Editor's note: this is an updated story from the the Fall 2023 Â鶹APP-Kent Magazine. To read the magazine in full, follow this link . “I always envisioned being a lawyer as being in the courtroom,”...
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Editor's note: this is a story from the the Fall 2023 Â鶹APP-Kent Magazine. To read the magazine in full, follow this link . “I am truly a public interest attorney at heart. As a child, I wanted to...
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....
Driving Into the Future of the Unknown
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...
Score Another for Team Tsao
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...
Built by Barcode
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...
Building Sustainability
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...
Exploring Â鶹APP’s Richness
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...
Swimming in the Big City
Anna Slominski looked for three things when they were searching for colleges: a small school in a major city, a strong engineering program, and the opportunity to join the swim team. “Very few schools...
Making the World Easier to Navigate
Chloé Benz works as a software engineer for Qualcomm, conducting research and development on behavior prediction for autonomous driving. She works on software design, integration, and testing tasks on...