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March 29
Noon–1:30 p.m.
Stuart Research Colloquium
Stuart Graduate School of Business,

Room 490
Yair Babad, professor in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, will discuss “Compliance and Information Systems.” The presentation will provide an overview of compliance issues, their impact on the organization, how to manage and audit them, and their interaction with organizational information systems.

April 27–28
Section 1983
Civil Rights Litigation Conference
Chicago-Kent
Registration is now open for the 23rd annual Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation Conference, April 27–28 at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Program highlights include the § 1983 Prima Facie Case, municipal liability, ethical issues, and much more. Visit the § 1983 website for more information and to register.

May 17–18
ID Strategy Conference
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago
Early registration and discount registration for ID alum is now available. The conference is an international executive forum addressing how businesses can use design to achieve strategic advantage. Visit the conference website for more information.

April 6
4:30–6:30 p.m.
Graduate Open house
MTCC Ballroom
Enrollment will host a Graduate Student Open House. The event is open to non-degree graduate students who are interested in meeting with a faculty member regarding their area of interest. For more information, click here .

IIT in the News

Chicago-Kent Professor Lori Andrews was quoted in an Associated Press news release about a Supreme Court case that involves the diagnosis of vitamin B deficiencies. The release ran in many newspapers nationwide.

Chicago-Kent Research Professor Nigel Cameron was quoted in the March 18 Ledger (Lakeland, Fla.) about human/animal hybrids.

Keith Black, assistant professor at Stuart, was mentioned in the March 21 edition of Hedgeworld as a member of the Professional Risk Managers International Association committee that is charged with writing an exam that will certify PRM charterholders as hedge fund risk managers (no link).

The News Sun ran an article about Chicago-Kent alumnus and Associate Judge George Bridges , who is running for circuit court judge in Lake County.

The art @ IIT exhibit “The Art of the Illusion” was reviewed in the March 23 issue of TimeOut Chicago (no link).

Janet Woerner , adjunct faculty in the Department of Social Sciences, was quoted in a March 21 Medill News Service story about the use of nanotechnology in manufacturing (no link).

The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon, Ca.) ran an article about Dean Chapman who was recruited from BCPS at IIT to run beam lines at Canadian Light Source.

The Hindu ran an article about India's Sri Venkateswara Institute of Technology that offers an IIT masters degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Network Engineering, and VLSI.

The Scoop (New Zealand) ran an article that mentioned the human trafficking conference at Chicago-Kent.

IIT was mentioned in a ShareCast article about Millbrook Scientific Instruments sale orders.

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PRESIDENT OF TEC DE MONTERREY VISITS IIT, STRENGTHENS PARTNERSHIP

President Lew Collens hosted a lunch in honor of Alberto Bustani, president of Tec de Monterrey (Tec), on March 24. IIT and Tec have formed a strategic partnership to encourage institutional cooperation through the development of joint academic programs, student and faculty exchange, and joint research. As part of this partnership, last year IIT and Tec secured a USAID grant for almost $500,000 to help finance the environmental management education of Mexican citizens.

Among the attendees was Carlos Manuel Sada, consul general of Mexico in Chicago.

“IIT is making a concerted effort to increase the number of Latin American students,” said Rafael Alvarado, director of Latin American Affairs at IIT. “As part of the overall strategy, we want to team up with the best schools and without a doubt, Tec de Monterrey rises as a natural partner for IIT, given its outstanding quality and technological orientation.”

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK 2006

National Library Week 2006, a time to celebrate your campus library, kicks off during the first full week of April! As part of this annual event, the Paul V. Galvin Library will host programs and events April 3–7:

National Library Week Table—Meet your librarians, pick up free candy, bookmarks, and key chains. Join the opening celebration on Monday, April 3. (MTCC—all week, 12-2pm)
Favorite Book Chain—Fill out the title and author of your favorite book on a “book link” to build a campuswide “book chain.” (MTCC and Galvin Library—all week)
“It Changed My World” Display—Have you ever wondered what books your librarians read? Check out the “It Changed My World” book display featuring Galvin staff favorite book picks! (Galvin Library—all month)
Fine Forgiveness for Food Day—Contribute to a good cause and receive fine forgiveness on overdue items! Donate one can of food per overdue item at the Galvin Library main desk. Donations will be taken to the Chicago Food Depository. (Galvin Library—all week)
Snack Break—Hungry and need a break? Join library staff for cookies and other sweet things to help take the edge off! (Galvin Library—Tuesday, April 4)

Librarians and library staff are available to help you reach your academic goals. From books and journals, to databases and leisure reading, you can find the resources you need at Galvin Library. For more information about National Library Week activities at IIT, visit the Galvin Library or call Alanna Aiko Moore at 567.3613 or Jeanne Link at 567.3374, or visit the library's website .

