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Features F ALL 2005 IIT MAGAZINE Associate Vice President of Communications and Marketing Catherine Braendel Director of Marketing Marlis Manley Broadhead Managing Editor Chelsea Kalberloh Jackson Contributing Editors Catherine Bruck Beth Duncan Jon Kavanaugh Anne Johnson Theresa Minarik Melanie Nimrodi Abigail Nall Linda Packer Beth Wittbrodt Art Editor Theresa Minarik Design 18 Panebianco, Inc. IIT Magazine is published three times Cover: The Crowded Sky a year by the Office of Communications Cell phones, laptops, radios, and and Marketing. © 2005 airplanes—even microwaves—are Send Letters To all competing for increasingly con- IIT Magazine gested air space. Researchers at Office of Communications and Marketing IIT’s Wireless Interference Labora- 3300 South Federal Street Main Building, Suite 503 tory are studying how to prevent Chicago, IL 60616-3793 a frequency overload. 22 Or Email [email protected] Big Things in Small Packages Send Alumni News To What could the ultra-small neutrino [email protected]. tell us about the universe? Professor 12 Chris White is shooting them from Founded in 1890, Illinois Institute of Technology is a private Chicago to Minnesota in hopes of In Search of a Cure Ph.D.-granting university that awards finding out. IIT is steadily building its reputation degrees in engineering, the sciences, math- ematics, architecture, law, design, psycholo- in cancer research. Bolstered by sev- gy, and business. IIT takes an interprofes- eral high-profile grants, researchers 24 sional approach to research and teaching. at IITRI and faculty and students in By reaching across geographic boundaries, engineering and the life sciences are A Man for Mars academic disciplines, and the professions, investigating new ways to detect, Now more than ever, the world is IIT prepares students for leadership roles in an increasingly complex global workplace treat, and prevent this disease. getting up close and personal with the red planet. Jacob Matijevic while conducting a substantial program of applied and basic research with the goal of (MATH ’69) is developing the 16 transforming lives and inventing the future. rovers that are giving us the dirt. Armour College of Engineering IIT 2010: An Interview with Center for Financial Markets Center for Professional Development President Lew Collens Chicago-Kent College of Law In the midst of significant planning College of Architecture and accreditation review, IIT’s College of Science and Letters leader gives us a glimpse of the Departments Institute of Business and Interprofessional Studies university’s future academic platform, 2..........Campus News Institute of Design the 2010 Plan. Institute of Psychology 26........Class Notes Stuart Graduate School of Business 32........Rewind Campus NEWS Welcome, Freshmen! IIT Introduces New Technology Park IIT welcomed its class of 2009 on August 21. With financial backing from both the public and private Seeking new ways to attract new business to the This semester 414 freshmen spilled onto cam- sectors, IIT is set to open University Technology Park At South Side and to invigorate IIT’s research initiatives, IIT pus—their parents and personal belongings in IIT (UTP), officially launching the largest commercial President Lew Collens initiated the first concepts for a tow—to usher in the next few years of study- development effort for Chicago’s South Side since the technology park in 2000. Now underway, the UTP ing, friendship building, and researching the completion of the new Comiskey Park/U.S. Cellular development represents the strongest investment in IIT’s world’s foremost scientific questions. One Field in 1991. surrounding neighborhood in 50 years. hundred eighty-six trans- “UTP holds special promise for IIT and its fer students joined them students. Its opening continues the transforma- as new faces in the IIT A Closer Look at the Freshmen Class—by the Numbers tion of IIT’s Main Campus and surrounding com- UTP: Phase One Summary community. Valedictorians: 12 munity by attracting high technology companies Their four-day orienta- Salutatorians: 4 with high quality jobs to the campus,” says The first phase of UTP development includes the Incubator, IITRI Center, and tion included sessions on Camras scholars: 9 David Baker, vice president for External Affairs. Technology Business Center 1. Once the entire park is complete, it will encom- financial and time man- Number from Illinois: 242 pass nine buildings and 1.5 million square feet of space. Having received $6 million in state grants and agement, a block party, Number of foreign countries represented: 11 $75 million in public and private support, Incubator and a tour of Chicago, Mean 50% ACT score: 26–31 including a $25 million commitment from IIT, The 6,000-square-foot Incubator is, as its name suggests, where good ideas among other activities, Mean 50% SAT score: 1200–1380 UTP will transform the south end of Main Cam- hatch. The Incubator features wet and dry labs, which tenants can customize. and ended as classes Number of engineering majors (across fields): 219 n a pus, including The Tower and surrounding One of its