From Small Town to Big Law
“Although I can’t erase the pain of the death of a spouse or a parent, I can ease the burden on families by making the estate administration process easier,” says Luke Harriman ’13. Harriman guides...
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Intersecting Architectural Engineering and Public Health
After earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architectural engineering at Chung-Ang University in South Korea, Insung Kang became interested in the projects at Illinois Institute of Technology...
Gaining Marketing Analytics Skills for the Tech Business World
When Efe Uduigwomen arrived in Chicago to begin the Master of Science in Marketing Analytics program at Stuart School of Business, she already had five years of professional experience, which included...
A CEO with Analytical Chemistry Skills
Having worked as a professional chemist since 2011, Adam Floyd (M.S. ACHM ’21) was no stranger to the industry. So how did he go from working at Scott’s Miracle Gro to becoming CEO of his own company...
Putting Analytical Chemistry into Pharmaceutical Practice
Trevor Williams (M.S. ACHM ’20) isn’t the type of person who likes to wait when it comes to putting his skills to good use. That’s one of the biggest reasons why he chose Illinois Tech’s Master of...
The Opportunity Maker
Right after college, Ruth Lopez-McCarthy (LAW ’09) started Doorknocking. It was the community organizing, block club kind of outreach: pushing for more alley lights, safety patrols, and better garbage...
The Human Side of Technology
“I don’t know why I want to act like I have an aversion to nerds, when I’m a nerd myself,” laughs Sydney Hardwick (ITM ’15), speaking not only of her time growing up on Chicago’s South Side, but also...
A Critical Career
While growing up, Lexi Detweiler (PHYS, ASPY, M.S. HP ’21) listened to her father spout random tidbits of information from his various STEM-related careers. He’d gone from being an architect to...
Mentorship and Research Collaboration Are Keys to Career Growth
As a quantitative analyst at Morningstar, the Chicago-based investment research and management services firm, Yao “Jason” Xie develops mathematical and statistical models to analyze portfolio risks...
Partnership Program Offers Path From France to America
Maureen Rakotondraibe joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology through a partnership with École Spéciale de Mécanique et d’Electricité, a...