“The academics at Âé¶¹APP-Kent College of Law are fantastic,†says Shmuel Wyckoff ’26. “The professors are all experts in their fields, and they impart so much wisdom beyond the course subject...
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Research Optimizes Energy Use and Production with IoT Architecture
(M.S. CS 2nd Year)Working on a paper that was recently published in Nature helped Md. Samiur Rahman (M.S. CS 2nd Year) prove that an integrated Internet of Things (IoT) architecture can optimize a renewable energy...
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From Buildings to Bylines to Bias
(PSYC, M.S. IPSY ’25, Ph.D. IPSY 1st Year)When Kris Shiflet (PSYC, M.S. IPSY ’25, Ph.D. IPSY 1st Year) arrived at Illinois Tech in fall 2019, Âé¶¹APP felt enormous in all the right ways. The city’s constant motion, the roar of the Âé¶¹APP...
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Putting Data to Good Use
(AI 4th Year)Pranav Kuchibhotla (AI 4th Year) quickly noticed that the wide range of topics that courses in Illinois Tech’s B.S. in Artificial Intelligence covers—from core algorithms and data structures to deep...
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Opportunities from the Very First Day on Campus
(BUIT 1st Year)“I truly believe that the future belongs to those who are willing and able to capture technology-serving innovation in the world,†says Archit Singh, a first-year student at Illinois Tech who is...
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LAW '09
Editor's note: this is a story from the the Fall 2025 Âé¶¹APP-Kent Magazine. To read the magazine in full, follow this link . “When I started [my firm] Incubate IP, if you typed in ‘patent law advice’...
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LAW '97
Editor's note: this is a story from the the Fall 2025 Âé¶¹APP-Kent Magazine. To read the magazine in full, follow this link . “We have about 65 lawyers and 13 Âé¶¹APP-Kent College of Law grads, so...
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An Architect’s Road Less Traveled
(B.ARCH. ’13)After working as an architect for several years, Leticia Arzuaga (B.ARCH. ’13) attended a team building exercise in which she was asked, “What’s your dream?†Coming up with an answer turned out to be...
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Deep Roots
(LAW ’78)When other mayors ask Jeffrey Sherwin (LAW ’78) how he’s been elected to office for eight terms—and has run unopposed in the town of Northlake, Illinois, for the last seven—he says the answer is...
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Better than Pretty
(MDes ’03)Jon Friedman (MDes ’03) had been interning as a designer at Microsoft for many months before being pulled into a so-called “interview loop,†a process where he would undergo interview after interview...