Web browsers were accomplishments and civic involvement. released, entire websites would stop functioning, causing those managing the sites a great amount of difficulty.W ithout a way to efficiently reconfigure their existing sites, Web developers would opt Sean Keller, assistant professor at IIT College for the lesser of the two evils, ultimately recreating an entirely new site. of Architecture, was honored with the 2009 “The idea behind a sustainable website is that if people are careful in designing their sites Winterhouse Award for Design Writing according to both the World Wide Web consortium standards and to their site content, they will not and Criticism. Presented by AIGA and the have to spend extra time redoing or re-launching their site, but can rather improve what is already Winterhouse Institute, the $10,000 award is there,” says Stolley. “A very thoughtful Web writer and designer can actually redesign an entire site given for a writer’s body of work. just by changing one file, instead of hundreds, if it is done carefully.” Chow Lam, Distinguished Professor at IIT Stolley’s website, www.sustainablewebdesign.com, addresses many of the deeper issues Institute of Psychology, received a $750,000 involving digital sustainability and advises those designing websites on how to work carefully to award from the United States Department of develop designs with lasting power. His site continues to be the No. 1 Google result for a search on Education for training in rehabilitation counseling. sustainable Web design. Throughout much of 2008, Stolley worked as part of a team to redesign Kairos, an electronic Ralph T. Muehleisen, assistant professor and journal of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. Creating the first Kairos style guide, the team helped director of the Miller Acoustics Laboratory and the journal come alive with a new look, features, and infrastructure, exemplifying the fact that the architectural engineering programs at IIT websites may be redesigned entirely, without a re-launch. The team was praised and honored for Armour College of Engineering, was elected as its work at the Modern Language Association Convention in San Francisco in 2008 and won the a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America for Best Journal Design Award of 2008 from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. his contributions to architectural acoustics and acoustics education. Stolley is also applying his expertise in technical communication for a new book he is writing as part of a Guide to Writing series by Greenwood Press. The book, which focuses on how to design Jafar Saniie, Walter and Harriet Filmer Endowed and write Web pages, explores what it means to have a presence on the Web. Chair Professor in Electrical and Computer “People need to ask themselves what they want a Google search of their name or company to Engineering at IIT, was elected as a fellow of the present,” says Stolley. “I want people to understand that they can take control of their reputation Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers for on the Web.” his contributions to ultrasonic signal detection, awards In order to understand how people can control their Web reputation, one must grasp the estimation, and imaging.

& relationship between humans and technology. Stolley explains that individuals must move from responding to technology to directly shaping and transforming it. Since joining IIT’s faculty in Yongyi Yang (M.S. AMAT ’92, Ph.D. EE ’94), August 2007, he has led graduate-level courses, teaching his students that when designing sites professor at IIT Armour College of Engineering, and programs they must consider what the end result should be and ask questions including, received a $1.5 million grant to conduct breast cancer medical imaging research. This grant “Is this program user-friendly? Is it accessible? Is it enjoyable to use?” If the answer to these will help fund a longstanding line of research that questions is yes, users will have an easier time shaping technology and will be more likely to will improve diagnosis and early detection contribute to it.

of breast cancer. honors “The Web can be a thriving, sustainable place, with each Kenneth Zdunek (Ph.D. EE ’91), senior research of us as Web authors doing scholar at IIT Armour College of Engineering, was our part to make it that way,” elected as a fellow of the Institute of Electrical says Stolley. Web Standards Project: www.webstandards.org and Electronic Engineers for his leadership in Kairos journal: http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/about.html integrating voice and data communications in —Tanya Pantone Karl Stolley blog: http://karlstolley.com wireless networks. faculty iit magazine | 9 researchbriefs Safety Net: Identifying Microbial Risks to the Food Supply Wei Zhang

n elaborate and still largely Maryland, Cornell mysterious series of events University, and at the genetic level helps Pennsylvania microbial invaders infect food, State University. resist disinfection, and cause Under normal Adisease. Wei Zhang, an authority on foodborne conditions, Listeria is Robinson Bonnie Photo: pathogens and assistant professor of biology at a rod-shaped bacterium. IIT, applies sophisticated comparative genomics But when cells are exposed techniques to more precisely identify disease to conditions of low nutrition, organisms and unlock the source of their Zhang explains, they assume a ball adaptability to changing conditions. shape, or coccus, capable of withstanding “My research is unique in the microbial extremely high temperatures and pressures safety area,” he explains, contrasting his —the primary methods used in food Annually, E. coli bacteria cause more integration of advanced genomic theory with processing for pasteurization. Zhang hopes to than 73,000 cases of infection. One strain more traditional means of analysis, such as understand the underlying global transcriptomic of O157:H7 was responsible for the 2006 microbial plate counting. changes responsible for Listeria’s transformation multi-state poisoning that affected packaged Zhang notes that in the United States alone, and survival. spinach. Zhang analyzes these bacteria by foodborne microbes are responsible for some 76 DNA microarrays—in which hundreds of studying single nucleotide polymorphisms— million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and thousands of DNA sequences are deposited on a single changes within the coding portion of 5,000 deaths each year. In addition to microbial fingernail-sized chip and used to probe genomic the bacterial genome that can be used for research carried out under a series of grants characteristics—are also being applied to the precise identification. “SNPs are extremely from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, study of Clostridium botulinum, a particularly reliable molecular markers for studying the he recently received a $2 million cooperative lethal food pathogen. Clostridia are able to form epidemiology of foodborne pathogens,” he agreement award from the U.S. Department of spores—structures highly resistant to heat, notes. Using these rare markers, researchers can Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service which can survive and later germinate within identify specific bacterial isolates. If two isolates to support its proficiency-testing program for the foods. The genomic changes underlying spore share identical SNPs at multiple loci, there is a Food Emergency Response Network. formation remain poorly understood. very strong likelihood they are derived from the FERN, a consortium of federal, state, and Salmonella, another common foodborne same ancestral strain, allowing researchers to local government regulatory agencies, jointly bacterium, can also alter their physical shape link patients to a single outbreak. oversees laboratories for evaluating threat agents under conditions of stress. Like Listeria and Zhang’s work has also demonstrated that in foods. In the proficiency testing program, Escherichia coli, Salmonella are enteric pathogens, enteric pathogens like E. food pathogen samples are prepared at IIT’s whose ideal environment is the human coli O157:H7 have a National Center for Food Safety and Technology, gastrointestinal tract. But Salmonella have also remarkable ability to where Zhang holds a joint appointment. The developed means to survive desiccation in shuffle their genetic contaminated samples are shipped to more foods with low-water activity, including peanut deck—trading DNA than 150 labs nationwide, where public health butter. (A 2008 peanut butter contamination information with investigators use them to practice techniques for caused more than 600 cases of infection and a indigenous plant or screening food. Additionally, proficiency tests number of deaths.) Two forms, or serotypes, of soil microflora in order to are being developed for mobile civil support Salmonella are under investigation in Zhang’s heighten their virulence teams, who travel in specially equipped vans lab, S. enteritidis and S. typhimurium, under a and enhance their ability to evade host defense that can be rapidly deployed in the case of food new Agriculture and Food Research Initiative systems. Better understanding of the genomic safety and security emergencies. competitive research grant through the USDA’s mechanisms allowing foodborne pathogens to In the lab, Zhang uses a variety of DNA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. survive and cause disease is paving the way to fingerprinting and genomic techniques to To date, Zhang has identified more than 300 more effective food processing and oversight. identify subtle variations in disease-causing differentially regulated genes linked to bacterial microbes. Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterial stress adaption in food. —Richard Harth invader that contaminates many dairy products, is being investigated for the first time with pan-genomic DNA microarray technology, in a collaborative effort with the FDA, University of Food Emergency Response Network: www.fernlab.org Foodborne illnesses FAQ: www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/files/foodborne_illness_FAQ.pdf 10 | iit magazine A primer on SNPs: www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/faq/snps.shtml Midwestern Night’s Dream: Imagining High-Speed Rail The year is 2031. Eight Midwestern states Members of the Chicago Architectural Club and snarled traffic. Adding to the immediacy including Illinois have seceded from the worked in teams, dividing the metropolis into of the issue is the necessity of weaning the Union, forming The Heartland States of discrete zones. One project dealt with the area economy from fossil fuels. The governors of America, a vast landscape stitched together around parks, another with land near Union eight states—Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, by a 220-mph rapid train network. Within Station. The resultant Chicago, a bustling area of shops, museums, patchwork of designs and commerce forms Heartland Free City for reshaping Chicago on formerly unused land surrounding I-290. following the advent of Described as “equal parts Brasilia, Vatican fast rail went on display City, and the Cayman Islands,” the thriving at the Chicago History Chicago Architectural Club: www.chicagoarchitecturalclub.org capitol has become a vibrant regional hub, with Museum at the end of R+D Studio, LLC: www.rdstudio.info sleek towers, shaded esplanades, centers of 2008, in conjunction Introduction to Heartland Free City: www.rdstudio.info/heartlandsplash.html government, and state infrastructure. with an international This sneak preview of the future— competition to conceive an Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, and Iowa— a blend of realism and whimsy—is courtesy inter-modal train terminal for Chicago’s West have signed a collaborative agreement to bring of Romina Canna and David Goodman, Loop neighborhood. high-speed rail to the region, though many assistant professors of architecture at IIT A high-speed rail system of the sort hurdles remain. and owner-architects of R+D Studio, LLC. that was proposed could dramatically alter The notion of rapid, comfortable travel The pair was invited to join other architects the character of Chicago and the Midwest. from Chicago to St. Louis in two hours is in envisioning the impact of a proposed According to projections, Chicago Union broadly appealing, but the price tag for such high-speed rail system on Chicago and the Station would have as many passengers a system is hefty—many times the $8 billion greater Midwest. The occasion was the 2009 moving through it annually as John F. Kennedy allotted through the economic stimulus centennial of Daniel Burnham’s landmark 1909 International Airport in New York, making the package. (The estimate for a similar system Plan of Chicago. land near Union Station extremely valuable. in California is $50 billion.) On the plus side, “We wanted to mark the anniversary by Further, as Goodman stresses, one-third of the high-speed system would radically carrying out a similar speculation,” Goodman the United States population currently lives reinvigorate the Midwest economy, creating an explains, referring to Burnham’s visionary within 500 miles of Chicago; the economy of estimated 57,000 permanent jobs and 15,000 document. The result was an interlinked exhibit his Heartland States of America would construction jobs. and competition dubbed Burnham 2.0: A be the fourth largest in the world, in league While the Midwest awaits these Composite Plan for the High Speed Rail City. with Japan. transformations, Canna and Goodman’s plan The audacious urban planning initiative came The Obama administration is keen on provides a possible blueprint for the region’s about through the collaboration of the Chicago the idea of a high-speed rail system focused high-speed future. The pair is developing a Architectural Club (Canna and Goodman around the president’s former hometown. publication about their work, to be published are co-presidents), the Chicago Humanities Mobility continues to be a critical issue in the by the Chicago Architectural Club. Festival, and the Chicago History Museum. Chicago area, with slow train service —Richard Harth

