RESEARCH AT ILLINOIS January 2015

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 Universities 2014 One of the most promising tech hubs in the nation - techie.com 2014 A “best value” in public education - Kiplinger’s 2014 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 THE ILLINOIS RESEARCH ENTERPRISE

Total Research and Development Expenditures *Higher Education Research and Development Survey

Research Expenditures FY14

$12.7 M for brain research $25 M to improve photosynthesis $1 M for 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 NOTABLE PROGRAMS $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 Partnership Five-year agreement to advance collaboration and information sharing NOTABLE PARTNERSHIPS 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 NOTABLE STRUCTURES 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 Institute National 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 NOTABLE AWARDS 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 VISIONING FUTURE EXCELLENCE

Energy and the Environment –Sustainable agriculture –Access to clean water –Energy solutions –Exploring the implications of “smart cities” VISIONING FUTURE EXCELLENCE

Technology Commercialization Robust 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 400 student interns 150+ Start-up Companies 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: 1989 Funded: 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 CAMPUS INTERDISCIPLINARY INSTITUTES

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: 2003 Funded: 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 CAMPUS INTERDISCIPLINARY INSTITUTES

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: 1986 Funded: 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 CAMPUS INTERDISCIPLINARY INSTITUTES

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 CAMPUS INTERDISCIPLINARY INSTITUTES

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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