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(Ph.D. Technology and Humanities/User Behavior on Social Media, Digital Culture, AI Ethics 3rd Year)

How social media influencers use their followers as unwitting laborers for profit is the center of research conducted by Leila Mirghaderi for the Socially Responsible Modeling, Computation, and Design...

(CHE 4th Year)

Through her engineering and economic courses as part of the Energy, Economics, and Environment minor at Illinois Institute of Technology, Lizz Elliott has learned the importance of nuclear energy as a...

(BME ’22)

Laasya Devi Annepureddy works with Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Kenneth Tichauer studying diabetic retinopathy, a common side effect of diabetes that damages a patient’s ability to...

(M.Eng. Energy Systems ’19, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering Student)

Larissa Affolabi came to Illinois Institute of Technology as a master’s degree student in search of a top-tier graduate program in engineering for energy systems. “In terms of power system courses and...

(M.S. EE ’07, M.S. CPE ’07, Ph.D. CPE ’18)

“I was probably born to be an engineer,” says David Hentrich. His grandfather was an engineer with his own workshop who built Hentrich his own child-sized workbench as a kid. He absorbed his...

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(ARCE, M.ENG. STE ’18)

From an outdoor sculptural installation celebrating Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood to studies of human bone fracturing, Demetria Boatwright took every opportunity to take on ambitious projects and...

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(LAW ’21)

For Roberto Martinez (LAW ’21), it was all about telling peoples’ stories. He excelled at interviews, getting clients to open up. “There’s so much need for understanding, and it goes beyond just...

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(Ph.D. MSC ’13)

When Seungho Baek began the doctoral program in management science and analytics at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Stuart School of Business, he had his sights set on becoming a quantitative...

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(AMAT ’07)

After graduating from Illinois Tech, Mike McCourt earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University, which included some research back in Chicago at Argonne National Laboratory. He then spent two years in a...

(BCHM ’15, M.S. FST ’16)

Alumna Liang Bennett (BCHM ’15, M.S. FST ’16) is putting her Illinois Institute of Technology food safety training to good use, overseeing all regulatory compliance for Chicago Meat Authority, a meat...

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