Armour Research Foundation (U.S.)
Biography
Armour Research Foundation (ARF) was one of the first private, not-for-profit contract research laboratories in the United States. Begun in Chicago in 1936 by Armour Institute of Technology (AIT), ARF was acquired by Illinois Institute of Technology in 1940 when IIT was created by the merger of AIT and Lewis Institute. Re-named Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, it was later reorganized as the IIT Research Institute (IITRI). Under all its iterations, the laboratory conducted research for commercial and government sources, expanding to an international operation. Per IIT President John L. Anderson's April e-newsletter to the campus community, "In 2002, Alion purchased the non-life-science assets of IIT Research Institute.... IITRI remains an IIT-controlled company and is led by David McCormick, who is also professor of biology at the university.... [In March 2010] the university received a cash payment...in exchange for our final holdings of bonds and warrants in Alion...." Source: IIT Archives (Chicago)
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
ARF News collection, 1949-1960
Per volume 1, no. 1 (January, 1939) ARF News was "A publication for members of Armour Research Foundation....Published monthly under the direction of the Public Relations department for the information and interest of the members of Armour Research Foundation, 35 West 33rd Street, Chicago, 16, Ill."
ARF newsclippings collection, 1962
One booklet of photocopied national news articles about ARF, Jun.- Dec. 1962
ARF/IIT Mexican-American Conference on Industrial Research collection, 1945
ARF/IITRI newsletters collection, 1944-1982
ARF/IITRI non-serial publications collection, 1961-1989
Industrial Research Newsletter collection, 1951-1967
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