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1921 Iowa Hawkeyes football team

An Illinois team of the great Robert Zuppke was the opponent.

A Book of Prefaces

Response to Mencken's book was generally poor, but certain defenders of American culture were particularly outspoken in their criticism of the book—most notably Stuart Sherman, a professor at the University of Illinois (Sherman was personally attacked in Prefaces).

Abe Anellis

Anellis attended Crane Technical College in Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning his tuition and living expenses working in a spice factory and as an usher at the Chicago Civic Opera.

Andrew S. Draper

He then served as a member of the Albany School-board, superintendent of the public instruction at New York City, and superintendent of schools at Cleveland, Ohio before becoming the President and Regent of the University of Illinois in 1894.

Brian Hoyer

In a game against Illinois, he combined with Drew Stanton to throw seven touchdown passes, which tied the Big Ten single-game record.

Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets

The Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) is an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is part of the United States Department of Energy's Advanced Simulation and Computing Program.

Charles Odegaard

Odegaard taught history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and then took a leave of absence to serve in the Navy during World War II, earning the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

Chris Başak

He attended Minooka High School in Minooka, Illinois, then went to college at the University of Illinois, where he played shortstop.

Claude Gordon

The Claude Gordon Personal Papers and Music Instrument Collection, 1888–1992, consists of music, correspondence with Herbert L. Clarke and other notable trumpet artists, educational material, publicity and memorabilia, and performance contracts, and is housed at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Consortium for Strategic Communication

Steven Corman (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988) is a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Communication at Arizona State University where he directs the Consortium for Strategic Communication.

Daniel Simons

Daniel James Simons (born 1969) is a prominent experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois.

David E. Goldberg

David Edward Goldberg (born 1953) is an American computer scientist, civil engineer, and professor at the department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (IESE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is most noted for his seminal works in the field of genetic algorithms.

Douglas L. Jones

Since 1988, he has been with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the Beckman Institute.

Elbern Alkire

A collection of Alkire's original and published music, correspondence, and musical instruments, including four prototype Hawaiian guitars is housed at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Hal Pereira

Pereira was educated at the University of Illinois and is brother of architect (and occasional film art director) William L. Pereira.

Ian Hobson

Ian Hobson has been music professor at the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign since 1975.

ILLIAC I

1957 – Mathematician Donald B. Gillies, physicist James E. Snyder, and astronomers George C. McVittie, S. P. Wyatt, Ivan R. King and George W. Swenson of the University of Illinois used the ILLIAC I computer to calculate the orbit of the Sputnik I satellite within two days of its launch.

Illini Media

The company owns several student-run media outlets associated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: the general newspaper the Daily Illini, entertainment paper Buzz, local entertainment website The217.com, engineering quarterly Technograph, U of I yearbook the Illio, and commercial radio station WPGU.

Inattentional blindness

The best-known study demonstrating inattentional blindness is the Invisible gorilla test, conducted by Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christopher Chabris of Harvard University.

Iris Associates

Tim Halvorsen and Len Kawell, who joined Iris shortly afterwards in January 1985, met Ray Ozzie years before when all of them were working on the University of Illinois PLATO system.

Islam A. Siddiqui

He received a B.S. degree in plant protection from Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University (now renamed as Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology) in Pantnagar, India, as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in plant pathology, both from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Jon Mittelhauser

Mittelhauser attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he joined the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in 1992 and a Master's degree in 1994.

Joseph Dahmus

Dr. Dahmus graduated from the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, received his Master's Degree in the Classics from St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, and earned his PhD in Medieval History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Justa Lindgren

He served as head football coach at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa from 1902 to 1903 and at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1904—along with Arthur R. Hall, Fred Lowenthal, and Clyde Matthews—and alone in 1906, compiling a record of 14–16–2.

Laurence Lieberman

He taught at Orange Coast College, 1960-64; College of the Virgin Islands, 1964-68; and since 1968 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as professor of English and creative writing.

