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College of Engineering
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center, Anderson Lab for Global Education in Engineering, Center for Computational Electromagnetics, Center for Microanalysis of Materials, Center for Reliable and High Performance Computing, Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets, Electro-Optic Systems laboratory, Engineering Research Centers and Laboratories, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, Machine Tool Agile Manufacturing Research Institut
College of Veterinary Medicine
Center for Microscopic Imaging, College of Veterinary Medicine Research Office, Laboratories of Veterinary Diagnostic Medicine, Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, National Animal Poison Control Center
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
GSLIS Research, Library Research Center, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Boo
AIM Lab
The agricultural instructional media Lab was founded to support instructional computing. Includes information on projects and history.
Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials
The ATAM Program was founded as a special interdisciplinary research unit. Now called archaeological science, or archaeometry, it unites archaeology, art history, museology, and the natural and physical sciences. Archaeologists, anthropologists, curators, geologists, chemists, and others work together to analyze the structure, composition, technology, and dating of ancient objects using modern analytical techniques.
Aviation Research Laboratory
Information about the laboratory, operated by the Institute of Aviation, including an overview of the faculty and staff, facilities, research programs. Also includes an index of staff publications and an on-line search of technical reports.
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technol
Multidisciplinary research center in biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures.
Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory
The Biomedical Imaging Center provides facilities, equipment and training for research on nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, for their applications in engineering, neuroscience, speech and hearing science, psychology, biology, medicine, and other fields.
Biotechnology Center
Conducts research with genomics, protein science, transgenic animals, immunology and flow cytometry. Includes list of seminars and services offered to the business sector.
Bureau of Educational Research
The Bureau of Educational Research fulfills a broad mission of enriching the research culture at the College of Education by supporting interdepartmental or interdisciplinary collaboration; nurturing faculty research, especially for those who are at critical passages in their careers; and providing support for grantwriting and liaisons with funding agencies.
Center for Advanced Cement Based Materials
An interdisciplinary research program in partnership with Northwestern University.
Center For Complex Systems Research
Founded in 1986, the Center for Complex Systems Research studies systems that display adaptive, self-organizing behavior and systems that are usually characterized by a large throughput, such as turbulent flow, lightning, and the flow of information through the internet. Models and techniques drawn from nonlinear dynamics and chaos, neural nets, cellular automata, artificial life, and genetic algorithms are then developed to describe these complex systems. A collection of technical reports and scientific publications of CCSR researchers is available.
Center for Human Resource Management
An overview of the research center for the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations.
Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
The Center focuses on creating new hardware and software approaches to speed distributed computation. Specific research includes integrating advances in optimizing and parallelizing compilers, new parallel architectures, and parallel algorithms.
Center For Zoonosis Research and Infectious Diseas
A center for multidisciplinary research on infectious diseases of animals and humans. Includes background, mission, contact information, and a list of faculty.
CERL Sound Group
The CERL Sound Group is an informal research group that undertakes hardware/software development in digital audio signal processing and computer music. Current research areas include real-time algorithms, sinusoidal modeling, user interface hardware/software for music performance, airflow, and music notation.
Children and Family Research Center
Information about the Center, grant opportunities, and Center research.
Cognitive Science Group
Includes news, fellowships and research topics.
Computational Electronics Group
Information about the National Center for Computational Electronics and the Distributed Center for Advanced Electronics Simulations.
Coordinated Science Laboratory
CSL started as a NASA-supported, multidisciplinary control systems laboratory in the 1950s and has evolved into a world-class electronics research facility and a premier national laboratory in information technology and telecommunications research. Today, interdisciplinary teams research new and innovative computing, communications, signal processing, and control technologies - the infrastructure that makes possible seamless wireless/wireline technology and Internet applications. Design, implementation, interaction, and evaluation issues are investigated at every level: from devices to circuits and systems, and from algorithms to networked architectures and software.
CSL Communications Group
As part of the Coordinated Science Laboratory's interdisciplinary teams, members of the Communications Group conduct research in the general areas of communication systems and networks, error-control and modulation coding, information theory, and source coding. Specific research topics currently being pursued are "Wireless Communication Systems", "Communication Networks", "Multidimensional Information and Communication Theory", and "Source Coding Techniques".
Decision and Control Laboratory
Contains a listing of members, research, seminar information.
Digital Imaging and Media Technology Initiative
The DIMT Initiative was established to examine the potential of providing digital access to the University Library's collections, and to perform research with collections and users to determine the best methods for doing so. The program has recently changed its name to the Digital Imaging and Media Technology Initiative. Its goals are to utilize digital methods to preserve and to make accessible fragile and under-utilized visual resources, promote the use of digital media throughout the campus and scholarly community, and to conduct research that advances the creation and use of these resources.
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Research Center
The IERC is a research laboratory established to provide the scientific community with EPR (also called ESR or EMR), ENDOR, and ESEEM facilities and expertise; to conduct research and development projects centered on multifrequency and high frequency EPR technologies, to determine detailed local structures at radical and metal-ion centers in enzymes, materials and to facilitate communication among scientists worldwide who are interested in EPR techniques welcome and encourage scientists of all disciplines to visit our center and undertake collaborative or other work.
Engineering Psychology and Human Factors Laborator
Description of baccalaureate program to address the focus of the airline industry on how to make both airplanes and the pilots who fly them safer and more effective.
