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University of Illinois President Tim Killeen talks geophysics career, current state of climate science and retirement

 
President of the University of Illinois system Tim Killeen (Left) talks to Steve Nesbitt (Middle), head of the department of climate, meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences and Maddie Stover (Right), doctoral student in physics, on his career, significance of NCAR and the university’s future in achieving carbon neutrality.

President of the University of Illinois system Tim Killeen (Left) talks to Steve Nesbitt (Middle), head of the department of climate, meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences and Maddie Stover (Right), doctoral student in physics, on his career, significance of NCAR and the university’s future in achieving carbon neutrality. Reginald Hardwick/IPM News

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President of the University of Illinois System Tim Killeen will be retiring in 2027 after 12 years of working for the university. Killeen is a lead researcher in geophysics and space sciences and has served as a principal investigator on research projects funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation. He was also the director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He took office at the University of Illinois in 2015.

​University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate student Maddie Stover and Professor in the Department of Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Steve Nesbitt, State Climatologist at the Prairie Research Institute, and President of the University of Illinois system Tim Killeen, discuss his career and research in space weather and the university’s role in leading sustainability.

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