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College of Architecture’s High-Rise Post-Grad Course Confronts Challenging Urban Future

RIBA Journal

A timber city mimicking the appearance and natural functions of fungi and a supertall skyscraper containing a vertical cement plant and high capacity thermal battery, are among the first student projects to emerge from a pioneering high-rise masters programme at Illinois Institute of Technology. The Master of Tall Buildings and Vertical Urbanism (M.TBVU) is the world’s first multi-disciplinary post-graduate degree focused specifically on skyscrapers and the role of urban density in future cities.

Nancy Marder, Director of Justice John Paul Stevens Jury Center, Says Question About Impartiality Allowed Potential Trump Jurors to Opt Out

Washington Post

“In some cases it could be that some prospective jurors do not want to sit on a six-week jury trial that will be in the public eye,” said Nancy S. Marder, jury expert professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “They might have such strong feelings because the defendant is in the public eye. Or, it might be that New Yorkers are not afraid to express their strongly held views. But in either case, this is exactly what should happen.”

Illinois Tech Professor Philip Troyk Pushes the Next Frontier With Artificial Vision Implant

WIRED

“This is not about getting biological vision back,” says Philip Troyk, a professor of biomedical engineering at Illinois Tech. “This is about exploring what artificial vision could be.”

AI-Generated Art’s Murky Copyright Status May Discourage Some Creators, Says Chicago-Kent Professor Ed Lee

Bloomberg Law

“Artists and creators who are interested in using AI generators will potentially use them but not register their works, waiting, hopefully, for a change in the legal position,” said Edward Lee, an intellectual property law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “But some might shy away from even using AI at all.”

Chicago-Kent's Noah Smith-Drelich Explains How State Abortion Bans Are Teeing Up Constitutional Fights

Law360

Noah Smith-Drelich, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology, said the right to travel is “well-established” in the law and a fundamental right protected under different parts of the U.S. Constitution. But amid a patchwork of contradictory laws and widespread uncertainty about enforcement policies, “I think it’ll be one of the major issues” in the post-Dobbs landscape, Smith-Drelich said.

Chicago-Kent Professor Richard Kling Explains How O’Neill Burke Campaigned in the Primary, What That May Mean for State’s Attorney’s Office

Chicago Tribune

Should Democratic primary victor Eileen O’Neill Burke ultimately win the state's attorney's office, she would quickly face formulating her own reform agenda, making cases to tamp down Chicago’s persistent gun violence, and running an office struggling with morale issues. “As much as numbers have gone down, the amount of street crime is extraordinarily high and has a tremendous impact on the community,” said Richard Kling, a clinical professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Chicago-Kent Law Professor Nancy Marder Dispels Myths on Removing Jurors in Trump Trial

PolitiFact

There are two paths by which prosecution and defense may seek to remove or strike prospective jurors. The first is “for cause,” which means for a stated and qualified reason such as bias. The second is "peremptory," which means the prosecution or defense doesn’t need to give a reason, said Nancy S. Marder, a jury scholar and professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. The cause strikes are unlimited, but the peremptory strikes for each side are capped based on the level of felony charges in this case. In Trump’s trial, they’re set at 10 for each side of the regular jurors.

Proving Products Caused Illness Isn't Necessary in Hair Relaxer Lawsuits, Says Chicago-Kent Law Professor Noah Smith-Drelich

WBEZ Radio

“That kind of correlation, where you can say, ‘This chemical or this product caused this specific illness for this person,’ is just not something that science is going to be able to produce,” said Noah Smith-Drelich, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law who has studied mass torts like the relaxer case. “What science does better is probabilistic (to) say more broadly that this group of people have this level of exposure and have this increase in developing this injury.”

Cost of Upgrade Will Be a Factor in Reconstruction Baltimore Bridge, Says Professor Gongkang Fu

The Baltimore Banner

Illinois Institute of Technology Engineering Professor Gongkang Fu questioned whether it would be feasible to design a bridge to withstand the type of allision, a moving object striking a stationary object, that occurred between the Dali and the Key Bridge, given how costly such fortification would likely be. “That doesn’t mean that we shy away from our responsibilities as bridge engineers,” Fu said. “We can improve, but I don’t think it’s going to be feasible to prevent that kind of thing from happening.”

Engineering Professor Gongkang Fu Explains the First Steps of Rebuilding Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge

USA Today

Illinois Institute of Technology engineering professor Gongkang Fu said the first step to rebuilding will be to assess the foundational pieces of the bridge underwater. “The pieces we don't see ... are more expensive than the pieces we see, normally,” Fu said.