An Architect’s Road Less Traveled
After working as an architect for several years, Leticia Arzuaga (B.ARCH. ’13) attended a team building exercise in which she was asked, “What’s your dream?” Coming up with an answer turned out to be...
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(LAW ’78)When other mayors ask Jeffrey Sherwin (LAW ’78) how he’s been elected to office for eight terms—and has run unopposed in the town of Northlake, Illinois, for the last seven—he says the answer is...
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Better than Pretty
(MDes ’03)Jon Friedman (MDes ’03) had been interning as a designer at Microsoft for many months before being pulled into a so-called “interview loop,” a process where he would undergo interview after interview...
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The Trend Finder
(Ph.D. MSC ’10)Keith Black (Ph.D. MSC ’10) has spent decades working in the financial industry as everything from a floor trader and an equity analyst to the director and curriculum writer for a major analyst...
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Semper Legalis
(LAW ’09)As a judge advocate in the United States Marine Corps—the Marine equivalent of a JAG officer—Candace White (LAW ’09) spent her first tour of duty prosecuting Marines and sailors for a wide variety of...
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Creating Harmony with Cuisine
(B.ARCH. ’12)Growing up working as a hostess at her family’s restaurant, Jessica “Jaye” Fong (B.ARCH. ’12) was never allowed in the kitchen. “It was absolutely forbidden,” Fong says. “The children were not allowed...
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One Sweet Gig
(M.A.S. CHE ’11)During the “Great Recession,” Garrett L. Clark (M.A.S. CHE ’11) was asked to step down from his engineering role at an Indiana steel mill and become a line manager instead. Instead of settling, he...
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Mixing Theory with Practice
(M.A.S. DSC 2nd Year)Sanjana Waghray (M.A.S. DSC 2nd Year) says that she found a rare balance between classroom theory and real-world practice while enrolled in Illinois Tech’s Master of Data Science program, which she...
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The Matrix Meets Open Access
(Ph.D. PHYS 6th Year)If you walk into an Illinois Tech physics lab, you might hear references to something called Neo. No, the talk isn’t about the high-flying hero of the sci-fi trilogy The Matrix. It’s about an...
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Identifying Anomalies Before They Become Problems
(CE, M.Eng. Urban Systems Engineering 5th Year)Michael Sansone (CE, M.Eng. Urban Systems Engineering 5th Year) transferred to Illinois Tech from the City Colleges of Chicago after receiving his Associate of Science in Engineering Science and...