RESEARCH AT ILLINOIS
February 2016
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1,931 TENURE TRACK,
1,061 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
A
“best value”
in public
education
- techie.com
2014
- Kiplinger’s
2014
The leading
university in
NSF awards,
five years
running
-NSF,
2010-2014
THE ILLINOIS RESEARCH
ENTERPRISE
Unique breadth,
INTERDISCIPLINARY FOCUS
World-renowned programs in the natural and physical
sciences and engineering
Highly regarded strengths in the arts, agriculture, business,
the humanities, and the social sciences
Total Research and Development Expenditures
FY13 includes
$120 M for the
construction of
the Blue Waters
Supercomputer
*Higher Education Research and Development Survey
Research Expenditures FY14
Total Federal Expenditures
by Agency: $343M
DOT NASA
2% 2%
USDA
5%
Total Sponsored Expenditures
by College
Vet Med
1%
Education
1%
Other
8%
AHS
1%
ACES
6%
NSF
37%
LAS
18%
DOD
13%
Other
5%
Campus
Interdisciplinary
Institutes
31%
DOE
13%
HHS
20%
Engineering
37%
Notable Recent Research Grants
$18.5 M
$20 M
$5 M
$6.25 M
to improve power
density in
electrical systems
to manage critical
infrastructure
disruptions
to increase water
efficiency in
bioenergy crops
to advance multimodal data
analysis
“POETS” Engineering
Research Center
NSF
“Critical Infrastructure
Resilience Center of
Excellence”
HOMELAND SECURITY
“Water Efficient Sorghum
Technologies”
ARPA-E
“Multidisciplinary University
Research Initiative”
DOD
$4.3 M
$9 M
$24 M
to develop
advanced, selfhealing materials
to enhance the
use of biomedical
“Big Data”
to build resilient
energy delivery
systems
“Center of Excellence in
Self-healing, Regeneration,
and Structural Remodeling”
DOE
“BD2K Center of Excellence”
NIH
“Cyber Resilient Energy
Delivery Consortium”
DOE
$1 M
to explore
digital publishing
options
“Digital Publishing
Infrastructure within
Scholarly Commons”
MELLON FOUNDATION
NOTABLE PROGRAMS
We’re home to…
Six “Title VI” Centers in
International Studies
Support for interdisciplinary research
in a number of disciplines critical to
understanding languages and
cultures
Grainger Engineering Breakthroughs
Initiative
$100 M to support people, facilities,
and research in bioengineering and
big data
Humanities without Walls
Consortium of 15 humanities
institutes supported by the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation
Extreme Science and Engineering
Discovery Environment (XSEDE)
Nationwide, virtual system to share
computing resources, data, and
information
NOTABLE
PARTNERSHIPS
We’re home to…
Center for Nutrition, Learning,
and Memory
Multi-million dollar partnership with
Abbott Nutrition to study the impact
of nutrition on brain cognition
HATHI Trust Research Center
Collaboration that enables open
access to published works in the
public domain, for non-profit and
educational users
Advanced Digital Sciences Center
Partnership with Singapore to
transform the way people and
organizations use and interact with
information technology
Illinois-Sandia Research Partnership
Five-year agreement to advance
collaboration and information sharing
NOTABLE STRUCTURES
We’re home to…
Materials Research Lab
Coordinated Science Lab
Micro- & Nanotechnology Lab
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Chez Family Foundation Center for
Wounded Veterans
Information Trust Institute
Large-scale, College of Engineering
interdisciplinary research units with
multi-million dollar research
portfolios
Integrated roles as classroom,
laboratory, and public square to
advance education, research and
public engagement in the arts
National leader in research, services
and support for veterans with
disabilities
National leadership in research and
education in trustworthy and secure
information systems
NOTABLE AW ARDS
We’re home to…
One of ten National Medal of Science
recipients in 2014
May Berenbaum, Entomology
Five NEH Fellowships (only institution
with more than three in 2015)
Cara Finnegan, Communication; Eric
Calderwood, Comparative and World
Literature; Eugene Avrutin, History;
Gabriel Solis, Music; Derrick Spires,
English
A MacArthur Fellowship, the award
commonly known as a “Genius Grant”
Tami Bond, Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Six of the 84 newest members of the
National Academy of Sciences
Renee Baillargeon, Psychology; Gary
Dell, Psychology; Steve Granick,
Materials Science and Engineering;
Taekjip Ha, Physics; Catherine Murphy,
Chemistry; John Rogers, Materials
Science and Engineering
VISIONING FUTURE
EXCELLENCE
Health
Social Equality
and
and Cultural
Wellness
Understanding
– Creating new devices that diagnose disease
– Exploring the ethnohistory of indigenous people
– Unlocking the secrets to healthy aging
– Understanding the roots of bullying
– Synthesizing drugs to treat illness
– Developing ways to integrate the arts into the
spectrum of university research
– Improving methods to rehabilitate wounded veterans
– Understanding the behavioral basis for health
– 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”
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
Economic Development Activities
73%
100+
$879 M
#18
of start-up
companies
entrepreneurial
teams and
start-ups
in equity-based
capital
among universities
granted U.S.
