Protecting Your Plate
Following another E.coli outbreak, consumers are left to ponder a simple, yet delicate question: how safe is it to eat the food on my plate? The most recent outbreak—linked to organic carrots—was...
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The Base of a Good Diet: Precision Health Study Makes Headway Two Years In
What’s the best diet? Are eggs good or bad for you? Are carbs the enemy? How much red meat and dairy should you be eating? For ages, questions such as these that involved personal nutrition have...
IFSH-Led Alliance Receives Award from International Food Safety Organization
The Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA) at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH) has been selected to receive the 2023 Food Safety Award from the...
Computational ACTion: Computing Center Funds Interdisciplinary Research
Five research teams from Illinois Institute of Technology have received seed grants from the university’s Active Computational Thinking (ACT) Center to promote computing methods throughout various...
Jennifer deWinter Appointed as New Lewis College Dean
Illinois Institute of Technology Interim Provost Kenneth T. Christensen has announced that Jennifer deWinter has been appointed as the new dean of Lewis College of Science and Letters, effective...
Lewis College Launches Spring 2022 Issue of Big Picture Magazine
Lewis College of Science and Letters has published the spring 2022 edition of Big Picture , the Lewis College online magazine. The publication is distributed via email newsletter to faculty, students...
Illinois Tech Highlights Research Standouts Through Annual End-of-Year Awards
Professor of Architectural Engineering Brent Stephens, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Mohammad Asadi, and electrical and computer engineering doctoral student Xin Zhang are just three of...
Your Next Personal Nutritionist Could Be AI
Illinois Institute of Technology is one of 14 centers collaborating on a new nationwide nutrition study that will gather more data on human responses to different dietary interventions than any other...
Lewis College Launches Fall 2021 Issue of Big Picture Magazine
Lewis College of Science and Letters has published the fall 2021 edition of Big Picture, the Lewis College online magazine. The publication is distributed via email newsletter to faculty, students...
Orange You Glad? Adding Orange Pomace to Orange Juice Boosts Nutritional Value, Study Shows
Researchers in Illinois Institute of Technology’s Department of Food Science and Nutrition have discovered that adding orange pomace, a byproduct of orange juice production, to orange juice can boost...