UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

$75M in claimed savings from 35 terminated grants

Total grant value: $123M

Agencies involved: Department of Energy, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Department of Agriculture, Department of Homeland Security, National Endowment for the Humanities, Department of Defense, USAID

Total Grants

35

Terminated by DOGE

Total Grant Value

$122.844M

Originally awarded

Total Claimed Savings

$75.293M

From terminations

Showing 35 of 35 grants

Terminated Grants

Agency ↕️Grant Value ↕️Claimed Savings Date ↕️DescriptionLink
USAID$30M$23.7M3/1/2025
The purpose of the new Soybean Value Chain Research (SVCR) Innovation Lab (IL) is to facilitate the development and dissemination of evidence-based technologies and practices for widespread adoption and build the capacity of public-private partners across soy market systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (SS
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Department of Energy$20.542M$18.999M10/2/2025
THE OBJECTIVE OF THE ILLINOIS BASIN WEST CARBONSAFE PHASE III PROJECT IS TO GEOLOGICALLY CHARACTERIZE THE CAMBRIAN MT. SIMON SANDSTONE/EAU CLAIRE FORMATION STORAGE COMPLEX NEAR THE DALLMAN POWER GENERATION PLANT IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, AND TO SUBMIT THE REQUIRED UNDERGROUND INJECTION CONTROL (UIC)
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Department of Homeland Security$40.307M$11.263M4/8/2025
to identify, execute, and deliver scientifically sound research that improves the resilience of the Nation’s critical infrastructure, and to transition outputs from that research to the Department of Homeland Security components, and the homeland security enterprise at large.
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Department of Agriculture$5M$5M4/22/2025
EXPANDS MARKETS FOR CLIMATE-SMART CORN, SOYBEAN AND SPECIALTY CROPS IN AL, IL, IN, MO AND IA AND SUPPORTS FARMERS WITH IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING OF CLIMATE-SMART PRACTICES.
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Department of Energy$2.585M$2.52M10/2/2025
THIS PROJECT PROPOSES CREATIVITY-BASED CO-DESIGN AND DEMONSTRATION OF INTELLIGENT MODELING, PROTECTION, AND GRID EDGE CONTROL TO PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE PROTECTION COORDINATION SOLUTION FOR THE BULK POWER SYSTEM (BPS) WITH HIGH PENETRATION (UP TO 100%) OF INVERTER-BASED RESOURCES (IBRS) TO ENSURE PO
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Department of Energy$3M$2.343M10/2/2025
BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW (BIL) - COLORADO (PUEBLO) REGIONAL DIRECT AIR CAPTURE (DAC) HUB THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO COMPLETE A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR A REGIONAL DIRECT AIR CAPTURE (DAC) HUB THAT ENCOMPASSES THE PUEBLO REGION IN THE COLORADO STATE, THAT IS DESIGNED TO ASSURE A CA
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Department of Energy$2.939M$2.315M10/2/2025
BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW (BIL) - ILLINOIS BASIN REGIONAL DIRECT AIR CAPTURE (DAC) HUB THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO COMPLETE A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR A REGIONAL DIRECT AIR CAPTURE (DAC) HUB THAT ENCOMPASSES ILLINOIS, INDIANA, AND KENTUCKY. THE GEOGRAPHIC CONSTRUCT OF THIS HUB IS BA
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Department of Energy$2.779M$2.247M10/2/2025
BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW (BIL) - FLORIDA REGIONAL DIRECT AIR CAPTURE (DAC) HUB THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO COMPLETE A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR A REGIONAL DIRECT AIR CAPTURE (DAC) HUB THAT ENCOMPASSES PORT SMITH REGION IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA. THE GEOGRAPHIC CONSTRUCT OF THIS HUB IS
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Department of Energy$1.984M$1.494M10/2/2025
ADVANCED CHARACTERIZATION OF WASTEWATERS WITH A FOCUS ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMICS THE GOALS OF THIS PROJECT ARE TO ADVANCE THE CHARACTERIZATION OF COAL COMBUSTION RESIDUAL EFFLUENTS, AND TO ILLUSTRATE THE USE OF SUCH CHARACTERIZATION TO DETERMINE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY.
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Department of Homeland Security$2.111M$1.276M3/17/2025
Best Practices for Reintegration Programming for Returning Spouses and Children
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Department of Defense$1.997M$1.063M3/23/2025
Sustainable Power for Decarbonization of Naval Vessels
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Institute of Museum and Library Services$0.579M$0.531M4/8/2025
Implementing the Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians
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Institute of Museum and Library Services$0.65M$0.468M4/28/2025
Beyond Visuals: Improving Accessibility of Data Curation and Multi-Modal Representations for People of all Abilities through Reproducible Workflows
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Institute of Museum and Library Services$0.421M$0.317M4/28/2025
Unbiased AI for Poetry Analysis: Toward Equitable and Diverse Digital Libraries
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Department of Energy$0.55M$0.27M10/2/2025
