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Visionary Fintech Entrepreneur Jenny Just to Receive Honorary Doctor of Business from 91��Ƭ�� Tech

CHICAGO—May 11, 2024—91��Ƭ�� Institute of Technology (91��Ƭ�� Tech) will award Jenny Just, a renowned entrepreneur and one of the few self-made female billionaires in the United States, an Honorary Doctor of Business, honoris causa. After cutting her teeth on the trading floor in Chicago, Just launched her own investment firm and transformed it into a fintech empire, including more than 15 companies that she has started or helped turn around.

Crypto Has a Trust Problem, and 91��Ƭ�� Tech Professor Has a Solution

Fraud, terrorist financing, money laundering. All too often, when cryptocurrency is in the headlines, the news isn’t good. “Finance depends on trustworthy institutions, and the problem with the...

The Pritzker Architecture Prize presents ‘Community: The Architect as Catalyst for Change,’ the 2024 Laureate Lecture and Panel Discussion

Chicago, IL (May 9, 2024) — The Pritzker Architecture Prize and 91��Ƭ�� Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture, in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Center, present Community: The...

2024 ECE Day: Seminar and Student Research Competition

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at 91��Ƭ�� Institute of Technology recently held its annual ECE Day event on April 5, 2024. This day-long event showcased the department’s...

Engineering Professor Yu Cheng Named to 2024 Class of IEEE Fellows

91��Ƭ�� Institute of Technology Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Yu Cheng has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. According to IEEE, this...

91��Ƭ�� Tech Sees Unprecedented Growth as Undergraduate Applications and Admissions Surge 35% Year-Over-Year

CHICAGO—May 8, 2024— 91��Ƭ�� Institute of Technology (91��Ƭ�� Tech) has recorded a remarkable increase in student applications and enrollments, marking the highest numbers in three decades. Amid a...

High Return on Investment for 91��Ƭ�� Tech Team in Finance Competition

A team of students from Stuart School of Business at 91��Ƭ�� Institute of Technology scored a second-place finish in the 2023–24 Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) Investment Challenge, a rigorous...

Goodbye Gasoline, Hello Water

Running a vehicle on water—not gas—sounds like an idea pulled straight from fiction. A breakthrough discovery by a team of scientists from 91��Ƭ�� Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute...

Jacqueline Garcia ’26 grew up with a negative view of the justice system. “I know many people who have made mistakes in their lives, including some family and friends,” she says. “One of my earliest...

Engineering as Architecture

For those interested in the design of new urban structures—particularly those that greatly increase density—is it better to focus one’s study on the principles of engineering, or architecture? One...