patents
RECEIVING
SUPPORT FROM U OF I
RESOURCES, 01/201405/2015
RAISED BY COMPANIES
THAT INCUBATED IN
ENTERPRISEWORKS,
SINCE 2003
CHOOSE TO
REMAIN
IN ILLINOIS
#9
venture capita per
capita, among
U.S metro
locations
ACCORDING TO THE
BROOKINGS
INSTITUTION, 2015
COMBINED CAMPUSES
OF THE UNVIERSITY OF
ILLINOIS, 2014
$43 M
45
in VC and
angel funding
current
EnterpriseWorks
companies
RESULTING FROM
CAMPUS INVESTMENT OF
$870K IN POC FUNDING,
SINCE 2009
160 START-UPS SINCE
OPENING
Research Park: Remarkable growth in just 15 years!
200 Acres,
13 Buildings
90+
Companies
1,500+
Employees
Innovation
Centers
Totaling 623,00 SF,
including 43,000 SF
incubator space
Including Deere & Co.,
Caterpillar, State Farm,
Yahoo!, AB InBev,
& many others
Including 500+
student interns
Enabling companies
to generate fresh
ideas and harness
new technologies
Research in physical sciences,
computation, engineering,
CAMPUS INTERDISCIPLINARY
INSTITUTES
biology, behavior, cognition,
and neuroscience
Beckman Institute
for Advanced Science
and Technology
Founded: 1989
Funded: By $40 M from alumnus and founder of
Beckman Instruments, Inc., Arnold O. Beckman,
and his wife, Mabel M. Beckman
Research Themes:
•
Biological Intelligence
•
Human-Computer intelligent
Interaction
•
Integrative Imaging
•
Molecular and Electronic
Nanostructures
www.beckman.illinois.edu
Integrated genomics-based
research in energy use and
CAMPUS INTERDISCIPLINARY
INSTITUTES
production, the environment,
human health, and agriculture
Carl R. Woese
Institute for
Genomic Biology
Founded: 2003
Funded: By a $75 M investment from
state of Illinois, plus $229 M in external
funding since inception
Program Areas:
•
Systems Biology
•
Cellular and Metabolic
Engineering
•
Genome Technology
www.igb.illinois.edu
CAMPUS INTERDISCIPLINARY
INSTITUTES
Illinois Program
for Research in
the Humanities
Founded: 1997
Funded: In part by generous support from
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a
variety of initiatives
IPRH supports interdisciplinary
study in the humanities, arts, and
social sciences, work that leads to
a deeper understanding of people,
societies, artifacts, and events,
locally as well as globally, in past
and present contexts.
Noteworthy projects include:
•
Humanities Without Walls
Consortium
•
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in
emerging areas of the humanities
•
The Odyssey Project – college credit
for low-income community members
www.iprh.illinois.edu
Home to Blue Waters, NCSA
provides computational power and
CAMPUS INTERDISCIPLINARY
INSTITUTES
expertise to develop simulations
and study models that cannot be
National Center
for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA)
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
physically created in labs
Research Themes:
•
Bioinformatics and Health
Sciences
•
Computing and Data Sciences
•
Culture and Society
•
Earth and Environment
•
Materials and Manufacturing
•
Physics and Astronomy
www.ncsa.illinois.edu
Multidisciplinary research
institute providing objective
CAMPUS INTERDISCIPLINARY
INSTITUTES
research, expertise, and data
to steward our nation’s natural
Prairie Research
Institute
Founded: 2008 (though the oldest
Scientific Survey dates to 1851)
Funded: By the state of Illinois and
external grants and contracts
and cultural resources
Scientific Surveys:
•
Illinois Natural History Survey
•
Illinois State Archaeological Survey
•
Illinois State Geological Survey
•
Illinois State Water Survey
•
Illinois Sustainable Technology
Center
www.prairie.illinois.edu
New Institutes and Initiatives
Institute for
Sustainability,
Energy, and
Environment
Facilitating cross-campus
interactions and using the
campus as a “living laboratory”
to become a global model of
sustainability
Interdisciplinary
Health Sciences
Institute
Illinois
Applied Research
Institute
Further developing the campus
as a world leader in health
research
Partnering with companies and
government mission-driven
agencies to develop new
technologies
ILLINOIS
A pre-eminent public
RESEARCH UNIVERSTIY
with a land-grant mission
and global impact