The 1867 land-grant flagship of Illinois, birthplace of the graphical web browser and home to one of the world's great engineering and computing communities.
11 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
Chancellor
Office of the Chancellor
Thank you for a career spent opening computing to everyone, from interactive AI research to championing education at scale, now brought to Urbana-Champaign as its 11th chancellor.
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Office of the Provost
Thank you for stewarding academic excellence across Illinois as provost, keeping the land-grant promise of access and rigor alive for every student.
Professor and Swanlund Endowed Chair, Department of Entomology; Director, Center for Advanced Study
Department of Entomology
Thank you for a lifetime of championing insects, from honey bee health to the beloved Insect Fear Film Festival, and for showing that the deepest science can be the most joyful.
Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry; Head, Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Thank you for defining how gold nanorods are made, understood, and used responsibly, and for leading Illinois chemistry with the same precision you bring to the bench.
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
Department of English
Thank you for The Overstory and Galatea 2.2, novels shaped in Urbana that let science and conscience speak in a single voice.
Dean, The Grainger College of Engineering; Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering
Department of Bioengineering
Thank you for leading the Grainger College of Engineering while still pushing biosensors and point-of-care diagnostics forward, proving a dean can stay a builder.
Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair; Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Thank you for self-healing polymers and mechanochemistry that taught materials to report their own damage and repair themselves.
Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering; Associate Director, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Thank you for the algorithms that reconstruct the tree of life at planetary scale, joining computer science and evolution with mathematical honesty.
Professor and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Thank you for MPI and decades of making supercomputers actually programmable, and for leading NCSA from 2016 to 2025 through the exascale era.
Swanlund Endowed Chair and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Thank you for the multimedia systems research that quietly underpins every video call, and for a decade of leadership at the Coordinated Science Laboratory.
Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law; Vice Provost for Global Engagement
College of Law
Thank you for your scholarship on transitional justice, which gives societies recovering from grave wrongs a rigorous and humane path back to trust.
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A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.