Killeen 2015-present
Timothy L. Killeen was named as the 20th president of the University of Illinois in November 2014 after a national search. He assumed office on May 18, 2015, following the retirement of Robert Easter.

"The University of Illinois will continue to broaden opportunity; educate, enrich, and empower our students; discover, create, and disseminate the new knowledge needed for our common future; and drive economic development through innovation – all with a commitment to scholarship and excellence and in service to the public good,” he said at the time of his selection.

During his first week in office, Killeen and the three campus chancellors visited all three campuses of the U of I as well as the regional campuses in Peoria and Rockford. In addition to meeting with groups of students and faculty, they hosted town hall meetings at each location to gather input and hear concerns.

Before he took office, Killeen was charged by the Board of Trustees to develop a university-wide strategic plan.

Kolping:
Killeen 2015-present
Timothy L. Killeen was named as the 20th president of the University of Illinois in November 2014 after a national search. He assumed office on May 18, 2015, following the retirement of Robert Easter.

"The University of Illinois will continue to broaden opportunity; educate, enrich, and empower our students; discover, create, and disseminate the new knowledge needed for our common future; and drive economic development through innovation – all with a commitment to scholarship and excellence and in service to the public good,” he said at the time of his selection.

During his first week in office, Killeen and the three campus chancellors visited all three campuses of the U of I as well as the regional campuses in Peoria and Rockford. In addition to meeting with groups of students and faculty, they hosted town hall meetings at each location to gather input and hear concerns.

Before he took office, Killeen was charged by the Board of Trustees to develop a university-wide strategic plan.

He was the provost and vice Chancellor of the University which means he was still one of the Head of the University, it doesn't necessarily mean he was going to be the number one in power but he was part of the Executive and the head of the University

The Board of Trustees have the highest power in the university

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akdjr:
You're very correct my fellow N....recently I had a chat with an elder who happen to be a Yoruba by tribe about Oduduwa whom he claimed migrate from Saudi which I totally disagree and I now ask him the name of Oduduwa when he migrate from Saudi to Nigeria? That was when end his doctored version of history.

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LazyGold:



He was the provost and vice Chancellor of the University which means he was still one of the Head of the University, it doesn't necessarily mean he was going to be the number one in power but he was part of the Executive and the head of the University

The Board of Trustees have the highest power in the university

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ValCon888:

Your Ivy League is made in Aba. Stop misleading people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League

oga it is a public ivy

That's not Ivy League Univ though

LazyGold:


Ilesanmi Adesida (born 1949, Ifon, Ondo State, Nigeria) is a naturalized American physicist of Yoruba Nigerian descent. He has been the provost at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, from September 2016.

Adesida is also the Donald Biggar Willett Professor Emeritus of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; he retired from Illinois in 2016. In May 2012, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois selected Adesida to be the next vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost of the Urbana campus, a position he held from August 15, 2012 to August 31, 2015. Other positions that Adesida held at Illinois included Dean of the College of Engineering, Director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Director of the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and Professor of the Coordinated Science Laboratory. Adesida was also a member of the board of Fluor Corporation from 2007 to 2011.

Adesida's field of academic research is nanotechnology with special emphasis on high speed devices used in communications. His research expertise also includes nanofabrication science and technology, high-speed optoelectronic devices and wide-bandgap materials and devices.

Adesida earned his bachelor's (1974), master's (1975), and doctoral (1979) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Research

Adesida is an expert in the processing of semiconductors and other materials at the nanometer-scale level and in ultra-high-speed heterostructure field-effect transistors—the sort of transistors used in cell-phones, fiber optics communications, deep space communications, and other applications. His contributions have provided insights into the limits of advanced lithography and other nanofabrication techniques.

He and his students continue to work in the areas of nanoelectronics and high-speed optoelectronic devices and circuits. Recent work has focused on the development of devices and circuits in the key materials such as indium phosphide and gallium nitride utilized in high-performance wireless, optical fiber communications, and high temperature applications. He has published over 350 referenced papers, has presented over 250 papers at international conferences, and has written many book chapters.

Professional organizations and honors

Adesida is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Vacuum Society, and the Optical Society of America.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, the Nigerian Academy of Engineering, the Materials Research Society, and the Society for Engineering Education.

In 1994, he received the Oakley-Kunde Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education from Illinois, and in 1996 he won the Best Paper Award at the Micro- and Nano-Engineering Conference. In 2011, he was awarded the Electrons Devices Society Distinguished Service Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 2016, he won the Functional Materials John Bardeen Award from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society.

At Illinois he was appointed a University Scholar and an Associate Member of the Center for Advanced Study. He is a former president of the IEEE Electron Device Society, a winner of the EMSA Presidential Student Award; an IEEE Electron Device Society Distinguished Lecturer (1997–2002); a member of the Bohmische Physical Society (1988); and the holder of an IBM Postdoctoral Fellowship (1979–1981).