Drawing of a high-speed rail line near Chicago’s lakefront

Artworkcourtesy Romina Canna and David Goodman: Studio, R+D LLC iit magazine | 11 In Gratitude Freedom for ★ ★ ★ By Marcia Faye into the night of August 23, 1967, Pedro everything that I have. What I have is a wonderful life with Late “Pete” Luis Rustan Jr. (EE ’70, M.S. ’70) leapt the freedom to do anything that I want.” from the shores of Communist Cuba into the dark waters Rustan felt his first rush of liberty after crossing an of Guantánamo Bay, swimming one mile to the United Opuntia cactus border, which Cuban troops planted along Delta Tau Delta brothers States Naval Station and scaling over the Cactus Curtain the northeastern edge of the naval base to deter Cubans on the American side of Niagara Falls, 1970 to freedom. from attempting to seek refuge in the United States. As More than 43 years later—with 27 of those years in luck would have it, Admiral Thomas Hinman Moorer, then and distinguished service with the United States Air Force— chief of naval operations, was visiting the base; Rustan At Chicago’s Rustan is still swimming. accompanied him to Miami and was given sanctuary at Pizzeria Due, 1969 For many who know Rustan, none would be surprised the Freedom Tower. Miami reminded Rustan too much to learn that the super-achiever was recently offered the of Cuba both culturally and politically, so he traveled position of director of the Mission Support Directorate at to Chicago, where he got a job packing televisions for the National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, Va. It Magnavox. After three short weeks, he moved to the will be the third NRO move in six years for Rustan, who Rockville, Md., area, where his father’s friend helped has also served as director of Science and Technology him to obtain a position building computer modules and as well as director of Ground Enterprise for the wiring circuit boards for Control Data Corporation. organization, which builds and operates the nation’s Supplemented by loans from the Cuban Refugee surveillance satellites. In his new role, Rustan Program, Rustan earned the down payment on his version works with the community of satellite users— of the American Dream: tuition at a prominent technology- other intelligence agencies, the military, law focused university. It was something that he had desired enforcement, and the Department of Homeland ever since the fifth grade, when he and his classmates Security, among others—to facilitate the devices’ spent afternoons paging through magazines that featured capabilities, including data interpretation and articles on America’s national parks and institutions of retrieval, the availability of various products, and higher learning. the types of services offered or types that can be “Poverty was my influence,” he explains. While his designed to meet a user’s needs. family was poor, his parents still found a way to send him When Rustan retired as a United States Air Force to Guantánamo High School, where he was valedictorian colonel in 1997, employment at the NRO was not on and graduated at age 16. Studying at his classmates’ his radar. Instead, he became a successful consultant homes, Rustan could not help but notice their televisions in the private sector, advising companies on matters and refrigerators, and that their parents had college ranging from potential aerospace projects to the latest degrees. “They had all kinds of things that my father and technologies for high-speed communications links. Then mother didn’t have, so I started working harder because I the September 11 attacks occurred, and in their aftermath wanted to have more than what I saw.” Rustan found that his feelings for his new country sent The Cuban government gave Rustan special permission him on a once-familiar course. to enter the Universidad de Oriente at 16 as an electrical “I’m a big patriot,” he acknowledges, regarding his engineering student; it also gave him his postgraduate return to a career in the government in 2003. “I came from assignment—to work in the copper mines, something he a country that had a lot of problems. I thought, I’d like to had no desire to do. He was required to perform forced pay back the United States for taking me in and giving me labor, cutting sugar cane and harvesting rice and other crops for one month each year. On Saturdays there were military exercises, such as pretend practice in shooting down aircraft or launching missiles. At the same time, the government recognized Rustan’s accomplishments in the Clementine Project: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/clementine.html classroom, where he finished at the top each Cuba: www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2886.htm year, and rewarded him with sightseeing tours National Reconnaissance Office:www.nro.gov

12 | iit magazine [Left to right] Gary Masterson, Dave Tubbs, “Pete provided many of the freshman engineering John Donald, Pedro Rustan, Loren Vogel, and students in our pledge class with extra tutoring in calculus Rod Sweer at a bridge get-together and physics,” says Masterson. One young student Rustan tutored in math went on to obtain an advanced degree around the island. While he enjoyed seeing all of his in the field. Kevin Meade (MAE ’74, M.S. AMAT ’78), country, Rustan also witnessed things that further IIT professor of mechanical engineering, was a freshman opened his eyes to the deterioration of life in Cuba: when Rustan was a graduate student. “I remember most sites where nuclear submarine bases were being built his passion for math and for engineering,” says Meade. for the former Soviet Union. “He worked very long hours, never seeming to quit.” “By the time I was 19, it became obvious that the IIT awarded Rustan a scholarship for his master’s situation in Cuba was not going to get any better,” education, which he was pursuing when the Selective says Rustan. “By that time, my father had been a Service called his No. 16 in the draft lottery, beginning his political prisoner for six years, and I was continuously military career. He immediately put his education to use, watched throughout college to ensure that I would not looking at the effects of electromagnetic interference on become very negative against the revolution and the pacemakers and publishing his results in the Journal Cuban government.” of the American Medical Association. Rustan became With her son safe in American territory, Rustan’s a citizen in 1971, obtained his doctorate, and as a mother smuggled his college transcripts to him, carried commissioned officer attained positions of increasing in the socks of Cubans who were employed at the naval significance in technological research and academia at station. Rustan’s diligence earned him entry into all three various military installations. engineering schools to which he applied—Massachusetts In 1991, Michael Griffin, former NASA Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, administrator, assigned Rustan as program and Illinois Institute of Technology. Shortly after he manager for the Clementine Project, whose entered IIT in 1968, Rustan pledged with the Delta Tau objectives were to test sensors and spacecraft Delta international fraternity. components used for extended periods in “The brothers treated me very well,” he says. “The space, and to make scientific observations of fraternity taught me about America—how to eat, how to the moon and asteroid 1620 Geographos. The dress, and how to socialize correctly.” mission made the unexpected discovery of Rustan’s “Delts” fraternity brothers also benefited from finding ice at the lunar South Pole. knowing their new refugee friend. “He would literally work When Rustan entered the waters of around the clock to make sure he totally understood every Guantánamo Bay, he shot for the moon, assignment and was totally prepared for every exam,” says and indeed, hit his target. Dave Zook (IE ’73), Rustan’s “little brother” and roommate, “Pete’s life story would say, now president and owner of Horizontech, Inc. “He pushed ‘Don’t give up,’ and that me to work harder, but at the same time, he had a fantastic improvement is always sense of humor and enjoyed to the fullest the life and the possible,” offers Griffin, who close friendships we had in the fraternity. My fraternity left NASA in 2009 and is days at IIT were some of the best of my life, and Pete’s now an eminent scholar influence and friendship to a young kid fresh out of high and faculty member school in Montana were a big reason why.” at the University of Rustan’s pledge brother, Gary C. Masterson, business Alabama in Huntsville. transformation consultant for Spanlink Communications, “Set your goals high Inc., gets together with Rustan and a few other Delts every and then achieve five years or so for Lou Malnati’s deep-dish pizza and them. Here’s a guy bridge. Masterson recalls how Rustan and study partner who was born in Cuba Loren Vogel (IE ’72) had desks facing each other topped under a rather vicious by hutches that Vogel made. To ensure that Rustan hadn’t Communist regime, nodded off, Vogel would periodically light up a cigar and and holds a Ph.D. in blow smoke at his partner through holes drilled in the electrical engineering hutches. This method apparently and occupies one of achieved its desired effect, and this nation’s highest and then some. most trusted positions in government. What does that tell you?” ■

After winning Greek Week pushcart relay, 1970

iit magazine | 13 Photo: Wes Agresta, Argonne National Laboratory

Jeff Terry [top], Dan Olive [middle], and Carlo Segre prepare a Zircaloy sample for corrosion studies using the Materials Research Collaborative Access Team beamline at Argonne National Laboratory. Zircaloy is an alloy used in the nuclear industry as a fuel cladding.

The Nuclear OptiOn Climbing Out of Our Energy Well

eff Terry, IIT assistant professor of physics, frets about the future of energy—probably more than most people. “I always think of that scene from the movie Apollo 13,” he says, describing the embattled spacecraft, which had begun filling up with lethal carbon dioxide. Back at mission control, someone declares, “Power is everything.” Even if all other problems are solved, the flight controller explains, without By Richard Harth enough power to open the ’chutes on re-entry, the crew is dead. JIn Terry’s view, that spacecraft is a metaphor for our planet, where reserves of non- renewable energy are being depleted rapidly. Terry is a strong advocate for the revival of nuclear energy, which has been largely abandoned in the United States since the late 1970s. “I like to think that I’m a true environmentalist,” he says, without irony. He’s not alone in this view. Even some career environmentalists—including Scott Howson, chairman of the Rappahannock Group of the Sierra Club, Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, and biologist James Lovelock—have spoken out in favor of nuclear development. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report of 2007 also gives a cautious nod to nuclear as a “commercially available climate change mitigating” technology. It’s tough to say they’re in love with the idea. But, to paraphrase Winston Churchill’s riff on democracy, nuclear may be the worst energy solution—except compared to all the others. Though nuclear power remains a contentious subject, often linked by the public with disasters like Chernobyl and weapons proliferation, the world’s growing consumption of energy and increasing awareness of the environmental pitfalls of fossil fuel use are prompting a fresh examination.

14 | iit magazine Beam me up Trained as a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Terry is an expert on the characterization of radioactive materials and has more than a decade of experience with synchrotron radiation research. In November 2008, he was recruited to run an ambitious new $20 million project known as the Nuclear These speeding electrons produce and Radiological Research Collaborative X-ray beams as they accelerate, Access Team, or NRR CAT, at Argonne Dan Olive, an IIT graduate student decelerate, or change direction. Ports National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon working with Terry, studies how plutonium located around the ring allow the streams Source. Here, radioactive materials to be behaves in the environment, specifically, of X-rays to be sampled and applied to used in future nuclear reactors can be how it is able to form colloids—chemical research. The flood of X-rays produced by studied safely. mixtures in which particles are suspended. the APS range in intensity from a thousand The work at NRR CAT will represent Olive’s work addresses nuclear energy’s to a million times those produced by an important expansion of IIT’s greatest Achilles heel—the problem of traditional sources. longstanding involvement with synchrotron radioactive waste. Much of his research Such beamlines are used for varied research. The Center for Synchrotron is conducted for the U.S. Department investigations, from the study of Radiation Research and Instrumentation of Energy Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or semiconductors, magnetic materials, came together at IIT in the early 1990s, WIPP, a storage facility for radioactive and nanostructures to large biological spurred by the construction of the materials in Carlsbad, N.M., which has molecules and new energy technologies, Advanced Photon Source. Situated just supplanted the Yucca Mountain site, including fuel cells. As Carlo Segre, IIT 25 miles southwest of Chicago, APS is defunded in 2009. professor of physics and a member of the largest synchrotron X-ray source in Over time, fission products that absorb CSRRI explains, a synchrotron can be the western hemisphere. neutrons during nuclear reactions build thought of as an enormous microscope, In addition to IIT core members, up in nuclear fuel, eventually halting the able to probe materials at the atomic CSRRI leverages the talents of faculty- reaction. The fuel must then be removed, scale, due to the very short wavelengths researchers university-wide and is involved though as Terry points out, it still contains of X-rays. in collaborations with scientists from most of its energy. “It’s like throwing out around the world. The center is also a the gas tank of your car when it’s still training ground for the next generation Material witnesses three-quarters full because there’s air of nuclear specialists, offering academic Synchrotron technology provides the inside of it,” he says. coursework as well as training workshops opportunity to research and refine the Though the Salado salt formation, which at national and international conferences. materials used in nuclear reactors. “We’re lies 2,000 feet underground and extends The Graduate Assistantships in Areas of interested, for example, in studying how from Kansas to New Mexico, and currently National Need Fellowship Program at IIT you make a fuel pellet and encapsulate it houses the WIPP, is sufficient to store supports doctoral candidates in physics so that the uranium and other radioactive all of the country’s nuclear waste for the with a specialization in synchrotron materials don’t leak out,” Segre explains. foreseeable future, most experts agree radiation-based research. He has also been working with colleagues that there must be a safe and effective The synchrotron radiation at Argonne from the University of Santa Barbara to means of reprocessing nuclear fuel, if we begins with electrons, which are produced develop oxygen dispersion strengthened are to avoid running out of uranium. by a heated cathode and accelerated steel, a specialized material containing “Reprocessing is really the way to go. to 99.999 percent of the speed of light, nanoparticles that exhibits improved Unfortunately, we’re not quite there yet,” using Argonne’s linear accelerator. The performance under radiation conditions. Olive says. Such reprocessing involves electrons are then fed into an oval-shaped The Advanced Photon Source is an the separation of neutron-absorbing waste booster synchrotron to speed them up ideal tool to characterize the behavior byproducts from remaining fissionable even further before they are finally injected and appearance of the nanoclusters. material—the uranium or plutonium, which into the 1,104-meter storage ring, around This hybrid form of steel could be used can then be used as reactor fuel. Critics which they whiz in circles, constrained eventually to line reactor wall vessels, of the procedure fear the diversion of in their paths by more than 1,000 which must withstand strong irradiation resulting material, which could be used powerful electromagnets. by neutrons. potentially for weapons.

