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Winter 2011ENTERPRISINGIDEASE NTR E P R E N E U RSH I P A N D I I TNEW ACAD EM IC INITIATIVESSTU D E NT P RO GRAMSA LU M NI AND FACU LTY ENTREP RENE UR SSUSAN SOLOMON Helping the River Flow WALTER CICIORA Digital Cable TV PioneerRESEARCH Seasonal Affective Disorder, Augmented Reality
from the President“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”—Sir Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 1675This famous quote reminds us that our successes are based in good measure on contributions made bythose who came before us. As I think about the importance of the university alumni and faculty whopreceded us, I think of this quote.IIT has more than 65,000 living alumni throughout the United States and the world. The achievementsof our graduates are not only a source of pride for the university, but also a measure of our success ineducating those who have made the contributions. While important creations and discoveries have beenmade at IIT, the dominant contributions to society have been through our graduates. The work of ouralumni has led to the invention and development of technologies and products such as the cellular phone,magnetic recording, the first nuclear reactor for industrial research, the Pentium processor, and evenelectro-optical night vision equipment. However, bragging about these achievements is not enough.For sustained success, IIT needs engaged alumni who promote the university and stay connected.The prominence of a university is as much dependent on alumni support as it is on the accomplishmentsof current students and faculty. The university has not done a good job of developing engaged alumni.We are committed to changing this. This effort has begun at IIT with a rejuvenated Alumni Board,headed by Trustee Adrian Nemcek (EE ’70) and supported by Trustees Andrea Berry (CS ’84), Joel Krauss(MATH ’71), and Bud Wendorf (ME ’71). The agenda of the board includes building relationships and lifelongconnections with IIT alumni. We are seeing evidence of this effort through regional receptions, which arebeing hosted by alumni throughout the country, and a broad, increased alumni interest in the life of ouruniversity. Our goals are to build alumni pride, expand and strengthen the alumni network, and connectprospective and current students with alumni.Alumni relations is a clear priority for us. To achieve the vision of IIT, we will need to stand on theshoulders of our alumni.John L. AndersonPresidentVISION: IIT will be internationallyrecognized in distinctive areas ofeducation and research, using as itsplatform the global city of Chicago,driven by a professional andtechnology-oriented focus, and based ona culture of innovation and excellence.Members of the Class of 1950 atHomecoming 2010 on Main Campus
iitmagazineEDITORChelsea Kalberloh JacksonCONTRIBUTORSMarcia FayeRichard HarthMichelle McKenzie-VoigtTanya PantoneWinter 2011ART DIRECTORNancy Niequist SchoonDESIGNScott BenbrookMarty SchalmNancy Niequist SchoonJessica SerafinIIT MAGAZINE IS PUBLISHEDTHREE TIMES A YEARBY THE IIT OFFICE OFCOMMUNICATIONS.IIT Magazine was a 2010 recipientof the Publicity Club of ChicagoGolden Trumpet Award forExcellence in Newspapersor Magazines.16COVER STORYFROM IDEA TO REALITYA variety of programs at IIT teach students how to taketheir ideas from concept to commercialization—and fellowstudents, alumni, and faculty are leading the way. 2011IIT Magazine is printed onSFI certified recycled paper.Read it, share it, recycle it.SEND LETTERS TOIIT MagazineOffice of Communications3300 South Federal Street, Suite 503Chicago, IL 60616-379320OR EMAIL iitmagazine@iit.eduDuring his more-than-40-year professionalcareer in television and cable, Walter Ciciorahas helped viewers tune in better.THE REAL CABLE GUYSEND ALUMNI NEWS TOalumni@iit.eduFounded in 1890, Illinois Instituteof Technology is a private Ph.D.granting university that awardsdegrees in engineering, the sciences,architecture, law, design, psychology,humanities, and business.IIT MISSION STATEMENTTo provide distinctive and relevanteducation in an environmentof scientific, technological, andprofessional knowledge creationand innovation.IIT Armour College of EngineeringIIT Chicago-Kent College of LawIIT College of ArchitectureIIT College of PsychologyIIT College of Science and LettersIIT School of Applied TechnologyIIT School of DesignIIT Stuart School of BusinessADA STATEMENTIllinois Institute of Technology providesqualified individuals with disabilitiesreasonable accommodations to participatein university activities, programs, andservices. Such individuals with disabilitiesrequiring an accommodation shouldcall the activity, program, or servicedirector. For further information aboutIIT’s resources, contact the IIT Center forDisability Resources at disabilities@iit.edu.DEPARTMENTS29122236Campus NewsFaculty NewsResearch BriefsAlumni NewsRewind14ADDING TO THE RIVER OF KNOWLEDGESusan Solomon’s discoveries about the ozone holeand climate change are providing knowledge forcurrent and future generations.IIT MAGAZINE ONLINE-ONLY CONTENT!A new Web-only component has been added to IIT Magazine online.Read extended coverage of stories featured in the print edition as well asspecial online-only content. Visit www.iit.edu/magazine and find more!