STUDENTS DISPLAY WATER PURIFICATION ENPRO AT CONFERENCE

IIT students Adrian Gomez, Eugenio Ramirez, and Laura Grimmer recently returned from Portland, Ore., where they exhibited their water purification invention, KlarAqua, at the March Madness for the Mind event. Student and faculty researchers from IIT and Mexico's Tec de Monterrey exhibited a low-cost, clay-based water purification system for developing countries and other regions in need of portable water.

KlarAqua was developed last summer during an EnPRO, which received $16,000 in funding from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). The project was facilitated by Nasrin Khalili, associate professor of Environmental Management and the EnPRO instructor, and Jim Braband, senior lecturer in entrepreneurial studies.

The IIT team represented the more than two hundred teams of college students, faculty, and industry mentors who have received grants to support the development and commercialization of their inventions over the past decade.

March Madness for the Mind is presented in conjunction with the NCIIA's Tenth Annual Meeting—Strengthening the Fabric: Building Capacity for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which brings engineering, science, and business faculty together in Portland for three days of panels, workshops, and networking opportunities.

MMAE STUDENT POSTER COMPETITION

Congratulations to the winners of last week's annual MMAE Student Poster Competition. Winners were Edwin Schwalbach, first place, undergraduate; Jesse Collins, second place, undergraduate; Matthew Pearson, first place, master's; Muhammad Siddiqui and Miad Yazdani, second place, master's; Rongxiang Hu, first place, Ph.D., and Smati Chupatanakul, second place, Ph.D.

Posters reflected research or a unique project done in the MMAE department and were from any area of study within MMAE. Entries were judged by select industry professionals on technical level, presentation of the material, innovation of the concepts, and overall impact.

EXELON CHAIRMAN ROWE TO HEAD IIT BOARD OF TRUSTEES

John W. Rowe, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Exelon Corporation, was elected chairman of the Board of Trustees at IIT. Rowe, whose tenure begins November 9, will replace outgoing Chairman Robert Pritzker. An IIT alumnus, Pritzker will remain active at IIT, serving as chairman of the Board of the Pritzker Institute for Biomedical Science and Engineering and the IIT Policy Committee. The university also announced that Craig Duchossois, CEO of Duchossois Industries, Inc., has been named chairman of the Executive Committee, and David Vitale, chief administrative officer, Chicago Public Schools, will continue as vice chairman.

“I want to express my deep appreciation to Bob Pritzker for his leadership and dedication that sparked the phenomenal growth of IIT over the last decade,” said President Lew Collens. “I am looking forward to working with John Rowe to maintain IIT's leadership role in higher education.”

“As the leader of a company that employs hundreds of IIT graduates, I appreciate the contribution of IIT to our community,” said Rowe. “I especially look forward to helping IIT make the benefits of education in engineering, science, and architecture available to our diverse region.”

Rowe has a long and distinguished history of successfully managing power companies as CEO of Central Maine Power, New England Electric System, and Unicom Corporation prior to the formation of Exelon. He worked with the Chicago law firm of Isham, Lincoln and Beale from 1970-1980, where he became a partner in 1978 and served as counsel to the trustees of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company. He is a member of several boards, including Sunoco, The Northern Trust Corporation, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Chicago Club, The Chicago History Museum, The Field Museum, Wicell: The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and IIT's Mies van der Rohe Society.

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TCID ALUM PUBLISHES WORK ON CNN.COM

Alumna Melissa Zabel (TCID '2004) is using research skills she gained at IIT to educate CNN.com readers about how to interview for jobs successfully. Her article Interview Prep 101 , was published February 6.

“The TCID graduate program at IIT gave me the skills to create communication pieces from an end-user's perspective. This is something most communicators take for granted, especially in the field of marketing, where it is crucial to understand your audience,” said Zabel. “The TCID program taught me how to transfer that knowledge across all media types, giving me greater versatility in the workplace and more options for career paths. My education at IIT was extremely unique—allowing me to stand out in a sea of job applicants and excel in my career,” she said.

