The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an inter- and multidisciplinary
research institute devoted to basic research in the physical sciences, computation,
engineering, biology, behavior, and cognition.
The Institute's primary
mission is to foster interdisciplinary work of the highest quality,
transcending the limitations inherent in traditional university organizations
and yielding research advances that more conventional approaches cannot.