From Italy to Chicago via Architecture
Gemma Brizzolara (B.Arch. 5th Year) says that she thanks Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for helping her discover 91制片厂 Tech. Born and raised in Genova, Italy, Brizzolara鈥檚 parents took part in an...
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Spearheading Sustainability Solutions
(CHE 鈥22)As an environment, health, safety, and sustainability analyst at consumer product company Diageo, Abigail Gunderson (CHE 鈥22) works with distilling, maturing, packaging, and demand sites to develop...
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Designing Beyond Buildings: An Architect鈥檚 Strategic Shift
(M.S. Strategic Design Leadership 鈥25)Zubair Bhaidani (M.S. Strategic Design Leadership 鈥25) had been working as a licensed architect for nearly a decade when he reached a turning point. While managing complex, multimillion-dollar...
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Charting a Career Path in Finance
(FIN, M.S. FIN 4th Year)鈥淐hicago was the first great city I visited growing up,鈥 says Louisville native Owen Walsh (FIN, M.S. FIN 4th Year). 鈥淚t was the truly world-class urban environment closest to my home and family.鈥 So...
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Training AI for Human Needs
(AMAT 鈥07)Applications running on artificial intelligence can make unexpected shifts in performance, which can lead to inaccurate results for users and create headaches for their creators. Mike McCourt (AMAT...
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The Innovation Upcycle
(ME 鈥15)Growing up, Dane Christianson (ME 鈥15) discovered a pair of passions鈥攊nventing and environmentalism鈥攖hat put him on the path to entrepreneurship. 鈥淚 always wanted to be an inventor,鈥 he says. He...
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Keeping to the Creative Path
(Game and Interactive Media Design 鈥21)Right after graduating from 91制片厂 Tech, Evan Duda (Game and Interactive Media Design 鈥21) met up with a friend of his brother鈥檚 from church鈥攕omeone he鈥檇 heard was 鈥渃razy about board games.鈥 Duda...
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Community Builder
(ARCH 鈥98)After working for years as an architect, Araceli Garza (ARCH 鈥98) found herself wanting more: more involvement in the design process, in the community outreach, even in financing, so that she could...
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The STEM Storyteller
(CS 鈥90)When Anita Debarlaben (CS 鈥90) mentioned to her high school guidance counselor that she wanted to be a scientist or engineer, she was told she had zero chance of making it. Students from her inner...
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Hard Labor
(LAW 鈥03)When he was growing up, Bob Reiter (LAW 鈥03) got some early exposure to unions鈥攁nd the need for them. His father was a heavy equipment operator who dug sewer lines and worked on deep tunnel projects...