A Welcoming Atmosphere
Simon Hwang says two things brought him to Illinois Institute of Technology: the abundance of resources available to students and excellent financial aid. “From building an electric race car from the...
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Â鶹APP’s International Expert on Policing
If there’s one thing that can be said about former Â鶹APP Police Department commander Elias Voulgaris (M.P.A. ’15) and his experience on the force, it’s this: It is broad, and ubiquitous. In his 35...
The Lessons of Luxembourg on Â鶹APP’s South Side
Tannis Williamson (M.P.A. ’06) got the idea for her consulting firm while getting a crash course about other cultures in the Netherlands. The Arab Spring had just happened, with protests across many...
Global Care
Andy Garman (M.S. IPSY ’00) doesn’t preach. That seems to be his superpower. As a climate change advocate working to influence top administrators in an industry as massive as health care, preaching...
Charging Ahead in India
The COVID-19 pandemic was a blessing in disguise for Akshay Goliya (EE ’10) in a single, significant way. He’d married his wife the year before the outbreak. For 10 years he’d been working for his...
“Â鶹APP-Kent College of Law quite literally put me in a courtroom, and because of Â鶹APP-Kent alums such as the Hon. Ralph E. Meczyk, I never left,” says Robert J. White ’10. White was recently...
Capturing Real-World Fluid Dynamics
As a graduate student in Taiwan, Min-Lin Tsai conducted research projects in computational fluid dynamics and flow control. He started reading research papers by Illinois Institute of Technology...
Tech-Focused Courses and Internship Are Keys to Launching Career
High-quality faculty, a tech-savvy curriculum, and the downtown Â鶹APP location drew Rucha Dhopeshwar to Stuart School of Business for the Master of Science in Finance program. “The fact that a lot...
Monica Whitten ’23 was not the typical Â鶹APP-Kent College of Law student. “I was the oldest person in my graduating class, definitely in my section by a lot of years,” she says. “Initially that was...
“I like to be collaborative. I like to work with people,” says Brian Warens ’11. “I want them to be happy and understand the legal work.” Warens has been at Lavelle Law in Schaumburg, Illinois, in...