Student and Alumni Stories

Hands-On Research Opportunities Open Doors in Biomedical Engineering

(Biomedical Engineering, Cell and Tissue Specialization 4th Year)

Jasmine Baste has always wanted to go to medical school and was looking for something to give her the edge when it came to applying—the more she looked into biomedical engineering, the more she loved...

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Campus as a Community

(Astrophysics 3rd Year)

Isabel Raymundo says Illinois Tech's emphasis on projects, professional development, and research offers a variety of opportunities, which no doubt will help advance her career. And it also builds a...

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Opportunities Abroad

(Applied Mathematics/Statistics/M.S. CDSOR 2nd Year)

During the summer of 2019, Victoria Belotti spent a month in Scotland as part of a faculty-led study away program. She took two humanities/social science courses, and got to learn about Scottish...

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Summer in the Lab

(Biochemistry 2nd Year)

Anam Adil knew she wanted to do research her second year at Illinois Tech. So she reached out to Professor of Biology Jialing Xiang because the cancer research in Xiang's lab was appealing. Xiang...

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Connecting People with Plants in the City

(M.L.A.+U Student)

When Matt Callone (M.L.A.+U Student) helped create a community garden as an AmeriCorps VISTA member at an elementary school in Knoxville, he realized what he wanted to do with his life. After seeing...

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Summer with Big Data

(Computer Science/M.S. Data Science 4th Year)

Anna Kong had no plans to take the summer off from her studies. “I really wanted to do research,” she says. “As a data science accelerated master’s student, I had worked with big data before, but I...

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Collaborative Efforts

(Applied Mathematics/Computer Science/M.A.S. Data Science 4th Year)

Aleksei Sorokin says one of the biggest draws of Illinois Tech is the accessibility of professors. Although courses are demanding and challenging, the availability of faculty and tutors makes the...

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Tatiana Guider’s Guiding Light? Landscape Architecture

(M.L.A.+U 1st Year)

Tatiana Guider (M.L.A.+U Student) calls the landscape architecture profession her “light at the end of the tunnel.” After being tossed the keys to a skid steer on a landscape installation project...

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A Continuing Journey to Better Opportunities

(Ph.D. APPLIED MATHEMATICS ’17)

In 2000 Julienne Kabre emigrated to Chicago from Burkina Faso in West Africa, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics. For nine years she owned a small business in the city...

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Globally Recognized

(Ph.D. Physics Candidate)

While attending the International Particle Accelerator Conference in Melbourne, Australia, in May 2019, Daniel Bafia took first prize in a poster contest for his research at Fermi National Accelerator...

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