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN W/NREL: NEW AWARD DE-FOA-0002051 ATLANTIS PHASE II PROJECT TITLE: WIND ENERGY WITH INTEGRATED SERVO-CONTROL (WEIS): A TOOLSET TO ENABLE CONTROLS CO-DESIGN OF FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY UNDER ATLANTIS PHASE I, THE WIND ENERGY WITH INTEGRATED SERVO-CONTROL (W
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Institute of Museum and Library Services$0.248M$0.23M4/28/2025
Implementing assessment tools for library impact on students’ academic success
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Institute of Museum and Library Services$0.4M$0.199M4/8/2025
Empowering Libraries with Conversational AI
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National Endowment for the Humanities$0.147M$0.147M4/4/2025
The collection of twenty oral histories with African American elders and first responders, and the facilitation of three community archive creation events, to document participants’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The oral histories and digitized objects would be made available online via
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Institute of Museum and Library Services$0.15M$0.137M4/28/2025
National Forum to Connect and Advance Library Makerspaces
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Institute of Museum and Library Services$0.143M$0.136M4/8/2025
Consortial Collaboration for Academic Library Leadership Success (CCALLS)
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Institute of Museum and Library Services$0.123M$0.121M4/8/2025
Chicago in the Year 2000: Preserving the voices and sounds of Chicago
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Institute of Museum and Library Services$0.499M$0.12M4/8/2025
Promoting Computational Thinking Skills for Blind and Visually Impaired Teens through Accessible Library Makerspaces
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Institute of Museum and Library Services$0.174M$0.067M4/8/2025
Individualized, Equity-Focused Evaluation of Public Library Makerspaces
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Institute of Museum and Library Services$0.15M$0.067M4/8/2025
Libraries as Partners for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Times of Crisis
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National Endowment for the Humanities$0.06M$0.055M4/4/2025
A foundations project to develop a portal of women in science, starting with domestic science department collections held at the University of Illinois (UI) and University of Minnesota (UM). The work would include digitizing 21 linear feet of collections and creating partnerships, workshops, protoco
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National Endowment for the Humanities$0.3M$0.049M4/4/2025
The digitization of 100,000 pages of historical Illinois newspapers with a focus on suburban areas and southern regions of the state.
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Institute of Museum and Library Services$0.417M$0.045M4/8/2025
Strengthening Public Libraries' Information Literacy Services Through an Understanding of Knowledge Brokers' Assessment of Technical and Scientific Information
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National Endowment for the Humanities$0.095M$0.041M4/4/2025
Archaeological research at the ancient Native American center of Cahokia resulting in tribal outreach and scholarly publications and presentations (24 months). 
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National Endowment for the Humanities$0.075M$0.033M4/4/2025
The development of a method to computationally identify the paratextual elements within the digitized book collections in the HathiTrust Research Library.
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National Endowment for the Humanities$0.058M$0.014M4/4/2025
A pilot project to create a digital collection of 20 African Arabic manuscripts from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University with images, translations, and brief essays.
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Institute of Museum and Library Services$0.248M$0.013M4/8/2025
Email Archiving in PDF: From Initial Specification to Community of Practice
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National Endowment for the Humanities$0.007M$0.007M4/4/2025
To support the open access edition of Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South by Candace Bailey.
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National Endowment for the Humanities$0.007M$0.007M4/4/2025
To support the open access edition of&nbsp;<em>Inside Chinese Theater: Community and Artistry in Nineteenth-Century California and Beyond</em> by Nancy Yunhwa Rao.
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Department of Energy$0.1M$0M10/2/2025
NEW AWARD - DE-FE0032219 - UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS TITLED: ''ENGINEERING-SCALE TESTING OF THE BIPHASIC SOLVENT BASED CO2 ABSORPTION CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY AT A COVANTA WASTE-TO-ENERGY FACILITY''
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USAID$4M$0M3/1/2025
Award Associate Award to Soy IL for purpose of creating and implementing tools for scaling of innovations. Associate Award Innovation to Impact 2.0.
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