campusnewsIIT FUNDRAISINGCAMPAIGN UPDATECampaign Priorities SetIn the fall, IIT leadership, including deansand campaign leaders, identified thecampaign priorities that will guide thefundraising efforts. In support of thestrategic plan, Many Voices, One Vision,the priorities include strengthening IIT’sdistinctive education, fostering innovationand entrepreneurship, and addressing keytwenty-first century problems. Gifts willbe sought for endowed professorships,undergraduate scholarships, graduatefellowships, and strategically importantfacilities for research and education.“Although we made good progresstoward the achievement of our strategicplan last year, we need additional resourcesto reach our goals,” says IIT President JohnAnderson. “We are viewing this campaignas the foundation that will enable futureexcellence at the university.”IIT’s six-year fundraising campaign, launched onJune 1, 2010 and currently in its leadership and planningphase, achieved an early milestone in the development ofcampaign priorities and celebrated two new lead gifts.Wanger Makes New Gift toNamesake InstituteNew Leadership Program toBenefit Students and FacultyIIT Life Trustee and ArmourSociety member RalphWanger made an additional 10 million commitmentto support the WangerInstitute for SustainableEnergy Research. IIT’s launch of WISERin 2007 to enhance the university’s energyand sustainability research activities waspossible due to Wanger’s initial gift of 5 million that year. The 2007 endowedgift helped IIT to secure additional tensof millions of dollars for such newWISER research projects as clean coaltechnology, energy efficiency and plug-in/hybrid vehicles, wind energy, and smartgrid technology.IIT Regent Craig Duchossois and his wife,Janet, Armour Society members, made a 10 million gift to the university to createa unique leadership program designed toattract and connect outstanding studentsand faculty, and to foster their dedicationto leadershipand service toothers. This recentcommitmentenables IITto launch theDuchossoisLeadership Scholars Program, an elitescholarship program aimed at topstudents from across the country whohave demonstrated exceptional leadershippotential and academic success. Italso makes possible the launch of theDuchossois Leadership ProfessorsProgram, a faculty leadership initiativethat will allow IIT to attract and retainhigh-quality teachers and scholarsand to provide a path to universityacademic and scholarly leadershipfor up-and-coming professors. www.iit.edu/wiser To support the campaign, visit www.iit.edu/giving/campaign for iit.We are viewing this campaignas the foundation that will enablefuture excellence at the university.— IIT PRESIDENT JOHN ANDERSON2 iit magazine
Social Media Prompts Alumnato WriteDear IIT:I see your messages on LinkedIn.I wanted to say thank you for yourexcellent instruction. I got my M.S.in technical communications andinformation design there in 2001. I hada hugely enjoyable time, worked harderthan I ever imagined I could, and lovedevery minute of it. The professors werewonderful. They encouraged me tofollow my passion, and they tried tosupport my interests with associatedstudy projects. They always tried to say“yes” instead of “no” if I had a topicI wanted to explore. And, of course,the technical quality of IIT at large asa university was really superior. Thebookstore on State Street was likeTech Mecca.Both before and subsequent to mygraduation from IIT, I worked in thefield of technical communications. AndI still do. Currently, I am a programspecialist with FEMA, and it’s verytechnical, wonderful, complex work.My working hours are very busy andfull of interesting challenges, andmy days usually fly by. My peers areincredibly talented, and it is great tobe here. I love my work. So thank you,IIT, for an awesome grad school anda great techie program. I use the skillsI learned at IIT every day in my work.Martha Shaw(M.S. TCID ’01)Write back!IIT Magazine welcomes all signedletters to the editor and edits lettersfor content and clarity. Please sendcorrespondence to:IIT Magazinec/o