Expanding the Architect’s Purview
Il Hwan Kim (B.ARCH. ’17) sees the role of an architect as anything but cast in concrete. In fact, his frustration with those who think that architects should limit themselves to materials such as...
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Illinois Tech Researcher Finds Where Lithium Ions Reside in New Solid-State Electrolyte That Could Lead to Improved Batteries
CHICAGO—January 9, 2026—New research published in Science introduces a promising solid electrolyte material that could improve the performance of next-generation lithium batteries, particularly at...
Rough Hand Sketch Earns College of Architecture Student an Inaugural Gensler Opportunity Scholarship
After submitting a simple sketch of a residential marketplace surrounding an abandoned train track in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, an Illinois Tech College of Architecture student was one of the...
Tracking Hidden Highways to Build Better Batteries
Anyone who’s ever used a battery-powered device in Chicago (or anywhere else with a similar climate) is all too familiar with one particular problem: batteries slow down in the cold. A new study...
Illinois Tech Athletics Digest: Hoops Teams Wind Down in 2025
Each week, the Illinois Tech Athletics Digest will look back at the week in Scarlet Hawks athletics and provide a brief glimpse at what is up next. Here’s a look at Scarlet Hawk athletics on December...
‘An Educational Environment, Designing Educational Environments’
Catherine Wilmes has spent a lot of time thinking about classrooms. She began her career at Efficiency Lab for Architecture, a Brooklyn-based practice focused largely on schools, where conversations...
Learning by Teaching: Law Students Turn Celebrity Legal Battles into Civics Lessons
“There is a very big difference between understanding something and understanding it well enough to explain it to someone else ,” says Cody Clark ’26, paraphrasing Albert Einstein. Clark is one of the...
$2 Million SPARC Scholarship Fund Opens Doors to Computing Education
A $2 million National Science Foundation grant will help Illinois Tech fulfill its academic mission to make its highly relevant, tech-focused education even more accessible over the next five years...
Marty Cooper, Illinois Tech Alumnus and ‘Father of the Cell Phone,’ Receives 2025 Marconi Society Lifetime Achievement Award
CHICAGO—December 17, 2025— Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) university life trustee Marty Cooper (EE ’50, M.S. ’57)—a pioneer in the field of mobile communications who’s considered the...
Black Markets and Contraband: Chicago-Kent Hires Expert in Human Trafficking
Alexandra F. L. Yelderman joined the faculty at Chicago-Kent College of Law in fall 2025. Between 2012 and 2020, Yelderman practiced at the Human Trafficking Legal Center in Washington, D.C. “The...