Editing University of Illinois System (section)

===Urbana–Champaign===
{{Main|University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign}}
[[File:Altgeld-back.jpg|thumb|Altgeld Hall on the Urbana campus]]
[[File:IllinoisQuad.jpg|thumb|Illini Union on the Urbana campus]]

The [[University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign|Urbana-Champaign campus]] was founded in 1867 as the Illinois Industrial University. It was one of the 37 public [[Land-grant university|land-grant institutions]] created shortly after Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862.<ref name="UIUC Facts 2007">{{cite web| title=Facts 2007: Illinois by the numbers|publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana |url=http://www.publicaffairs.uiuc.edu/facts/facts.html |access-date=September 29, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824142124/http://www.publicaffairs.uiuc.edu/facts/facts.html |archive-date=August 24, 2007}}</ref> The university changed its name to University of Illinois in 1885, and then again to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1982. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the largest and most prestigious of the three universities, enrolling more than 56,000 students. UIUC, or more commonly "ILLINOIS", is home to 17 colleges and instructional units including the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences; College of Applied Health Sciences; the [[Gies College of Business]]; College of Education; the [[Grainger College of Engineering]]; College of Fine and Applied Arts; Division of General Studies; Graduate College; [[University of Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations|School of Labor and Employment Relations]]; College of Law; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; School of Information Sciences; College of Media; [[Carle Illinois College of Medicine]]; School of Social Work; and the College of Veterinary Medicine.

It is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, [[National Center for Supercomputing Applications|NCSA]], where [[Marc Andreessen]] (of [[Netscape Communications Corporation|Netscape]] fame) and others helped develop the [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]] web browser, the first [[HTML]] browser capable of rendering images. In addition, in 1987, NCSA created [[NCSA Telnet]], a program which permitted users access to the supercomputer's resources remotely. The petascale [[Blue Waters]] was among the world's fastest supercomputers when it went into service in 2012.

[[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|UIUC]] and its alumni are particularly well known for their contributions to engineering, including inventions such as the [[LED]], [[plasma screen]], and the [[integrated circuit]].  The library is notable both for being the largest public academic library<ref name="UIUC Library">{{cite web| title=University Library at UIUC|publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana |url=http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ |access-date=September 29, 2007 }}</ref> in the country, with over forty departmental libraries, and for possessing over twelve million volumes.<ref>[http://www.library.illinois.edu/news/twelve_millionth_volume.html 12-millionth Volume Acquired] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811145559/http://www.library.illinois.edu/news/twelve_millionth_volume.html |date=August 11, 2011 }}. Library.illinois.edu (October 5, 2010). Retrieved on 2013-08-17.</ref>  Each year, the library circulates about 1.2 million items and answers about 293,000 reference questions. The university is highly ranked in psychology, engineering, law, library and information science, chemistry, computer science, labor and industrial relations, educational psychology, finance, accounting, business administration, communication, and music.<ref name="UIUC Rankings">{{cite web|title=University and College Rankings at UIUC |publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana |url=http://www.publicaffairs.uiuc.edu/rankings/index.htm/ |access-date=September 29, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824220246/http://www.publicaffairs.uiuc.edu/rankings/index.htm |archive-date=August 24, 2007}}</ref> Physics professor [[John Bardeen]] won the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] [[Nobel Prize#Distinguished laureates|twice]] in his lifetime, an honor no other researcher has received. The school's marching band, named the [[Marching Illini]], also enjoys a superb reputation. Until 2007, the symbol of the university's [[Illinois Fighting Illini|athletic teams]] was a Native American figure, [[Chief Illiniwek]], which sparked significant controversy.  Chief Illiniwek completed his last performance on February 21, 2007, and has since been retired from performing and as the official symbol of the school.

Currently the university boasts the world's most technologically advanced{{Citation needed|date=November 2009}} Computer Science building, Siebel Center, as well as many other world-class research laboratories such as the Electrical and Computer Engineering Building and the Loomis Laboratory of Physics.