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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1,848 TENURE TRACK, 872 VISITING FACULTY & INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
An “Innovation and Prosperity
University”
- Association of Public and Land Grant
Universities2014
One of the most promising
tech hubs in the nation
- techie.com2014
A “best value”
in public education
- Kiplinger’s2014
Top-ten engineering programs
- US News and World Report
2015
Unique breadth,INTERDISCIPLINARY FOCUS
World-renowned science and engineering programs Highly regarded strengths in the arts, agriculture, business, the humanities,
and the social sciences
T H E I L L I N O I S R E S E A RC H E N T E R P R I S E
Research Expenditures FY14
NSF38%
HHS19%
DOE13%
DOD12%
USDA3%
Education2%
Commerce2%
DOT2%
NASA2%
Other 6%
Total Federal Expenditures by Agency: $364 Million
Campus Interdis-ciplinary Institutes
31%
Engineering37%
LAS18%
ACES6%
Education1%
Vet Med1%
AHS1%
Other5%
Total Sponsored Expen-ditures
by College
$12.7 M for
brain research
$25 M to improve
photosynthesis
$1 Mfor early childhood obesity
research
$16 M to develop
cleaner combusting jet
engines
Notable Recent Research Grants
$10 M to study loss prevention in staple crops
“INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF POST-
HARVEST LOSS”ADM
“REALIZING INCREASED PHOTOSYNTHETIC
EFFICIENCY”GATES FOUNDATION
“INSIGHT”IARPA
$25 M for soybean value chain
research
“FEED THE FUTURE: SOYBEAN VALUE CHAIN
INNOVATION LAB”USAID
“CENTER FOR EXASCALE SIMULATION OF PLASMA-COUPLED COMBUSTION”
DOE
$9 M to enhance the
use of biomedical “Big
Data”“BD2K CENTER OF
EXCELLENCE”NIH
$1.5 M to synthesize
spatial Big Data
“CYBER GIS CENTER”NSF
“STRONG KIDS 2”DAIRY RESEARCH
INSTITUTE
We’re home to…
Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)
Nationwide, virtual system to share computing resources, data, and information
N O TA B L E P R O G RA M S
$100 M to support people, facilities, and research in bioengineering and big data
Consortium of 15 humanities institutes supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Support for interdisciplinary research in a number of disciplines critical to understanding languages and cultures
Grainger Engineering Breakthroughs Initiative
Humanities without Walls
Six “Title VI” Centers in International Studies
We’re home to…
Illinois-Sandia Research PartnershipFive-year agreement to advance collaboration and information sharing
N O TA B L E PA RT N E R S H I P S
Multi-million dollar partnership with Abbott Nutrition to study the impact of nutrition on brain cognition
Partnership with Singapore to transform the way people and organizations use and interact with information technology
Collaboration that enables open access to published works in the public domain, for non-profit and educational users
Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory
HATHI Trust Research Center
Advanced Digital Sciences Center
We’re home to…
Chez Family Foundation Center for Wounded Veterans
National leader in research, services and support for veterans with disabilities
N O TA B L E S T R U C T U R E S
Integrated roles as classroom, laboratory, and public square to advance education, research and public engagement in the arts
Large-scale, College of Engineering interdisciplinary research units with multi-million dollar research portfolios
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Materials Research Lab Coordinated Science Lab Micro- & Nanotechnology Lab
Information Trust InstituteNational leadership in research and education in trustworthy and secure information systems
We’re home to…One of ten National Medal of Science recipients in 2014
May Berenbaum, Entomology
N O TA B L E AWA R D S
Antoinette Burton, History; Valeria Sobel, Slavic Languages and Literature; Robert Morrissey, History; Francois Proulx, French and Italian; Timothy Pauketat, Anthropology
Tami Bond, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Asef Bayat, Sociology; Joy Harjo, American Indian Studies and English; Catherine Prendergast, English; Steven Taylor, Music; Deke Weaver, Art + Design
Five NEH Fellowships (only institution with more than three in 2015)
