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Editor's note: this is an updated story from the the Fall 2024 Chicago-Kent Magazine. To read the magazine in full, follow this link . “I just love intellectual property,” says Jen Nacht ’21. “I love...

Tech in Dentistry: 91��Ƭ�� Tech Sets Pre-Med Student Up for Success

Salih Hodzic (BIOL, M.S. BHPR ’24) knew he wanted to be a dentist since high school, but he didn’t want to go straight into a huge pre-medical program, so began searching for a more personal...

Bridging the Gap to Medical School

David Beam (BIOL ’20) first came to Mies Campus as an open-minded high schooler for a construction competition at 91��Ƭ�� Tech. While the medical field was already in his sights for the future, he...

Biology to Pre-Med: STEM Education in Medicine

Zach Parduhn (BIOL ’21) stepped onto Mies Campus as an open-minded biology major with no concrete career plans in mind. He followed his grandfather’s footsteps to 91��Ƭ�� Tech with a love of...

In Service of Design

As an officer in the United States Marines charged with building a water storage system for locals in one of the poorest countries in Africa, Douglas Jefferson Hsu (M.Des. ’12) first discovered his...

Food Fundamentalist

Right around the time Harry Hou (M.S. FST ’08) arrived in Chicago to study food science and safety, he got some real-world reinforcement as to why he’d chosen an important career. There was a large...

Overseeing Urgency

By Tad Vezner You can’t tell by talking to her now, but there was a time when Tamakia “T. J.” Edwards (ARCE ’08) might not have had the confidence to go for her current job. That’s the one where...

Cutting the Cord

By Tad Vezner What kinds of things benefit from advances in high-frequency, high-power electrical systems? “Anything and everything,” Omer Onar (Ph.D. EE ’10) says. If that is so, Onar’s at the top of...

Putting Community First

By Tad Vezner Across nearly two decades of family clinical work in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, Esther Sciammarella (M.S. PSYC ’80) has garnered a mixed appreciation for partnerships. There was a...

A Humanist Explores AI

By Tad Vezner How do you know things? How do you make sense of the world? Or, to be more precise, how do you comfortably inquire about information, and what’s your source of choice? Those were a...