Zabel is employed as a marketing and communications copywriter at JIST Publishing, where she writes copy for book covers and articles about products, and creates marketing pieces and campaigns
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Events of Interest March 29 Noon–1:30 p.m. Stuart Research Colloquium Stuart Graduate School of Business, Room 490 Yair Babad, professor in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, will discuss “Compliance and Information Systems.” The presentation will provide an overview of compliance issues, their impact on the organization, how to manage and audit them, and their interaction with organizational information systems. April 27–28 Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation Conference Chicago-Kent Registration is now open for the 23rd annual Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation Conference, April 27–28 at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Program highlights include the § 1983 Prima Facie Case, municipal liability, ethical issues, and much more. Visit the § 1983 website for more information and to register. May 17–18 ID Strategy Conference Museum of Contemporary Art 220 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago Early registration and discount registration for ID alum is now available. The conference is an international executive forum addressing how businesses can use design to achieve strategic advantage. Visit the conference website for more information. April 6 4:30–6:30 p.m. Graduate Open house MTCC Ballroom Enrollment will host a Graduate Student Open House. The event is open to non-degree graduate students who are interested in meeting with a faculty member regarding their area of interest. For more information, click here . IIT in the News Chicago-Kent Professor Lori Andrews was quoted in an Associated Press news release about a Supreme Court case that involves the diagnosis of vitamin B deficiencies. The release ran in many newspapers nationwide. Chicago-Kent Research Professor Nigel Cameron was quoted in the March 18 Ledger (Lakeland, Fla.) about human/animal hybrids. Keith Black, assistant professor at Stuart, was mentioned in the March 21 edition of Hedgeworld as a member of the Professional Risk Managers International Association committee that is charged with writing an exam that will certify PRM charterholders as hedge fund risk managers (no link). The News Sun ran an article about Chicago-Kent alumnus and Associate Judge George Bridges , who is running for circuit court judge in Lake County. The art @ IIT exhibit “The Art of the Illusion” was reviewed in the March 23 issue of TimeOut Chicago (no link). Janet Woerner , adjunct faculty in the Department of Social Sciences, was quoted in a March 21 Medill News Service story about the use of nanotechnology in manufacturing (no link). The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon, Ca.) ran an article about Dean Chapman who was recruited from BCPS at IIT to run beam lines at Canadian Light Source. The Hindu ran an article about India's Sri Venkateswara Institute of Technology that offers an IIT masters degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Network Engineering, and VLSI. The Scoop (New Zealand) ran an article that mentioned the human trafficking conference at Chicago-Kent. IIT was mentioned in a ShareCast article about Millbrook Scientific Instruments sale orders. More IIT in the News IIT Facts Click here to view facts about IIT's demographics and more. Publications CONTACT: Online faculty/staff newsletter IIT Magazine Other Publications Athletics View the official IIT Athletics site.		PRESIDENT OF TEC DE MONTERREY VISITS IIT, STRENGTHENS PARTNERSHIP President Lew Collens hosted a lunch in honor of Alberto Bustani, president of Tec de Monterrey (Tec), on March 24. IIT and Tec have formed a strategic partnership to encourage institutional cooperation through the development of joint academic programs, student and faculty exchange, and joint research. As part of this partnership, last year IIT and Tec secured a USAID grant for almost $500,000 to help finance the environmental management education of Mexican citizens. Among the attendees was Carlos Manuel Sada, consul general of Mexico in Chicago. “IIT is making a concerted effort to increase the number of Latin American students,” said Rafael Alvarado, director of Latin American Affairs at IIT. “As part of the overall strategy, we want to team up with the best schools and without a doubt, Tec de Monterrey rises as a natural partner for IIT, given its outstanding quality and technological orientation.” NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK 2006 National Library Week 2006, a time to celebrate your campus library, kicks off during the first full week of April! As part of this annual event, the Paul V. Galvin Library will host programs and events April 3–7: National Library Week Table—Meet your librarians, pick up free candy, bookmarks, and key chains. Join the opening celebration on Monday, April 3. (MTCC—all week, 12-2pm) Favorite Book Chain—Fill out the title and author of your favorite book on a “book link” to build a campuswide “book chain.” (MTCC and Galvin Library—all week) “It Changed My World” Display—Have you ever wondered what books your librarians read? Check out the “It Changed My World” book display featuring Galvin staff favorite book picks! (Galvin Library—all month) Fine Forgiveness for Food Day—Contribute to a good cause and receive fine forgiveness on overdue items! Donate one can of food per overdue item at the Galvin Library main desk. Donations