The University of Illinois System is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Illinois consisting of three universities:Chicago,Springfield,and Urbana-Champaign. Across its three universities,the University of Illinois System enrolls more than 94,000 students. It had an operating budget of $7.18 billion in 2021.
The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago,Illinois,United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area,adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illinois system,UIC is also the largest university in the Chicago metropolitan area,having more than 33,000 students enrolled in 16 colleges. It is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –Very high research activity."
The University of South Carolina is a public research university in Columbia,South Carolina. It is the flagship of the University of South Carolina System and the largest university in the state by enrollment. Its main campus is on over 359 acres (145 ha) in downtown Columbia,close to the South Carolina State House. The university is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities with Highest Research Activity". It houses the largest collection of Robert Burns and Scottish literature materials outside Scotland and the world's largest Ernest Hemingway collection.
Colorado State University Pueblo is a public university in Pueblo,Colorado. It is part of the Colorado State University System and a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).
Yannis C. Yortsos is a Greek-American chemical engineer and academic,currently serving as Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California.
J. Michael Ortiz is an American educator and the 5th president of Cal Poly Pomona. Prior to this appointment on August 1,2003 Ortiz was professor of education at Appalachian State University and vice president for academic affairs at Fresno State. He was listed in 2005 as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in 2005 by Hispanic Business magazine. In 2008 Latino Magazine named him one of the Top 25 Latinos in Education.
Joe G. N. "Skip" Garcia is an American pulmonary scientist,physician and academician.
Robert Louis Caslen Jr. is a retired United States Army officer who served as the 59th superintendent of West Point from 2013 until 2018 and as the 29th president of the University of South Carolina from July 2019 until May 2021. Between January and May 2019,Caslen was senior counsel to the president and interim chief financial officer at the University of Central Florida. On July 19,2019,the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina elected him as the school's 29th president,a position he assumed on August 1,2019. Caslen also served as HigherEchelon's Special Advisor on Executive Leadership and Character Development. He resigned as President at South Carolina on May 12,2021.
Harris Pastides is an academic and university administrator who served as the 28th president of the University of South Carolina from 2008 until 2019. In addition to his employment at the university Pastides has been on the board of directors of Synovus,a financial services company. On October 3,2018,Pastides announced his intention to retire from the presidency of USC,the last day of which he served on July 31,2019. He was again appointed Interim President at South Carolina after Bob Caslen resigned on May 13,2021,officially taking office May 21,2021 and serving until July 1,2022.
James Bowker Holderman was an American academic. He served as the president of the University of South Carolina from 1977 to his resignation in 1990. He was an alumnus of Northwestern University,where he earned his Ph.D. in 1962.
CatherineJ. Murphy is an American chemist and materials scientist,and is the Larry Faulkner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The first woman to serve as the head of the department of chemistry at UIUC,Murphy is known for her work on nanomaterials,specifically the seed-mediated synthesis of gold nanorods of controlled aspect ratio. She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,National Academy of Sciences,and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav is an Indian chemical engineer,inventor and academic,known for his research on nanomaterials,gas absorption with chemical reaction and phase transfer catalysis. He served as the vice chancellor of the Institute of Chemical Technology,Mumbai from 2009 until November 2019. He is currently the Emeritus Professor of Eminence at ICT Mumbai.
Shixin Jack Hu is the senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Georgia. He is also the UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor in the school of environmental,civil,agricultural,and mechanical engineering in the UGA College of Engineering.
Paula G. Allen-Meares is an American academic who served as the chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago from 2009 to 2015. She has a background in social work.
Susan Poser is the current and first female president of Hofstra University,having succeeded retiring president Stuart Rabinowitz on August 1,2021. Before being named to the Hofstra post,she was chief operating officer,provost,and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Isabel Cruz was an American Portuguese computer scientist known for her research on databases,knowledge representation,geographic information systems,AI,visual languages,graph drawing,user interfaces,multimedia,information retrieval,and security. She was a University of Illinois Chicago Distinguished Professor and a Professor Computer Science in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago. She was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Peter K. Kilpatrick is an American chemical engineer and academic administrator currently serving as the 16th president of the Catholic University of America since July 2022. He previously served as provost of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago from 2018 to 2022 and as dean of the Notre Dame College of Engineering from 2008 to 2018.
Louis Martin-Vega is an industrial engineer who served as Dean of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University from 2006 until 2023. He is best known for the creation of the NSF foundation wide GOALI program which allows for collaborations between academic research institutions and industries.
