Champaign, Ill. – The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign welcomed its largest cohort of incoming graduate students to date, with 7,425 new graduate students for fall 2024. This marks an 18% rise in new enrollments compared to the previous year.
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Sixteen graduate students, seven undergraduates, and one alum from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have been offered Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF). An additional twenty-two students have been accorded Honorable Mention.
Krishnakant Saboo is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, San Francisco.
The University of Illinois Graduate College is proud to announce that Emily Wuchner, Assistant Director for Student Experience, has been honored with an Outstanding International Advocate Award by International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS). The award recognizes university employees who are dedicated to supporting and enhancing the experiences of international students and scholars.
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Associate Director for Education, Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer, and Graduate College Associate Dean Zeynep Madak Erdogan received the prestigious 2024 Michael B. Kastan Award for Research Excellence given by the American Association for Cancer Research’s (AACR) Molecular Cancer Research (MCR) journal.
The Graduate College is delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Graduate Student Leadership Awards: Daniela Markazi and Luis David Gaytán-Soto. The awards recognize graduate students who have exhibited outstanding services that has positively impacted the campus and wider communities.
The Graduate College is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Illinois Summer Research Symposium Awards. Our campus welcomed nearly 200 scholars from a variety of institutions across the country for the Illinois Summer Research Symposium, an event that features the cutting-edge research, achievement, and creativity of our summer scholars. Participants presented research developed through the mentorship and training of Illinois faculty members from a wide scope of disciplines.
The Graduate College at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been awarded a $500,000 Creating Equitable Pathways to STEM Graduate Education grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The Graduate College is excited to announce the winners of the 2022 Graduate Student Leadership Awards: Markera Jones and Donald Molina. The award recognizes graduate students who have exhibited outstanding service that has positively impacted the campus or wider Urbana-Champaign community.