will be taken to the Chicago Food Depository. (Galvin Library—all week) Snack Break—Hungry and need a break? Join library staff for cookies and other sweet things to help take the edge off! (Galvin Library—Tuesday, April 4) Librarians and library staff are available to help you reach your academic goals. From books and journals, to databases and leisure reading, you can find the resources you need at Galvin Library. For more information about National Library Week activities at IIT, visit the Galvin Library or call Alanna Aiko Moore at 567.3613 or Jeanne Link at 567.3374, or visit the library's website . STUDENTS DISPLAY WATER PURIFICATION ENPRO AT CONFERENCE IIT students Adrian Gomez, Eugenio Ramirez, and Laura Grimmer recently returned from Portland, Ore., where they exhibited their water purification invention, KlarAqua, at the March Madness for the Mind event. Student and faculty researchers from IIT and Mexico's Tec de Monterrey exhibited a low-cost, clay-based water purification system for developing countries and other regions in need of portable water. KlarAqua was developed last summer during an EnPRO, which received $16,000 in funding from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). The project was facilitated by Nasrin Khalili, associate professor of Environmental Management and the EnPRO instructor, and Jim Braband, senior lecturer in entrepreneurial studies. The IIT team represented the more than two hundred teams of college students, faculty, and industry mentors who have received grants to support the development and commercialization of their inventions over the past decade. March Madness for the Mind is presented in conjunction with the NCIIA's Tenth Annual Meeting—Strengthening the Fabric: Building Capacity for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which brings engineering, science, and business faculty together in Portland for three days of panels, workshops, and networking opportunities. MMAE STUDENT POSTER COMPETITION Congratulations to the winners of last week's annual MMAE Student Poster Competition. Winners were Edwin Schwalbach, first place, undergraduate; Jesse Collins, second place, undergraduate; Matthew Pearson, first place, master's; Muhammad Siddiqui and Miad Yazdani, second place, master's; Rongxiang Hu, first place, Ph.D., and Smati Chupatanakul, second place, Ph.D. Posters reflected research or a unique project done in the MMAE department and were from any area of study within MMAE. Entries were judged by select industry professionals on technical level, presentation of the material, innovation of the concepts, and overall impact. EXELON CHAIRMAN ROWE TO HEAD IIT BOARD OF TRUSTEES John W. Rowe, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Exelon Corporation, was elected chairman of the Board of Trustees at IIT. Rowe, whose tenure begins November 9, will replace outgoing Chairman Robert Pritzker. An IIT alumnus, Pritzker will remain active at IIT, serving as chairman of the Board of the Pritzker Institute for Biomedical Science and Engineering and the IIT Policy Committee. The university also announced that Craig Duchossois, CEO of Duchossois Industries, Inc., has been named chairman of the Executive Committee, and David Vitale, chief administrative officer, Chicago Public Schools, will continue as vice chairman. “I want to express my deep appreciation to Bob Pritzker for his leadership and dedication that sparked the phenomenal growth of IIT over the last decade,” said President Lew Collens. “I am looking forward to working with John Rowe to maintain IIT's leadership role in higher education.” “As the leader of a company that employs hundreds of IIT graduates, I appreciate the contribution of IIT to our community,” said Rowe. “I especially look forward to helping IIT make the benefits of education in engineering, science, and architecture available to our diverse region.” Rowe has a long and distinguished history of successfully managing power companies as CEO of Central Maine Power, New England Electric System, and Unicom Corporation prior to the formation of Exelon. He worked with the Chicago law firm of Isham, Lincoln and Beale from 1970-1980, where he became a partner in 1978 and served as counsel to the trustees of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company. He is a member of several boards, including Sunoco, The Northern Trust Corporation, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Chicago Club, The Chicago History Museum, The Field Museum, Wicell: The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and IIT's Mies van der Rohe Society. [ top ] TCID ALUM PUBLISHES WORK ON CNN.COM Alumna Melissa Zabel (TCID '2004) is using research skills she gained at IIT to educate CNN.com readers about how to interview for jobs successfully. Her article Interview Prep 101 , was published February 6. “The TCID graduate program at IIT gave me the skills to create communication pieces from an end-user's perspective. This is something most communicators take for granted, especially in the field of marketing, where it is crucial to understand your audience,” said Zabel. “The TCID program taught me how to transfer that knowledge across all media types, giving me greater versatility in the workplace and more options for career paths. My education at IIT was extremely unique—allowing me to stand out in a sea of job applicants and excel in my career,” she said. Zabel is employed as a marketing and communications copywriter at JIST Publishing, where she writes copy for book covers and articles about products, and creates marketing pieces and campaigns [ top ]