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WEEKLY
PLANNER September 1, 2004,
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Student Employers Workshop
MTCC Ballroom
The Office of Financial Aid hosts a workshop for staff
members who hire student employees from 9:30 a.m.-12:30
p. m. in the MTCC Ballroom. This workshop is for departments
that hire student employees - federal work-study students
and non-federal workstudy students. Departments will
be given an overview of the Payroll Authoization process.
For more information, contact Leschon Ruckes at 312.567.5727
or ruckes@iit.edu.
September 1, 2004,
1-4:30 p.m.
Internet Privacy and Security Law Update
Downtown Campus
Chicago-Kent College of Law hosts a seminar discussing
internet privacy and security law, including talks
by Chicago-Kent Professor Richard Warner, communication
expert Sharon O’Bryan and Assistant Illinois
Atty. Gen. Edward Carter. Cost is $50. For more information,
contact Rae Vicario at 312.906.5090 or rvicario@kentlaw.edu.
September 1, 2004,
3:30-4:30 p.m.
MMAE Seminar: Recent Aspects of Turbulence Research
Crawford Auditorium, Engineering 1
Cambridge University Lecturer T.B. Nickels will discuss
new initiatives in
turbulence research in Cambridge's engineering department.
The talk will
center on the fundamental work that seeks to a better
understanding of the
underlying physics of turbulent flows. For more information,
contact Kim
Barrett at 312.567.3177 or barrettk@iit.edu.
September 1, 2004,
4-6 p.m.
Student Organization Workshop
McCormick Tribune Campus Center
The Office of Student Activities and Orientation presents
its annual student organization fair in which more
than 50 student groups present information to prospective
new members. For more information, contact Mary Taylor-Blasi
at 312.567.5171 or taylorblasi@iit.edu.
View the university
calendar at: http://webservices.iit.
edu/calendar.
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is a newsletter published weekly in the spring
and fall semesters and biweekly in the summer
to inform the IIT community of timely news.
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Rozen
Assistant Editor:
Brad
Perkins
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|  Congratulations
to Motorola Professor of Chemical Engineering
and Vice President for International Affairs Darsh
Wasan, who received the Langmuir Lectureship
Award from the American Chemical Society at its national
meeting in Philadelphia last week. The award honors
Wasan for his research on self-organization of colloidal
suspensions. Wasan will also be inducted into the
National Academy of Engineering in Washington, D.C.
October 3.
Humanities Writing
Center opens for the fall semester Tuesday,
September 7. The center is located in Siegel Hall,
Rooms 232 and 233. All IIT students, both undergraduate
and graduate are welcome. Sign-up sheets are posted
on the doors of both offices on a weekly basis.
Institute of Design
will host its annual “About With and For”
conference Oct. 22-23, 2004, in Chicago. The conference
brings social scientists, researchers, designers,
educators, consultants, and project managers together
to discuss human-centered research. SonicRim President
Liz Sanders will deliver the keynote address.
Humanities Professor
Susan Feinberg was recently featured in the
trade publication Financial Aid Advisor Journal
regarding her role as director of IIT's Usability
Testing and Evaluation Center. Feinberg also
discussed her directing two student IPROs that developed
e-learning games to help students deal with money
matters.
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IIT SPORTS CALENDAR
Wednesday,
September 1
Men's Soccer vs. Milwaukee School
of Engineering, 6 p.m.
HOME
Friday,
September 3
Cross Country at North Central College
(Ill.) Invitational, 3 p.m.
AWAY
Women's Volleyball vs. University
of Chicago (Dominican University Tournament), 3 p.m.
AWAY
Women's Volleyball vs. Judson College
(Dominican University Tournament), 5 p.m.
AWAY
Saturday,
September 4
Women's Volleyball at Dominican University
(Dominican University Tournament), 9 a.m.
AWAY
Women's Soccer at Marian College (Ind.),
12:30 p.m.
AWAY
Men's Soccer at Marian College (Ind.),
3:30 p.m.
AWAY
Tuesday,
September 7
Women’s Volleyball at St. Xavier
University, 7 p.m.
AWAY
Wednesday,
September 8
Women’s Soccer at Milwaukee
School of Engineering, 7 p.m.
AWAY
Friday,
September 10
Women’s Volleyball vs. Indiana
Wesleyan (St. Xavier Tournament), 4 p.m.
