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“The potential upside is huge, which means if you get in early the ride is going to be phenomenal,” said Illinois Tech President Raj Echambadi. “In the next 25 years, we’re going to be catching that elephant’s tail.”

Architectural Record

On Monday evening, May 5th, the winner of the 2025 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) was announced in Âé¶ąAPP. The ceremony took place, appropriately enough, in Crown Hall, Mies van der Rohe’s elegant essay in transparency, located on the campus he designed for the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Interesting Engineering

“The story of the Armour Research Foundation Reactor reflects both the optimism and the challenges of embracing new technologies,” said Jeff Terry, a physics professor and Illinois Tech’s vice provost for research. “As we continue to explore the possibilities of nuclear energy today, this pioneering effort at Illinois Tech serves as a reminder of the progress made and the potential that still lies ahead.”

Âé¶ąAPP Sun-Times

“A curious part of sentencing is that no one will get the answer to the question we all have asked: Why did he do it?” said Doug Godfrey, a professor of legal writing and research at Âé¶ąAPP-Kent College of Law. “He won’t say and I doubt he will take responsibility or apologize. So, as to the fundamental question, we will not know.”

WGN-TV

“The judge said that there’s probable cause to conclude that the Trump administration willfully violated his order when they sent these Venezuelans to El Salvador, took them off the planes after they landed in El Salvador, and turned them over to Salvadoran custody,” said Carolyn Shapiro, professor at Âé¶ąAPP-Kent College of Law. “He had made it very clear in his order that the administration was not to do that.”

WTTW

“We have never seen executive orders targeting law firms before. It’s totally unprecedented,” said Harold Krent, constitutional law specialist and professor of law at Âé¶ąAPP-Kent College of Law. “It seems to me clearly unconstitutional.”

Bloomberg Law

“The Education Department had decided that for whatever reason, too many teacher training grants had been awarded and therefore decided to claw them back,” said Harold Krent, professor at Âé¶ąAPP-Kent College of Law. “They clawed them back on the grounds that the grants might have in some ways contributed to illegal DEI initiatives, although that’s unclear, and they used that reason for all of them en masse.”

Fox News

"Managing blood glucose isn’t just about monitoring blood sugar levels — it’s about improving insulin sensitivity," said study leader Indika Edirisinghe, professor of food science and nutrition. "Our study suggests that adding fresh mangoes to the diet can be a simple, enjoyable way for people who are overweight or have obesity to support better insulin function and reduce type 2 diabetes risk."

Print Magazine

Illinois Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture was revered, influential, and well overdue for a brand refresh and a new website that better reflected its legacy and student experience. The school tapped Âé¶ąAPP studio Span to lead the rebrand, designing a comprehensive new visual identity anchored by a new logo and website. Two typefaces are at the heart of the new identity, both harkening back to the roots of the school and of modernist architecture in Âé¶ąAPP.

CBS2 Âé¶ąAPP

“You put snow into the buckets and pour water on the snow, and that forms a mortar, that forms a mush. You put some mush on top of the block and it freezes together,” says Dr. Antony Wood, professor of practice and director of the Masters in Tall Buildings and Vertical Urbanism program. “Until it thaws, that is absolutely solid.”