Letters3300 South Federal StreetSuite 503Chicago, IL 60616Email: iitmagazine@iit.edu“Balancing Act”Spring 2010FollowUPUpdates on people and placespreviously covered in IIT Magazine“Students Speak Asks Students to Talk Back”Spring 2010In October 2010, IIT’s student-led StudentsSpeak initiative launched its second annualsurvey of the student body by publishingprogress reports for each of the seven IITdepartments identified last year as most inneed of improvement. The reports appearedin TechNews.Brant Cage and Sandra Bishnoi, assistantprofessors of chemistry, are co-principalinvestigators with Physics Professor JohnZasadzinski on a joint project with Fermilaband Argonne National Laboratory. The groupis working to improve the surface of thesuperconducting radio-frequency cavities thatwill accelerate electrons through the proposedInternational Linear Collider, which couldbecome the world’s next high-energy collider.To read the IIT Magazine online-exclusivearticle about this project, visitwww.iit.edu/magazine.“Staking His Claim on Wood”Fall 2010Architecture Studio Associate Professor PaulPettigrew, whose work with reclaimed ashwood led to the development of a line ofChop Shop tables for CB2 stores, deliveredhis students’ designs from his Architectureand Furniture course to The Cove Schoolin Northbrook, Ill. The school is reviewingthe student work to determine whether tocommission additional versions forits classrooms.Mies, New Bauhaus NamedAmong Artistic BreakthroughsLudwig Mies van der Rohe was ranked, along withhis work at IIT, as No. 2 on Chicago Magazine’s list of“Top 40 Artistic Breakthroughs” in the city’s history.Published in September 2010, the list notes Mies’ rolein elevating IIT’s architecture program and designingthe Main Campus Master Plan and S. R. Crown Hall.According to the magazine, Mies “usher[ed] in a secondgolden age for Chicago architecture.”The New Bauhaus—a predecessor of IIT School ofDesign—and its founder, László Moholy-Nagy, wasranked No. 30 for the school’s influence on abstractblack-and-white photography.View the entire article at ture.iit magazine 3
campusnewsStudents participating in IPRO 357 include [left to right] Alex Mathai,Woo Shin, Samir Qaisar, Chris Anglin, Svetlana Semenova, Yao Xiao,Namrata Hegde, Joong Geun Yun, Samantha Prokop, and Jorge Rueda.ENTREPRENE U R SHIP A N D IITHigh-PerformanceHomesIPRO SPOTLIGHTTwo Bedroom UnitThree Bedroom UnitIIT FAST FACT: ENERGYAs of September 1, 2010, 100% of IIT’s electricityfor the next three years will come from low- orno-carbon alternatives.64% HYDROELECTRIC35% NUCLEAR1% WIND4 iit magazineSource: IIT Office of Energy and Sustainability
The notion that sustainability starts at homeis especially true for the InterprofessionalProjects (IPRO) Program courses IPRO357 and IPRO 358: The CommunIITyCollaborative. The courses aim to buildzero-energy housing communities to offerresidents innovative yet practical energysaving solutions that address contemporaryhousing needs. The communities will shareinfrastructure and energy generated onsite viasolar, wind, or geothermal sources.The courses were established and are ledby IIT Adjunct Professor Steve Beck (ARCH’89), along with Civil, Architectural, andEnvironmental Engineering Senior LecturerMark Snyder and Adjunct Professor WilliamPaschal. Through a partnership with the cityof Evanston, Ill., students in the courses areworking to develop a site where sustainabletownhomes could potentially reside.Focusing on the needs of real-worldstakeholders—including buyers, real estatebrokers, builders, investors, bankers,consultants, neighbors, and municipalities—the teams are encouraged to considerapplicable guidelines, current energyconsumption in the area, projected energyconsumption with sustainable housing,budgets, and zoning issues, before beginningthe design process. This process challengesstudents to think entrepreneuriallywhile designing high-performancehousing communities.Each of the two courses includes 15students, each competing as a team todevelop the same site in Evanston. The courseadvisors invite a diverse