The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign-Urbana area of Illinois. It was founded in 1867 as Illinois Industrial University under the first Morrill Land-Grant Act and opened to students in 1868. It is the founding campus and flagship of the University of Illinois System, enrolls more than 59,000 students across 16 schools and colleges, and is classified as an R1 doctoral university with very high research activity. Its research infrastructure includes the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where the Mosaic web browser was created, the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and the Prairie Research Institute, which houses the Illinois Natural History Survey and the Illinois State Geological Survey. The article reports 24 Nobel laureates among its alumni, faculty and researchers.
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is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.
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is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Wikipedia)
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is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.
Lead, location Champaign
is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.
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is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.
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The university hosts the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), which created Mosaic, the first graphical web browser
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supports interdisciplinary collaborative research in the broad areas of intelligent systems, neuroscience, molecular science and engineering, and biomedical imaging.
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The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology supports research in genomics and related areas of biology.
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he accepted an offer of an instructorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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