Chicago, April 8, 2005—Illinois Institute of Technology has named Susan H. Wallace Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective May 2, 2005. Wallace previously served for 18 years at DePaul University in a variety of financial positions, including five years as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. She also has served in financial positions with KPMG and MSL Industries. Most recently she has served as Chief Financial Officer of the Poetry Foundation.

She holds a B.A. from Bradley University, an MBA from DePaul University and is a C.P.A. She has been active with the Union League Club where she has served as an officer and director, as well as with the Central Association of College and University Business Officers where she served as a director. In 2002 she was the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honoree of the Year.

The Renovation of a Modernist Icon

S.R. Crown Hall: One of “the world’s most influential, inspiring and astonishing structures” (as described in Time magazine’s “Great Buildings of the World,” July 2004):

• The self-described “clearest embodiment” of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s architectural philosophy and a pre-eminent form-giver to 20th century architects,
• Mies’ masterwork, an icon of Modernism on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology, is the foundation of the International style,
• One of a kind in design, construction engineering, materials and purpose as a universal and collaborative space in which to educate architects,
• Recipient of both National Historic Landmark and Chicago Landmark status.

The Renovation: Beginning with the May 17, 2005 shattering of glass, the project will consist of a curtain wall restoration and renovation. This includes removal of existing glazing and steel stops, sandblast removal of all lead-based paint from interior and exterior steel, repairs to corroding steel, refurbishment and reactivation of louvers, refurbishment of select steel stops with new replacement stops as required, recoating (painting) of steel, stops, and louvers, and disassembling and retrofitting with electromagnetic release hardware and refurbishing of original Ellison stainless steel doors on north and south façades. Work will comply with current building codes and will adhere as closely as possible to the original appearance of Crown Hall.

Crown Hall Restoration Previewed
in Architectural Record

The March 2005 issue of Architectural Record previewed the upcoming interior and exterior renovation of Mies van der Rohe’s Crown Hall at Illinois Institute of Technology. The architectural masterpiece has both Chicago and National Historic Landmark status.

The renovation will begin with the May 17, 2005 ceremonial shattering of glass. The three-month project will consist of a curtain wall restoration and renovation. This includes removal of existing glazing and steel stops, sandblast removal of all lead-based paint from interior and exterior steel, repairs to corroding steel, refurbishment and reactivation of louvers, refurbishment of select steel stops with new replacement stops as required, and recoating (painting) of steel, stops, and louvers.

The project will also involve disassembling and retrofitting with electromagnetic release hardware and refurbishing of original Ellison stainless steel doors on the north and south façades. Work will comply with current building codes and will replicate the original appearance of Crown Hall.

Chicago-based Krueck & Sexton Architects has already restored interior oak panels and revamped information technology systems.

Built between 1950 and 1956, Crown Hall exemplifies Mies van der Rohe’s simple, clear span designs: The roof is suspended from the underside of four steel-plate girders, which are carried by eight exterior steel columns.

Collaboration for Muon Ionization Cooling
Experiment (MICE) Receives Major Funding
to Begin Construction and Testing

Chicago, March 22, 2005 — In the quest to clarify the nature of the mysterious neutrino particle, millions of which pass through us undetected every day, scientists from several international universities and laboratories have joined forces to build a unique engineering technology demonstrator at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, UK. Major funding in the UK has just been announced. The project is being supported in the US by multi-year grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US Department of Energy.

Daniel Kaplan, professor of physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and Chairperson of the international MICE Collaboration Board said, “MICE exemplifies a new and growing trend: particle-accelerator R&D, not just by the accelerator experts at national laboratories but by particle physicists (and their students) at universities. Research funding agencies such as the US National Science Foundation (NSF) have taken note and are contributing importantly to the success of the project.”

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will seek to prove one of the key requirements to produce intense beams of neutrinos at a dedicated Neutrino Factory, which might be built later this decade. MICE will study the behavior of muons as they pass through materials and are subsequently accelerated, a key part of preparing a beam for the Neutrino Factory. The Neutrino Factory will allow scientists to explore the characteristics of the neutrino to unprecedented accuracy, reshaping our understanding of the structure of matter and the forces that bind it together.

Recent observations of solar neutrinos have shown that they change state (oscillate) between three forms—electron, tau and muon—during their journey from the Sun to the Earth. This discovery is extremely significant since oscillations can only occur if neutrinos have mass. The Standard Model of particle physics assumes that neutrinos have no mass. The ability for neutrinos to change state, therefore having mass, means the Standard Model is wrong or incomplete.

The MICE collaboration consists of 150 scientists from the UK, continental Europe, the US and Japan. In addition to IIT, the US collaborating institutions include Northern Illinois University, the University of Illinois, Fairfield University, the University of Iowa, the University of Mississippi, UCLA, the University of California at Riverside, Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermilab, Jefferson Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

After an exhaustive search, the international collaboration decided that a muon beam at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory provided the most suitable environment for this experiment. Each collaborating world region is contributing equipment, ideas, and manpower to the project. US physicists played key roles in developing the concept of MICE along with UK physicists and engineers who are taking leading roles in the implementation of MICE: the design of the MICE Muon Beam, the superconducting focusing solenoids and the two scintillating-fiber trackers.

Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting technological university awarding degrees in the sciences, mathematics and engineering, as well as architecture, psychology, design, business and law. IIT’s interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum prepares the university’s 6,200 students for leadership roles in an increasingly complex and culturally diverse global workplace.