Flow Cytometry Facility
Part of the Biotechnology Centre, the FCF is used to rapidly classify and/or physically separate individual cells or other small particles based on their light scatter and fluorescence emission characteristics. Cells can be labeled with up to five different fluorophores and then analyzed or sorted at rates of 100,000 cells per second. Typical samples consist of 150 microliters of a single cell suspension (1 million cells/ml) labeled with an appropriate fluorophore. The main facility occupies 1,300 sq. ft. of space and consists of an instrument lab, computer room, wet lab and cell culture area.
Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
IlliGAL studies nature's search algorithm of choice, genetics and evolution, as a practical approach to solving difficult problems on a computer. Research at IlliGAL has concentrated on the development of a design theory for selectorecombinative GAs, their competent design and implementation, GAs using selection and recombination that solve hard problems, quickly, reliably, and accurately, and the analysis and design of efficiency enhancement measures through parallelization, time utilization, hybridization, and evaluation relaxation.
Illinois Pulsar-based Optical Interconnect
iPOINT is part of the Optical/Electronics Circuits Group involved in optical ATM networking. For various reasons (header translation, buffering, and fast reconfiguration), ATM networking requires a mix of electronic and optical components. Thus, a Optical/Electronic conversion is needed at some points within the network. iPOINT research investigates the integration of optical components on the same substrate as the transistors and investigates the construction of an input-buffered ATM switch to maximize the throughput of the electronic memory buffers.
Immunological Resource Center
Part of the Biotechnology Centre, the IRC provides facilities for research on polyclonal and monoclonal antibody production, antibody purification and labeling, ELISA assay, hybridoma culture media production, and SPR analysis on BIACore 3000 purification. The facility occupies 1,415 sq. ft. Animals used for monoclonal and polyclonal antibody production are housed in OLAR certified facilities.
Institute of Communications Research
A program for interdisciplinary education, scholarship, and public service in communication and culture.
Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics
A national research resource center for biomedical fluorescence spectroscopy. Includes general information, resources, research, theses, published abstracts, staff, consulting, and outreach.
Laboratory of Immunogenetics
Part of the program in Animal Genomics, the laboratory supports several projects in the fields of Cattle Genomics, Bovine Leukemia Virus and Phylogenomics. Offerings include considerable publication lists and gene mapping resources.
Language Learning Laboratory
Information about the laboratory, projects, and staff. Also includes news and resources.
Maize Genetics COOP Stock Center
A repository for maize mutants utilized by scientists conducting biological research. Order genetic stocks and obtain information about maize mutants.
Merriam Laboratory for Analytic Political Research
Resources for formal modelers plus information about the laboratory, programs, activities, faculty, researchers, and meetings.
Mid-America Earthquake Center
Includes news, a description of coordinated research programs, and individual project descriptions.
Mortenson Center for International Library Program
Provides contacts, history, associates, news items, and a calendar of events.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Information about supercomputing and computing applications, as well as information on research the center is conducting.
Parallel Programming Laboratory
The PPL is part of the Department of COmputer Science. The goal is to develop technology that improves performance of parallel applications while also improving programmer productivity where with a distributed software base, complex irregular and dynamic applications can be developed quickly and perform scalably on machines with thousands of processors. To ensure relevance and long-term impact, we work in the context of real applications.
Physics Research at Illinois
Information about research in the Department of Physics, including links to affiliated research centers.
Robotics and Automation Laboratory
Part of the College of Engineering, the RAL was established as part of an effort to create interdisciplinary, college wide laboratory facilities. The laboratory is used to study a number of areas including: basic and advanced robotics, dynamics and control, differential geometric methods in nonlinear control, manufacturing systems, analysis of dynamic systems, and project design.
School of Social Work - Research in Progress
An overview of current research projects in the school plus profiles of the researchers.
Signal, Image, and Speech Processing
Faculty, student, and course information plus an overview of research topics.
The Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory
FS-MRL is an interdisciplinary research laboratory focused on fundamental issues in materials science. The primary goals of the programs are to develop fundamental research programs in the areas of materials science, condensed matter physics, and materials chemistry, to educate scientists and engineers at the PhD and Post-doctoral levels with skills in those areas, and to transfer science and technology developed to other DOE National Laboratories and to US industry via research collaborations, mutually supportive interactions, and continuing education.
The Kolb-Proust Archive for Research
The Archive is a project of the Library devoted to the study of the French author Marcel Proust and his time. It seeks to demonstrate the utility of Internet distribution of research documents in the humanities, and the possibility of carrying out original research at a distance.
The Real-Time Systems Laboratory
Established more than 20 years ago, the RTSL has been pioneering the area of real-time computing. The Real-Time Systems Laboratory performs research on all aspects of real-time computing systems. A real-time system must not only produce logically correct results, but it must also produce them with certain timing constraints. Such systems are gaining importance in a number of applications, for example, automated factories, telecommunication systems, defense systems, and space systems, and smart spaces.
UIUC Digital Library Testbed
Reports, presentations, publications and information from the project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
University Research Portal
University portal to the Research Administration, Initiatives of various Colleges and Departments, facilities, documents, programs, surveys and available resources and services. Includes a search engine.
W. M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional G
The Center, part of the Biotechnology Centre, conducts research on the comparative genetic organization, evolution and function of plant, animal and microbial genomes. The center has three interactive units - Functional Genomics, High-throughput Sequencing and Genotyping, and Bioinfomatics - each with their own focus, staff and service and research offerings.