The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign takes seriously the facilitation of both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, being home to many research centers, institutes, programs, and initiatives. Importantly, these facilities not only provide cutting-edge infrastructure but house a great number of specialists, enabling interactions between young researchers, students, and postdocs that use this infrastructure for collaborations with faculty. Some of these important facilities include Materials Research Lab, Beckman, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology , and Nick Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. Interdisciplinary research at Civil and Environmental Engineering includes but is not restricted to, sustainable infrastructure, environmental hazards, water energy, materials, and multi-scale computation.