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Research Centers & Institutes
Celebrating the impact of your generosity
The idea for our institutes started more than 35 years ago at the Beckman Institute, with a bold vision to bring researchers from different disciplines together and see what happens! Since then, we’ve set the standard for interdisciplinary research that addresses global challenges. Ten campus-wide institutes transcend college, school, and departmental boundaries to elevate ideas, drive discovery, and push the limits of our knowledge. We are enormously grateful for the leadership generosity that has taken shape through the With Illinois campaign. Without critical support from our visionary benefactors, it would have been difficult to dream big dreams, achieve transformative research advances, and build on that success to create a bright future for humanity!


Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
Stephen G. Sligar Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Professor of Biochemistry
With Illinois Impact
As we mark the end of the With Illinois Campaign, Research Centers & Institutes has been transformed by donor support.
248025041 Dollars Raised
57986721 Largest Single Gift
1137 Gifts of $100 and Under
25 New Funds Supporting Scholarships, Fellowships, and Faculty Positions
Donors from 43 States and 18 Countries
With Illinois Highlights
Your support has helped us continue to elevate the values that make Illinois distinctive: a sense of boundless aspiration, collaboration, and a global perspective.

Changes in brain infrastructure are inherited, impact cognitive function
Researchers at the Beckman Institute used a large-scale functional MRI dataset to show that the ways in which neural connectivity across distant brain regions spontaneously reconfigures may be inherited from generation to generation. Their findings provide insight into why cognitive abilities differ between individuals. Read more.

Beckman Institute announces 2022 fellowship, award recipients
Through the generosity of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, Carle Health, and the families of Erik Haferkamp, Nadine Barrie Smith, and Thomas Huang, the Beckman Institute provides opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to pursue extraordinary, interdisciplinary research. Eleven students have been selected to receive 2022 Beckman Institute fellowships and awards. To learn more about the recipients and their work, read more.

Madhu Khanna Named Director of the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
“I am delighted to lead iSEE to foster broad participation in interdisciplinary research in sustainability on campus to tackle some of the most wicked sustainability challenges that confront us in the 21st century as well as to offer opportunities for students to develop environmental leadership skills,” Khanna said. “We aim to position campus to play a transformative role in moving us all to a more sustainable future.” Read more.

2022 Prizes for Research in the Humanities Announced
Congratulations to this year’s recipients of HRI’s Prizes for Research in the Humanities! These prizes recognize outstanding humanities research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Read more.
Faculty prizes: Winner Elizabeth Massa Hoiem (Information Sciences); Honorable Mention Makoto Harris Takao (Music).
Graduate prizes: Winners Ana Lisa Eberline (Communication), Tiffany Octavia Harris (Education, Policy, Organization and Leadership/Gender and Women’s Studies); Honorable Mention Megan Cole (English)
With Illinois Moments
Take a look at a few of the moments that have shaped the culture and character of Research Centers & Institutes during the With Illinois Campaign.
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