iit magazine | 15 According to Aleksandar Ostrogorsky, In the case of nuclear, the process Toward a a new faculty member in IIT’s Department works on the principle that very heavy carbonless future of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace elements like uranium are unstable. The The current energy picture is alarming. As Engineering, proliferation and other safety uranium nucleus is held together by a Terry notes, fossil fuels today deliver 86 concerns are important considerations, specific energy, known as the binding percent of our energy. Of the remaining but fears may be overblown. He points energy, which is released in the form of 14 percent, roughly 40 percent is nuclear to a generally positive track record for gamma rays, neutrons, and kinetic energy and about 20 percent is hydroelectric. reactors, noting that most U.S. water- when the nucleus is torn apart into more Biomass is used much more widely than cooled and moderated reactor designs— stable constituents. renewables like solar, geothermal, or wind pressurized water reactors and boiling Fission reactors use pellets of uranium, power. “When we’re talking biomass,” water reactors—are safer than the including the radioactive isotope U-235, Terry explains, “we mean people who are Russian graphite pile device involved in encased in fuel rods. In the reactor’s cutting down trees or plants and burning the Chernobyl disaster. As for the threat core, fissionable uranium undergoes them to survive.” of proliferation, Ostrogorsky notes that a controlled chain reaction, releasing Nuclear energy will not provide a a number of countries now have access energy in the form of heat, turning panacea for the world’s energy woes. to the Zippe-type centrifuges and the pressurized water into pressurized At best, it will be a slice of the new know-how for enriching uranium, or they steam to drive the electricity-producing energy portfolio, which seeks to offset could use plutonium produced in their own turbines. The advantage over a coal nearly all of the world’s fossil fuels by reactors without having to pilfer supplies plant is that during actual operation, mid-century, if goals set by the IPCC are from U.S. reactors. there are no toxic emissions or CO2 to be met. Atmospheric CO must be Ostrogorsky, who worked in the field released from smokestacks (though 2 driven down and held to below 350–450 of nuclear engineering from 1977– some CO2 is involved in the mining of parts per million. The alternative, we 1982, is currently involved in research uranium ore, refining, and enriching fuel, are warned, is continued warming of funded by the National Nuclear Security and construction of the plant itself). The the planet, with unknown and potentially Administration (within the DOE) into a new disadvantage is that spent fuel persists catastrophic consequences. generation of high-resolution gamma ray at the end of its cycle as a long-lasting detectors that can keenly sense nuclear hazardous waste that must either be radiation. Such technology is widely stored or reprocessed. applicable to many fields and may be used in future reactors for radiation monitoring.

Nuclear ABCs In terms of environmental friendliness, nuclear energy is sandwiched between emission-free alternatives like solar and wind, and carbon-emitting technologies— including public enemy No. 1, the coal- fired power plant, which supplies the U.S. with more than 50 percent of its electricity but also is the leading source of mercury pollution and toxic particulates. The basic mode of power generation with each of these is the conversion of energy from one form into another. As Segre explains, both nuclear and conventional coal-fired plants rely on thermodynamic processes to heat water and use it to drive giant, magnetized turbines that generate electricity.

16 | iit magazine Given these sobering estimates, one may wonder why carbon-reducing In the second half of the century platforms, including nuclear, are not at solar will have to play a very large role, Time is the enemy the forefront of the nation’s agenda. As but presently solar is uneconomic, at A profound transformation in the way chairman and chief executive officer of least without massive subsidies. Exelon the world acquires and uses energy has Exelon, owner of the country’s largest fleet estimates place natural gas at roughly $10 barely begun. According to the IPCC’s

of nuclear reactors, IIT Board of Trustees a ton of avoided CO2, whereas new nuclear 2007 report on climate change, world Chair John Rowe has been pondering comes in at around $70 and wind varies carbon output should ideally peak in

these issues throughout a lengthy career. from $50–80 per ton. Offsetting CO2 just five years, before beginning a steep He emphasizes that despite the gathering through sequestration or solar energy is descent. The U.S. and other wealthy awareness of our energy predicament, even pricier. “I think it’s terribly important nations—the leading carbon polluters— new reactors continue to face daunting that the first four to eight plants get built,” need to slash carbon emissions 25–40 economic and political hurdles. Rowe stresses. “If they don’t, we’re not percent below 1990 levels by 2020, at a For the past 30 years or so, nuclear going to have a good base for building minimum. Added to the dilemma—rapid construction has languished due to a the 14 to 20 that we’ll need going into the industrialization in the developing world combination of public resistance and next decade.” and increasing population growth. “If exorbitant cost. In addition, bureaucratic In the wake of the December 2009 we stay on this course and add another tangles from siting to reactor design climate talks in Copenhagen, an increasing 4 billion people,” Olive warns, “then approval and licensing are formidable, sense of urgency permeates discussion of even if we turn off our electricity and the requiring about a decade for completion of our energy future. As demands for cleaner U.S. goes dark, it won’t matter.” Global

a new plant. Though there has been some energy become ever more acute, the DOE management of CO2 is imperative, and movement on Capitol Hill of late, Rowe hopes to expand its research base, with new industrialization must be predicated remains skeptical. “Unfortunately, at the an eye toward maintaining existing nuclear on low carbon or carbon-free alternatives. present time the only thing that’s cheap facilities while paving the way for a new Today, concern for the environment— is burning natural gas,” he says, adding generation of reactors and safer means of one of the very issues responsible for that convincing, bipartisan commitment disposing spent fuel. The NRR CAT project tabling nuclear energy three decades to nuclear energy has yet to materialize. holds promise to be a valuable research ago—may help drive the development Rowe says the prospects for meeting element within the DOE’s developing of new reactors. It’s an irony not lost on some of the more ambitious goals, which energy plan. those involved in the nuclear field, as call for 350,000 megawatts of additional, In the meantime, our daily energy attempts are made to address what carbon-free electrical energy by 2030, consumption adds to the roughly 10 billion some authorities on climate change call are bleak. “It’s not going to happen,” he metric tons of carbon expelled into the the greatest challenge our species has insists, noting that 50,000 megawatts atmosphere annually. According to the ever faced. of additional nuclear by 2030 might be Energy Information Administration’s Annual Research into the behavior of feasible. In the first 10 years of nuclear Energy Outlook for 2008, America’s radioactive materials, such as the new redevelopment, only 8,000–10,000 overall energy use is expected to grow by work planned for NRR CAT, will begin megawatts are projected, based on the nearly 19 percent by 2030 while electricity laying the groundwork for a nuclear construction of four to eight new plants. demand alone is projected to climb by 30 renaissance, when it comes. If it comes. Rowe says an essential first step is the percent during the same period. And every Political and economic barriers are wed to

passage of aggressive climate legislation ton of CO2 released into the atmosphere many remaining technological trials. “No with incentives for carbon-free energy lingers there for a century—some of it for one has yet had a eureka moment,” Terry coupled with some system of cap and thousands of years. Turning the carbon says, adding after a pause, “Boy, do we trade to limit carbon emissions. tide will be slow. need one.” ■

Global campaign to reduce carbon: www.350.org Exelon’s 2020 low-carbon roadmap: www.exeloncorp.com/NR/rdonlyres/6BF790FC-6ADB-422D-A7A5-36F3776748CC/0/080716Exelon2020_A_low_carbon_Roadmap.pdf Technology behind nuclear reactors: www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm

iit magazine | 17 Thr ugh a Lens, Intimately

B arbara Cra AN e

 People of the North Portal (1970–71) “I began to think specifically about the unique diversity of people in Chicago and chose the Museum of Science and Industry as the stage from which to view the massive cross-section of humanity that moves through its doors,” says Crane. “The museum’s visitors served as a microcosm of the city’s race, class, age, and nationality, and as a way to look at the commonalities they all share.”

 commuter Discourse (1978) “The crush of people moving toward Union Station at the end of the day is fragmented by shapes created by light and shadow streaming down the canyons between buildings in the city,” says Crane, who is part of the photograph as the shadow figure with the large bag over her arm. The quality of light, notes Crane, is essential to all of her imagery.

 Urban Anomalies (2001) Crane shot Urban Anomalies from Chicago’s “El” platforms, which allowed her to obtain unique views and look down onto rooftops of various neighborhoods. “The series explores the abstraction that occurs when a photographic frame is imposed on the architecture of the city,” Crane says.

18 | iit magazine American photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams Visit www.iit.edu/magazine/online_exclusive to read expanded said, “Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and profiles on both Crane and David. Crane’s work can be seen in the communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation, exhibit Barbara Crane, Then/Now: The Eternal Thread of the ID and execution.” Adams’ words aptly describe the distinctive yet Aesthetic, in the Kemper Room Art Gallery at IIT’s Paul V. Galvin disparate photographic directions taken by IIT Institute of Design Library through February 1. An exhibit of David’s photographs of the alumni Barbara Crane (M.S. PHOT ’66) and Robert E. David (M.S. Golden Gate Bridge and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area will DSGN ’73). While Crane, a groundbreaking artistic photographer, and be on display in IIT’s Hermann Hall Gallery Lounge, beginning with a David, official photographer for the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and reception on January 26. The exhibit will run through March 15. Transportation District, have never met, they share several things in For more information, visit www.iit.edu/art. ■ common besides their alma mater: a level of mastery in their chosen genres, a friend and colleague in Adams, and a love of the cities they each call home.

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 main Cable Inspection, Wedges in Place (June 26, 1998) “Every 10 years the main cable of the bridge is thoroughly inspected,” says David. “This photo shows where a 50-foot section of the main cable has been unwrapped and wedges have been driven into the wire strands to separate them to permit visual inspection of the interior strands.” The bridge’s main cable consists of 27,572 strands of 0.196- inch thick galvanized-steel wire arrayed into a 36-inch diameter circle.

 measuring Cable Band Bolt Tension (July 29, 1998) “As part of the once-per-decade main cable inspection, cable bands and their associated bolts are scrutinized for structural integrity and appropriate tension,” says David. “Cable bands hold vertical suspender ropes in position every 50 feet along the main cable.” This photo, which shows the cable band nearest the top of the south tower, demonstrates the process of measuring the tension in one of the bolts.

 Golden Gate Bridge from Presidio Bluffs (June 6, 1993) “As I frequently do, I was on the lookout for colorful sunset conditions and was able to get to this location and set up my 8” x 10” camera in time to capture the moment at 8:15,” says David. “The ¼-second exposure accounts for the blurs in the windswept foreground grass and the automobile traffic on the bridge. People frequently say that this photograph has a ‘painterly’ quality. In light of its apparent popularity, I published it as a poster.”

 Golden Gate Bridge from Fort Baker (January 1, 2000) This night photograph taken from the United States Coast Guard station at the north end of the bridge was David’s first for the new millennium. “The very clear and calm evening provided exceptional and peaceful conditions, allowing for the deep reflections of the bridge’s illumination in the waters of San Francisco Bay,” David explains. “A four-minute time exposure, including reciprocity allowance, enhanced this effect.”

iit magazine | 19 Brice, who attended the Leadership Cohort master’s Any Old Way program in IIT’s Department of Mathematics and Science Education (MSED), retired in June 2009 after 42 years as a CPS educator. She is now devoting her time to a new program held in partnership with global medical products and services company Baxter International, Inc. Funded Won’t Do for five years, the program aims to train at least 30 teachers each year to bring biotechnology to the classroom. Home base for the teacher development program helley Brown enjoyed two birthday cakes the year is Lindblom Math and Science Academy, where Brice she was a freshman at Whitney M. Young Magnet taught for the last four years of a career that also included High School on Chicago’s Near West Side. One appointments as biology teacher at Harlan Community By Marcia Faye celebratedS the day that she was born. The second cake Academy, biology teacher and science department chair changed the direction of her life. at King College Prep High School, and biology teacher at “I owe my decision to pursue a lifelong career in Whitney Young. Her office is next to the biotechnology biomedical research to Hortense Brice,” says Brown, of the classroom and laboratory she established when she first Chicago Public Schools biology teacher who assigned her came to Lindblom, still decorated as she left it, with class to come up with creative ways to portray a human clusters of colorful buckyball models hanging from the cell in three dimensions. Brown envisioned a birthday ceiling. Her voice is soft but her words convey a strong cake as the cell, with its organelles drawn in colored icing. sense of self and purpose that is grounded in Southern- “The idea for the cake may have been simplistic,” bred convictions of family, church, and education. says Brown, who is now a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical “My dad always used to say, ‘Any old way won’t do,’” engineering at the University of Michigan. “But the says Brice about her father, who instilled in her this mantra impact Ms. Brice’s teaching and that project had on my as one of his many Alabama values. “And if I’ve shared life was monumental.” anything with students over the years, I’ve told them very In the 1990s, Brice regarded the still-emerging field of nicely, ‘You are capable of achieving whatever you want. biotechnology with great interest and began educating This work that you’ve given me is not consistent with what herself by enrolling in teacher workshops on the subject I see in you, and I will not accept this because any old way at institutions ranging from the University of Chicago won’t do.’ It’s so true. I tried to raise my son, Troy, that to Dartmouth College. Credited with bringing the study way, and people tell me that he’s a great kid.” of biotechnology to CPS, Brice is now extending the field’s reach to hundreds of classrooms through her leadership in a professional development program for CPS middle school and high school teachers.

