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Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois has been committed to excellence in research, teaching, and public engagement. Among the most significant resources is its talented and highly respected faculty. Many faculty members are recognized for their exceptional scholarship, with memberships in the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering; and as recipients of the Nobel Prize, Crafoord Prize in Biosciences, Japan Prize, National Medal of Science, Pulitzer Prize, and Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, and MacArthur Fellowships.
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Each year, Illinois students receive some of the world’s most elite scholarships. The campus has a history of sending at least one student per year to OCambridge on a prestigious post-graduate fellowship. Other prestigious scholarships aware to Illinois students recently include the Rhodes, Truman, Marshal, Gates, Goldwater, Churchill, Luce, and Fulbright Scholarships.
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Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world, housing more than 10,500,000 volumes, over 6,000,000 manuscripts, periodicals, and other non-print materials, and more than 65,000 journals. There are more than 37 departmental libraries and divisions throughout campus, including the largest US engineering library, state-of-the-art agricultural library, and the world-renowned Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The library’s computerized cataloging system was the first in the world to serve as the primary access to large academic library. More then 53,000,000 users worldwide access the online catalog annually.
A world leader in supercomputing design and applications, the University if home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, develop of the internet browser Mosaic ™, which revolutionized the use of the World Wide Web. Students have access to over 3,500 computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries. Seventy-six percent of classrooms and over 130 buildings allow wireless connectivity.
A major center for the arts, te campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Designed by alumnus Max Abramovitz, the facility has four indoor theaters and an outdoor amphitheater. Together, they ost more than 350 performances each year. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, second only to the Art Institute of Chicago among Illinois public art museums housing over 9,000 works of art in its permanent collection; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture, which holds in its collections approximately 46,000 artifacts from diverse cultures and varied historical time periods. Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats), which hosts concerts, convocations, theater, and sporting events; Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Campus Recreation Center – 470,000 square feet of recreational space between two newly expanded campus recreation and wellness centers, the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.
Whether it is enjoying the campus for its beauty and buildings or attending for the educational benefits, the University of Illinois has it all. |
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