The Illinois Innovation Network has awarded over $250,000 to three new social innovation seed grant projects, bringing the total number of recipients of the IIN’s Social Innovation and Impact Seed Grant program to 10. Provided by the University of Illinois System, the funding translates research into projects that directly affect lives, address critical social problems and build trusted partnerships in communities across Illinois.

The University of Illinois Board of Trustees today took action to further support development of two important anchor buildings at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park: the National Quantum Facility and Quantum Works. Trustees also approved a recommendation to transform the historic President’s House in Urbana into an executive event space that will serve the entire University of Illinois System while preserving its historic character.

The Illinois General Assembly has approved and Gov. JB Pritzker has signed a state budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The spending plan includes a 1% increase in general operating support for the U of I System and other public universities. It provides a $748.7 million operating budget for the U of I System in FY 2027.

The University of Illinois Board of Trustees today approved a strategic expansion of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, establishing four new departments that will sharpen its focus on specific areas of medicine and enhance the college’s interdisciplinary collaboration.

The researchers who make discoveries, the students who learn from them, the entrepreneurs who build new businesses because of them: They are the University of Illinois System difference. A sustained engine of human capital and innovation that shows no signs of slowing down.