Eileen O鈥橬eill Burke 鈥90 was in the sixth grade when former justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow spoke to Burke鈥檚 class about her career as a judge. McMorrow went on to be the first woman to serve on the...
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LAW '12
鈥淢r. Ammoura, is that you?鈥 It was summer 2011, and Ali Ammoura 鈥12 was a law student at Chicago-Kent College of Law when he heard a meek voice cut through the hustle and bustle of the lockup at the...
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Ahead of the Curve
M.S. Computer Science '88鈥淚 was where I was when I was,鈥 he says via telephone from India, where he is serving his second term as an independent member in the upper house of India鈥檚 Parliament, representing Bangalore and the...
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Brewing Up Something Big
(Computer Science '03)The first taste of craft beer for Ankur Jain (CS 鈥03) was a swig of Anchor Steam, whose nineteenth-century recipe and California ocean-port pedigree made it a great object lesson in a course he took...
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Maintaining Chicago鈥檚 Historical Bridges
(CE 鈥11, M.A.S. PW 鈥16)Jenelle Hill (CE 鈥11, M.A.S. PW 鈥16) joined 91制片厂 Tech with an interest in math and a passion for doing work that would be used by generations, and she found civil engineering to be a natural fit...
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Full Circle
(CS 鈥00, M.B.A. 鈥05)91制片厂 Tech鈥檚 own Sejal Vaishnav (CS 鈥00, M.B.A. 鈥05) was recently named one of the 50 leading tech executives shaping the future of higher education by Chief Data Officer Magazine a recognition...
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Building an AI Career Through Mathematical Mastery
(M.S. AMAT 鈥14)Earning an advanced degree in mathematics not only helped Hongwei Jin gain the knowledge that he needed to earn a Ph.D. in computer science at University of 91制片厂 Chicago and become an artificial...
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ID Alum Introduces Japan to Design Through Bestselling Book
(惭.顿.惭.听鈥13)Kunitake Saso (M.D.M. 鈥13) founded his strategic design consultancy, BIOTOPE, in 2015, just two years after completing his graduate degree at the Institute of Design and learning a whole new way of...
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LAW '22
鈥淚 got accepted to a couple of art schools, but I always wanted to be a lawyer,鈥 says Joey Zawacki 鈥22. 鈥淚 also wanted some kind of financial security, so I closed my little art dream and I put it...
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LAW '78
Before he went to law school, Thomas Donovan 鈥87 was a mechanical engineer looking for more. 鈥淚 worked in the nuclear power industry, where I did piping stress analyses for nuclear power plants,鈥 he...