The yearly NCAA bracket bonanza owes its namesake partly to the facility in which it was coined, Huff Hall, which marks its 100th anniversary this year.

A love of reading and giving back leads a campus couple to support the next generation of writers.

When a Chicago mobster was ready to talk, FBI agent Elaine Corbitt Smith (LAS ’67) was ready to listen.

Being a student in 1984 meant midnight movies at the Co-Ed and browsing vinyl at Record Service. Let’s travel back in time for a look at life on campus in the eighties.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni Daniel and Nancy Prickett were greatly helped by their Illinois education. As a bonus, they met and married on campus. Now, they are giving back through an unrestricted scholarship fund they have created.

The College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the recipient of a generous gift from Qiumei Yang, M.S. ’92 BUS, Ph.D. ’96 BUS. The Michele I. Shoresman Study Abroad Scholarship Fund is named in honor of professor Michele Shoresman, B.S. ‘71, Ed.M. ’74, and Ph.D. ’89 ED.

The vision for Memorial Stadium was ambitious and looked to our future as much as it honored our past, a vision that has endured for over a century. Today, the stadium brings people together with the same excitement as when it was merely a dream and a muddy field. Memorial Stadium holds a century full of stories. This page highlights some of the most pivotal, surprising, and inspiring stories drawn from the stadium’s early years through today.

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce the creation of the Levenick Center for a Climate-Smart Circular Bioeconomy, the first such named center in the United States, pending approval by the Board of Trustees in November. Funded by a generous $10 million gift from Stuart L. (ACES ’76) and Nancy J. Levenick (pictured), the Center will be housed in the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE), the cross-campus home for interdisciplinary science that tackles sustainability challenges and mitigation of climate change.

Gies College of Business launched the Real Estate Finance Academy last fall to prepare selected students for careers in commercial real estate. Under the direction of Professor Seth Briggs, the Academy is a five-semester program offering additional courses, internships, case competitions, and networking opportunities in the field of real estate. Recently, Gies alumnus Robert Levin (FIN ’74) decided to financially support the […]

The couple’s latest $2.5 million donation will fund the renovation of classrooms on the lower level of Gregory Hall, located on the University of Illinois Quad, and will create a new hybrid, flexible classroom as the centerpiece.