A MacArthur Fellowship, the award commonly known as a “Genius Grant”
Five of 178 total Guggenheim Fellows in the United States and Canada
Health
and
Wellness
– Creating new devices that diagnose disease
– Unlocking the secrets to healthy aging
– Synthesizing drugs to treat illness
– Improving methods to rehabilitate wounded
veterans
– Developing systems that analyze and store
patient data
Social Equality
and Cultural
Understanding
– Exploring the ethnohistory of indigenous people
– Understanding the roots of bullying
– Developing ways to integrate the arts into the
spectrum of university research
– Studying the impact of pension reform
– Addressing the causes of food insecurity
V I S I O N I N G F U T U R E E XC E L L E N C E
Energy and the
Environment
– Sustainable agriculture
– Access to clean water
– Energy solutions
– Exploring the implications of “smart cities”
V I S I O N I N G F U T U R E E XC E L L E N C E
Technology CommercializationRobust programs* to
support
commercialization, from
research to transfer to
impact, including:• Technology Entrepreneur
Center
• Enterpriseworks
• Illinois Ventures
• I-Corps
*in collaboration with University
Administration
Research Park: Remarkable growth in just 13 years!
90+ Companies
Including Deere & Co., Caterpillar, State
Farm, Yahoo!, AB InBev,
& many others
1,400+ Employees
Including 400student interns
150+ Start-upCompanies
Since inception of Enterpriseworks
programs
200 Acres, 13 Buildings
Totaling 623,00 SF, including 43,000 SF
incubator space
Research Themes:
• Biological Intelligence
• Human-Computer intelligent Interaction
• Integrative Imaging
• Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures
Research in physical
sciences, computation,
engineering, biology,
behavior, cognition, and
neuroscience
Founded: 1989Funded: By $40 M from alumnus and founder of Beckman Instruments, Inc.,
Arnold O. Beckman, and his wife, Mabel M. Beckman
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
beckman.illinois.edu
C A M P U S I N T E R D I S C I P L I N A RY I N S T I T U T E S
Program Areas:
• Systems Biology
• Cellular and Metabolic Engineering
• Genome Technology
Integrated genomics-based
research in energy use and
production, the
environment, human
health, and agriculture
Founded: 2003Funded: By a $75 M investment
from state of Illinois, plus $217 M in external funding since inception
Carl R. Woese Institute for
Genomic Biology
igb.illinois.edu
C A M P U S I N T E R D I S C I P L I N A RY I N S T I T U T E S
Research Themes:
• Bioinformatics and Health Sciences
• Computing and Data Sciences
• Culture and Society
• Earth and Environment
• Materials and Manufacturing
• Physics and Astronomy
Home to Blue Waters, NCSA
provides computational power
and expertise to develop
simulations and study models
that cannot be physically
created in labs
Founded: 1986Funded: Originally by the National Science Foundation, the
result of an unsolicited proposal sent by visionary faculty who needed more powerful computers to advance their
research
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
ncsa.illinois.edu
C A M P U S I N T E R D I S C I P L I N A RY I N S T I T U T E S
Scientific Surveys:
• Illinois Natural History Survey
• Illinois State Archaeological Survey
• Illinois State Geological Survey
• Illinois State Water Survey
• Illinois Sustainable Technology Center
Multidisciplinary research
institute providing objective
research, expertise, and data
to steward our nation’s
natural and cultural resources
Founded: 2008 (though the oldest Scientific Survey dates to 1851)
Funded: By the state of Illinois and external grants and contracts
Prairie Research Institute
prairie.illinois.edu
C A M P U S I N T E R D I S C I P L I N A RY I N S T I T U T E S
Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
Using the campus as a “living laboratory” to
become a global model of sustainability
Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
Institute
Further developing the campus as a world leader in
health research
Illinois Applied Research
Institute
Partnering with companies and government mission-
driven agencies to develop new technologies
New Institutes and Initiatives
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