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Featured Student Research

Illinois Tech provides a distinctively rich environment where students can conduct research. Students come to our university to learn from world-renowned faculty who are pursuing cutting-edge work in important tech-driven fields. At Illinois Tech they find a supportive community where research is valued as a vital part of the academic experience.

The result: our students are thriving in the field, the lab, and in the community, applying the outcomes of their research to improve the world around them. 

Student Research at Illinois Tech

Illinois Tech faculty member David Minh and recent graduate David Cooper

David Cooper (MEDC ’24) and Robert E. Frey Jr. Endowed Chair in Chemistry David Minh are developing a patent-pending technology through the National Science Foundation’s Accelerating Research Translation grant program. 

Illinois Tech student Jonte Williams working in the lab

Illinois Tech has both challenged Jonte Williams (ASPY, PHSY 5th Year) and provided him with the hands-on experiences to help him discover a career path and to see a project through. 

Illinois Tech student Lily Decatorsmith with Illinois Tech Professor Matthew Spenko in Brazil

Lily Decatorsmith (HUM 4th Year) is leveraging language and technology to forge her own path on artificial intelligence’s legal frontier. 

Illinois Tech student Virginia Reider

Virginia Reider (STAT 4th Year) and other students examined up to 20 years’ worth of data during a summer research experience University of Colorado’s Anshutz Medical Campus from patients who are being treated for an eye disease found in premature babies to help doctors, who were looking at other health factors to see if there were any correlations.  

Illinois Tech architecture students pose on Mies Campus

In a spring 2024 College of Architecture studio taught by two Morgenstern Visiting Chairs, students created spaces that benefit their users, the area’s residents, and the city as a whole. 

A research student builds a solar fuel cell at Armour

Engage in Powerful Research

Illinois Tech students can take part in a broad range of research projects at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.  

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