blog posts University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign a 20-year top producer of Gilman Scholars Oct 29, 2021 10:00 am by Marta Schneider Images Since the program’s inception in 2001, more than 34,000 Gilman Scholars – including 242 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – have studied or interned in more than 155 countries around the globe.