In 2013 he was selected by the Carnegie Foundation of America as a 2016 Great Immigrant Honoree.

https://ece.illinois.edu/directory/profile/iadesida

Illinois is not an Ivy league uni. Let's be guided.

LazyGold:



Yes you can not edit the truth, so why did you exclude the worthy runners-up?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/nigerian-prof-makes-history-in-us-heads-ivy-league-school/amp/

Even Vanguard referred to the University as Ivy League School

Olodo. Is worthy runner up the same as public ivy?

Timmypromise:
Wow..... All these omoluabi just making wave without noise.....

Concentrate them back home and form a new Republic away from these yamayama people from the north and empty noise makers of the East. Omoluabi have to grow themselves away from Nigeria.

DoTheNeedful:
Nice one. He was a lecturer at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in Bauch too for a long time.

nice to know that he taught there

sukerefakere:
A great American

Honor10:
American ? because it is not ibo name, abi? continue

Actually he has a point ... in the US they will refer to him as the pride of America ... but if he was caught with drugs in his house they will be quick to label him as an African immigrant

Do well and they will all (Afonja, Igbos, Naijas, America etc) claim you. Coommit fraud, do ritual killings, commit crimes abroad and not even the mad man will say he knows you... Failure, shame is indeed an orphan.

Stale news

Yoruba is #1

Olawalesmarter:
Very brilliant and intelligent

as in eh, no be here oh.

These are the people that haven't let western nations like the USA give up of Nigerians seeking visas.
Left for the scammers and the drug pushers Nigerian would have been banned from traveling out of Nigeria.

If you are still on NL alive, every two years you will.see this topic on front page

WTF is a public ivy?

Does the OP think Ivy is a synonym for university? There are just 8 Ivy League schools please.

KingAzubuike:
He is not Nigerian, he's American. Only that his ancestors are from this zoo. So make una take am easy dey claim people.

He says he is a NATURALIZED American, which means he was/is still Nigerian (given dual nationality)...

LazyGold:

Yes you can not edit the truth, so why did you exclude the worthy runners-up?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/nigerian-prof-makes-history-in-us-heads-ivy-league-school/amp/

Even Vanguard referred to the University as Ivy League School

Merely shows the IGNORANCE of the paper...
Magnified by the MISNOMER that dude “headed” the university. SMH

ekestic1976:


But he doesn't do the white stuff or traffick in substandard merchandise, from Indonesia to China to South Africa and to Canaan the Motherland!

You mean the ones that Tinubu and kashamu Buruji are legendary for merchandising?

Respect to the dude...
BUT THE HEADLINE IS SIMPLY WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS!

First, the University of Illinois system is headed by a President (just like most US universities), while each campus of the multiple-campus UI system is head by a Chancellor, and thus it seems that what Dr. Adesida was is head of academic affairs of ONE OF THE THREE CAMPUSES of the university - itself no mean accomplishment but not what the headline (or the ignorant Vanguard article) is proclaiming. Kudos to him.

Meanwhile, can we drop this so-called “Public Ivy” nonsense which is nothing but puffery?!

This man helped me then in 2005 with my admission, never knew was this great

valicious1:

Be like say u wan make Afonja dem swear for u dis night.

abeg make una no vex o nah only Yoruba and Igbo dey 9ja so
cos I am not understanding them them always for important positions and feats in the world. what of our brodas from the up

adeniyi3971:
A great Nigerian, Well-done.

Actually, a great American.

Igbo has no ancestral lineage with oduduwa. Oduduwa is a prince of Benin kingdom case closed. quote author=Timmypromise post=77969582]

OK noted if you want more history about Yoruba go to Brazil or Ile-ife stop asking your imaginary woman......And Yoruba would want to know more about how igbo came in to existence [/quote]

kjhova:


Actually, a great American.

that's your problem, keep fighting with it.

9jaRealist:


Merely shows the IGNORANCE of the paper...
Magnified by the MISNOMER that dude “headed” the university. SMH

Heads doesn't mean he have to be the one with the highest power in the University but he is still part of the executives and heads, the Board of Trustees have the highest power in the university

Timmypromise:
Wow..... All these omoluabi just making wave without noise.....

it's become normalcy to us, unlike our fellow wailers from the yeast that always make noise online

kjhova:


Actually, a great American.

weyrey, he had yoruba blood flowing in his vein, he never denied been a yoruba...... E pain you?................


COMMIT SUICIDE

148Chimezie200:
nice

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Is that a script for detecting new topics on Nairaland and posting on them?

Where others fail, we excel... I am proud to be a yoruban