first tenants is All Cell Technologies, L.L.C., founded by Said Al-Hallaj Percent of international students: 6 c commenced on August 25. n u buildings. Townsend Capital, L.L.C., a real-estate and J. Robert Selman, faculty in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Male-to-female ratio: 3:1 D h t e investment firm that specializes in large corpo- department, which is researching methods of prolonging the life of lithium-ion B Farthest distance traveled to attend: 9,803 (Indonesia) y b o batteries. A second tenant is Sun Phocus Technologies, L.L.C., which uses tech- t rate development projects, is providing addition- Percent interested in community service: 26 o h al private funds. nology to improve solar energy that produces electricity. The Incubator will likely Freshmen whose grandparents attended IIT: 3 P ᮡ be fully rented by the end of the year, and it will grow to Freshmen whose siblings attended IIT: 12 Students move into their IIT 30,000 square feet in subsequent phases. National Honor Society members: 62 home during Orientation 2005. IITRI Center Phi Theta Kappa (transfers): 15 The existing structure, home to IIT Research Institute Life Sciences Group, provides world-class facilities for pre-clinical drug development and cancer and toxicology testing. Technology Business Center 1 With 130,000 square feet of lab and office space, this building at 35th and Federal streets will be geared toward bioscience, engineering, and high-tech companies. Outside the four-floor modern structure, extensive landscaping will lend a welcoming, park-like feel. www.universitytechnologypark.com ᮤ An artist’s rendering of new lab space in the Incubator UTP will connect tenants—private researchers and corporations alike—with centrally located research facili- ties and with one another, providing an environment where ideas can cross-pollinate. Projected to open in mid-2006, UTP is expected to create more than 2,500 jobs within various fields. A New Beginning—This October, the work of College of Architecture Professor Frank Flury “IIT’s students will benefit from the opportunity for helped Mason’s Bend, Ala., residents Willie Bell Harris and her family to make their dream part-time and full-time jobs, internships, and co-op come true. They moved into a new house [above] designed and built by Flury and his student experiences right on campus. IIT’s faculty will benefit Courtesy of Frank Flury team at Rural Studio, part of Auburn University’s School of Architecture, where Flury was a both from the opportunity for consulting contracts and visiting professor last year. For 10 years, Rural Studio has been improving living conditions space for their own companies,” Baker says. “The clients Renderings courtesy of Canon Designs within impoverished Hale County by challenging its students to create smart, cost-effective in UTP will benefit from their ability to leverage the designs that meet their recipients’ specific needs. “Even though some of the residents of Hale research, human, and equipment resources available on County have fewer opportunities, they are happy people,” says Flury. “I found that living for a Main Campus.” year in a largely poor environment was an educational experience.” www.ruralstudio.com I I I I T T 2 3 Campus NEWS Photo by Dan Kuruna The Crown Rules Half a century young, National Historic Landmark The following Saturday, close to 800 people visited Raves and Reviews and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s modernist icon campus for the Crowning Around festival—touring “Crown Hall Dazzles in Mies Simplicity...the ramifications of what has been done S. R. Crown Hall re-opened to rave reviews on Crown Hall, listening to live music, playing games, extend far beyond the South Side. They remind us why Mies was the great fig- Thursday, August 25, after having been restored to watching scenes from a play about Mies, and hearing ure he was—he was both poet and pragmatist, bold in his art, yet sensitive to its 1956 glory. stories about Mies from former colleagues and students. ᮢ Panelists at the his surroundings. He was the most influential architect of the twentieth century, That night, guests toured the refurbished College Mies designed Crown Hall during his golden years, Crown Hall unveiling yet now only, at the beginning of the twenty-first, can we see his vision with the of Architecture building and gathered for dinner. and the building has become a benchmark for archi- event included [left to full clarity it deserves.” President Lew Collens summed up the building’s tects and lovers of design, a National Historical Land- right] Geoffrey Baer, —Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune Architecture Critic long-term impact: “Crown Hall has become an mark, a U.S. postage stamp, a tourist destination for David Bahlman, architectural icon, but the influence of the building thousands each year, and “one of the world’s most Jaume Plensa, and “Mies van der Rohe’s gloriously simple Crown Hall isn’t just restored— as an educational center is equally extraordinary; influential, inspiring, and astonishing structures,” Kevin Harrington.
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