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  Trustees approve Gies Memorial Stadium naming

  Sep 18, 2025 1:15 pm

  The renaming of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s football stadium was unanimously approved today by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. The board’s formal action follows last week’s historic $100 million gift from philanthropist Larry Gies.

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  Welcome Howard Engle as new treasurer of Board of Trustees

  Sep 18, 2025 12:00 pm

  A retired partner with the Chicago office of Deloitte, Engle previously was the chair and co-founder of the graduate tax program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an adjunct lecturer in the College of Business for more than 25 years. He received an undergraduate degree in accountancy with highest honors from Urbana and a master’s degree in taxation from DePaul University. 

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  Jim Edgar's contributions to higher education, good government lauded by U of I System leaders

  Sep 16, 2025 8:30 am

  University of Illinois System leaders reflected today on the passing of former Gov. Jim Edgar, whose acclaimed commitment to good government led to the formation of an esteemed leadership program that bears his name. 

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  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student wins Falling Walls Lab Illinois

  Sep 15, 2025 2:30 pm

  Anthony Wong, a fourth-year student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Carle Illinois College of Medicine, won the Falling Walls Lab Illinois competition recently to earn the title of Illinois Young Innovator of the Year. Wong also won an all-expenses-paid trip to Berlin to compete at the global Falling Walls Lab finale on Nov. 6.

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  U of I System sets fall enrollment record of more than 101,000

  Sep 10, 2025 10:00 am

  The University of Illinois System entered uncharted territory with record fall enrollments of more than 101,000 students on its campuses in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield, reflecting the ongoing demand for the system’s world-class education.

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