Hortense Brice in the biotechnology classroom/lab at Lindblom Math and Science Academy

Photo: Bonnie Robinson

20 | iit magazine Although she was born in the rural South, her mother Mather spoke with Baxter representatives about made sure that books were a staple and typical Christmas partnership opportunities with the school and invited gifts for Brice and her two sisters. Weekly trips to the local them to Lindblom’s “Principal for a Day” program, where library and placement on the honor roll were all expected they observed the biotechnology course taught by Brice. of the siblings, who would not play house but school, with “They left saying, ‘Now we know how we want to be eldest sister Brice as the teacher. When the family moved involved,’” says Mather. “It was certainly her passion north, Brice’s father learned the pipefitting trade and her and competence that inspired those at Baxter to become mother went to school to become a medical technician. involved in CPS. There is no other way to describe this The sisters all graduated from college, with each chipping partnership as coming from anywhere but from Hortense.” in to help pay the other’s tuition costs. (Brice’s late sister The Baxter grant provides $2 million to support the Delores “Dee” Parmer Woodtor earned a Ph.D. from Biotechnology Center of Excellence at Lindblom Math Northwestern University and her sister Twinet Parmer and Science Academy, $1 million to support the CPS earned a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.) Renaissance 2010 model schools’ initiative, and $2 For a short time Brice was married, though she raised million to supplement ongoing learning opportunities her son singlehandedly after she and her husband for students and teachers throughout the city, including divorced. Money was a little tight, but Brice knew how to programs through MSED, which are benefiting from a gift make a stew of chicken drumsticks, veggies, noodles, and of $680,000. a dash of Lawry’s seasoning go a long way. Norman G. Lederman, MSED professor and chair, says “It’s all in your philosophy. That’s why I always sing my that current science education reform emphasizes the parents’ praises as well as those of other older people who integration of the sciences, orients science in a problem- had some influence on my life,” Brice explains. “Money is based learning environment, and engages students through important, yes. But you can raise your children and bring authentic, real-world problems. them up properly without having a lot of money. It’s about “Emphasis on biotechnology is a very effective way to parental expectations and modeling, how high you raise accomplish these goals,” says Lederman. In recognition of the bar, and the importance you place on values, integrity, Brice’s contributions toward shaping the next generation and character.” of Midwest biotechnology and life sciences innovators and Brice has seen many parents make education a priority. leaders, she was given the 2008 iCON Knowledge Builder After accompanying Brice on a class field trip to Lincoln Award from the iBIO Institute, an Illinois organization that Park Zoo, the mother of one Whitney Young student promotes biotechnology education, training, and research. living in the Cabrini-Green public housing development Of the many recommendations made in the 2007 report was motivated to work two jobs—one that brought in Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing money for daily living and a second for her daughter’s America for a Brighter Economic Future, issued by the new computer fund. Brice’s own resourcefulness and Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, determination netted thousands of dollars for laboratory is one that states, “laying a foundation for a scientifically tools through corporate grants she wrote to bring literate workforce begins with developing outstanding biotechnology to CPS. K–12 teachers in science and mathematics.” Other priorities prevented the biotechnology program One influential teacher can make a lasting impression from gaining firm ground at both King College Prep and on a student, just as one did for Shelley Brown. ■ Whitney Young, but things changed when Brice went to Lindblom and met Principal Alan Mather, who encouraged her to write a course description to present to the Chicago School Board. The yearlong course was approved for launch at Lindblom, a selective-enrollment high school.

“My dad always used to say, ‘Any old way won’t do.’ And if I’ve shared anything with students over the years, I’ve told them very nicely, ‘You are capable of achieving whatever you want.’”

Baxter International, Inc.: www.baxter.com IIT Department of Mathematics and Science Education: www.iit.edu/csl/msed Renaissance 2010 Project: www.ren2010.cps.k12.il.us

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Jong Kimm ➔ Richard Sutis Linda Connor ➔ Paul Ko 1950s (ARCH ’61, M.S. ’64), New (ME ’65), Naperville, Ill., (M.S. DSGN ’69), San (CE ’71, M.S. ’72), Foster Theodore Brown York, and his work were the retired as president of Goss Anselmo, Calif., published City, Calif., is a senior project (CHEM ’50), Estero, Fla., subject of the book Exploring International after 44 years the book Odyssey: The director with the United authored two new books, Tectonic Space by In Ha Jung of service. Sutis will retain his Photographs of Linda States Department of Energy. Imperfect Oracle: The (published in German and positions as vice chairman Connor (Chronicle Books), He has two daughters. Epistemic and Moral English by Ernst Wasmuth of the Board of Directors comprised of photographs Authority of Science Verlag Tubingen–Berlin). The of Shanghai Goss Graphic she has taken of sites around William Schiemann (Pennsylvania State book includes discussions Systems and member of the the world. (PSYC ’71, M.B.A. ’73), University Press) and of the role of technology Board of Directors of Goss Lebanon, N.J., published his Bridging Divides: The in Kimm’s architecture Graphics Systems Japan Frank Doti second book, Reinventing Origins of the Beckman and his concept of space. Corporation. (LAW ’69), Anaheim, Calif., Talent Management: How Institute at Illinois Some of his award-winning celebrated 27 years of to Maximize Performance in (University of Illinois Press). buildings include the 1988 ➔ Charles Cairnes teaching law in southern the New Marketplace. He is Seoul Olympic weightlifting (MATH ’66), North Palm California. He is a professor chief executive officer of the Ted Erikson gymnasium; the Sonje Beach, Fla., retired from of law and holds the William Metrus Group, a research (CHE ’52, M.S. CHEM Museum of Contemporary the United States Navy, P. Foley II Chair in Corporate and consulting company that ’59), Chicago, qualified to Art in Kyongju, Korea; and is presently a principal Law and Taxation at he founded in 1988, and swim in five events at the and the Seoul Hilton with Charles W. Cairnes Jr. Chapman University School serves as the chair-elect of Senior National Games, held International Hotel. PA CPA. He and his wife, of Law. the SHRM Foundation. August 1–5, 2009. He is also Deborah, enjoy competitive planning a three-generation ➔ Norman Roth sailing and volunteering with John Pikarski Jr. Felicia Dudek (father/son/grandsons) swim (CE ’62), Los Angeles, has the Boy Scouts. They have (LAW ’69), Chicago, received (PSYC ’72, M.S. REHB across Istanbul’s Bosporus an intellectual-property two children. a lifetime achievement award ’74), Northbrook, Ill., was in the 2010 Turkish Annual law practice in Los Angeles. from the Consul General of awarded the Distinguished Competition. He obtained a J.D. from ➔ Jeryl Cordell the Republic of Poland for Service Award from the Southern Methodist (PSYC ’66), San Diego, his decades of effort Illinois Mental Health Harold Gruen University School of Law spent 21½ years with the on behalf of the National Counselors Association (M.S. EE ’59), Goleta, in 1967. United States Navy before Polish-American Jewish- in November 2008. She Calif., is retired as chief he retired. He is active in the American Council. Pikarski received the Professional of executive officer of ➔ John Watson symphony board, a special is a principal in his firm, the Year Award from the Spectrum Technology. (BIOL ’64), Daly City, mayor’s panel on water use, Gordon and Pikarski. Illinois Alcohol and Other Calif., is professor emeritus and county child welfare. Drug Abuse Professional ➔ Ronald Schauer of biochemistry at the He enjoys rugby, crew, Joel Weisman Certification Association in (EE ’59), Boca Raton, Fla., University of California, San volleyball, and traveling. (LL.B. ’69), Northbrook, March 2009. spent 20 years with Siemens Francisco. He and his wife, Ill., was inducted into the before he retired. Currently, Valerie, have four children Barbara Crane International Press Club of ➔ James Gatziolis he serves as an elder in and five grandchildren. (M.S. PHOT ’66), Chicago, Chicago’s Journalism Hall (LAW ’73), Chicago, was his church and makes the had her photography of Fame. elected first vice president curricula for theological Gerald Bepko featured in Barbara Crane: of the board of directors of studies. He enjoys golfing (LAW ’65), Indianapolis, Challenging Vision, a 60-year Harvey Weiss the Union League Club of with his family. Schauer received an Honorary retrospective exhibition, in (BIOL ’69, M.S. ’72), Chicago in June 2009. He has one son, 49, and Doctor of Laws from the Chicago Cultural Center. Arlington Heights, Ill., has is a partner in the law firm one daughter, 46, Purdue University in May The exhibit, held October 17 patents in the biomedical of Quarles & Brady, LLP. and grandchildren. 2009. He has served two 3, 2009 though January product area. Gaziolis and his wife, Shelley Indiana institutions of 10, 2010, was organized by R. Smith, also an attorney, higher learning—Indiana the Chicago Department of have two sons. 1960s University and Purdue—for Cultural Affairs. 1970s ➔ George Berg 37 years as an instructor ➔ John Ronge Steven Kramer (EE ’60), San Diego, retired and administrator. Bepko is ➔ Patricia Ecker (MET ’70), Malibu, Calif., (LAW ’73), Rancho Palos as captain for American one of the few individuals (M.S. SOCT ’67), Camarillo, is an attorney and CPA Verdes, Calif., joined the Los Airlines and the United to receive honorary degrees Calif., is partner in a small practicing in Los Angeles. Angeles office of Sheppard, States Navy Reserve. He is from both universities. Los Angeles publishing His wife, Arlinda, is a flight Mullin, Richter & Hampton enjoying grandchildren, golf, company that produces attendant for United Airlines. as a partner. Kramer, who and California sun. materials for school districts. They have three sons. was previously with Mayer She and her husband have Brown, focuses his practice two grown children. on civil litigation, SEC enforcement actions, and white-collar criminal defense.

