Awards
August 12, 2015
Two years ago, as ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ Professor Harsh Mathur finished his lecture on superconductivity to his introductory physics class, he suggested that maybe one of the students in the audience would solve the 100-year-old challenge of superconducting at room temperature. Sylvester…
August 05, 2015
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has designated ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ’s Tinkham Veale University Center with a LEED Gold certification, an endorsement of the building’s energy and environmentally sensitive design and construction. LEED, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental…
July 16, 2015
What is the result when you combine cutting-edge technology, paradigm-shifting teaching and world-renowned faculty? Starting this week, 16 faculty members at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ will begin to find out, as they participate in the third annual Active Learning Fellowship. The fellowship…
July 16, 2015
The power of ideas paid student entrepreneurs handsomely during the school year. In all, they won more than $200,000 in competitions. Their budding businesses are striving to make flying safer and cheaper, enable the world’s poorest to recharge phones and power lights, help health care workers…
July 14, 2015
Before her junior year even begins, aerospace and mechanical engineering major Diana Illingsworth already has a plan for how she will pay for the final two years of her college career, and it comes with a unique opportunity—a post-graduation job. Thanks to a generous Science, Mathematics and…
July 10, 2015
Four ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ students received scholarships at Esperanza Inc.’s Fiesta of Hope event in June. Santiago Chabrier, a chemical engineering student; Jessica Trabucco, a biomedical engineering student; and Isaac Martinez and Elizabeth Reyes, both nursing students, were honored…
July 10, 2015
A ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Medicine scholar was one of only 30 medical students from across North America selected to participate in the 2015 American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Tutored Research and Education for Kidney Scholars (TREKS) program, an initiative of the society’s…
July 10, 2015
Punkaj Ahuja and Patrick Leimkuehler, and their venture, Apollo Medical Devices, recently took home two first place awards at innovation competitions. In late June, the team took home first place at Techweek Chicago tech conference and festival, receiving $50,000 in cash plus generous ancillary…
June 18, 2015
To recognize their exemplary commitment to ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ, three staff members—Christopher Bond, Shannon Swiatkowski and Tracy J. Wilson-Holden—received this year’s President’s Award for Distinguished Service, and Kathleen Dowdell received the Robin Kramer Staff Advisory Council…
June 17, 2015
P. Hunter Peckham, the Donnell Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedics at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ, was recently recognized by the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) with the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career in research on the use of functional…