“The story of the Armour Research Foundation Reactor reflects both the optimism and the challenges of embracing new technologies,” said Jeff Terry, a physics professor and Illinois Tech’s vice provost for research. “As we continue to explore the possibilities of nuclear energy today, this pioneering effort at Illinois Tech serves as a reminder of the progress made and the potential that still lies ahead.”
“A curious part of sentencing is that no one will get the answer to the question we all have asked: Why did he do it?” said Doug Godfrey, a professor of legal writing and research at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “He won’t say and I doubt he will take responsibility or apologize. So, as to the fundamental question, we will not know.”
“The judge said that there’s probable cause to conclude that the Trump administration willfully violated his order when they sent these Venezuelans to El Salvador, took them off the planes after they landed in El Salvador, and turned them over to Salvadoran custody,” said Carolyn Shapiro, professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “He had made it very clear in his order that the administration was not to do that.”
“We have never seen executive orders targeting law firms before. It’s totally unprecedented,” said Harold Krent, constitutional law specialist and professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “It seems to me clearly unconstitutional.”
“The Education Department had decided that for whatever reason, too many teacher training grants had been awarded and therefore decided to claw them back,” said Harold Krent, professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “They clawed them back on the grounds that the grants might have in some ways contributed to illegal DEI initiatives, although that’s unclear, and they used that reason for all of them en masse.”
"Managing blood glucose isn’t just about monitoring blood sugar levels — it’s about improving insulin sensitivity," said study leader Indika Edirisinghe, professor of food science and nutrition. "Our study suggests that adding fresh mangoes to the diet can be a simple, enjoyable way for people who are overweight or have obesity to support better insulin function and reduce type 2 diabetes risk."
Illinois Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture was revered, influential, and well overdue for a brand refresh and a new website that better reflected its legacy and student experience. The school tapped Chicago studio Span to lead the rebrand, designing a comprehensive new visual identity anchored by a new logo and website. Two typefaces are at the heart of the new identity, both harkening back to the roots of the school and of modernist architecture in Chicago.
“You put snow into the buckets and pour water on the snow, and that forms a mortar, that forms a mush. You put some mush on top of the block and it freezes together,” says Dr. Antony Wood, professor of practice and director of the Masters in Tall Buildings and Vertical Urbanism program. “Until it thaws, that is absolutely solid.”
“We have a 12-foot ice tower made out of water balloons, simple as that. The process starts with 250 water balloons, fill them with water and food coloring, so different colors, and then bring them to the build site,” says Dr. Antony Wood, who thought of the ice tower as a teaching tool for his students in the Masters in Tall Buildings and Vertical Urbanism program. “I thought it’d be a great fun exercise for them to design this tower and build this tower, and the objective here is to get as tall as we could.”
“It starts with water balloons. We filled up 275 balloons, and we let them sit out for two to four days until they all froze. They have food dye in them, so that’s where it gets its color from,” said student Kristin Lasorsa. “After they completely froze through, we brought them over here and they started piling them all up, and we used snow and water to form a mortar.
