Echoing its land-grant mission, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is collaborating with local partners to engage with K-12 and college students in our surrounding communities. STEM Illinois will build upon our current ecosystem of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that inspires youth from diverse backgrounds and learning styles to explore STEM education and career… Continue Reading
As part of ongoing efforts to ensure the university is providing world-class student experiences, Illinois launched the Student Success Initiative. The university-wide initiative aims to better understand the factors that lead to undergraduate student success, which include retention, graduation rates, placement, degree-completion time, and other outcomes and experiences. This initiative is also a critical step… Continue Reading
In order to show how University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign staff carry out and support the university’s mission, Illinois Human Resources is sharing employee excellence through the Illinois Professional Campaign. Created by Illinois Human Resources, the Illinois Professional Campaign showcases the value of all employees the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Illinois Professional Campaign… Continue Reading
With more than 50,000 total students for the first time in university history, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has welcomed a record-breaking freshman class for the start of the 2019 academic year. The new freshman class is also the largest, most academically talented, and most diverse in the history of the university. The class… Continue Reading
The Research Park at the University of Illinois provides an environment where technology-based businesses can work with faculty and students to take advantage of opportunities for collaborative research and easy access to university labs, equipment, and services. Corporations have sought out the Research Park to address recruitment needs for high-quality technical talent. More than 800… Continue Reading
A financial-aid program aims to make attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign more affordable for low- and middle-income families in the state of Illinois. Illinois Commitment provides financial awards to cover the tuition and campus fees for in-state students whose family income is less than $67,100. The program is open to freshman and transfer… Continue Reading
In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Project announced that it captured the first image of a black hole. A team of Illinois researchers helped interpret the massive amounts of data used to produce the image. Illinois physics and astronomy professor Charles Gammie headed the theory working group for the large, multi-institutional collaboration. The… Continue Reading
Through the Investment for Growth initiative, 18 projects from colleges and institutes across campus received a total of more than $24 million in funding over a three year period to benefit institutional excellence, education, and research. Colleges and institutes were invited to submit project proposals with details on funding models, demand and potential impact. Criteria… Continue Reading
The City Scholars program brings Illinois students to Chicago where they live, work and study to gain exposure to careers and businesses in the city. The initiative from The Grainger College of Engineering leverages our nationally-renowned engineering students to build Chicago’s tech pipeline. Juniors and seniors within The Grainger College of Engineering are carefully selected… Continue Reading
Illinois researchers achieved the highest reported rates of inserting genes into human cells with the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system, a necessary step for harnessing CRISPR for clinical gene-therapy applications. By chemically tweaking the ends of the DNA to be inserted, the new technique is up to five times more efficient than current approaches. The researchers saw… Continue Reading