AWAY
Men’s Soccer at Lambuth University
(Tenn.), 5 p.m.
AWAY
Cross Country at Aurora University
Invitational, 5 p.m.
AWAY
Women’s Volleyball vs. St. Joseph’s
(St. Xavier Tournament), 8 p.m.
AWAY
Saturday,
September 11
Women’s Volleyball vs. St.
Francis (St. Xavier Tournament), 12 p.m.
AWAY
Women’s Soccer vs. Alverno
College, 1 p.m.
HOME
Women’s Volleyball vs. Tiffin
(St. Xavier Tournament), 2 p.m.
AWAY
Men’s Soccer at Union University
(Tenn.), 7:30 p.m.
AWAY
Saturday,
September 12
Women’s Soccer vs. MacMurray
College, 12 p.m.
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WEEK OF 08.30.04 |
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BIOMEDICAL COMPLEX MOVES FORWARD
State Lawmakers Deliver $5 Million
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ambitious plans for a state-of-the-art biomedical business
incubator and laboratories for emerging technology companies
got a huge boost last week. It came in the form of $5 million
in new state funding for the project. The state appropriation
guarantees IIT can move forward with the renovation of a Main
Campus building, transforming it into labs and office space
for start-up Illinois companies focusing on human health.
On August 24, State Sen. Mattie Hunter (D-Chicago) presented
the $5 million check to IIT President Lew Collens. The money
is part of a $12 million commitment from the state. State
Rep. Ken Dunkin (D-Chicago) and other political and community
leaders joined Hunter at the check presentation. Both lawmakers
played key roles in the Illinois legislature’s passage
of the appropriation last year. Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been
a strong supporter of the project as well.
“We couldn’t have done it without their vision
and perseverance, particularly from State Sen. Hunter,”
Collens said. “This new biomedical facility will not
only offer important research opportunities for IIT—it
will create jobs and significantly impact the economic development
of our surrounding community and the city as a whole by providing
much-needed lab space for start-up life sciences companies.”
Read the full news release at: http://webservices.iit.edu/iit_news/
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FALL
SEMESTER UNDERWAY
Students cap productive orientation
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returned to Main Campus in droves last week as new undergraduates
attended a full week of orientation activities, including
placement tests, registration and more fun activities such
as water gun fights, group bonding sessions, welcome barbecues
and the President’s Welcome Breakfast on Tuesday, August
24.
“It’s a wonderful opportunity for incoming students
to have a focused one-on-one interaction with our current
student leaders,” said Director of Student Activities
and Orientation Mary Taylor-Blasi. “We’ve been
told this was the largest group in recent memory.”
 At
the welcome breakfast, President Lew Collens mingled with
new and returning students in the Perlstein Hall Lobby. Students
received information on the “Flat Lew” contest,
in which they take a drawn picture of the IIT president around
Chicago and photograph him with famous landmarks, people or
transportation. The contest is in the spirit of Jeff Brown’s
book “Flat Stanley,” in which a flattened man
visits his friends in an envelope and is photographed around
the globe. Submissions for the contest are due September 6
and winners earn a pizza lunch with President Collens. Students
also competed in an IIT trivia contest, which tested their
knowledge of the university. ChEE sophomore Mark Haase and
MMAE first-year Joshua Blackketter each won $25 gift certificates
to the IIT Bookstore for answering the most questions correctly.
Nearly 600 freshmen and transfer students participated in
the largest orientation in recent memory. Students on the
Main Campus began classes on Thursday, with the first full
week of classes beginning today.
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President
Lew Collens now authors a regular weekly Contact column,
addressing current news and issues in the IIT community.
We invite you to help shape future discussions and hope
you find this addition to our newsletter enlightening
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They’re back! Unless you’ve been on vacation
or lost in one of the IITRI tunnels, you have noticed that
the energy—and chatter—level on campus has risen
dramatically.
And students are back in record numbers. While the official
statistics will not be available for a couple of weeks, it
looks as if our total incoming student headcount may be the
highest it has been in two decades.
Kudos to our admission staffs, who did a tremendous job of
recruiting, and to all of you who are working hard to ensure
that our students—new and returning, graduate and undergraduate—have
a wonderful year in the classrooms, on the athletic fields,
in the residence halls, and everywhere in between.
