In the Media

College Students Dig to Uncover Long-Buried History of Armour Flats and Mission on Illinois Tech Campus

Block Club Chicago

A team of student archaeologists is digging to tell the long-buried stories of a grassy South Side site which once housed meatpacking officials, a church congregation and academics at a predecessor to the Illinois Institute of Technology. Students and professors at north suburban Lake Forest College and Morton College in Cicero began excavating the former Armour Mission and Armour Flats, 35 W. 33rd St. in Bronzeville on May 22.

Focus on Organics May Keep People from Eating Fruits and Vegetables, Says Director of Center for Nutrition Research

National Geographic

Britt Burton-Freeman, director of the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Center for Nutrition Research, worries the focus on organics may be keeping people from eating enough fruits and vegetables. In her survey of 510 low-income shoppers—most of whom said they preferred organic but couldn’t afford it—talk of pesticides made some less likely to want to buy produce at all. “Food marketers need to have a clearer understanding of how their messages may influence produce consumption,” she says.

Siva K. Balasubramanian, Associate Dean of Stuart, Explains Why Car Insurance Companies Use So Many Celebrity Spokespeople

WalletHub

“According to McCracken’s ‘Meaning Transfer’ model,” writes Siva K. Balasubramanian, associate dean of the Stuart School of Business and professor of marketing, “over repeated audience exposure to celebrity endorsement ads, the positive perceptions associated with the celebrity will tSiva K. Balasubramanianransfer onto the advertised product. Celebrity endorsers may be appropriate for certain products/brands and celebrities that are carefully evaluated for optimal product/personality match.”

Law Professor and AI Expert Daniel Martin Katz Comments on Lawyer Caught Using ChatGPT to Write Error-Riddled Brief

Reuters

“You are ultimately responsible for the representations you make,” said Daniel Martin Katz, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law who teaches professional responsibility and studies artificial intelligence in the law. “It’s your bar card.”

Illinois Tech Launches Online MBA, Computing Programs With Performance-Based Admission

Poets & Quants

“It is part of our mission here to meet learners where they are, offer them programs that are accessible both financially and but also from a scheduling perspective, and flexible, as something they can do in their free time,” says Liad Wagman, dean of Illinois Institute of Technology's Stuart School of Business.

Illinois Tech Graduate Yuta Katsuyama Turns School Project Into Food Startup Called Onigiri Kororin

ABC7 Chicago

Born and raised in Tokyo, Yuta Katsuyama came to the United States as a graduate student in 2018 to study business and design at Illinois Institute of Technology. During that time he launched a food startup called Onigiri Kororin for a school project, which has now grown into a company producing products available at over 30 locations in Chicago. “Sometimes I feel like I'm living a dream,” said Katsuyama. “I always wanted to start my own business.”

Chicago-Kent Law Professor Harold Krent Breaks Down Supreme Court's Decision Upholding California's Humane Pork Law

Bloomberg Law

“The majority held that you cannot parse a state regulation and say that it’s having to do mostly with morals as opposed to protection for the citizens of the state,” says Harold Krent, law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “So that distinction that was forwarded by the pork producers was clearly rejected by a majority of the court, which is the controversial aspect of the decision because it does then open up other states to enact morals legislation which has an impact on out-of-state commerce.”

Illinois Tech Study Finds That Automated Window Shades Can Save 25% of Energy Costs

Interesting Engineering

“If you’re designing a new building, you have a lot of freedom to look at new technologies that save on energy consumption, but for existing buildings, you have limited options,” says Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering Mohammad Heidarinejad, who led a research team that studied the effectiveness of window shades in reducing energy consumption

Author and Chicago-Kent Law Professor Reflects on 80th Anniversary of Sit-In at Kenwood Cafe

Hyde Park Herald

“Legal change does not make change on the ground, does not make social change. This is the lesson of history, certainly in the case of race relations,” says Christopher Schmidt, a professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and author of “The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era.” “But what we need, and what the sit-ins show us, is that when we have legal change in conjunction with social protest, then you can actually get changes on the ground.”

Illinois Tech Study Done at Willis Tower Shows Potential for Significant Energy Shavings With Automatic Shades

Informed Infrastructure

“In addition to the exciting findings of energy savings and payback period, this project served as a perfect example of the type of industry-relevant research we enjoy—combining field measurements and computer simulations to evaluate a unique strategy to save energy in one of the most famous buildings in the world,” says Brent Stephens, a co-principal investigator on the project and the Arthur W. Hill Endowed Chair in Sustainability.