The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a place of excellence, innovation, and tradition. More than 2,000 faculty members lead 40,000 students in a process of discovery and learning in 16 colleges and schools and more than 80 research centers and labs. Faculty and students pursue projects with other top scholars from around the world and across disciplines. Campus resources include the world's largest public university library, outstanding centers for the arts, and many world-class research facilities, including the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.Illinois provides a diverse learning environment: students and faculty members from more than 120 nations, and a choice of 150 undergraduate programs of study. Students find opportunities ranging from participating in research or studying abroad, to leading one of more than 1,000 student organizations. In fall, 2003, Illinois became only the third American public university, and the eleventh institution in the world, ever to have two Nobel Prizes (in different fields) awarded to members of its faculty in the same year. And, only months before Professor Anthony Leggett was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and Professor Paul Lauterbur was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine/physiology, a third faculty member, Professor Carl Woese, won the Crafoord Prize, the Nobel equivalent for biology. Other Illinois faculty members have won Pulitzer Prizes, Tony Awards, and memberships in the nation’s elite academies of arts and sciences. These are the instructors and mentors of Illinois students. Most students easily acclimate themselves to campus surroundings and quickly fall in love with UIUC. In fact, many students cite the size of the University as the best thing about it. "The huge size just means that there’s a wealth of opportunities available here that you can’t find…anywhere else. It’s everything I’d want or need in a school" Another student cited, "Everything about this place is engaging and exciting…it’s truly a jewel in the cornfields."
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- Deron Williams - NBA guard for the Utah Jazz
- Dick Butkus - Hall-of-Fame NFL linebacker for the Chicago Bears; 2-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year
- Gene Hackman - Actor; won 2 Academy Awards for his roles in "The French Connection" and "Unforgiven"
- Hugh Hefner - Editor-in-chief, Playboy Enterprises
- James Cantalupo - Chairman and CEO of McDonalds Corp. International
- Jean Driscoll - Eight-time Boston Marathon Winner, Wheelchair Division
- Jerry Colangelo - Former owner of the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks
- Jesse Jackson - US Congressman; Founder, National Rainbow Coalition
- Jesse Jackson - Civil Rights leader
- Marc Andreessen - Founder of Mosaic and Netscape
- Nick Holonyak, Jr. - Development and commercialization of Light-emitting diode technology which is responsible for CD technology.
- Red Grange - Hall-of-Fame NFL player; part of first class of inductees for Pro and College Football Halls of Fame
- Robert L. Johnson - Founder of BETl; owner of the Charlotte Bobcats
- Roger Ebert - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Film Critic
- Steve Chen and Jawed Karim - Co-founders of YouTube
- Suze Orman - TV and radio media financial advisor
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The University Library houses the largest public university library in the world, with more than 22 million items in the main library and over 40 departmental libraries and divisions. More than one million patrons from around the world use the online catalog each week. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is rated 20th among large colleges and universities in the nation for the number of alumni serving in the Peace Corps. Did you know that U of I Champaign is cited in or is where the film was located in Some Like It Hot, Risky Business, With Honors (film location), Blues Brothers, 2001 Space Odyssey (the computer Hal was born at UIUC) and Kicking and Screaming (2005 Will Ferrell movie)
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