I have had the opportunity to meet many of our new students,
and I am really impressed. I am impressed with their intellectual
capability, but that is no surprise. I am impressed with how
friendly and outgoing so many of them are. I am impressed
with how far they have come. One minute I was talking with
a student from Hanoi and the next with a group from India.
We have students from Hawaii and New York, Florida and Minnesota—and
almost every other state.
What new students have in common is that they are likely
to be nervous, excited, homesick, and eager.
Our new students will most certainly have a lot of questions
in the coming weeks: “What’s the ‘HUB’?
Red Line or Green Line? What man on what
bench?” I encourage you to offer assistance to students
whenever you can, and to take some time to get to know our
new students and welcome back returning ones. The smallest
gesture can mean a lot, especially to students who are far
from home.
If there is a topic you would like to see addressed in
this column, please e-mail contactlew@iit.edu
or send your topic via campus mail to PH223, Attention: Lew
Contact Column.
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Financial
Aid Rolls Out New Web Site
'Virtual Office' format easier to navigate |
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of Financial Aid is now the office that never sleeps—thanks
to radical Web site redesign that gives visitors quick access
to a wealth of information “online, anytime, anywhere.”
With significant additions of new content, easier navigation
and stronger graphic treatment, the Financial Aid website
is now a one-stop shop. The changes make it easy for prospective
and current students, their families and others to access
and navigate vast amounts of information—at their own
convenience.
 “Over
time, our website had evolved into a tangle of links that
made it difficult for visitors to find timely, relevant information,”
says Virginia Dare Foster, Director of the Office of Financial
Aid. “Last spring, we decided to step back, evaluate
what we were doing, and find ways to drive more traffic to
our Web site.”
Faced with the challenge, Foster along with Monica Posgay,
Financial Aid Service Manager, set out to create a “virtual
office.” Working in partnership with the Communications
& Marketing Web team, they mapped out a new site that
includes:
· A financial aid interactive cost estimator that
enables visitors to create different scenarios for calculating
their expenses, costs and personal financial resources.
· A comprehensive portfolio of downloadable and printable
forms.
· The ability to fill out and submit an online Master
Promissory Note for Stafford and PLUS loans.
· An expansive list of links that make it easy to search
other websites worldwide for scholarship and financial aid
information.
· An instant e-mail link that invites visitors to submit
questions and comments from any page on the site.
“The Web site is definitely a win-win,” Foster
says. “Visitors now have a truly comprehensive source
for finding the information they want and need when they want
it. Driving more visitors to the web also increases our productivity.
We’re freed from mundane tasks that the Web handles
so much better, enabling us to focus on offering high-quality,
more attentive service to other important customers.”
Visit the new Web site at www.enrollment.iit.edu/finaid.
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NICER SPACE TO BREAK A SWEAT
Keating Fitness Room reopens to rave reviews
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New flooring, new machines and
a fresh paint job awaited eager onlookers as President Lew
Collens and Athletic Director Lee Hitchen cut the ribbon to
open the newly renovated Keating Hall Fitness Room at a special
ceremony Wednesday, August 24, 2004.
The room features an array of new machines, including treadmills,
bikes and new Hammer Strength weight equipment. New free weights
were also lined up along the back wall. The new floor was
decorated in the scarlet and gray of IIT Scarlet Hawks athletic
teams.
Keating Hall and the Fitness Room are open from 8 a.m. –
8 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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BULLDOZERS
MOVE IN ON FORMER STATEWAY SITE
Park Boulevard Sales Center to Open This Fall
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signs are up and the bulldozers arrived along 35th Street
last week just south of Main Campus, as work moves forward
on the Park Boulevard redevelopment project. A new sales center
in now under construction and should open next month.
Bordered by 35th and 39th streets,
State Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway, this new 36-acre
community will complement surrounding Southside Lakefront
neighborhoods with its tree-lined streets and parks. Buyers
can choose from diverse housing options including one-, two-
and three- bedroom condominiums; four-, five- and six-flats;
town homes; and single-family homes.
As part of IIT’s commitment to
the neighborhood, the university launched an Employee Assisted
Housing (EAH) program last fall to help faculty and staff
buy a new home at Park Boulevard. Through this program, IIT
employees can access up to $7,500 to help with closing costs
and mortgage payments, as well as individual counseling for
financing and home buying.
