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Reun Two Reasons to Celebrate this Fall! Alumnifest 2007 FALL 2007 Friday–Saturday, October 5–6 Whether you graduated one year ago or 50 years ago, join us for food, fun, and fellowship including: 50th reunion luncheon for the Class of 1957 and all prior classes Casino Night with cards, casino games, cocktails, and hors d’oeuvres Many Voices, One Vision: a town hall meeting with new president John Anderson. Bring your questions and comments, and join the conversation. For more information on Alumnifest 2007 visit www.iit.edu/alumni/alumnifest/2007. iit Inauguration of President John Anderson Tuesday, October 30 Join your IIT friends for an inauguration ceremony and full day of events to help e! welcome the eighth president of IIT as he launches an exciting new era for the university! Visit www.iit.edu for more information. iit.edu Email: [email protected] Phone: 312.567.5064 Non Profit Org recipe U.S. Postage PAID for the universe Permit #936 Chicago, IL COVER STORY: IIT physicists join the international race to find the ingredients of our existence TELL ALL Alumnus Andrew Rubin MANY VOICES, ONE VISION WHat DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN OwNER? reveals his psychology behind IIT’s new president Intellectual Property Law program winning at poker John L. Anderson challenges the definition of ownership LEttER FROM THE READING OUR MINDS Sustainability I am confident that I will fit in well at IIT: I am getting rid of one of my cars. For me, this decision answered questions of both need and want—specifically, do I need two cars in the city, and do I really want the hassle of owning two cars while living downtown? In academe, issues such as sustainability have a tendency to unite the needs and wants, bringing together those who pursue research for the benefit of society and those who explore the same topics for the benefit of science. 10 0,000,000,000 Many of our students and faculty are exploring sustainability through their work because they want to improve the environment. They are now joined by millions of people for whom the term “going green” has become a cultural phenomenon. While improving technology may be a positive residual, theirs is a motivation to ignite change in society, and a mountain of statistics supports the need. Through their neurons AT A Time work, they will educate and persuade others to take part in this movement; the IIT Green Home [page 6] and Cool Globes [page 4] projects are two such examples. On the other end of the spectrum are those who are responding to a shift in the needs of the market and of science. As consumers increasingly demand eco-friendly products—cars, fuels, building materials, food, and clothing—the science behind and design of these goods in many cases require a shift in technology. Having identified a need, these researchers want to be on the cutting edge of advancements, THE HumaN BraiN CONtaiNS APPROXimatELY 100 BILLION NEurONS. TODay, indeed changes, in this exciting area of research. For someone like alumna Susan Solomon [page 30], research that may yield environmental ramifications is not a matter of politics but of science. IIT SCIENtists arE HELPING DOCTOrs takE A CLOSER LOOK at THEM. Ultimately the reasons for the pursuit are not as important as the determination to take on the challenges that this pursuit inevitably presents. The challenges are many. Can greener technologies be more cost effective than current technologies? What are the costs versus benefits in the relationships Surgeons may soon be able to use a new kind of MRI imaging between energy and green technologies? How is the public culture shifted toward greener technologies, during surgical planning to help avoid damage to important for example hybrid-powered vehicles, when the economics are not persuasive in today’s world? How does nerves. IIT professor Konstantinos Arfanakis has advanced the United States become a role model for the entire world in sustainability? imaging technology so that getting clearer brain images faster At IIT a determination—call it attitude, spirit, or ambition—to explore these questions and others like is now possible. And thanks to IIT professors Miles Wernick and them is rooted in a strong passion for both learning and seizing challenges. The university is united in its Yongyi Yang, pharmaceutical researchers can better evaluate the determination to create change, no matter how disparate the reasons for pursuing it may be. IIT’s tenacity effectiveness of new medications, using advanced methods to is infectious, and certainly played no small part in my decision to go to a one-car household. extract patterns of brain activity from imaging scans. On a fundamental level, the want and need to pursue sustainability both lead to the same outcome— to leave the world for our children in the same or better condition than we inherited it. This is an Unlocking the secrets of the human brain. Just another way IIT is important part of the IIT mission, one that has already affected me and no doubt