group of outsideindustry experts to judge the two teamsat the end of each semester. According toBeck, the competition provides the studentsan extra push. “As course advisors, we feelIIT WELCOMESNEW TRUSTEEthat the competition aspect of the teamsOverall Track Winner, Best Exhibit, andhas encouraged students to think of newBest Presentation. For the spring 2011strategies and ideas, many of which havesemester, the teams are collaborating withexceeded our expectations.”industry professionals, including Sargent &During the fall 2009 semester, one ofLundy electrical engineer Curtis Coxthe teams then taking the course, Zero(EE ’03, M.S. ’08) and President of RobertsonCommunIITy, developed its own modelRiley, Inc. Benjamin Riley (ARCH ’92), alsofor a “standard home” and compared thean IIT assistant professor of architecture, ashome’s energy usage to that of the team’sthey compete for the 2011 National Councilhigh-performance home prototype. The teamof Examiners for Engineering and Surveyingfound that theEngineering Award. Theprojected energyaward, established inusage of the high2009, rewards collegeperformanceengineering programshome was onefor engaging theirthird that of astudents in collaborativestandard home.projects with licensedAdditionally, theprofessional engineers.students wereFor Christopherable to satisfy the high-performance home’sAnglin (BADM 5th year), who is pursuingentire energy demand with photovoltaica minor in construction management,arrays onsite. Photovoltaic arrays, oftenthe opportunity to work with industryused on rooftops, are linked collections ofprofessionals on IPRO 357 offered him aphotovoltaic modules that convert solarrealistic view of what he may be doingenergy into direct-current electricity.after graduation.Green Class Community, a team“The project provided me with a betterparticipating in the course during theunderstanding of all of the work that goesfall 2010 semester, further reduced theinto designing a community. Learning to dealprototype’s energy usage by 13 percent, while with the challenges of working on a project ofreducing its construction costs by 20 percent. this size, in a group setting, has been a greatThe team attributes the additional energyreal-world experience,” says Anglin.reduction to an energy recovery ventilator,LifeWare energy-management control—Tanya Pantonesystems, and optimalsolar orientation.The two teamsparticipating in theFall 2010 IPRO Day,IPRO 357 and 358: ts#Spring2011 357Greenleaf and GreenBusiness Alliance for a Sustainable Evanston: www.baseevanston.orgClass Community,National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying : www.ncees.orgwere awardedAt its October 6, 2010 meeting, the IIT Board of Trustees inducted a new member,Joel Krauss (MATH ’71), managing partner and co-founder of Market StrategyGroup, LLC, a Chicago-based business strategy consulting firm.Krauss is co-chair of IIT’s fundraising campaign.iit magazine 5
campusnewsIIT is celebrating the capstoneof University Technology Park’sdevelopment with the commencementof construction of Incubator–South,a 28,000-square-foot building withspace for 30 companies within 15wet labs and 15 dry labs/offices. Thisproject illustrates a comprehensive andintegrated local, city, county, state,and federal strategic commitmentto economic development. Thekey funding came in the form of a 4.5 million capital grant from theUnited States Economic DevelopmentAdministration, matched by 2 millionin state funding.New UTP tenants include EDDRCorporation in IIT Tower and IntelligentGeneration LLC in the Incubator.EDDR is a company supported bythe TechAdvantage@IIT program,funded by the U.S. Small BusinessAdministration. Intelligent GenerationTMfocuses on the economic use of solarbased electricity generation in theMidwest and Northeast. SINESSMany science professionals aspire to furthertheir careers with the help of advanceddegrees. For some, working a full-time jobwhile going to school to earn a master’s degreeor Ph.D. is nearly impossible. Additionally, many degree programs focus heavily onresearch, which may not align with some students’ post-graduate career goals.In 1996, IIT became one of the first universities in the country to address theseissues by establishing a Professional Science Master’s program, with the goal ofpreparing students for science careers outside of academia. The program wasdeveloped with the help of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which provided fundingfor many of the PSM programs.