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Dean McMorris To Deliver Closing Plenary at GfKl 2008 in Hamburg
Buck McMorris, Dean of the College of Science and Letters and Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, will give the closing plenary at the 32nd annual meeting of the German Classification Society, July 16-18 in Hamburg.
The meeting, "GfKl 2008," will focus on data analysis, data handling, and business intelligence and is organized with the British Classification Society and the Dutch/Flemish Classification Society.
McMorris will speak on "Majority-Rule Consensus: From Preferences (Social Choice) to Trees (Biology and Classification Theory)." McMorris is the president of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS), of which the German Classification Society is a member. IFCS is a federation of societies in North America, Central America, Europe and Asia devoted to data analysis, clustering, and classification.
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Associate Dean and Professor of Chemistry M. Ishaque Khan Delivers Plenary Session Keynote at ICERT 2008Associate Dean M. Ishaque Khan was the plenary session keynote speaker at ICERT 2008 in Penang, Malaysia, May 28-30. (07/02/2008)
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R. Russell Betts Named Dean of Illinois Institute of Technology College of Science and Letters
On June 30, President John Anderson announced the appointment of R. Russell Betts, Ph.D. as dean of IIT College of Science and Letters. Betts joins IIT from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he serves as vice provost for planning and programs and professor of physics. Betts' appointment follows the retirement of F. R. “Buck” McMorris, who has served as dean for the past five years. (06/30/2008)
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Chemistry Alumna Solomon Named a Member of the Royal Society
IIT alumna Susan Solomon (Chem 77) has been named a Foreign Member of The Royal Society of the United Kingdom. (06/20/2008)
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Social Science Department's Ireland Speaks on Migration in Paris
Patrick Ireland, social sciences chair and professor of political science, was invited to speak on "Political Contexts and Options for Reform" at a conference in Paris in May. (06/20/2008)
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Computer Science's Yee Wins Best Paper Award at INFOSCALE
Wai Gen Yee, assistant professor of computer science, and his collaborators won the "Best Paper Award" at the ACM/ICST Third International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE). (06/20/2008)
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Nine More CPS High Schools Pick MSED as Partner For Year 3 of High School Transformation Project
Nine more Chicago Public Schools have selected IIT's Mathematics and Science Education Department to be their partner in the High School Transformation (HST) Project. (05/07/2008)
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2008 CSL Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarships Announced
The College of Science and Letters (CSL) has announced the winners of the 2008 CSL Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarships. Eight students will receive $5,000 each to conduct 10 weeks of research with a faculty mentor this summer. (04/09/2008)
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Viewing the Universe with an iPhone: Jeff Terry, Professor of Physics, Breaks New Ground with Mobile Devices
On March 8th at 9:30 pm, Physics professor Jeff Terry took control of a Global-Rent-A-Scope (GRAS) telescope located near Cloudcroft, NM from Chicago, IL using his Apple iPhone. (03/20/2008)
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U.S. Government Certifies CS Department Courses in Information Assurance
Acting CS Department Chair Bogdan Korel announced that department courses have met all national standards for Information Systems Security Professionals (4011) and Systems Certifiers (4015) through the U.S. government's Information Assurance Courseware Evaluation (IACE) Program. (03/14/2008)
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Professor Norman Lederman To Receive Honorary Doctorate from Stockholm University
For his essential contributions to science education, Dr. Norman Lederman will receive an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science at Stockholm University on September 26, 2008, in a ceremony at Stockholm City Hall. (03/14/2008)
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Chemistry Alum Susan Solomon Among IPCC Nobel Laureates
Alumna Susan Solomon (Chem '77), along with her colleagues on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr., was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on October 12. (01/25/2008)
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