Martin A. Lee

He has been a guest teacher-in-residence at the University of Illinois, and has lectured at many colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, and the American University of Paris.

Milred

A work by Milred, a compilation of epigrams and epigraphs on Anglo-Saxon churchmen, some of whom are known only from this work, is now lost apart from a single 10th century copy of one page, held by the library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

National Educational Radio Network

In 1951 a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation enabled the network to become the "(NAEB) Tape Network", based at the University of Illinois.

National Science Foundation Network

This original 56-kbit/s backbone was overseen by the supercomputer centers themselves with the lead taken by Ed Krol at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Netscape Navigator

Netscape Navigator was based on the Mosaic web browser, which was co-written by Marc Andreessen, a part-time employee of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and a student at the University of Illinois.

Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

The Nathan M. Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, or Newmark Lab, located at 205 N. Mathews Avenue in Urbana, Illinois on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, houses the university's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Oscar Sala

In 1946 Oscar Sala received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation and went to study in the U.S., first at the University of Illinois, and subsequently, in 1948, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Pallathadka

Suma Pramod (née Suma Bhat Pallathadka) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign dedicated to doing interdisciplinary research.

Perdita Felicien

Her performance at a scholastic meet in Ohio brought offers of athletic scholarships from a number of U.S. universities from which she chose the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she enrolled in the study of kinesiology.

Peter Guy Wolynes

Previously he was James R. Eiszner Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Francis H.C. Crick Chair of Physical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego.

Philip Morrison

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Piet Van Waeyenberge

In 1962 he obtained a Master of Science in Agricultural Economics at the University of Illinois Champaign (Urbana, IL USA) and in 1963 a Master of Business Administration at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France).

Robert M. Hayes

He was visiting professor at Loughborough University, Strossmayer University, University of New South Wales, Khazar University, Keio University, University of LIS in Tsukuba Science City (Japan), Nankai University, University of Illinois, and University of Washington.

Shelley Chaplin

She played for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign wheelchair basketball team, and was named an All-American in the 2006/07 season.

Sylvester Millard House

Illinois Governor Shelby Moore Cullom appointed Millard a trustee of the Illinois Industrial University, where he served for twelve years including a six-year stint as President of the Board.

Transmission Electron Aberration-Corrected Microscope

It is based at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California and involves Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as FEI and CEOS companies, and is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.

UAB Blazers

Setting the standards high from the start, UAB hired former UCLA, University of Illinois and Memphis head coach Gene Bartow.

Ursula Levy

While employed by Chicago Public Schools, she would go on to earn a master of science degree in psychiatric nursing from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

Vincent du Vigneaud

He joined Alpha Chi Sigma while at the University of Illinois in 1930.

Windwagon Smith

The story appears in "Windwagon Smith and Other Yarns" in 1947, by Wilbur Lang Schramm while he was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.


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Animate Objects

CZAR Absolute was asked to participate in the 2003 Triangle Fraternity Battle of the Bands at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

David Goldberg

David E. Goldberg (born 1953), professor of engineering and computer science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

David Grandis

After receiving a B.M. in Musicology in France, he completed a M.M. in orchestral conducting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Donald Schleicher and a G.P.D. at the Peabody Conservatory with Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar.

ILLIAC IV

When Solomon ended, the principal investigator, Daniel Slotnick, joined the Illiac design team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Illini

Illinois Fighting Illini, the intercollegiate sports teams of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

INHS

Illinois Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Preetha Ram

She first enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she met her soon-to-be husband, Ashwin Ram, whom she married in 1984.

Robert McChesney

Robert W. McChesney, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, media critic, founder Free Press and Media Matters radio program host

Slavic Review

Mark D. Steinberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) served as editor from 2006 to 2013.

WIUM

In 1954, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosted the National Association of Educational Broadcasters for the establishment of broadcast allocations (AM/FM radio and TV channels) for non-commercial education programming.