Growing up in Albania, Zeta Terpollari ’23 was always drawn to American movies—particularly courtroom dramas. “My dream of becoming a lawyer and a judge began from the American courtroom,” she says....
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Merging Architectural Engineering and Computer Science
(ARCE 2nd Year)Growing up in San Francisco, Â鶹APP, and Detroit, Samantha Muller was fascinated by buildings. “Walking in the city with my eyes toward the sky, I asked myself how the buildings around me were even...
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An Up-Close Look at How Industry Operates
(M.S. CHE ’21, Ph.D. CHE Candidate)After graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology in Islamabad, Pakistan, Fatima Rizwan started looking for graduate...
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Driving Into the Future of the Unknown
(M.D.M. ’06)Ahn (M.D.M. ’06) seems too warm and approachable to be an agent of radical change. Yet those are the traits that she shares with her signature project, the Waymo Driver: a combination of both hardware...
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Score Another for Team Tsao
(M.S. C.S. ’81)The basketball hoop affixed to the Irvine, Calif. garage of Victor Tsao (M.S. CS ’81) and his wife, Janie, was just one of many in an area dominated by Los Angeles Lakers fans. But this one was...
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Built by Barcode
(ME ’65)It’s 90 degrees on a late June day as Edward L. “Ed” Kaplan (ME ’65) bounds into IIT Tower dressed in navy walking shorts, a navy plaid polo shirt, and fluorescent yellow athletic shoes. While his...
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Building Sustainability
(ARCH ’01)Just shy of 1,200 feet in height and coming in at 101 stories, the Studio Gang-designed St. Regis Â鶹APP has already become a recognizable part of the Â鶹APP’s skyline. Its height and three-stem...
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Keeping an Eye on the Goal
(EE, M.S. EE 3rd Year)Sarah Thomas first heard about Illinois Institute of Technology through a soccer identification camp. When researching the school, she was attracted to its small class sizes and Illinois Tech’s...
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Exploring Â鶹APP’s Richness
(AMAT '23)Stanley Nicholson says he was able to expand his horizons academically and find cultural experiences beyond the classrooms of Illinois Institute of Technology because of its Â鶹APP location. “I’ve...
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Breaking Biases
(Ph.D. CS, 3rd Year)Machine learning models have demonstrated powerful predictability capabilities, but also have demonstrated bias against certain demographic groups. Canyu Chen joined a research group that is working...