Lewis College Welcomes Four New Faculty Members
Lewis College of Science and Letters is proud to introduce four new faculty members who join their respective departments ready to make a lasting impact on their students and advance their fields of...
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What can bumblebees teach us about the link between individuality, group behavior, and the brain? For Matthew Smith, who joined Illinois Institute of Technology as an assistant professor of biology at...
Lewis College Welcomes Three New Chairs
Lewis College of Science and Letters at Illinois Institute of Technology welcomed three new department chairs to their faculty at the beginning of the 2023–24 academic year. With a wide range of...
Getting to the Heart of the Problem: New Research Aims to Understand Cardiac Conditions
When it comes to keeping hearts pumping, Illinois Institute of Technology Research Assistant Professor Weikang Ma continues to show that he is prepared to make a significant impact. Ma has published a...
Illinois Tech Professors’ Paper Challenging Classical View of Muscle Contraction Could Lead to New Cardiac Treatments
CHICAGO—February 1, 2023—In a newly published paper, a team including two professors from Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) have reported a new mechanism for muscle contraction that...
Healthier Hearts? Illinois Tech Research Advances Potential Treatment for Cardiac Conditions
A team of researchers from Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Washington is trying to change the way that the field of biology understands how muscles contract. In a paper...
Jennifer deWinter Appointed as New Lewis College Dean
Illinois Institute of Technology Interim Provost Kenneth T. Christensen has announced that Jennifer deWinter has been appointed as the new dean of Lewis College of Science and Letters, effective...
New NSF Grant Aims to Foster ‘Effective, Caring, and Empathetic’ Teachers Equipped with Anti-Racism Training
Illinois Institute of Technology has received a new $1.1 million National Science Foundation grant to fund scholarships for undergraduate students enrolled in the university’s joint bachelor of...
Lewis College Launches Spring 2022 Issue of Big Picture Magazine
Lewis College of Science and Letters has published the spring 2022 edition of Big Picture , the Lewis College online magazine. The publication is distributed via email newsletter to faculty, students...
Professors Advance Research into Antibiotics to Treat Cholera and Other Diseases with $2.2 Million NIH Grant
New research from Illinois Institute of Technology Associate Professor of Biology Oscar Juárez and a team of multi-institutional and multidisciplinary colleagues aims to develop new oral antibiotics...