The Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen, which includes Illinois Institute of Technology as a member, has received $1 billion in federal funding to develop hydrogen as a clean energy source as part of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed in 2021. The Biden administration estimates that MachH2 will create 12,100 construction jobs and 1,500 permanent jobs.
Two hundred middle school and high school students gathered for the STEAM & Dream summit, hosted by American Family Insurance and CHAMPS, a nonprofit that mentors youth, on Illinois Institute of Technology's campus. Three friends from Milwaukee started the program in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to help support children to didn’t have access to laptops. Since then, STEAM and Dream summits have spread to other cities as program leaders aim to inspire the next generation of tech leaders.
“It is not easy to just like adding like a barcode and you track the barcode throughout. It’s not going to be easy like that because (this) is massive,” said Indika Edirisinghe, Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. “And so we have to have AI technology developed and period, that’s it. We have to find a database that is driven by science so that the database has the knowledge to make scientific decisions relevant to this one. And I think that the tracing system has to come from AI technology.”
“You might say, why does the court have this focus on administrative law (this term)? Or you might say, why is the 5th Circuit issuing these remarkably extreme opinions?” says Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “The 5th Circuit is doing some very extreme things, and the Supreme Court is almost always going to grant” appeals so those decisions can be reviewed.
“In each case, the prosecutor needs to persuade the judge that, based on the type of crime alleged, the surrounding circumstances, history of violence or flight, or collateral evidence of vengeance that continued incarceration is appropriate,” according to Harold J. Krent, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “For a murder that was gang related, the prosecutor can argue that the tensions between the gangs may place the arrestee in a situation (if released) in which violence is likely. ... Or, for someone arrested for felony possession of narcotics, the prosecutor may have no reason to predict violence upon release if there was no prior whiff of violence.”
“Under the 2010 law that created the agency, Congress gave it an open-ended funding mechanism which would actually be drawn from another agency, the Fed,” said Harold Krent, professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “So the argument was (that) this is somewhat of an unusual appropriations decision ... and both sides had a hard time finding some kind of line to draw to distinguish permissible congressional appropriations from impermissible ones.”
Electrolyzers are typically associated with the production of “green” hydrogen from water and renewable electricity, but a new device borrows from traditional electrolyzer principles to convert CO2 into propane. A team of researchers from the Electrochemical Energy Materials and Devices Laboratory at Illinois Institute of Technology, led by chemical engineering professor Mohammad Asadi, have now developed a new catalyst material to target the production of C3 products — using only CO2, water and electricity as inputs — by optimizing the proton-electron transport reaction to ensure there was not excessive production of co-reactants and byproducts.
“The weight of this appointment holds resonance beyond personal achievement, as it is a great responsibility to be the inaugural Latin American Director of a program in the College (of Architecture),” Villalobos said. “Representation matters.”
Mohammad Asadi, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, who spearheaded the research, said: “Making renewable chemical manufacturing is really important. It’s the best way to close the carbon cycle without losing chemicals we currently use daily.”
“We are incredibly pleased with the sustained growth we’re seeing,” said Stuart School of Business Dean Liad Wagman. “Our focus on blending business education with technological expertise has struck a chord with prospective students who see the tremendous value in what Stuart offers. We are committed to continuing this momentum by further enhancing our innovative academic programs.”
