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In College of Architecture’s Type-Led Rebrand, It’s Mies van der Rohe for the Assist

Print Magazine

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.

Igloo Tower on Illinois Institute of Technology’s Campus is ‘Beyond Cool’

CBS2 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.”

Illinois Institute of Technology Architecture Professor and Students Build Multicolor Ice Tower on Campus

NBC5 Chicago

“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.”

Multicolor Ice Tower a Highlight of M.TBVU Students’ Academic Careers

Fox32 Chicago

“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.

ITM Chair Gurram Gopal: The Tide Is Turning on Supply Chain Collaboration

SupplyChainBrain

Imagine a world where supply chains move as smoothly as a well-conducted orchestra, where suppliers, manufacturers and distributors anticipate each other's needs and are in sync. This isn't just a fantasy; it's becoming a reality, thanks to the cloud: a technological revolution happening right under our noses.

Professor Weslynne Ashton, Co-Director of Food Systems Action Lab, Says Awareness and Interest in Local Sourcing Has Increased After Pandemic and Recent Recalls

WTTW

“Our food system is really dependent on these long supply chains,” said Illinois Tech’s Weslynne Ashton, professor of environmental management and sustainability and co-director of the Food Systems Action Lab. “Our food is coming from all over the country and really all over the world, and contamination can happen at any point in that journey. And so there's a real awareness about those contamination possibilities along the supply chain, and it is increasing people’s interest and awareness in more local sourcing.”

Architectural Engineering Professor Brent Stephens Explains How AC Window Units Can Affect Your Health

The Guardian

While window unit filters do catch particles like dust and dander, they don’t perform the same function as an air purifier, for example. “The filters used don’t remove particles very effectively, so the air isn’t necessarily coming out much cleaner than it went in,” says Brent Stephens, a professor at Illinois Institute of Technology who researches indoor air issues.

Chicago-Kent Law Professor Harold Krent Discusses Biden’s Proposed Ethics Reforms for Supreme Court

WTTW

“There is at the minimum an appearance of a conflict of interest,” said Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Harold Krent, “and that’s something that should be avoided by the court. It wasn’t. And so if the justices are going to thumb their nose at this kind of written ethics rule, then maybe Congress has to do something more stringent.”

Illinois Tech Professor Maurice Dawson Explains How Crowdstrike Update Led to Global Internet Outage

ABC7 Chicago

“We need these particular devices to make things more efficient,” said Maurice Dawson, director of the Center for Cyber Security and Forensics Education (C²SAFE). “The problem is, if you have one bottleneck, everything goes down.”

Cluster of Illinois Tech and Bronzeville Microgrids Will Be the First in the World, Says Professor Mohammad Shahidehpour

Chicago Tribune

Clustering of two or more independent microgrids hasn’t yet been accomplished, according to Illinois Institute of Technology Bodine Chair Professor Mohammad Shahidehpour, who leads Illinois Tech's work on the microgrid cluster. “That project, once it’s fully in operation, represents the first cluster microgrid anywhere in the world,” Shahidehpour said at a ceremonial “switching on” of the Bronzeville microgrid in May