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Illinois recently received the 2016 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award from Insight Into Diversity magazine for its outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion, the fourth year Illinois has been recognized.

This week Illinois is hosting about 300 high school students from around the state for Illini Summer Academies. This 4-H program enables prospective students to learn more about Illinois and their desired degree field.

This announcement was made at a White House event where the Obama Administration made several commitments to support “Smart Cities.”

Illinois has selected 17 proposed projects to receive a total of more than $11 million with an aim to generate new sources of revenue

The 59,000 square-foot building will be located between Huff Hall and the Art and Design Building. Construction is expected to be completed in early 2020

Learn how Quad Day began and how it has evolved over almost five decades 

Providing meaningful experiences for students is one of the main aims of the Civil Rights Pilgrimage, a spring break trip that takes students on a journey through the southern United States.

In earthquake-ravaged Nepal, Nama Budhathoki is using open source mapping to help put relief workers in the areas they are needed most.

ELLNORA: The Guitar Festival, Sept. 17-18, will take place on a smaller scale than previous years of the biennial event, but it will still feature leading guitar artists and a diverse range of musical styles.

U. of I. welcomes a record-breaking class for the Fall 2024 semester. With a freshman enrollment of 9,008, the new class brings record total student enrollment at 59,238 - 37,140 undergraduates and 20,765 graduate students. 

Alison Davis Wood's writing was recognized with a Mid-America Emmy Award for The Game Changer, the story of Illinois accessibility pioneer Tim Nugent

'What we were given that day in 1867 was an idea. A big idea. What we did from there was take that idea, drop it into the context of the time, place and society, and begin to build...the land-grant university.'

As of Fall 2015, Illinois is home to 315 student veterans. It’s also the home of the new Chez Family Foundation Center for Wounded Veterans in Higher Education.

Author Richard Powers, a professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois, has won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel 'The Overstory.'

'We have reached out to these individuals with assurances that they remain more than welcome here: that their presence and contributions sustain Illinois’ commitment to be an inclusive land-grant university with a truly global impact.'

Two Illinois professors are awardees of the Simons Foundation, an organization whose mission is "to support basic – or discovery-driven – scientific research."

Rollin’ Illini will take their show out of the studio and onto streets of Champaign-Urbana this Saturday to run in the Illinois Marathon 10K. They are raising money for the Cerebral Palsy Foundation and Illini Media.

On Sunday, June 30, the engineering-based college of medicine welcomed the class of 2023 with a white coat ceremony.

Jones announced last November that he would be ending his time as the longest serving chancellor at Illinois since that position was created. But before he goes, he'll speak to his final U. of I. graduating class.

A 34-year veteran in law enforcement, Alice Cary currently is the chief of police at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Her appointment takes effect July 20, subject to approval by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.

Take a look back at excerpts from some of the memorable and inspiring Commencement speeches delivered to graduates

Starting this season, fans will be required to reserve tailgate spaces in advance, ensuring a safe and organized environment for all attendees. Space reservations will be provided free of charge.

Larry Harris, Jr., has been named a fellow in the prestigious Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program. The fellowship will pay his way through graduate school in return for at least five years of foreign service at the U.S. Department of State.

Spring semester classes at Illinois will begin a week later in 2021. The semester will not include a spring break, but classes will not be held on three midweek days.

The report from the Critical Conversations on Native Imagery Advisory Committee relates the initial findings, ideas and concepts from participants during a series of campus events.

It’s official. With confirmed sightings last August, nine-banded armadillos are now part of the wildlife scene in east central Illinois.

Dr. Mark S. Cohen will be the next dean, as well as senior vice president and chief academic officer at Carle Health, effective May 16. Carle Illinois, the world’s first engineering-based medical school, will graduate its first class in May.

A senior pursuing a double major in global studies and geology, Matchett is one of more than 30 students from the U.S. selected as Marshall Scholars for postgraduate study at a university in the U.K.

Held every fall, Illinois’ Indoor World Cup offers soccer fanatics on campus a chance to compete against each other in a friendly tournament of nations, over a shared love of 'football.'

Student Affairs is hosting free, socially distanced, live entertainment for students at Memorial Stadium starting this weekend with a double-feature movie and a concert.

Chancellor Jones has proclaimed Oct. 2-6 as Tutor Appreciation Week to honor the professionals who staff and assist the university's tutoring and learning programs. 

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Dr. Brown Young most recently served as Vice Provost for Student Affairs and Dean of Students at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Check the progress as what was once known as the Assembly Hall is transformed into the state-of-the-art State Farm Center.

And you know the Marching Illini are on the list!

The next, and past, big thing: The great wooly mammoth is back… Visible to all, not an apparition… Near the University of Illinois Main Quad. 

Each campus is currently working on existing and new initiatives aimed at eliminating racial inequity and discrimination. Professor Anderson will act as a liaison from the Office of the President to those efforts.

Since the Peace Corps was created in 1961, 2,014 Illinois alums have served overseas, making it the No. 7 all-time producer of Peace Corps volunteers.

A distinguished scientist and administrator, Robert J. Jones embraces the mission of land-grant institutions and calls his new position as Chancellor his “dream job.”

The Lynn M. Martin Award for Distinguished Women Teachers is designated to promote exceptional achievement in undergraduate teaching by women. Read about the work of this year's winner.

The University of Illinois Board of Trustees voted unanimously Thursday (March 12) to establish the nation’s first college of medicine focused, from the beginning, on the intersection of engineering and medicine. This will be the first new college created at Urbana in 60 years. Read more here.

As a result of Chen’s academic excellence and extracurricular involvement, she was named the 2015 Lincoln Academy Student Laureate for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Chicago Tribune (Feb. 19) - How a legal rationale crafted by the ultra-conservative Scalia ultimately was used by a Kansas City activist to urge a federal investigation of the 1955 Mississippi murder of Emmett Till.

Accept your offer and attend the university named #1 return on investment in the Midwest (Best Value Schools)

Illinois' Ryan Hoch, alumnus and co-founder of Overgrad, and current postdoctoral researcher Lydia Kisley, were named to the 2017 Forbes "30 Under 30" ranking for Education and Healthcare, respectively. 

The Horticulture Club is hosting a Tree Walk on Thursday as part of our Earth Week and Arbor Day celebration. The Tree Walk will include 20 trees from all around our Tree Campus USA.

On-Campus Early Voting starts Monday, October 19, and runs through Monday, November 2. You can also vote at campus locations on Election Day, November 3.

University policy requires all incoming and transfer students, as well as faculty and staff, to be regularly educated on discrimination and harassment prevention, sexual violence, and reporting options and obligations.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is offering more than 200 online courses in multiple subject areas during Summer, 2015.

The University of Illinois’ Institute for Genomic Biology has been renamed in honor of a microbiology professor who changed the course of science with his discovery of a third major branch of the tree of life. That professor, Carl R. Woese, died in late 2012.