22 | iit magazine ➔ Rita Gorawara-Bhat ➔ J. Edward Carryer (M.A.S. ARCH ’74), Chicago, (ENG ’75), Stanford, Calif., Susan Solomon is a research associate in the and his wife, Sheri Sheppard, (CHEM ’77), Boulder, Colo., was inducted into the National Department of Medicine at both teach mechanical Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca, N.Y., on October 11, 2009. the University of Chicago, engineering at Stanford It is another in a string of awards given to Solomon, who where she conducts research University. Their daughter, was the first person to explain how chlorofluorocarbons on the influence of physical Portia, is currently destroy the ozone layer. A senior scientist with the National environments on physician- studying Medieval history/ Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Solomon shared patient interaction. She and fiction writing. in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize in her role as co-chair of the her husband have one son. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Solomon is a The Honorable member of the National Academy of Sciences and a recipient Idris Kothari William Pileggi of the National Medal of Science and the Grande Medaille (M.S. EE ’74), Saratoga, (LAW ’76), Western from the French Academy of Sciences. Calif., is co-founder, chief Springs, Ill., was appointed technical officer, and supervising judge of the engineering vice president Cook County Circuit Court’s of Vertical Systems, a Housing Section, which hears Frances Meehan Robert Schillerstrom technology company that matters pertaining (LAW ’77), Chicago, joined 1980s (LAW ’80), Naperville, Ill., develops customer interfaces to building code violations Much Shelist in June 2009 as ➔ Walter Augustin was inducted as a fellow that enhance the guest and compliance brought special counsel in the firm’s (EE ’80), Altamonte Springs, of the DuPage Academy of experience at upscale hotels. by the City of Chicago business and finance, and Fla., retired from the Bar Leaders in May 2009 and Cook County that health care practice groups. United States Marine Corps and announced his intention Michael Mercer impact the health and following 27 years of active to seek the Republican (M.S. PSYC ’74, Ph.D. PSYC safety of occupants and Fay Clayton duty. He is a member of the nomination for governor of ’80), Barrington, Ill., had the community. (LAW ’78), Chicago, was U.S. Navy’s Senior Executive Illinois in the 2010 election. his book, Hire the Best & honored at the Chicago Service and is currently He and his wife, Mary Beth, Avoid the Rest, go into ➔ Hal Block Lawyer Chapter of the serving as the technical have three children. its 13th printing. He also (ARCH ’77), Trabuco American Constitution director for the Naval Air created the widely used Canyon, Calif., is a trial Society at the organization’s Warfare Center Training ➔ Ronald Miller Dependability Forecaster attorney with Musick, Peeler fourth annual Legal Legends Systems Division. He (M.P.A. ’81), Chicago, retired pre-employment test. & Garrett, LLP, practicing Luncheon. Clayton, a and his wife, Maria-Elena as a United States Navy solely in construction founding shareholder of (PSYC ’82), have two commander. Miller is active ➔ Eugene Moriarty litigation. He and his wife, Robinson Curley & Clayton, children, who are both as a volunteer webmaster (Ph.D. EE ’74), Santa Evita, and their four children PC, received the 2009 pursuing their undergraduate for several organizations Cruz, Calif., is semi-retired live in Coto de Caza. Ruth Goldman Award, degrees in engineering. and enjoys golfing, biking, from teaching electrical which honors a woman and genealogy. He has two engineering at San Jose Michael Graff who has made significant Robert Drea children, Aaron and Joanne. State University. He is a (CHE ’77), Houston, was contributions to advance (M.S. PHOT ’80), Chicago, visiting professor in computer appointed to the Air Liquide the state of women in the held the exhibit Wounded Melissa Shyan-Norwalt engineering at the University Group Executive Committee. legal profession and the in America, which included (M.S. PSYC ’81), Cambridge of California, Santa Cruz. He Graff heads Air Liquide’s goals of ACS. his photographs of victims City, Ind., is an animal and his wife, Fran Guerrero, industrial gas businesses of gun violence, at Grace behaviorist who consults have two children. in North America and the Paul Machalek Episcopal Cathedral in with pet owners nationwide Caribbean, and in addition (ARCH ’78), Bloomingdale, San Francisco. via email and telephone, Howard Primer was recently appointed Ill., recently joined the making in-person visits (LAW ’74), Knoxville, Tenn., vice president of industrial United States General ➔ Glenn Gentile when needed. She works with RenaissancePG, risk management. Services Administration/ (ME ’80), San Diego, works obtained a doctorate in LLC, the owner and operator Public Building Service/ at Hewlett-Packard as a experimental psychology of large multi-family ➔ Michael Kaufman Technical Services Branch, manufacturing specialist in from the University of communities based (ARCH ’77), Chicago, is based in Chicago, as an Web-based media products Hawaii at Manoa and did in Knoxville. a partner with Goettsch architect/contracting such as photo papers and a postdoctoral fellowship Partners, Inc. officer’s representative. five-meter-wide banners for at the University of Texas Jeffrey Weiner inkjet-type printing. Health Sciences Center (LAW ’74), Miami, won the ➔ Robert Kerns Abraham Stern at Houston. seventh annual United Pipe (MATH ’77), Rancho Palos (LAW ’79), Chicago, joined ➔ Brad Krygier Clubs of America contest. Verdes, Calif., is president of Much Shelist in June 2009 as (MGT ’80), Winter Park, Fla., Kenneth Solomon The UPCA is an organization Baja Hollywood Studios. He special counsel in the firm’s is vice president of sales and (LAW ’81), Frontenac, Mo., for pipe smoking and is involved with the Academy business and finance, and senior loan officer for Fidelity is a member at Gallop, collecting. Each year it holds of Science Fiction Fantasy health care practice groups. Mortgage Services, Inc. He Johnson & Neuman in St. a contest in which the person and Horror Films. and his wife, Diane, have Louis and has been approved who keeps his or her pipe two children. by the United States District lit the longest wins. Weiner Terrence Lyons Court, Eastern District of was named the 2009 U.S. (LAW ’77), Lake Villa, Ill., Missouri as a “certified National Champion with a practices law in Antioch. neutral” in the court’s time of 1:39:15. alternative dispute-resolution program. Solomon serves as chair of his firm’s intellectual property practice.

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➔ Michael Parks (CS ’84), Poway, Calif., enjoys shooting photos and traveling to Chicago to visit family.

➔ David Pyrce (M.B.A ’84), Murrieta, Calif., is chief executive officer of Nexsun Energy, a renewable energy, biofuels, and clean tech firm. Nexsun’s mission is to generate an attractive investment return while contributing positively to the development of clean, renewable resources that will lead to a more sustainable future for generations to come. Pyrce and his family enjoy the California lifestyle—going to the beach, the mountains, and the desert.

➔ Nabeel Riza (EE ’84), Orlando, Fla., is a professor of optics and electrical engineering in the College of Optics and Krista Johns ➔ Fera (Wagner) Mostow Thomas Greeson ➔ Michael Darmody Photonics at the University (LAW ’82), Pleasanton, (LAW ’82), Burbank, Calif., (LAW ’83), Reston, Va., was (EE ’84), Poway, Calif., is an of Central Florida, where Calif., was appointed vice is vice president of business awarded the 2009 Calhoun independent consultant in he founded the Photonic president of instruction at and legal affairs, music Award by the Radiology the IT industry specializing in Information Processing Berkeley City College in for Disney–ABC Television Business Management mobile, wireless, and security Systems Laboratory. August 2009. She most Group, The Walt Disney Association. The award is applications. He enjoys scuba Riza’s works have yielded recently served as dean Company. Mostow is also given to an individual who diving and traveling. more than 294 publications of English and business at a licensed marriage and has made outstanding and 38 patents. Diablo Valley College. Johns family therapist. contributions to radiology ➔ Soliman Khudeira serves on the Pleasant Hill business management and (CE ’84, M.S. ’87, Ph.D. Steven Ross Chamber of Commerce Michael O’Donnell has provided dedicated ’99), Chicago, is a (LAW ’84), Chicago, is a board of directors and is the (LAW ’82), Lemont, Ill., was service to the association. project director with the bar attorney in the Chicago group’s secretary. She also inducted as a fellow of the Nightingale’s Healthcare Chicago Department of Bar Association’s juvenile is a member of the small DuPage Academy of Bar News listed Greeson as one Transportation. He enjoys law program. business loan committee Leaders in May 2009. He is a of the top 10 “Outstanding teaching, volunteering, and ➔ of Contra Costa County’s partner with the firm Novelle Physician Practice Lawyers” taking short trips with his Jeffrey I. Gross Community Development & O’Donnell, Ltd. in the United States in wife, Zahra. (EE ’85), San Diego, is a Block Grant Program. 2004 and 2009. Greeson technical director with BAE ➔ Mark Ferrante is a partner in the life Dimitris Lois Systems. He and his wife, Maryann Jones (LAW ’83), Chicago, is a trial science health industry (CHE ’84), Athens, Greece, Kim, and their children, (LAW ’82), Anaheim, Calif., lawyer who assists plaintiffs practice group at the Falls was named chief operation Ethan, 5, and Kayla, 3, enjoy retired as dean and president with litigation of complex Church, Va., office of officer for Coca-Cola California’s sunshine and of Western State University injury matters involving Reed Smith, LLP. Hellenic Bottling Company their koi fish. College of Law, roles she serious injury or death S.A. and is responsible for all held since 2004. With more caused by motor vehicle and ➔ Allen Villanueva of the company’s regional than 19 total years of service premises liability accidents, (ARCH ’83), Chicago, is the business units. Prior to at WSU, Jones served as a medical negligence, owner of STUDIO Villanueva joining Coca-Cola Hellenic full-time faculty member, defective products, and Architecture, LLC. He has in March 2007, Lois held acting dean, associate dean, aviation and construction a 6-year-old daughter and various senior management and dean of the university’s accidents. In April 2009, enjoys coaching volleyball at positions with Frigoglass S.A. former Irvine Campus. Ferrante celebrated the 18th her school. anniversary of his solo- practice law office.

24 | iit magazine ➔ Gary Hoffman Barbara de Marigny Mathy Stanislaus ➔ Gina Powell-Ribeiro ➔ Deborah O’Brien (ME ’86), San Diego, is a (LL.M. ’87), Houston, (LAW ’88), Washington, (PSYC ’89), Kissimmee, (LAW ’91), Longwood, Fla., senior applications developer received the 2009 Larry M. D.C., was appointed by Fla., is an organization heads the Orlando office of with Solar Turbines, Inc. He Katz Distinguished Service President Barack Obama development consultant and the Chicago-based law firm and his wife, Julie, enjoy Award from the American to serve as assistant new business developer. Lowis & Gellen, LLP. She and hiking and playing tennis in Bar Association, Section of administrator for the United Her husband, Jose, is a P.E.- her husband, Chris, have two the San Diego area. They Taxation. A partner with the States Environmental licensed engineer working children, ages 11 and 8. have two daughters, ages 17 Houston office of Gardere Protection Agency Office at NASA. The couple has a and 20. Wynne Sewell, LLP, de of Solid Waste and 5-year-old child. Scott Wineberg Marigny focuses her practice Emergency Response. (LAW ’92), Waukegan, Ill., Lisa Liewald on federal income taxation, He co-founded and currently has left the Lake County (LAW ’86), Riverside, partnership taxation, limited co-directs New Partners 1990s Public Defender’s Office, Ill., was recognized by liability companies, domestic for Community ➔ Rosemary Krimbel where he was employed for Cambridge Who’s Who in and international joint Revitalization, Inc., a (LAW ’90), Chicago, is 17 years, and has established July 2009 for demonstrating ventures, and tax planning nonprofit organization general counsel with the City a law practice in Waukegan. dedication, leadership, for business transactions. whose mission is to advance of Chicago’s Department He continues to concentrate and excellence in legal the renewal of New York’s of Business Affairs and on juvenile and criminal services. Liewald is a private ➔ Peter Falk low- and moderate-income Consumer Protection. She cases, including traffic and practitioner specializing in (CS ’88), Coronado, Calif., neighborhoods through and her husband, John, DUI cases. intellectual property, child is a researcher at the Air the redevelopment of are ballroom dancers and custody, and contested University Center for brownfield sites. have been married for 25 divorce law. She is a former Strategy and Technology. years. Their son, Ben, is president of the Bohemian He was most recently Thomas Walsh an economist for Booz & Bar Association. United States Navy (BA ’88), Haverhill, Mass., Company in Tokyo. commanding officer at is married and has three the Naval Computer and children, ages 8, 5, and Telecommunications Station 3. Walsh’s nephew, Nils in San Diego. Bergman, began his freshman year at IIT in fall 2009.