To get your name added to the growing
mailing list of IIT faculty and staff who receive regular
updates on the project, please e-mail David Baker, vice president
for external affairs at bakerd@iit.edu.
You can also get a closer look at the new community by visiting
its new web site at www.ParkBoulevardChicago.com
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Memorial
Fund Established for Scott Hanover
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family of Main Campus Public Safety Officer Scott Hanover
has set up a memorial fund in his name. Hanover, 45, died
Sunday, August 22. He had worked at IIT since June 2001 and
quickly became a familiar face among staff and students.
Funeral services, with full military honors, were held over
the weekend in his hometown of Prophetstown, Ill. A memorial
fund has been set up in Scott’s name.
Contributions should be sent to:
Scott Hanover Memorial Fund
c/o McDonald Funeral Home
46 Grove St.
Prophetstown, IL 61277
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LOCAL GALLERY TO EXHIBIT FORMER
IIT ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR'S WORK
 Chicago’s
Stephen Daiter Gallery, 311 W. Superior St., Suite 404, will
present the first major exhibition in more than 40 years of
Howard Dearstyne’s experimental photographs. Dearstyne,
who taught at IIT under his mentor, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,
from 1957-71, was one of the few Americans to attend the Bauhaus
in Germany, from which he graduated in 1932. In addition to
his work at IIT, Dearstyne, who died in 1979, worked as an
architect, photographer, author, designer and illustrator.
He took photos in both color and black and white and had showings
at the Los Angeles County Museum, the Museum of Modern Art
and the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1970, he was named one
of four “Masters of Aesthetic Photography” at
the Photokina in Cologne, Germany.
The Daiter Gallery exhibition includes Dearstyne’s
black-and-white photos, including some taken at the Bauhaus
of and by famous colleagues such as Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and
Walter Peterhans. The exhibit opens September 10 and runs
from 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays and by appointment
through October 30, 2004. For more information, contact Paul
Berlanga at 312.787.3350.
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RUNNING IN THE CHICAGO
MARATHON? LET US KNOW
Are you running? Or maybe you know of a student, faculty
or staff member planning to run the 2004 LaSalle Bank Chicago
Marathon on October 10? If so, we want to know about it.
 IIT's
Main Campus sits between miles 23 and 24 as 40,000 runners
will pass Main Building, The McCormick Tribune Campus Center
and State Street Village as they enter the final leg of one
of country's most famous races.
E-mail contact@iit.edu
and let us know about participation.
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who's in the news
The August 28 Munster (Ind.) Times mentioned
IIT's Main Campus as one of the stops
on an upcoming Chicago architecture tour.
Engineering alumnus Sant Rajinder Singh Ji
Maharaj was quoted in an August 28 Long
Island (NY) Newsday story about meditation and
faith. Singh is now the spiritual leader of the Science
of Spirituality.
An August 27 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
story quoted Associate Vice President Jean
Bingham in a story about new university student
housing options, including many of amenities students
enjoy at State Street Village. The
same story was also published in the Arizona Republic.
Chicago-Kent Professor Katharine Baker
was interviewed for an August 26 story on WLS-TV,
ABC 7 about a civil lawsuit filed by a former
employee of Dr. William Kennedy Smith alleging that
he sexually assaulted her.
On August 26 WFLD-TV, FOX 32 interviewed
Chicago-Kent Dean Harold Krent about
privacy issues related to stored information on Illinois
drivers' licenses and state-issued ID cards.
Center for Financial Markets Director Michael
Gorham was mentioned in an August 26 Reuters
Newswire story about more departures at the government's
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
The August 26 journal Patently Obvious quoted
Chicago-Kent's Journal of Intellectual Property
in a story about the percentage of patent applications
that result in patent grants.
Associate Vice President Jean Bingham and
IIT students Amara Ogbonnaya and Joe Cardon
were interviewed for an August 26 rebroadcast of a
WTTW-TV, Channel 11 Chicago Tonight
segment on new university student housing in Chicago.
Chicago-Kent Professor Lori Andrews
was quoted in an August 26 story about the ethics
of bioengineers creating spare body parts for an aging
population. The story was published in several newspapers
including the San Diego Union-Tribune,
Kansas City Star, Charlotte
Observer and St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer
Press.
President Lew Collens was quoted
in the August 25 Chicago Defender regarding
the state's $5 million dollar appropriation for IIT's
biomedical complex.