countless others in both Transforming Lives and Inventing the Future. societal and scientific contexts. Thank you for welcoming me into the IIT community and for giving me the opportunity to share this bold mission with you. Sincerely, To learn more about the exciting things happening at IIT, visit www.iit.edu. John L. Anderson iitmagazine FALL 2007 CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER Rose Milkowski EDITOR Chelsea Kalberloh Jackson CONTRIBUTORS Catherine Bruck Pat Cronin Christopher Darnielle Marcia Faye Richard Harth Julie Morley Evan Venie David McKay Wilson Beth Wittbrodt 11 ART DIRECTOR PRESIDENT Nancy Niequist Schoon JOHN L. ANDERSON AdditionaL DesiGN IIT’s eighth president shares Scott Benbrook Jessica Serafin his background and vision IIT MAGAZINE IS PUBLISHED THREE in his first interview TIMES A YEAR BY THE OFFICE OF for IIT Magazine. COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING. IIT Magazine is a 2007 recipient of the Publicity Club of Chicago Silver Trumpet Award for Excellence in Newspapers or Magazines. © 2007 SEND LETTERS TO IIT Magazine Office of Communications and Marketing 14 3300 South Federal Street, Suite 503 Chicago, IL 60616-3793 RIGHTS OF OWNERSHIP OR EMAIL [email protected] Technology is challenging the traditional meaning SEND ALUMNI NEWS TO of ownership. As Chicago-Kent’s Intellectual Property [email protected] Law program works to redefine ownership, IIT’s Founded in 1890, Illinois Institute of entrepreneurship programs are helping Technology is a private Ph.D.-granting faculty keep it. university that awards degrees in engineering, the sciences, mathematics, architecture, law, design, psychology, and business. 18 20 COVER STORY IIT MISSION STATEMENT To advance knowledge through research THE DOCTOR SECRET INGREDIENT and scholarship, to cultivate invention improving the human condition, and IS IN IIT physicists are part of to educate students from throughout Psychology alumnus the brigade of researchers the world for a life of professional Andrew “The Poker achievement, service to society, and investigating possible answers individual fulfillment. Ph.D.” Rubin finds to the age-old matter/ Armour College of Engineering poker success by antimatter mystery. Center for Professional Development mastering the science Chicago-Kent College of Law College of Architecture of reading tells. College of Science and Letters Institute of Design Institute of Psychology Stuart School of Business DEPARTMENTS Illinois Institute of Technology provides 2 Campus News individuals with disabilities reasonable accommodations to participate in university 8 Faculty News activities, programs, and services. Individuals with disabilities requiring an accommodation to participate in an activity, program, or 9 Research Briefs service should call the activity, program, or service director. 24 Alumni News For further information about IIT’s resources for students, staff, and faculty with disabilities, 36 Rewind contact Center for Disability Resources Illinois Institute of Technology 3105 South Dearborn Street, LS 252 Chicago, IL 60616 312.567.5744 [email protected] campusnews Students donned some of the more than 3,000 T-shirts emblazoned with the new IIT brand identity. The IIT Brand Promise Donna V. Robertson Receives We are – an academic experience grounded in engineering, science, and technology John and Jeanne Rowe Endowed Chair We are – exceptional students with an intense work ethic We are – innovative and entrepreneurial Donna V. Robertson, dean and professor, is the Robertson was instrumental in elevating the We are – Chicago, a total urban experience recipient of the John and Jeanne Rowe Endowed college to its current status as having the 13th Chair for the IIT College of Architecture. John best undergraduate architecture program in Rowe, chairman, president, and CEO of Exelon the nation and the third best program in the Corporation, and chair of the IIT Board of Midwest as determined in a survey by the Design Trustees, and Lew Collens, past president of IIT, Futures Council. A fellow of the prestigious In March, during the familiar time of year when basic marketing strategy (the ridership on the their outreach to the student body’s various spoke at Robertson’s induction ceremony, held American Institute of Architects, she was named the city-wide gray hasn’t yet subsided and there’s westbound Burlington commuter train alone clubs and campus organizations. in April at The McCormick Tribune Campus among the city’s 100 most influential women scant evidence of anything green, rows of new provides 1.3 million viewers each month). Over the past few months, that research and Center. Also speaking was Blair Kamin, Pulitzer for 2006 by Crain’s Chicago Business. Besides the banners brought a bit of color to State Street and However, it takes more than market saturation to testing has inspired an IIT College Dictionary Prize-winning architecture critic of the Chicago chair, another recent honor given to Robertson the IIT corridor.
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