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➔ Ramiro Andrea Bertone Mark O’Meara Brian Barrett James Heath Atristain-Carrion (MAL ’95), Charlotte, N.C., (LAW ’96), Chicago, was (LAW ’99), Joliet, Ill., was (LAW ’01), Detroit, is an (M.B.A. ’93), Chicago, was named president of promoted to partner at the sworn in as circuit court assistant attorney general in is a vice president at Duke Energy International, Chicago office of Chapman judge in Will County in the health care fraud division Harris Bank and teaches one of the largest electric and Cutler in June 2009. He May 2009. Barrett is filling of the Michigan Attorney at DePaul University. He power-holding companies in is a member of the banking the newly created Fifth General’s Office. He was a enjoys volunteering on the the United States and Latin department, representing Subcircuit, Judgeship A and 2005 fellow in the Michigan Alumni Advisory Council America. She had previously banks and financial is assigned to hear criminal Political Leadership Program, of Dominican University, served as DEI’s general institutions in documenting misdemeanors/DUI. He is a nonpartisan training where he chairs a leadership counsel and as legal director and structuring secured and running for election in the institute for would-be program with alumni from for DEI Paranapanema. unsecured transactions. February primary. officeholders. Spain, and serving as Bertone has a law degree treasurer for his 5-year-old from the University of Emily Miao ➔ Kim Turkington Teisha Johnson son’s school. São Paulo in Brazil. (LAW ’97), Chicago, (M.B.A. ’99), San Diego, (M.S. MCOM ’01), Chicago, spoke at the Arizona State is a product manager for received a Diversity Mini- ➔ W. Rick Duel Christine Boardman University 2008 Strategic Teradata Corporation. Grant from the Association (EE ’93), Chicago, engineers, (LAW ’95), Chicago, was Alliance Workshop on Turkington enjoys playing of Schools and Colleges builds, and maintains appointed a trustee of the issues relating to intellectual golf and racquetball, and of Optometry for a two-way radio systems Illinois State University property protection for traveling with his family. program held at the Illinois used by the Chicago Police Retirement System board startup companies applying College of Optometry Department, Chicago Fire by Governor Pat Quinn for SBIR/STTR grants. Adam Weber in July 2009. Focus on Department, Emergency in July 2009. The system She also participated in (LAW ’99), The Hague, Your Future Summer Medical Services, and others. provides retirement pensions the panel on the Analysis Netherlands, joined the Program, a week-long He also enjoys ham radio and other benefits for staff of a Technology License United Nations Office of the event aimed at introducing and builds ham radio members and employees of Agreement at the Patent Law Prosecutor in The Hague underrepresented minorities repeaters in his spare time. state universities, community Institute’s 2008 Advanced in April 2008. Assigned to to the profession of Duel is a member of the colleges, and some state Licensing Agreements the International Criminal optometry and the ICO, Knights Templar. agencies. Boardman is Conference. Tribunal for the former was created by Johnson and president of the Service Yugoslavia, he concluded was funded for the second ➔ Peter Thieman Employees International Farhana Shah the trials of Milan Lukic and consecutive year. (LAW ’93), Washington, Union Local 73. (Ph.D. CS ’97), Islamabad, his cousin, Sredoje Lukic. D.C., has joined the Pakistan, is founding Weber’s current case is the Ben Hunter Washington, D.C. office ➔ Alexander Juden director of the Institute of prosecution of Jovica Stanišic (AE, ME ’03) and Janel of Sonnenschein Nath & (CE, TE ’95), San Diego, is Information Technology at and Franko Simatovic, the (Hatton-Santiago) Hunter Rosenthal as counsel to a professor of mathematics Quaid-i-Azam University, heads of the intelligence (ME ’02), Rockford, Ill., are the energy and regulated at Southwestern College in where she is also a professor services for Yugoslavia. both licensed professional industries practice. Thieman Chula Vista. of information technology. engineers. The Hunters was previously with White Her area of research is were married in 2004, & Case. ➔ Leslie Robbins intelligent tutoring systems 2000s and are employed in the (LAW ’95), Hillsborough, and linguistics. Jason Bettendorf Turbine Systems Division ➔ Tony Valevicius Calif., is a patent attorney (LAW ’00), Chino, Calif., of the Woodward Governor (LAW ’93), Chicago, is at Elan Pharmaceuticals in ➔ Pariyaporn is an associate at Wesierski Company. Ben is a product senior counsel at Brown, South San Francisco. She and (Songtrakul) Wada & Zurek. development engineer Udell, Pomerantz & her husband, Doug, have a (M.A.S. ARCH ’97), San and Janel is a components Delrahim, Ltd. He enjoys son, 3½, and a daughter, Diego, is an associate Stuart Dorf test engineer. rugby and bodybuilding. 18 months. architect with Lord (LAW ’01), Farmington Architecture, Inc. She and Hills, Mich., was appointed Juliana Campagna Jason Wilen Matthew O’Hara her husband, Takuma Wada senior vice president of (LAW ’03), Berwyn, Ill., is (ARCH ’93), Bartlett, Ill., (LAW ’96), Chicago, (M.A.R. ARCH ’98), have XSite Validation, a company a visiting professor at the recently joined the Chicago received the 2009 Sean two children, ages 5 and 7. providing online commercial John Marshall Law School, firm Brook Architecture, Inc. Halpin Award from real estate analysis. Prior where she teaches lawyering as vice president. Reed Smith, LLP for his Robert Brevelle to joining XSite, Dorf was skills and United States law commitment and service to (CS ’98, M.S. ’98), Rowlett, a banking and finance courses to international Michele (Therrien) pro bono representation on Texas, was appointed attorney at Maddin, Hauser, students. She obtained Krause behalf of a client on death vice president of intelligence Wartell, Roth & Heller, PC. In an LL.M. in international (LAW ’94), Frankfort, Ill., row in Illinois and three men solutions at DRS addition, he was the national business and trade law, and joined the newly formed detained at Guantánamo Defense Solutions. sales manager at NRC Realty is sole shareholder of her firm of Ginsberg, Jacobs, LLC Bay. O’Hara concentrates his Advisors, LLC. Dorf also co- own law firm, dividing her in June 2009 as a partner. practice on the litigation and Susan E. Stevens Stout founded InStadium, LLC, practice between tax and Krause practices commercial trial of complex commercial (ARCH ’98), Olive Branch, the country’s leading business issues for small and real estate law, with a litigation matters in federal Miss., and her husband, provider of restroom mid-size businesses, and particular focus on retail and and state courts throughout Chasen, welcomed their advertising in more than 240 lawyering skills seminars for office leasing on behalf of the United States. first child, Isaac Roy, in major league stadiums and international law firms. both landlords and tenants. February 2009. premier sports venues.

26 | iit magazine Help Us to Identify the Next Generation of Undergraduates at IIT for Fall 2010 To uphold the tradition of excellence in undergraduate education, we’re asking our alumni to help connect IIT with the brightest and most promising future students. You can be a valuable partner in our future—and theirs.

If you know a talented prospective first-year or transfer undergraduate, please email or call Jerry Doyle, vice provost for undergraduate enrollment and financial aid ([email protected], 312.567.5203). The student will receive a letter indicating that you referred him/her, along with our viewbook about the undergraduate programs at IIT. We will also send the student the latest edition of IIT Magazine and a poster describing the Fall 2009 IPRO Day on Main Campus. In addition to the fine merit- and need-based financial aid programs at IIT, we are pleased to renew our commitment to the following initiatives: Alumni Scholarship Application: Children and grandchildren of alumni, and siblings of currently enrolled IIT students are eligible to apply for the Alumni Undergraduate Scholarship (awards range from $1,000–$2,500). For more information, please contact Jill Sifuentes, associate director for undergraduate enrollment and recruitment, at [email protected]. First-Semester Book Voucher: New first-year or transfer students who enroll at the university upon the recommendation of IIT alumni will receive a $100 book voucher in the alumnus/a’s name toward the purchase of their first-semester’s books. To learn about supporting these programs with a tax-deductible gift, please contact Brandon O’Hare, annual giving officer, at [email protected] or 312.567.5029.

There is no better testimony to the quality of an IIT education than the endorsement of its alumni. Thank you for lending your support to this important alumni initiative.

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Christopher Williams Eric Burger Nathan Hinch Brian Bailey Matthew Kriezelman (LAW ’04), Chicago, was (Ph.D. CS ’06), Sterling, (LAW ’07), Winfield, Ill., (LAW ’08), Fort Wayne, (LAW ’08), Chicago, joined quoted in a front-page article Va., was appointed chief opened Hinch Law, in Ind., joined the intellectual the firm of Kriezelman, in the August 18, 2009 technology officer for Winfield, serving the legal property group at Baker Burton & Associates, LLC, edition of USA Today entitled NeuStar, Inc. Prior to joining needs of small and mid-size & Daniels, LLP, where he where he is practicing “Bad economy sparks more NeuStar, Burger was acting businesses, and especially practices from the firm’s Fort immigration law. complaints of wage theft.” general manager of the those in the construction, Wayne office. Bailey focuses Williams was quoted as Communications Products design, and real estate his legal practice on patents. Grahm Balkany the executive director of Division at BEA Systems, Inc., development community. His technological experience (ARCE, ARCH ’09), Chicago, Working Hands Legal Clinic, where he also held the posts includes medical devices, is a researcher with the a not-for-profit organization of deputy chief technology Robert McKenzie automation equipment, and Gropius Coalition in Chicago. providing pro bono legal officer and vice president (LAW ’07), Wheeling, Ill., automotive technologies. Historic preservation efforts services in employment law of engineering earlier in his joined the Chicago office he and the group have to low-income workers in BEA tenure. Burger holds of Arnstein & Lehr as an Gina Bicknell made to save several Walter and around Chicago. 17 published patents in associate, and concentrates (LAW ’08), Chicago, an Gropius-designed buildings the United States, with his practice on business, attorney with Marshall, on the Michael Reese Timothy Caister several pending, and holds creditor’s rights, litigation, Gerstein & Borun, LLP, Hospital campus have (LAW ’05), Merrillville, Ind., additional patents in other and aviation. He comes to earned the Certified been the focus of articles rejoined Northern Indiana countries. the firm from Lavelle Law, Licensing Professional in the Chicago Tribune and Public Service Company as Ltd., where he founded and credential from the Licensing other publications. director of electric regulatory Jason Nickla managed the Aviation Law Executives Society. Bicknell policy. Prior to rejoining (LL.M. ’06), Omaha, Group. McKenzie is a Federal concentrates on intellectual David Poli NIPSCO, Caister was Neb., joined UNeMed, Aviation Administration property transactions for (EE ’09), Park Ridge, Ill., associate general counsel the technology arm of the Certified Flight Instructor universities, small startups, completed internships at for Ameren Services University of Nebraska and commercial pilot. and large corporations. Argonne National Laboratory Company in St. Louis. Medical Center, as a licensing and Ball Aerospace in Caister formerly served as an specialist, and works with Joseph Silvia Boulder, Colo., and accepted attorney for NIPSCO and as faculty to receive, evaluate, (LAW, LL.M. ’07), a position with Sargent & a manager of regulatory and protect, market, and license Washington, D.C., is an Lundy, LLC in Chicago. government policy. their new discoveries that associate with Weiner were developed at UNMC. Brodsky Sidman Kider, PC. Nickla and his wife, Mindy, Silvia is currently enrolled welcomed their first child in in the master of laws June 2009. program in international law at George Washington University. He and his wife, Lynn Marie, were married in July 2009. iit magazine | 27 alumninews Photo:Bonnie Robinson for

This is the Gospel According to Joe:

B y “You don’t care if they’re •innocent or guilty; it doesn’t matter. M a r c i a F a y e This is what matters: can they prove it? That’s what the system is designed for, and I believe in the system. I believe there was a lot of blood shed on the beaches of Normandy as well as in Valley Forge to protect the Constitution. Do innocent people get convicted? Absolutely. Do guilty people go free? For sure they do, because the case can’t be proven. You just have to believe in the Constitution.”