The August 25 Chicago Sun-Times featured
a story about Chicago-Kent Professor Nancy
Marder's research into juries using technology
tools in their deliberations.
Institute of Design Director Patrick Whitney
was profiled in the September issue of Forbes
magazine as a leader on human-centered design, as
part of the magazine's "E-Gang."
The August 22 suburban Star newspapers mentioned
IIT's new outsourcing certificate program
at Rice Campus.
The August 22 Chicago Tribune mentioned
IIT's Main Campus in a story about
the Chicago Housing Authority's redevelopment plans
for neighboring Stateway Gardens.
Provost and Senior Vice President Allan Myerson
was quoted in the August 20 edition of Science
News regarding how the crystal form of drugs
can be the secret to their commercial success.
IIT and the Mies-designed Main Campus
are mentioned in September's Chicago Magazine
in a story about the Chicago Architecture Foundation's
"Mies and Modernism" tours.
The September issue of Contractor magazine
mentioned fire engineering alumnus and Adjunct
Civil Engineering Professor David DeVries
as part of an investigative panel looking into last
year's deadly high rise fire in the Cook County Building.
A story in the August 20 Los Angeles Times
mentioned IIT and the Mies-designed Main Campus
in a story about traveling to and touring Chicago.
Chicago-Kent Professor Nancy Marder
was quoted in the August 19 Chicago Tribune regarding
Oprah Winfrey’s recent jury duty.
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas Fitzgerald’s
visit to Chicago-Kent College of Law
was reported in the August 19 Chicago Daily Law
Bulletin.
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DO YOU HIRE
STUDENT WORKERS?
Don't
miss this important workshop Wednesday!
If your department hires student workers, you won’t
want to miss a workshop this week led by the Financial
Aid office. The three-hour seminar is for all IIT
departments that hire student employees and will include
a review of procedures, federal work study and non-federal
work study and an overview of the payroll authorization
process.
The workshop will be held Wednesday, September 1,
2004, from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in the McCloska
Ballroom of The McCormick Tribune Campus Center. Refreshments
will be served. For more information contact Leschon
Ruckes at 312.567.5727 or ruckes@iit.edu.
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LEDERMAN,
IIT TO SHARE IN $2M NSF GRANT
Funding will study two competing science
teaching programs
IIT’s Department of Mathematics and Science
Education has something to celebrate this month! MSEd
Chair Norman Lederman received word that IIT’s
program, in conjunction with colleagues from Western
Michigan University (WMU) received a $1.9 million
NSF grant to compare the effectiveness of science
inquiry instruction with traditional direct instruction.
The program will run from 2005-08 and represents
the first truly experimental evaluation of these two
competing approaches to the teaching of science, with
double-blind subject and control groups. The study
will focus on students' science conceptual achievement
and attitudes towards science. Teachers and 8th-grade
students will be drawn equally from the Chicago Public
Schools and Kalamazoo Public Schools. The program
promises to have a broad impact on science instruction
in the U.S.
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IIT TO HOST
'SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES' CONFERENCE
Program Features IIT Experts, Dutch
Consulate
Architecture Professor Peter Land and ChEE Professor
Demetrios Moschandreas are among the speakers at the
Sustainable Communities: Learning from the Dutch Experience
Conference to be held at IIT Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2004.
The symposium, held in conjunction with the Consulate
General of the Netherlands, will address several issues
related to the urban structure of a city and will
cover the major developments in the field of public
policy, urban planning and codes, green technology,
construction & engineering, architecture, urban
communities and design. For more information, visit
the Web
site
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OHIO STATE
EXPERT TO VISIT MMAE NEXT WEEK
Professor Mohammad (Mo) Samimy of Ohio State University's
Gas Dynamics and Turbulence Laboratory will present
"Closed-Loop Control of Cavity Flows" at
a Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering
Department Seminar from 3:30-4:30 p.m., Wednesday,
September 8, 2004 in Crawford Auditorium, Engineering
1.
Samimy is also part of OSU's Collaborative Center
of Control Science, which is working on the development
of closed-loop flow control technology. The ultimate
goal of the research is to develop tools required
for low-dimensional flow model-based closed-loop flow
control. Cavity flows are rich in flow physics, including
strong flow-acoustic coupling, and are excellent test
beds for basic research. For information, contact
Kim Barrett at 312.567.3176 or barretk@iit.edu.
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