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Associate Dean Carly Kocurek: In Board Games, Players Find Fun, Challenge and Each Other

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Play can help cultivate strategic thinking (there’s a reason chess is the top-selling game of all time), provide additional structure for social interactions or an outlet for creativity and self-expression. Playing games does more than fill time: In the relatively safe constraints of a game, we can access bigger worlds, other times and even other versions of ourselves. That kind of freedom — to explore, to grow, to experiment — is a profound experience to find in a cardboard box.

Sustainability Professor Weslynne Ashton Explains How Businesses and Technology Innovators Can Help Reduce Food Waste

MarketScale

“If we think about the whole supply chain, right, and where food gets wasted, it starts at the farm, happens during distribution, at retail, in the stores, in the food service, and also in households,” said Weslynne Ashton, professor of environmental management and sustainability at the Illinois Institute of Technology. “So, if we think about that entire supply chain, we can think about the new technologies that are available now around predictive analytics that can help with inventory management for ordering food. Companies can have a better handle on how much they need to order, the time frame, and what customers are most likely to purchase, using that data to better manage their inventory.”

Police Decertification Can't Be Effective Tool for Reform While It's So Difficult, Says Associate Professor Raff Donelson

The Intercept

“Decertification has to be easier if it’s to work as an independent way to get police reform,” said Raff Donelson, an associate professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, drawing a contrast to criminal prosecutions as an accountability mechanism. We have one set of rules for figuring out whether to take away your freedom,” he said, and “a different set of rules about whether you should do a job.”

Associate Professor of Food Science Alvin Lee Explains How a Listeria Outbreak May Have Happened

The (Tacoma) News Tribune

The challenge with something like Listeria is that it’s “always in the environment — it might be in very small quantities in food products that we eat every day,” said Alvin Lee, associated professor of food science at Illinois Institute of Technology. Though inspectors could and perhaps should verify cleaning protocols, “You can only clean in places where you can reach. The problem with this equipment is the tubing.”

Many Law Firms Remain Skittish About Adopting AI, Says Professor Daniel Martin Katz

Financial Times

When market pioneer ChatGPT first became available, many prospective users of legal generative AI tech — law firms and in-house legal departments — suffered from “Fomo”, or fear of missing out, according to Dan Katz, a professor at Chicago Kent College of Law, who leads the school’s legal tech centre. But that early enthusiasm has given way to “Fud” — fear, uncertainty and doubt — he says.

Commute Accommodations for Disabilities Spur Federal Court Rift, Says Nicole Buonocore Porter

Bloomberg Law

How courts define commute-related accommodation requests often dictates the results, said Nicole Buonocore Porter, a disability law scholar who directs the Martin H. Malin Institute for Law & the Workplace at Chicago-Kent College of Law. When courts view the commute as outside the workplace, they tend to hold that employers don’t have a duty to grant commute-related accommodations, Porter said. Courts tend to have that “knee-jerk reaction” in part because federal wage and hour law doesn’t require pay for the time getting to and from the job, she said.