28 | iit magazine Someone who was always the social but independent sort, Lopez thrived in college and never had the desire to join any of the neighborhood gangs; however, he still gained an education that can only come from the streets. “I learned a lot about gangs as a kid; I’ve been around drug dealers and wiseguys for most of my life,” he explains. “I know how it eet criminal defense attorney all works, which is one of the reasons I wanted Joseph R. Lopez (LAW ’83), to go in a different direction, to get away from “Being legally responsible and morally aka “The Shark,” whose the things I knew from the past.” responsible are two separate issues. If you kill clientm list comprises some of Chicago’s most Lopez had intended to go into divorce law, somebody and you get away with it, then you’ll notorious and colorful citizens: Fernando King, but two experiences influenced him to redirect maybe have to answer to a higher power, if the No. 2 man of the Latin Kings street gang; his plans. When he became the only student in you believe in God,” says Lopez. “I don’t press Anthony “The Hatch” Chiaramonti, reputed several classes at IIT Chicago–Kent College clients to confess to me, like some lawyers mob boss; and Lopez’s biggest fish to date, of Law to obtain a hung jury in a mock murder do; I’d rather not know.” Wolfson, who spent Frank “Frankie Breeze” Calabrese Sr., reputed case trial, his teacher, The Honorable Warren 18 years in the practice of criminal defense, hit man and a central figure in the Operation D. Wolfson, praised him as a natural at criminal takes a similar view. “I believe defense lawyers Family Secrets trial, a federal case that made law and suggested that he consider practicing should not judge their clients; rather, lawyers headlines the world over during the summer the specialty. should sincerely believe in the presumption of 2007. In the city’s biggest underworld “I recall Joe Lopez’s passion and of innocence, challenging the prosecution trial in decades, Calabrese Sr., along with determination on the courtroom floor,” says to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt,” four other members of the Chicago Outfit Wolfson, Illinois Appellate Court judge and he says. crime syndicate, was convicted of taking part now interim dean for DePaul University After spending weeks and oftentimes in a racketeering conspiracy that included College of Law. “He was teachable but never months building a case that may be up against gambling, loan sharking, extortion, and murder. abandoned his own personality. I was not a slate of government wiretaps, surveillance In January 2009, Lopez’s client was sentenced surprised to learn he has become an effective tapes, fingerprints, and informants heavier than to life in prison. and devoted criminal defense lawyer.” any of the poundage he’s ever hoisted in the A framed copy of page one from the June Shortly after Lopez’s graduation, a colleague weight room, Lopez relinquishes it all into the 22, 2007 issue of the Chicago Tribune with approached him about representing some drug capable hands of his fellow Americans. And the headline “1st Shots of Outfit Trial” hangs dealers in a federal court case. The Shark bit while he knows there could be a psychological in Lopez’s office in the Loop’s Monadnock the bait and was hooked. hairline separating the “more than likely” from Building. Also on the wall is the poster child for “I enjoy doing this because I like taking on “beyond a reasonable doubt,” he is hopeful his self-discipline and sense of control, both the government; it’s not so much the client that the evidence will compel them to do what qualities that Lopez forged in the weight room. as it is taking on the system,” says Lopez, is right. “I used to be a bodybuilder when I was a kid who admits that he’s always been a bit of “Our jury system is the best in the world— and Arnold Schwarzenegger was my hero,” he a revolutionary, a child of the 1960s hippie the best in the world,” Lopez emphasizes. “But says, looking at the supersized, autographed movement who protested the Vietnam War like with anything, you’re going to find good Muscle & Fitness cover of the iron icon, flexing because he felt draftees shouldn’t have to go if jurors and bad jurors; some jurors will just in all of his pre-gubernatorial glory. With his they didn’t want to participate. “To me, fighting not find someone not guilty no matter what broad upper body and trim lower torso in the the system is what’s it’s all about. There has the evidence. You can’t change the nature of tailored suits and bright shirts he favors, Lopez to be somebody out there to challenge the people. You have to deal with it and find other can cut as intimidating a figure as some of the government, whether state or federal, and I ways to try to convince them. It’s not an easy clients he represents. enjoy doing it. Every trial is the Super Bowl.” thing. We lose most of the jury trials that we While his nickname, “The Shark,” which For all his bravado, Lopez knows that do, but any concession is a victory.” Lopez uses on his vanity plates and email criminal defense attorneys are not well liked, For Lopez, even a reduced sentence is a address, might have been muttered under the even despised, and while he may at times find triumph that is as noble as any of the battles breath of a disgruntled prosecution attorney, this prevailing attitude frustrating, he makes that were fought in defense of the Constitution his buddies from Southern Illinois University in no apologies for the work that he does. Those of the United States, a country that he points Carbondale first gave him the moniker. “I guess who question Lopez’s zeal to represent the out, ironically, was founded by law-breakers. I was ruthless in whatever I did,” Lopez offers, clients that he does may be equally perturbed “People are powerless unless they have a lowering his steady gaze only momentarily, that his clients’ innocence, or lack of it, is not criminal defense lawyer,” he says. “We’re the humor aside. his concern. bridge between them and liberty.”

Family Secrets trial: www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_392.html “Duties of a Criminal Defense Lawyer”: www.achlaw.com/articles/publication-duties.html iit magazine | 29 alumninews

The Velocity Initiative broadened its reach to IIT alumni in fall 2009, with more students and new graduates joining the effort to connect with alumni about their IIT experiences. Velocity welcomed new full-time ambassador Isida Karpuzi (ARCH ’09). Full-time ambassadors have been visiting alumni in California, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, and Texas, while student ambassadors continue to visit with alumni in Chicago and the suburbs. “I am amazed at our alumni’s D iscoveries interesting lives, the variety of Fun facts we’ve learned about IIT professions the same major can lead alumni during Velocity interviews: to, and of course the thoughtful remarks they make,” says Karpuzi. • An MAE Ph.D. alumnus in Kansas “What impresses me the most is that who holds four patents also helped almost all of the alumni I have met so far show a continuing interest to develop the space suits still in learning, even after they retire, and they are always looking worn by United States astronauts. forward to developing their knowledge further.” • An ME M.S. alumnus who holds “My interview with a Velocity ambassador really made me think 30 patents related to electronics about IIT,” says Richard Ward (ME ’59), who lives in Chicago. “It communication also invented helped me decide—after 50 years—to come back for my reunion the AT&T Universal Wiring plan this past fall. I’m so glad I came back. I had a wonderful time and designed the technology that reconnecting and look forward to staying involved with IIT.” allowed the Beijing Olympics to be Velocity ambassadors will continue their nationwide broadcast throughout the world. road trip throughout 2010. The Velocity Initiative • An ARCH alumnus who has is enhancing its website to include stories from managed real-estate developments ambassadors and alumni. worldwide is currently managing Goldman Sachs’ $2 billion • www.iit.edu/giving/velocity development in New York. • A PSYC M.S. and Ph.D. alumna has done pioneering work in Velocity ambassador Isida Karpuzi (ARCH ’09) forensic psychology.

See What’s New Through Velocity The Velocity Initiative is revealing new and exciting information about your fellow classmates. In this and future issues of IIT Magazine, all alumni class notes that resulted from a Velocity interview are marked with the ➔ icon. To submit your own class note online, visit www.iit.edu/alumni or write to us at [email protected].

30 | iit magazine Photo: Bonnie Robinson INVESTING IN THE FUTURE

The Quiet Generosity of Louis and Dorothea Schult

Sometimes gifts to IIT come with great fanfare and publicity. Other times they are made quietly, with little or no advance notice. IIT has received 131 unexpected estate gifts in the past 20 years from alumni, alumni spouses, or friends of the university. These gifts, totaling $33 million, have Dorothea and Louis Schult helped the university to fulfill its mission and provide scholarships for deserving students. Yet, the donors never informed the university during their lifetime that they had made provisions for IIT in their estate plans.

One of these unexpected estate gifts came from Louis Schult, who passed away at the age of 96 in 2007. Since IIT had no knowledge that Schult was planning to give his estate to the university, IIT never got the chance to recognize him during his lifetime. But thanks to James Fine, Schult’s attorney and friend of 30 years, the story of this generous man and his wife, Dorothea, can be told. Schult, who attended Armour Institute for some time, was very grateful for the education he received and the life it made possible. He spent his career at General Electric and traveled all over the world, opening factories and plants, often taking Dorothea with him. According to Fine, the Schults enjoyed life, living comfortably yet modestly.

Although humble, the Schults left behind a legacy that will be made well known to the students of IIT who will benefit from their generosity. Four scholarships each year will bear the Schult name, and programs across the university will be enriched by Louis and Dorothea’s support.

Don’ t Keep If you have named IIT as a beneficiary of your estate, please let us know so we may Your Gift properly thank you and include you as a a Secret member of our esteemed Gunsaulus Society.

For more information about the Gunsaulus Society, please contact Elaine Clay, assistant director of planned giving, at 312.567.5028 or [email protected].

Gunsaulus | SOCIETY alumninews Alumni and IIT Events

Homecoming Chess Homecoming Group Homecoming Hawks A chess tournament was just one of the activities featured A group of undergraduate friends pose in their red Students join the IIT Scarlet Hawk at the during Homecoming Week, held September 20–26, 2009. Homecoming Week T-shirts. Homecoming Parade.

Golden Alumni Awards Golden Alumni Society Reunion ID Class of 1959 Jim Leyerle (CHE ’59), Diane Oestreich (CHEM ’59), and More than 100 alumni, retired faculty, and Gunsaulus The ID Class of 1959 and other classmates from the President John Anderson distribute medallions to the Class Society members attended the 2009 Golden Alumni Society late 1950s and 1960s celebrated their 50th reunion on of 1959 and alumni from earlier classes. Reunion, celebrating the classes of 1959 and earlier with a October 24. Alumni were awarded medallions with the IIT special recognition of the military service of IIT alumni. seal by ID faculty member Judith Gregory.

DePaola/Kaplan Investiture Ceremony IIT Stuart Executive of the Year Award Nate Thomas Event Natacha DePaola, who was invested as the Carol and Ed Ellen Costello, president and chief executive officer of Celebrants join Nate Thomas at a tribute held in his honor Kaplan Armour College Dean of Engineering Endowed Harris Financial Corp., was named the IIT Stuart School on June 27, 2009. Thomas served at IIT for 22 years in Chair on October 21, 2009, is joined by her benefactors. of Business Illinois Executive of the Year at an award various staff positions and helped to increase enrollment of luncheon held on September 11, 2009. African-American students in the 1970s and ’80s.

32 | iit magazine Upcoming Alumni Events

For information about upcoming alumni events listed below and other alumni activities, contact the Office of Alumni Relations at 312.567.5040 or [email protected].

Thirsty Thursday Mies’ Birthday Party Engineers Week Events Thursday, March 4, 2010, 5–7 p.m. Thursday, March 25, 2010, 6 p.m. IIT Rice Campus WestEnd Bar and Grill S. R. Crown Hall Wheaton, Ill. 1326 W. Madison Street, Chicago IIT Main Campus

Join other Chicago-area alumni for an after- For more information, contact Kelly Merrion at Engineers Week Speakers Forum work networking event. Check the IIT Alumni 312.567.5025 or [email protected]. Thursday, February 18, 2010 Association website (http://alumni.iit.edu) for Hear a discussion about current topics in a Cubs Thirsty Thursday in the spring and a Alumni Awards Ceremony/Luncheon engineering. This free event includes a White Sox Thirsty Thursday in the summer. and IPRO Day light dinner. Friday, April 23, 2010 Southern California Baseball Gathering Hermann Hall, IIT Main Campus Engineers Week Expo Monday–Friday, March 8–12, 2010 Join with other members of the IIT Alumni Saturday, February 20, 2010 Irvine and San Marcos, Calif. Association to celebrate the accomplishments Plan to attend this family-friendly, free After watching the IIT baseball team play of our distinguished alumni. The ceremony will event that makes engineering, science, and Concordia University at Irvine on March 8, begin with a reception at 11 a.m. and will be mathematics fun and accessible to learners join the team and President John Anderson for followed by a formal luncheon and presentation of all ages. Children can join in hands-on dinner in Orange County. From March 9–11, of awards at noon. For more information, activities that feature Lego robotics, model the team will play California State University please contact the Office of Alumni Relations at airplanes, lasers, and bicycles. An alumni- San Marcos; join President Anderson at dinner 312.567.5040 or [email protected]. only event will take place from 10–11 a.m. at a location to be announced. On March 12, Expo events will run continuously until take a tour of the Marine Corps Air Station IIT Commencement 3:30 p.m. Advance registration is required. Miramar, followed by lunch at the Officers’ Club Saturday, May 15, 2010 with President Anderson and the baseball team. For more information, contact Marian Quirk at 312.567.5000 or [email protected]. Asian Alumni Meeting Friday–Sunday, February 26–28, 2010 Mumbai, India

Activities include a welcome dinner, sightseeing outing, and food processing and safety Alumni Holiday innovation symposium. International Discovery Tours

NetSecure—the IT Security and Forensics Treasures of South Africa Conference and Expo April 20–May 4, 2010 Thursday, March 4, 2010 IIT Rice Campus Enjoy a specially designed itinerary and exceptional opportunities to experience Wheaton, Ill. the breadth of culture, landscape, and wildlife of South Africa.

