<p>Located in Chicago, one of our nations greatest cities, students in the IIT Institute of Psychology enjoy all the benefits associated with a small college and the opportunity to shape their curriculum to fit their individual career goals.</p>
<p>The pace of scientific and technological advance is unrelenting, but psychologists never lose sight of the fact that people give those advances meaning. Why people think the way they do and how they interact with one another and the world around them is what psychology is all about.</p>
<p>In recognition of this fact, we are proud to present the David Boder Prize for Collegiate Research in Psychology. The David Boder Prize seeks to encourage and recognize the best community college writing and research efforts in the field of psychology each year. David Boder, a former faculty member, was hired in the 1930s at the Lewis Institute (a forerunner of Illinois Institute of Technology) to develop its psychology department.</p>
<p>The end of World War II set in motion the beginning of an endeavor that would define Boder's work for the rest of his life as he established a interview project
to conduct research on and preserve an authentic (audio) record of wartime suffering. The book that grew out of the project, containing a selection of transcribed interviews and a modicum of analysis, was in manuscript called "The D.P. Story" and eventually published under the title, I Did Not Interview the Dead.
(A full version of David Boder's biography will appear in Alan Rosen, That Great Mournful Past: David Boder and the History of Holocaust Testimony, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.)
For more information on the David Boder Prize, please visit Illinois</a> Institute of Technology | Undergraduate Admission</p>