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Pages in category "University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 808 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Rate My Professors (RMP) is a review site founded in May 1999 by John Swapceinski, a software engineer from Menlo Park, California, which allows anyone to assign ratings to professors and campuses of American, Canadian, and United Kingdom institutions. [1] The site was originally launched as TeacherRatings.com and converted to RateMyProfessors ...
Douglas A. Melton, B.S. – biologist, Xander University Professor at Harvard University; Jennifer Mercieca, Ph.D.— American rhetorical scholar and professor at Texas A&M University, author of Demagogue for president: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump [3] Michael Moore – professor of theoretical physics at the University of Manchester
The Steven Salaita hiring controversy was a 2010s controversy about an American professor who was un-hired [fn 1] by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign following a campaign by pro-Israel students, faculty and donors who contended that his tweets protesting Israel's bombardment of Gaza were antisemitic. [1]
Campus depicted in 1905. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is an academic research institution that is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois System. Since its founding in 1867, it has resided and expanded between the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana in the State of Illinois. Some portions are in Urbana Township. [1]
In 1949, the University of Illinois created the Digital Computer Laboratory following the joint funding between the university and the U.S. Army to create the ORDVAC and ILLIAC I computers under the direction of physicist Ralph Meagher. [9] The ORDVAC and ILLIAC computers the two earliest von-Neumann architecture machines to be constructed.
The University of Illinois clout scandal resulted from a series of articles in the Chicago Tribune that reported that some applicants to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) "received special consideration" for acceptance between 2005 and 2009, despite having sub-par qualifications. The series began on May 29, 2009.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was among the first American institutions of higher learning to offer a curriculum in architecture. Until 1868 there were no architectural schools in the United States, although Thomas Jefferson had proposed one at the University of Virginia in 1814. American architects were trained through ...