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Written and produced by Big Ten Network producers Tim Hartin, Kaitlin Southworth and Alison Davis Wood, The Game Changer tells the story of how Dr. Tim Nugent changed…
The Game Changer
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The Big Ten Network and the University of Illinois tell the story of how one man changed the world for people with disabilities in “The Game Changer,” a new…
The Game Changer
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A new documentary premiering on the Big Ten network features three extraordinary women at the University of Illinois. The program shows how Jean Driscoll uses sports to…
Making Their Mark: Jean Driscoll
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A new documentary premiering on the Big Ten network features three extraordinary women at the University of Illinois. President Obama in 2014 awarded professor May…
Making Their Mark: May Berenbaum
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On September 13, at the request of Chancellor Phyllis Wise, a handful of faculty and staff members gave “Campus Insights” presentations to the Board of…
Campus Insights: Disability Resources and…
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This program profiles three alums of the University of Illinois who have used their success to enrich the experience of current students and have a profound effect on…
The Ripple Effect
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Tim Nugent started a program at Illinois that changed peoples lives and how the world looks at disability. Sixty years ago, Nugent founded Illinois' Department of…
Tim Nugent: Creating an Accessible World
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In this premiere episode of "Illinois Innovators," viewers meet Fine and Applied Arts Professor and digital animator Gerald Guthrie. Guthrie's art…
Animator Gerald Guthrie: Combining the Old and…
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A documentary about the Overlooked Film Festival and Ebertfest, an annual event showcasing films selected by renowned film critic, Roger Ebert, an Illinois alumnus, at…
Ebertfest Documentary
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A new documentary premiering on the Big Ten network features three extraordinary women at the University of Illinois. Pioneering computer artist and Academy Award…
Making Their Mark: Donna Cox
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A new documentary film on the story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, the first Native American alumnus of the University of Illinois. Montezuma was born in 1866 in the Arizona…
Carlos Montezuma: Changing is Not Vanishing
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On June 23, 1972, President Nixon signed an educational amendment to prevent sex discrimination in educational institutions. Although sports were not specifically…
Title IX: Let 'em Play
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Carol Tilley, a professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Illinois, has become a rock star in the comic book world. She champions the use of…
Carol Tilley: Comic Book Crusader
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As the end of the school year comes to a close, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gathers together to bring back the iconic Alma Mater statue for their 2013…
Augmented Alma: The New Image of an Illinois Icon
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This new documentary provides the backstory to a name that many know from the basketball court and the boardroom. Growing up in southern Illinois in the 1940s and 50s,…
Mannie Jackson: From Boxcar to Boardrooms
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Illinois is a global leader in research into flexible and transient electronics designed to help researchers monitor people and the environment more closely. Learn how…
BTN LiveBIG: Flexible and Transient Electronics…
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Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO) is dedicated to developing and deploying animated educational materials that can be used to improve the lives of people in…
BTN LiveBIG: SAWBO - Changing Lives One Animation…
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Nathan Gunn is a Grammy-winning operatic baritone. Between performances at the world’s greatest opera venues, Gunn and his equally gifted wife/accompanist, Julie…
Illinois Innovators: Nathan and Julie Gunn
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Rajmohan Gandhi is the biographer and grandson of the Mahatma Gandhi. He is also a research professor at the University of Illinois Center for South Asian and Middle…
Illinois Innovators: Rajmohan Gandhi
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Thomas K. Cureton Jr., who taught at the University of Illinois from 1941 to 1969, is known as the father of physical fitness. He lectured around the world and wrote…
Illinois Innovators: Thomas Cureton Jr., the…
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Electrical Engineering Professor Stephen Levinson and his team of graduate students are developing an artificially intelligent robot named the ICUB. ICUB is the size of…
Child-sized, artificially intelligent robot ICUB…
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Nick Holonyak, Jr. is called the godfather of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. We interact with Holonyak's inventions every day. The technology in visible LEDs,…
A Brilliant Idea: Nick Holonyak, Jr. and the LED
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Follows the Marching Illini from their first summer practices to their performance at Homecoming, 2011, when they were joined by hundreds of marching band alumni to…
Marching Illini: March to Homecoming
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Illinois students take to the stage on University of Illinois Mom’s Day Comedy Special, presenting the best in “clean” college humor and sketch…
Illinois Mom's Day Comedy Special
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