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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...
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A Legacy of Producing Practitioners
LAW '20“Chicago-Kent College of Law represents a lot of what [Chicago] represents—grit and a diversity of perspectives,” says Saman Haque ’20. “The beauty of attending Chicago-Kent was that all of the...
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Leaving a Legal Legacy at Illinois Tech
(BA 3rd Year)When Illinois Tech’s Pre-Law Society was launched in 2023, it was barely more than an idea. It was just a handful of students with legal ambitions and a shared curiosity about how they can build their...
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Focused on Customer Needs
(AE ’18)In his job at ICEYE US, Alvah Bickner (AE ’18) says that his main tasks are finding out what customers want out of their products, adjusting the products in ways that align with the company’s long...