The College of Science has chosen eight students to receive this year’s CoS undergraduate summer research stipends. The selected students, nominated by Illinois Tech faculty, will each earn $5,000 for...
Iva Veseli (BIOL/M.S. CS 3rd year) has been selected by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) as a 2016 recipient of the ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship. With the fellowship, she received...
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) has awarded Illinois Institute of Technology a $10,000 grant directed by BWF Board Member George Langford (M.S. BIOL ’69, Ph.D. ’71). The grant is intended to provide...
Scientists from Illinois Institute of Technology received a patent for a method to genetically engineer bacteria and yeast to increase bioethanol production, especially from cellulosic material in...
Tianci Zhu (AMAT 4th year), Meng Wang (BIOL 3rd year), and Xintong Li (AMAT 3rd year) were named “Meritorious Winners” in the 2016 Mathematical Modeling Contest. MCM is a top international...
Benjamin Stark, professor of biology and associate dean for research in the College of Science, has announced his retirement from IIT after 33 years of service. Stark earned a Ph.D. and an M.Ph. at...
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $6.3 million to continue to operate Illinois Tech’s Biophysics Collaborative Access Team (BioCAT) facility for biomedical research at the Advanced Photon...
February 8, 2016 – Chicago, IL – Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology and Loyola University have discovered new clues in the 100-year-old mystery of the Frank-Starling law of the heart...
Illinois Institute of Technology biologists have described the operation at the molecular level of a key enzyme associated with cholera-causing bacteria. Karina Tuz, research assistant professor of...
Chicago – July 29, 2015 - Jialing Xiang, professor of biology at Illinois Institute of Technology, and her collaborators have solved a longtime mystery: how protein kinase (Akt), a key player in cell...