“Oftentimes science degrees prepare students for research, but they go intoindustry and are lacking the business skills they need to be successful,” says PSMProgram Manager and President of the National Professional Science Master’sAssociation Elizabeth Friedman. “The PSM program incorporates more professionalskills into science and gives students real-world experience.”Today, professionals may choose from four degree programs offered at IIT:analytical chemistry, biology, health physics, or materials and chemical synthesis.Nearly 200 students are currently enrolled in IIT’s PSM program, up significantlyfrom the 50 students enrolled in 2003. The biology program has been particularlywell attended, with several of the 80 students currently enrolled working to increasetheir chances of being accepted into dental school upon graduation.The courses are taught in a traditional classroom setting, and since 1998, theprogram has broadcasted course lectures over the Internet; most courses are nowposted online. The majority of universities with PSM programs do not yet offer anonline course option, making IIT an ideal choice for students who live outside theChicago area and for working professionals who are unable to attend on-campuscourses. Faculty members are regularly available to answer students’ questionsvia email or phone. Health physics students are required to attend one week-longinstrumentation lab course.“I feel more connected watching the lectures online than I would in a crowdedclassroom because I feel like the instructor is talking only to me,” says VanessaMyers, an analytical chemistry student currently employed as an analytical technicalassociate at Kraton Polymers in Houston. “Sometimes I have 50- to 60-hour workweeks, and I know the lectures will be there when I can get to them at the end of theweek. The education and the convenience are irreplaceable.”Graduates of the program are employed in pharmaceutical and biotechnologyfields, the insurance industry, patent offices, forensic and surface technologies labs,food manufacturing, universities, and petroleum refineries, among other fields. IITPSM graduates are currently employed by a variety of companies including AbbottLabs, Baxter Healthcare, Sherwin-Williams, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever. Theyhave also found employment with the United States Armed Forces and severalnational laboratories.—Tanya Pantone6 iit magazineIIT PSM Program: www.iit.edu/csl/bcps/psmNational Professional Science Master’s Association: www.npsma.orgScience Magazine article on PSM programs and careers: http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career magazine/previous issues/articles/2010 06 18/science.opms.r1000091
M.L.A. PROGRAMACCREDITEDThe Master of LandscapeArchitecture degree program at IITCollege of Architecture receivedaccreditation by the LandscapeArchitectural Accreditation Boardfor a six-year period. The LAABevaluates professional landscapearchitecture programs in the UnitedStates to determine whether theymeet objective standards of academicquality and properly preparestudents for professional work.IIT’s M.L.A. program, the only suchprofessional program of its kind inChicago, graduated its inauguralclass in May 2009.Different types of native Midwestern ecosystems are shownin this photo montage by M.L.A. student Fa Likitswat.Moving from the highest elevation [left] to the lowest[right], one can experience shady woodland, oak treesavanna, sunny prairie, wetlands, and a natural pond.ORANGE BULLETAt the sixth annual IIT Pumpkin Launch held in October, a floatingarm trebuchet designed and built by the alumni team Sprockets,headed by alumnus Kyle Koning (ME ’08, MSE ’08, pictured),unleashes a pumpkin on Ed Glancy Field. The Sprocketsdesign set a new Pumpkin Launch record, hurling theorange squash a total distance of 331.4 feet.iit magazine 7
