Winners of the Paul Barrett Memorial Awards Announced at the Chicago Metro History Fair
The Paul Barrett Memorial Awards are given out annually at the Chicago Metro History Fair and are named in memory of Paul Barrett, a former professor of history and chair of the Humanities Department at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) who passed away in 2004. The Humanities Department contributes funds as an annual sponsor, and the awards have been named in recognition of Professor Barrett for the past three years.
This year's winners of the Paul Barrett Memorial Awards at the Chicago Metro History Fair were Caeley Harihara and Daniel Hayes. Harihara (Payton College Prep) won an award for her website "Designing History: Bauhaus Chicago." Harihara is pictured above at the Chicago Metro History Fair award ceremony this past April with Maryhelen Matijevic, a member of the executive committee of Chicago Metro History. Hayes (Mt. Carmel High School) won for his research paper "If We Can Do It, Then We Should: The Chicago Algebra Project as an Outcome of Chicago Education Reform—From Protest to Reform." Read more here
2013 Writing Contest Winners Announced |
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The Humanities Department is pleased to announce the winners of the 48th Annual Writing Contest. A reception for all entrants, with awarding of prizes, will be held on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 12:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center. Congratulations to all of the winners! Read more here. |
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Davis Awarded Grant To Study Scientific Innovation Policy in the EU |
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Michael Davis, senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and professor of philosophy, has received a three–year grant from the European Commission Framework 7 to study scientific innovation policy in the European Union. Read more here. |
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Stolley's Open Access Academic Journal Push Referenced in Nature magazine |
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Nature magazine cites the journal as allowing "scholars (to) build journal articles incrementally, with each version tracked and open online, available for collaboration and comment throughout." Karl Stolley, associate professor of technical communication, founded and launched Push in October 2012. Read more here. |
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Robinson Receives Digital Writing Scholarship |
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Joy Robinson (Ph.D., TECH) has been awarded the 2013 Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe Caring for the Future Scholarship, granted by the Computers & Writing Conference, a leading international digital writing conference. Read more here. |
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Digital Humanities Speaker Series: Embodied Learning |
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In February, the humanities department hosted a talk by Leilah Lyons, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and director of digital learning for the New York Hall of Science, a hands–on science museum. Read more here. |
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Flanagan Explores Women and the City |
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Maureen A. Flanagan, chair of the Department of Humanities has written an essay, "The City, Still the Hope of Democracy? From Jane Addams and Mary Parker Follett to the Arab Spring," that has been published in the January 2013 issue of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Read more here. |
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Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick View and Discuss "The Untold History of the United States" at IIT
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Seminar Course on Science and Technology Studies Offered This Spring
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2012-2013 Humanities Department Speaker Series: Defining Boundaries and Goals in the Digital Humanities
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The Times Digital Archive now accessible through Galvin Library
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Metamorphoses: Staff and Faculty Changes
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