Scientific Infrastructure Investment Study shows that state of the art facilities aid in the recruiting of high-quality university faculty members. In a recent study by the Rand Corporation, university administrators stated that the best way to recruit faculty is to have state of the art facilities. The students and research dollars will be attracted to the faculty and facilities. $55 million in capital funding in 1993 to the Chemical Life Science building UI-Urbana $30 million in capital funding in 1997 for a new research tower at IL State University $50 million capital funding in 1994 for a new Molecular Biology Lab at theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago $12 million each in capital funding in 1996 for new engineering buildings at SIU Carbondale and Edwardsville $19 million in capital funding in 1992 for an additional engineering building (Faraday Hall) at Northern IL University $100 million in 2000 for a new College of Medicine Building at the University of Illinois at Chicago $75 million in 2000 for a new Post-Genomics Institute at the University of Illinois $30 million in IL Venture Tech F>$8 million in 2000 to construct a new technology incubator building at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign $30 million in state and federal funds for the establishment of the DuPage County Research Park in 2001 $3.5 million to the Illinois Medical District for lab/office expansion in the 100% occupied Chicago Technology Park $10 million to the IL Institute of Technology National Center for Food Safety In all cases, the projects broke records at the time for single largest public investment on each campus

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