campusnewsGetting a KickOut of Life www.illinoistechathletics.com“The most important aspects I want myplayers to understand are to enjoy playingthe sport, the camaraderie with theirteammates, and the moment,” says DenisHamlett, new IIT interim head men’ssoccer coach.It may be surprising that one wordHamlett did not include is “winning.” Afterall, his last position was head coach of theMajor League Soccer team Chicago Fire.Hamlett was with the Fire since 1998 andmoved up the ranks of the coaching staff,becoming head coach in 2008.“I told the players right from the starteducation is first and soccer is second;it can’t be the other way around,” saysHamlett, thinking back to his initialmeeting with the IIT student-athletes inAugust 2010. He admits that, in a way, itwas also a note to self.“The biggest change I had to adaptto was my mindset. When you’rein a professional environment,it’s about winning—that’s it. In a collegiateenvironment, it’sabout obtainingan education.”Hamlett, who lives with his wife,Jackie, on Chicago’s North Side, says,“The opportunity to coach at IIT wasunexpected and a matter of timing.”After his years with the Fire, Hamlettknew he wanted to coach again andwas contemplating the adjustment ofworking with a collegiate team when IITcontacted him. It wasn’t the first time hefaced a challenge.Before Hamlett coached soccer, heplayed soccer, and in 1996—the inauguralyear of Major League Soccer—was the12th overall draft pick for the ColoradoRapids. Upon waking from a nap with anexcruciating headache after one of his preseason practice sessions, Hamlett suffereda stroke. He was 28 and had played soccerfrom his boyhood days growing up inPuerto Limón, Costa Rica, through hiscollege days at George Mason Universityand into the American Professional SoccerLeague, followed by the majors. Althoughphysicians told him the chance of a strokerecurring was slim, Hamlett decided toretire from playing.“Everything happens for a reason,”Hamlett muses. “Chicago Fire was anexpansion team, and I knew formerGeneral Manager Peter Wilt from thedays when I played indoor soccer. Therelationship and life circumstances allowedme to transition from the role of player tofront office staff by being the first employeeof the Chicago Fire.”Now making his debut with the ScarletHawks, Hamlett says his game strategyis to coordinate his players’ efforts. “Themore you can have 11 guys thinking andplaying as one, the more success you’regoing to have.”—Marcia FayePhoto: Bonnie RobinsonDenis Hamlett8 iit magazineIIT men’s soccer: www.illinoistechathletics.com/sport/0/4.phpMajor League Soccer: www.mlssoccer.com
Emily Kunkel (CHE 4th year) wasnamed to the 2010 ESPN TheMagazine Academic All-DistrictFirst Team in the District 5 women’scollege division. Kunkel is captain ofthe women’s soccer team and hasheld a 4.0 GPA throughout her fouryears at IIT. The women’s soccerteam earned the National SoccerCoaches Association of America TeamAcademic Award for the 2009–10academic year.Stephanie Lucas (BME 4th year)was named National Associationof Intercollegiate Athletics NationalWomen’s Cross Country Runner ofthe Week for September 20–26,2010. Her first-place time in the 5K(18:26) at the Forester Invitationalduring that week was a personal bestand set a new IIT record.The men’s soccer team achieved ahigh ranking of No. 23 in the NAIAMen’s Soccer Coaches’ Top 25 Poll,the first time an IIT athletic teamhas been ranked so highly. The teamwas the 2010 Chicagoland CollegiateAthletic Conference Champions. LiamBarrett (BA 2nd year), Diego Dias (BA4th year), Luke Blakely (BA 4th year),and Aaran McEneff (BA 4th year)were named to the CCAC 1st AllConference Team. Robert Rixer (CE1st year), Rob Ritchie-Smith (BA 3rdyear), and Brendon Boucaud (BCPS1st year) were named to the CCAC2nd All-Conference Team. Barrett wasnamed CCAC Player of the Year, Rixerwas