Connecting People with Plants in the City
When Matt Callone (M.L.A.+U Student) helped create a community garden as an AmeriCorps VISTA member at an elementary school in Knoxville, he realized what he wanted to do with his life. After seeing...
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Summer with Big Data
(Computer Science/M.S. Data Science 4th Year)Anna Kong had no plans to take the summer off from her studies. “I really wanted to do research,†she says. “As a data science accelerated master’s student, I had worked with big data before, but I...
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Collaborative Efforts
(Applied Mathematics/Computer Science/M.A.S. Data Science 4th Year)Aleksei Sorokin says one of the biggest draws of Illinois Tech is the accessibility of professors. Although courses are demanding and challenging, the availability of faculty and tutors makes the...
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Tatiana Guider’s Guiding Light? Landscape Architecture
(M.L.A.+U 1st Year)Tatiana Guider (M.L.A.+U Student) calls the landscape architecture profession her “light at the end of the tunnel.†After being tossed the keys to a skid steer on a landscape installation project...
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Globally Recognized
(Ph.D. Physics Candidate)While attending the International Particle Accelerator Conference in Melbourne, Australia, in May 2019, Daniel Bafia took first prize in a poster contest for his research at Fermi National Accelerator...
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Making the World a Better Place, One Design at a Time
(Architecture 5th Year)Growing up, Prim Rattanathumawat (Architecture 5th Year) says she always had an interest in architecture; her father, after all, was a civil engineer. But when her home country of Thailand was hit...
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AI Fact vs. Fiction
(Artificial Intelligence 2nd Year)Ever since she started studying at Illinois Tech, Devyani Gauri wanted to do something that involved AI. Even though it wasn’t a major until 2019, AI has been one of Devyani’s biggest interests within...
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Architect Since Age Four
(M.ARCH. 1st Year)When Aman Panach (M.ARCH. 1st Year) was four, she visited her grandfather in India as he was in the midst of remodeling his house. Naturally, she took an interest. “We would walk around and talk about...
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Bringing Design Into the Board Room
(Master of Design Methods Candidate)When first working toward her undergraduate degree at the University of Delaware, Jessica Bogart Kasper (Master of Design Methods Candidate) always felt that design and business had an intrinsic link...
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How Marcos Petroli Became a Master of Arches
(Ph.D. Candidate)Marcos Petroli’s (Ph.D. Candidate) career in architecture began in his native Brazil. After receiving his degree from the Federal University in Rio Grande do Sul, Petroli taught as an adjunct...