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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.”

Associate Professor Weslynne Ashton Discusses An App Helping to Cut Down on Food Waste in Chicago

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.

Law Professor Highlights How Traveling Out of State for an Abortion Could be Challenged in the Future

Maurice Dawson, the Director of the Center for Cyber Security and Forensics Education, Discusses Cybersecurity Issues at Institutions of Higher Learning

Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Announces Outstanding Projects

Global Study Offers New Insight Into the Effectiveness of Social Distancing Messaging