RESEARCH AT ILLINOISJ a n u a r y 2 0 1 5

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

Total Research and Development Expenditures

*Higher Education Research and Development Survey

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

A pre-eminent public

RESEARCH UNIVERSTIY with a land grant mission

and a global impact

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