An Astronaut’s Best Friend
Sofia Ghouse (AE ’12) had to fix a toilet, and fast. The problem wasn’t that simple, though: the toilet was 250 miles above Earth, aboard the International Space Station, and was the sole commode for...
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Material Gains
(Ph.D. CHE ’10)If you try to list all the potential combinations of all the elements on the periodic table, you’ll have a list that’s practically infinite. To date, humanity has only characterized about a million of...
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The Radical (Re)thinker
(M.ARCH. ’06)The first gig Jennifer Kolstad (M.ARCH. ’06) landed after graduating was a tad more trying than your typical entry-level job. “There were bombs flying overhead,” Kolstad says of her time flying into...
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Expanding Tokyo’s Human Touch
(MDes ’22)After being hit by a car at the age of seven, Kevin Yamada (MDes ’22) lost his leg below the knee. Continuous trips between the hospital and home forced Yamada to grow up in a different environment...
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The Tools and Support to Succeed in Business Analytics
(M.S. Business Analytics ’25)With a liberal arts undergraduate degree, Rachel Lummis (M.S. Business Analytics ’25) was looking at graduate school to develop her skill set in business analytics to boost her career prospects....
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The Other Way Around
LAW '09Editor's note: this is a story from the the Fall 2025 Chicago-Kent Magazine. To read the magazine in full, follow this link . “When I started [my firm] Incubate IP, if you typed in ‘patent law advice’...
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Building a Talent Pipeline
LAW '97Editor's note: this is a story from the the Fall 2025 Chicago-Kent Magazine. To read the magazine in full, follow this link . “We have about 65 lawyers and 13 Chicago-Kent College of Law grads, so...
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An Architect’s Road Less Traveled
(B.ARCH. ’13)After working as an architect for several years, Leticia Arzuaga (B.ARCH. ’13) attended a team building exercise in which she was asked, “What’s your dream?” Coming up with an answer turned out to be...
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Deep Roots
(LAW ’78)When other mayors ask Jeffrey Sherwin (LAW ’78) how he’s been elected to office for eight terms—and has run unopposed in the town of Northlake, Illinois, for the last seven—he says the answer is...
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Better than Pretty
(MDes ’03)Jon Friedman (MDes ’03) had been interning as a designer at Microsoft for many months before being pulled into a so-called “interview loop,” a process where he would undergo interview after interview...