named CCAC Freshman of theYear, and Coach Denis Hamlett wasnamed CCAC Coach of the Year.Three members of the women’svolleyball team received honors fromthe CCAC. Kate Kendall (PS 1st year)was named to the 1st All-ConferenceTeam. Kayla Heller (PHYS 3rd year)and Noelle Bennett (PSYC 4th year)were named to the 2ndAll-Conference Team.Photo: Bonnie RobinsonScarlet HawksEarn HonorsfacultynewsRethinking UrbanismMarshall Brown, assistant professor at IITCollege of Architecture, is striking out in anuncharted direction in urban design, one thathas led him from distant Agadir, Morocco,to Washington Park on Chicago’s SouthSide. He is rethinking Urbanism—seen bymany as a philosophy of cities and theirrelationship with the built environment—and in so doing, shaping his vision for thefuture of urban areas.Brown says that over the past decade,many city planning offices have beendismantled, with design responsibilitiesinstead being funneled to private developers,who, because of conflicting interests orinappropriate training, may not be the bestMarshall Browncandidates for the job. Community-basedplanning organizations, which have alsobeen instrumental in many urban designHybridization figures into Brown’sprojects, have achieved limited success inUrbanismapproach via a concept originallytheir endeavors.conceivedasa Web development term:“There is an opportunity for urbanmash-up.Mash-upuses and combinesdesigners to work as independent arbitersdata,presentation,orfunctionality frombetween the different groups and to helptwoormoresourcestocreate new services.them negotiate the future of our cities,”ThebasisofBrown’smash-uplies in thesays Brown.indeterminatenatureofcities,which heA recipient of the 2010 Associationseesaschangingminutebyminuteandof Collegiate Schools of Architectureyearbyyear.New Faculty Teaching Award, Brown“For me, mash-up is a conceptual tool.is incorporating this idea into a threeToday,we are more interested in how wepart studio focused on the future of acouldhavemore energetic mixtures betweenWashington Park neighborhood that offersdifferentcultures,different forms, differenta valuable opportunity for expansion. Hematerials,anddifferentkinds of spaces,”and his students are focusing on how urbanexplainsBrown,whopresentshis conceptsdesign can be a bargaining tool lders who have competing interestsfor the area. The group is alsolooking at how the designprocess can influence the urbanimagination in relation to thesocial, political, and economic“Some Notes on Five Points Toward a New Charter for the Mashup Urbanism”:milieu of the project.www.youtube.com/watch?v OW8KBz1zszgIn 2009, Brown was able tospring at the Future of Urbanism conferencebring his ideas to fruition when he receivedhosted by the University of Michigana Rotch Travelling Studio Faculty Grant toTaubman College of Architecture and Urbanfund a trip to Agadir with 12 architecture,landscape, and planning students. The group Planning. “Mash-up is also a representationaltool. Instead of making dimensionalconceptualized ways to bridge Urbanismdrawings, I’ll use a cut-and-paste method ofwith increasing tourism in the Modernistassembling and disassembling things that arecity, which was ravaged by an earthquakealready in existence, making the new out ofin the 1950s and has been undergoing atransformation in recent years, bringing with the found,” he says.it an increase in tourism.—Marcia Fayeiit magazine 9
Photo: Bonnie RobinsonfacultynewsA ChangeIs in the AirMatt BauerLanguages are not static. Like the cultures that produce them,they can evolve, flourish, or occasionally die out altogether. Onefeature of linguistic change involves two distinct sounds that overtime lose their independent identities, becoming just one sound.The process—known as a merger—is the focus of a new three-yearproject funded by the National Science Foundation and carried outby IIT Assistant Professor of Linguistics Matt Bauer.“When you look at just the lexicon of a language,” Bauer says,“new words are coined every day, and the words you kn
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