IIT College of Architecture Announces Morgenstern Scholars Program
The College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and the Morgenstern Family Foundation have announced the Morgenstern Scholars program to create new scholarship opportunities for incoming graduate students.
"The Morgenstern Family Foundation's commitment is an excellent opportunity for students who show exceptional promise. We are grateful that our best admissions prospects have a chance to become Morgenstern Scholars upon enrollment,” said Donna Robertson, dean of the College of Architecture.
The Morgenstern Scholars program offers six incoming masters’ degree candidates supplemental scholarship aid and a local internship opportunity. The program partners with Chicago’s leading architecture firms to support the College’s graduate program, with potential lifetime benefit to both students and firms.
Four years ago the Morgenstern Family Foundation endowed a Visiting Chair at IIT’s College of Architecture. Previous visiting chairs have included world-renown architects Natalie de Vries and Glenn Murcutt. This year’s chair is architect David Chipperfield, who worked for Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster before establishing his own firm in 1984. He now has offices in London, Berlin and Shanghai. His newest work in the Midwest includes the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, and the Public Library in Des Moines.
Chipperfield will lecture on his recent work on Wednesday, April 26 at 6 p.m. in S. R. Crown Hall.
Vic Morgenstern, a 1964 Chemical Engineering graduate of IIT is a member of the IIT Board of Trustees and is past Co-Chair of the Architecture Board of Overseers. The Morgenstern family has long maintained an interest in architectural education as three family members have graduate degrees in architecture.
Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting technological university awarding degrees in the sciences, mathematics and engineering, as well as architecture, psychology, design, business and law. IIT’s interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum prepares the university’s 6,200 students for leadership roles in an increasingly complex and culturally diverse global workplace.
