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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Surpasses $2.25 Billion Fundraising Goal Early; Campaign Work to Continue into 2022
At a star-studded, orange and blue event in October of 2017, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign publicly launched With Illinois, an ambitious $2.25 billion philanthropic campaign—the largest in the school’s history. Today, Illinois is thrilled to announce that this bold campaign has surpassed this lofty fundraising target, a full year ahead of schedule.Read More ▸ 3-2-21
Nick Holonyak Jr., pioneer of LED lighting, awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize
Nick Holonyak Jr., a renowned innovator of illumination, has been awarded the 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering “for the creation and development of LED lighting, which forms the basis of all solid-state lighting technology.” Holonyak (pronounced huh-LON-yak) is credited with the development of the first practical visible-spectrum LED, now commonly used in light bulbs, device displays and lasers worldwide.Read More ▸ 12-16-20
Chancellor, Provost offer reflections on 1 million COVID-19 tests at Illinois
This past week, here at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, for the one millionth time, we administered the saliva-based, rapid-result PCR COVID-19 test that we developed.Read More ▸
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