Full Text of SR0604 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION | 2 | | WHEREAS, Illinois' microelectronics and quantum ecosystem | 3 | | can pave the way for solving innovation and national security | 4 | | challenges for the nation; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, Illinois is home to Fermi National Accelerator | 6 | | Laboratory, which received $115M from the U.S. Department of | 7 | | Energy to establish the Superconducting Quantum Materials and | 8 | | Systems Center; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, Illinois is home to Argonne National Laboratory, | 10 | | which received $115M from the U.S. Department of Energy to | 11 | | support Q-NEXT, an effort that will translate quantum | 12 | | discoveries into technologies that benefit society; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 14 | | received $25M from the National Science Foundation for a | 15 | | Quantum Leap grant to advance scientific, technological, and | 16 | | workforce development goals; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, The University of Chicago received $25M from the | 18 | | National Science Foundation for a Quantum Leap Grant to | 19 | | pioneer new ways to use quantum technology in biology and to | 20 | | develop the quantum workforce through STEM education and | 21 | | outreach; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Illinois is a national leader with $280M in | 2 | | federal funding for quantum initiatives supported by the 2018 | 3 | | National Quantum Initiative Act; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, The Chicago Quantum Exchange, one of the largest | 5 | | quantum collaboratives in the country, leads efforts to | 6 | | advance the science and engineering of quantum information, | 7 | | train the quantum workforce of tomorrow, and drive the local | 8 | | and national quantum economy; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, The University of Chicago's Polsky Center, the | 10 | | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the Chicago | 11 | | Quantum Exchange launched the nation's first quantum startup | 12 | | accelerator, Duality, which supports quantum startups, | 13 | | providing the critical resources they need to develop and | 14 | | scale their businesses; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, The State of Illinois invested $200M in | 16 | | quantum-related research efforts at the University of Chicago | 17 | | and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, which will | 18 | | help support a joint research building within Chicago; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, Illinois has the third-highest number of | 20 | | universities engaged in quantum research and has the | 21 | | third-most quantum degrees in the nation; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Illinois' Community College System is the | 2 | | third-largest system in the nation and the largest workforce | 3 | | development provider in the State, offering programs that are | 4 | | directly aligned with the needs of their local and state | 5 | | industries serving the needs of nearly 10,000 employers across | 6 | | the State; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, An Illinois-based proposal was selected as a 2023 | 8 | | U.S. Tech Hubs Designee for Quantum by the U.S. Economic | 9 | | Development Agency, a program that aims to strengthen U.S. | 10 | | economic and national security with investments in regions | 11 | | across the country with assets and resources with the | 12 | | potential to become globally competitive in the technologies | 13 | | and industries of the future and, for those industries, | 14 | | companies, and the good jobs they create, to start, grow, and | 15 | | remain in the United States; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, The State invested $500 million to establish the | 17 | | Discovery Partners Institute and the Illinois Innovation | 18 | | Network led by the University of Illinois System to establish | 19 | | a network of research and innovation hubs that will serve as a | 20 | | magnet for technology and talent; and | 21 | | WHEREAS, A University of Illinois Chicago-led, U.S. | 22 | | Department of Energy-funded national consortium will educate |
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| 1 | | the next generation of quantum engineers and provide pathways | 2 | | into the quantum computing workforce for groups traditionally | 3 | | underrepresented in STEM fields; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, The National Science Foundation-funded National | 5 | | Q-12 Education Partnership, led by University of Illinois | 6 | | Urbana-Champaign, will expand access to K-12 quantum learning | 7 | | tools and inspire the next generation of quantum leaders; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, Since 2017, Illinois quantum startups have raised | 9 | | $33.2 million through 27 agreements, the second-highest number | 10 | | of deals by quantum startups in the country; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, Chicagoland's 124-mile quantum loop is the | 12 | | country's longest quantum network; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Illinois has the world's first publicly | 14 | | accessible quantum network node, the first quantum technology | 15 | | deployed on public infrastructure that the public can directly | 16 | | access at the Urbana Free Library, led by faculty from the | 17 | | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's | 19 | | Grainger College of Engineering has more combined computer | 20 | | science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering | 21 | | bachelor's graduates than any other college of engineering in |
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| 1 | | the nation and is starting a new semiconductor minor program; | 2 | | and | 3 | | WHEREAS, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and | 4 | | the University of Chicago are each co-leading new U.S. | 5 | | Department of Defense Microelectronics Commons Hubs to carry | 6 | | out microelectronics research in support of national security | 7 | | and next generation technology for the benefit of the nation; | 8 | | and | 9 | | WHEREAS, The Grainger College of Engineering at the | 10 | | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has 40 top ten ranked | 11 | | degree programs and specialties, including micro-electronics | 12 | | disciplines; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, John Bardeen, the inventor of the transistor, | 14 | | perhaps the most important invention of the 20th century, | 15 | | brought semiconductor research to University of Illinois | 16 | | Urbana-Champaign and the State of Illinois; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's | 18 | | Grainger College of Engineering is the place where the | 19 | | inventors of the LED, transistor, and the integrated circuit | 20 | | called home; and | 21 | | WHEREAS, Illinois has enacted The Manufacturing Illinois |
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| 1 | | Chips for Real Opportunity Act (MICRO), which creates a new | 2 | | suite of statewide tax incentive programs for makers of | 3 | | semiconductors, microchips, or component parts, making | 4 | | Illinois a welcoming and strategic location for manufacturers | 5 | | of microchips and semiconductors looking for their next U.S. | 6 | | manufacturing site; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, Illinois universities received a National Science | 8 | | Foundation Future of Semiconductors Workforce Grant to boost | 9 | | new semiconductor technologies, manufacturing, and workforce | 10 | | training and development in the State and across the nation; | 11 | | and | 12 | | WHEREAS, The U.S. Department of Energy invested over $22M | 13 | | in Fermilab and Argonne for microelectronics research; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, Companies have invested $90M in University of | 15 | | Illinois Urbana-Champaign's IBM-Illinois' Discovery | 16 | | Accelerator Institute to support research and education in AI, | 17 | | cloud, and quantum technologies and $5M in educational | 18 | | programs at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to bolster | 19 | | the U.S. semiconductor workforce; therefore, be it | 20 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL | 21 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we congratulate and | 22 | | thank all those who continue to advance innovative technology |
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| 1 | | in Illinois; and be it further | 2 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 3 | | delivered to President Joseph R. Biden, U.S. Secretary of | 4 | | Commerce Gina Raimondo, National Institute of Standards and | 5 | | Technology Director Laurie E. Locascio, University of Illinois | 6 | | President Timothy L. Killeen, University of Chicago President | 7 | | Paul Alivisatos, Illinois Community College Board Chair | 8 | | Dr.Lazaro Lopez, and all members of the Illinois Congressional | 9 | | Delegation. |
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