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Illinois Tech Spinoff Influit Moves to Commercialize Its Ultra-High Density Liquid Batteries
“Everything we’re doing right now is geared toward the specific goal of developing what we call the closed-loop energy cycle, whereby your batteries are not solid materials, they are liquids,” said Influit co-founder and CEO John Katsoudas. “You can treat the battery as a fuel that gets pumped in to mobility devices—cars, trucks, airplanes, anything that needs to be electrified. Every one of our contracts is funding a different aspect of the totality development of that ecosystem. All of the technology has come together—we have a crystal-clear path before us.”
Illinois Tech Part of Computing Partnership That Was Awarded Grant from the National Science Foundation
The multidisciplinary Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms, and Learning, or IDEAL, conducts advanced research and training in the field of data science. It aims to broaden research and education participation by underrepresented groups and will include high school and undergraduate students, as well as teachers (partnering with Math Circles of Chicago) and the public (through lectures in partnership with the Museum of Science and Industry).
Mies Crown Hall Prize Announces Shortlist for Emerging Practice Awards
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize announced that ten built projects spanning North and South America have been shortlisted for the 2022 MCHAP.emerge prize, a biannual award that recognizes built work by practices less than 10 years old. In June, the Illinois Institute of Technology-affiliated award program announced a shortlist of 38 “outstanding projects” completed between 2018 and 2021 for its main prize.
Associate Professor of History Mar Hicks Comments on AI Image Generator
“I think it’s appealing the same way that a game of chance is appealing, or a party game,” said Mar Hicks, associate professor of history. “Where there’s some level of uncertainty about what’s going to happen.”
Director of Architectural Engineering Brent Stephens Discusses Air Ventilation to Combat COVID-19
For common indoor spaces, 12 air changes per hour is “a great goal if you could try to get that,” said Brent Stephens, an expert in indoor air quality and building science at Illinois Tech, during a webinar on air quality in schools. “If you could get six air changes per hour or if you can get five air changes per hour or something near that, I think those are still really quite reasonable risk reduction numbers.”
Assistant Professor Noah Smith-Drelich Explains How Congress Could Codify Abortion Rights
President Joe Biden is now calling on Congress to codify Roe v. Wade and federally legalize abortion nationwide. “It means that Congress would pass a law that would provide many of the same protections that the Supreme Court previously recognized as being constitutional via Roe v. Wade, whether or not that would stand up against the current Supreme Court I think is anybody’s question,” said Noah Smith-Drelich, assistant professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law.