This multi-track technical conference attracts Grand Journey Spain 200-plus professionals to discuss security, October 14–26, 2010 forensics, ethical hacking, policy and compliance, privacy, security of wireless This great itinerary starts in Madrid, then heads north to Segovia, Avila, and cloud computing, identity theft, and Salamanca, and Burgos. You’ll continue on to the wine country of La Rioja, with much more. For more information, please stops in Bilbao and Zaragoza, before concluding the journey in Barcelona. visit www.iit.edu/cpd. For more information, contact http://iit.ahitravel.com or Marian Quirk at 312.567.5000.

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Zalman Lavan M.S. ME ’62, Ph.D. ’65 Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering

Solar energy pioneer Zalman Lavan looked to Linden served on numerous government advisory bodies from the the sun as inspiration for more efficient ways of Kennedy through the Clinton administrations, and held a presidential heating and cooling. An international authority on appointment during the Ford administration. He authored or coauthored thermodynamics, Lavan maintained a solar energy more than 240 publications on energy issues, and received 27 patents. His research station on Main Campus and led students honors were many and included national awards, such as the Homer H. in projects on how the sun could best be utilized Lowry Award for Excellence in Fossil Energy Research from the United as a source of heat and hot water. In the mid-1970s, States Department of Energy, and professional awards, such as a Lifetime Lavan and his team won an international university Achievement Award from The Energy Daily. IIT presented Linden with the competition in Albuquerque, N.M., with their solar energy collector, Professional Achievement Award, the Alumni Medal, and induction into its taking the top prize in a field of entrants that included Massachusetts Hall of Fame. Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley. Lavan Linden was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a also produced a study that demonstrated how properly installed window fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the shades could decrease home-cooling costs by 21 percent and heating costs American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the Institute of Energy. by 8 percent. Linden is survived by his wife of 42 years, Natalie, two children from A native of Poland, Lavan grew up in Israel and immigrated to the his first marriage, and a granddaughter. United States in 1953. He served on the IIT faculty from 1965–1991 and was known for his mentoring skills, supervising the dissertations of many Thomas Lyle Martin Jr. master’s and doctoral students. A consultant to energy companies the IIT President (1974–1987) world over, Lavan held many patents for his innovative research. Lavan is survived by his wife of 52 years, Florence, two sons, and IIT continued to grow beyond its Main Campus core four grandchildren. during the presidency of Thomas Lyle Martin Jr. A pioneer in distance education, Martin expanded Henry R. Linden programs offered at the Downtown Campus and Ph.D. CHE ’52 acquired the Midwest College of Engineering, now Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering IIT’s Rice Campus. He oversaw a significant increase in enrollment and in the 1970s, spearheaded a While Henry R. Linden could be described in many groundbreaking effort to actively reach out to and ways—teacher, mentor, researcher, and visionary— recruit minority and female students, assisted by a $100 million capital two generations of IIT students and colleagues gave campaign that he undertook and completed. The Center for the Study of him the moniker that perhaps characterized best his Ethics in the Professions was also established during his tenure. far-reaching reputation: “Mr. Energy.” Since his first Before coming to IIT, Martin served as dean of engineering at the faculty appointment at IIT in 1954, Linden devoted University of Arizona, the University of Florida, and Southern Methodist his career to issues such as global climate change, University. He also was a higher-education consultant to the heads the hydrogen economy, efficient fuel utilization, of state of two foreign countries and the author of seven books. The sustainable global energy systems, and industrial ecology, and in so doing, director of many corporate and charitable boards, Martin was a founding established IIT as a center of excellence in energy engineering. board member of the Dallas–Ft. Worth Regional Airport. Among the For 30 years, Linden served at the Institute of Gas Technology, many honors he received was fellowship in the Institute of Electrical including 17 years as director and four years as president and trustee. He and Electronics Engineers and membership in the National Academy of also secured federal funding and approval to establish the Gas Research Engineering. Martin was also awarded the Bronze Star Medal as captain Institute, a cooperative research and development effort with the natural during World War II. gas industry, and served as its first president and on its board from Martin is survived by his wife of 25 years, Mildred, a daughter and 1977–1987. When Linden retired from GRI, he became a full-time faculty stepdaughter, a son, two grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren, and two member and established a comprehensive research and education program brothers. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Helene. in sustainable global energy development at IIT. From 1989–1990, Linden served as the university’s interim president. In 1990, he was named Max McGraw Professor of Energy and Power Engineering and Management.

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Under his watch, IIT’s Main Campus was formed, IIT Chicago–Kent College of Law was added, and IIT Stuart School of Business was founded. John inmemoriam Rettaliata, the university’s second president—and its youngest—following the merger of Armour Institute of Technology and Lewis Institute, oversaw the Stanley Lind Kenneth Miller Edward Weber greatest growth period in IIT’s history. His tireless CHE ’32 CE ’48 MATH ’59 Stillwater, Minn. Rockford, Ill. Evergreen, Colo. fundraising efforts realized a $20 million annual budget and the funding for S. R. Crown Hall, while his innovative vision Dorothy Mullen Robert Sims Ira Rohter of cooperative education did much to cement IIT’s prominence as an HE ’36 IE ’48 PS ’60 academic leader in higher education. Evanston, Ill. Advance, N.C. Honolulu A Johns Hopkins University-educated fluid dynamicist, Rettaliata Joseph Lopina Harry Asher Judith Campbell built steam turbines for military destroyers while employed at the CE ’37 ME ’50 MATH ’63 Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, which led to a position on the Glenview, Ill. Las Vegas, Nev. Joliet, Ill. United States National Advisory Council’s subcommittee on aeronautics Raymond Kliphardt George Hallinan Richard Kovach gas turbines. During and just after World War II, Rettaliata’s work on ARCH ’38 FPSE ’50 EE ’64 government assignments helped the country to develop its leadership in Northbrook, Ill. Leawood, Kan. Phoenix, Ariz. aeronautical research and led to other gains in gas turbine technology. Joe Nagano Sten Hodgson James Droege Even as IIT president, Rettaliata continued his service to the nation. CHEM ’44 ME ’51 LLB ’65 He held a seat on the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics and was Los Angeles Scotch Plains, N.J. Chicago appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the National Aeronautics Thomas Pelican Don Robinson John Hurley and Space Council, where he and other council members drew up plans M.S. GT ’44 EE ’54 ME ’66 for what would be the United States space program. Despite the many Colorado Springs, Davis, Calif. Dover, N.H. activities in which he was involved, Rettaliata maintained strong ties with Colo. Donald Purper Edward Olewinski IIT’s students and assembled his own student advisory board known as Leonard Savory ME ’56 CHE ’71 the Black Knights. M.S. CHE ’44 Scottsdale, Ariz. Naperville, Ill. The recipient of six honorary doctorates, Rettaliata also was honored Estes Park, Colo. with numerous awards, including mayoral proclamations, military Henry Hertwig Thor Gunnarsson John Valentine ME ’57 M.S. MAE ’74 commendations, fellowship in the American Society of Mechanical CHE ’44 Naperville, Ill. Grand Terrace, Calif. Engineers, and induction into IIT’s Hall of Fame. Temecula, Calif. Rettaliata is survived by his wife, Caryl Pucci Rettaliata, two sons, Robert Joyce William Wilkinson Arthur Marcussen IE ’57, M.B.A. ’60 LAW ’76 a daughter, and three grandchildren. ME ’45 Santa Ana, Calif. Chicago Stuart, Fla. Allan H. Roush Melvin Kaplan Ana De La Torre John Mitchell LAW ’58 LAW ’79 Department of Biology EE ’45 Chicago Washington, D.C. Schaumburg, Ill. Allan H. Roush served on the faculty of IIT for 31 Raymond Rudnik Evette Zells Benjamin Borgerson ME ’58 LAW ’83 years, retiring as professor emeritus of biochemistry CHE ’47 Palatine, Ill. Durham, N.C. in 1982. He is remembered for the support and Evanston, Ill. encouragement he gave to his students, who saw Frank Deal Richard Sachtschale Roush not only as teacher and thesis advisor but Bernard Feldman MATH ’59 EE ’91 M.S. EE ’48 Statesville, N.C. Clayton, Calif. also as a mentor and friend. Peers, too, recall Roush Watsonville, Calif. as being a well-respected colleague who had a Marilyn Ryon Sharon Chybik wonderful sense of humor, even leaving behind a set Albert Malis HE ’59 M.S. CS ’92 ME ’48 Saint Peters, Mo. North Aurora, Ill. of Texas longhorns in his office at IIT for his successor’s enjoyment. Encino, Calif. Roush was born in Hardin, Mont., and left the state to pursue graduate studies in New York. He worked in research and development at Merck & Company, then served for three years in the United States Navy, where he met his wife, Anna Lee. After obtaining his doctorate in biochemistry, Roush joined IIT. He returned to Montana upon his retirement and devoted his life to volunteer work at the Museum of the Rockies and to his many hobbies, including Japanese language studies, geology, mycology, and chess. Roush is survived by his wife of 65 years, a son, and many nieces and nephews. iit magazine | 35 rewind By Marcia Faye Ears Open to the Un verse

That Grote Reber’s mother taught Edwin “Grote Reber not only made a series of With a vision to create an even bigger radio Hubble—of the eponymous Hubble Space important astronomical discoveries,” says K. telescope minimally affected by refraction in the Telescope—in grade school may have been a I. Kellermann, radio astronomer and senior ionosphere and other interference, Reber left the portent that her own son would rise to new scientist with the National Radio Astronomy country for the clear skies of Tasmania. From cosmologic heights. But it was the serendipitous Observatory at Green Bank, W. Va., “but 1954–1974, he assembled a series of telescopic discovery made in 1931 by Bell Laboratories he forcefully brought these discoveries to arrays to study galactic and solar radio emissions physicist Karl Jansky, who detected radio waves the attention of an initially non-receptive at even longer wavelengths. Reber also explored emanating from the center of the Milky Way astronomical community, thus changing in a a number of other scientific interests, building galaxy, that inspired the 22-year-old Reber (EE fundamental way the course of astronomy over his own battery-powered car and energy- ’33) to do what no one before him had done. He the second half of the twentieth century.” efficient home and continuing his studies on built the world’s first radio telescope—a 32-foot The perseverance and innate curiosity the directional growth of beans. dish-shaped antenna in the backyard of his that characterized Reber contributed to his Reber’s name lives on in ways as varied home in Wheaton, Ill., and in 1939, detected extraordinary achievements. He received an as were his interests—with an asteroid the same static-hiss sounds that Jansky heard. amateur radio license for W9GFZ, a station (6886 Grote), an annual award (The Reber More importantly, Reber designed his parabolic he built and operated, when he was 16, and Medal, administered by the Queen Victoria dish to survey large swaths of the northern sky, in the years after graduating from IIT, worked Museum in Launceston, Tasmania), and a producing the first high-resolution radio map of the heavens and paving a new celestial path for astronomers to follow.

WiNCom publications: www.cs.iit.edu/~wincomweb/publications.html Grote Reber biography by K. I Kellermann: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/423436 News of “sky waves,” from 1948 Time magazine: www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,794056,00.html

at several radio manufacturers during the day museum (the Grote Reber Museum at the while probing the sky at night. For a short Mt. Pleasant Radio Telescope Observatory in period, he worked as a physics research assistant Cambridge, Tasmania). His spirit also carries Courtesythe of NRAO Archives at IIT and enrolled in optics and astronomy on in pioneering radio work being conducted courses at the University of Chicago. In 1948, today through the Wireless Network and Reber left the Midwest for Washington, Communications Research Center (WiNCom) D.C., where he worked for the at IIT. Bureau of Standards until 1951. Dennis Roberson, IIT vice provost for new He then moved to Hawaii, initiatives and research professor in computer where he built a large science, notes that while Reber established the rotating antenna first extraterrestrial radio observatory, WiNCom that operated in has established the first permanent terrestrial long wavelengths, spectrum observatory, which is looking at contrary to many human-generated radio waves in the Chicago astronomers who area. “To my knowledge, this is still the only were focusing continuously operating spectrum observatory in on the short the world,” says Roberson, WiNCom co-founder. wavelength range. “We have been collecting data for more than two years.” Funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation, the project will Grote Reber’s radio telescope—the analyze anomalies and trends in gathered world’s first—built in the backyard of data, and examine opportunities for improved his home in Wheaton, Ill. spectral utilization suggested by the observed usage patterns.

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