University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a public research university in the twin cities of Urbana and Champaign, Illinois, and the flagship campus of the University of Illinois System.

University of Illinois System: A public university system comprising campuses in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, and Springfield. Urbana-Champaign is the system’s flagship campus.
Morrill Land-Grant Acts: United States federal laws that supported colleges teaching agriculture, mechanical arts, and military tactics through land grants. The 1862 act provided the framework for establishing Illinois’s public land-grant university.
Grainger College of Engineering: The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s college offering engineering education and research. It is one of the university’s largest and most prominent academic units.
Carl Woese: An American microbiologist who used ribosomal RNA comparisons to identify the domain Archaea. Woese conducted the research at Illinois that transformed biological classification.
MOSAIC: An early graphical web browser developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. NCSA’s browser helped bring the World Wide Web to a broad public audience.
Urbana, Illinois: A city in east-central Illinois that shares a municipal boundary with Champaign. The university occupies land in Urbana as well as Champaign.
Illinois Industrial University: The original name of the institution founded in 1867 that became the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This was the university’s name at its opening.
Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: An academic department at Illinois that conducts computer science education and research. Its research and alumni have helped establish the campus’s computing reputation.
John Bardeen: An American physicist and electrical engineer who shared two Nobel Prizes in Physics. Bardeen taught and conducted research at Illinois for much of his career.
Illiac IV: An early massively parallel computer developed through a project involving the University of Illinois. The project advanced ideas in parallel computing despite major technical challenges.

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