Posted on February 12, 2026
A dashboard summarizing Illinois app usage is the university’s entry for this year’s Big 10 Academic Alliance Data Visualization Championship. Submitted by Cameron Schwing—a data analyst in the Office of the Chief Information Officer—the dashboard won the University of Illinois 2026 Data Viz competition.
Posted on May 1, 2024
The Rokwire platform earned the 2024 Innovative Technology Award from the National Association of Campus Card Users for or being “a unique technology-based solution” for building a comprehensive app at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Posted on November 29, 2023
The Daily Illini
Rokwire is setting up new Illinois app contributors for success and will be adding features to the next release in early 2024.
An app built on the Rokwire platform can be individualized for any campus and be “student centric” to “enhance engagement, wellness, and academic achievement.”
Rokwire will serve as a title sponsor of the 2023 annual conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. This year’s theme focuses on ways “campuses and cities embrace shared understandings and a commitment to fostering greater resilience.”
The Virtual Visioning Workshop hosted by the Center for Social and Behavioral Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites social and behavioral scientists to collaborate on an open source platform to assist in collecting data through mobile apps and from devices such as smart watches. Jim Regh, the director of the Health Care Engineering…
At Rokwire, we pay attention to the research activities of our colleagues at the University of Illinois to identify future collaboration opportunities. We’re excited about the ground-breaking research being done by the Personalized Nutrition Initiative and look forward to partnering with them to explore how smart technologies can promote health and well-being. Learn about it below.
Daily Beast (October 21, 2022)
A new study by University of Illinois Computer Science Professor Bruce Schatz and colleagues shows that measurements taken with wrist-worn motion sensors can be used to predict one’s mortality risk up to five years later. The researchers hope that one day motion detection systems in smartphones can be used to survey patient health without the need for in-person doctor visits.
The Daily Illini
Learn how the Illinois app is making the student experience better. “A lot of our efforts are trying to understand the barriers to students’ success . . . and how we can use this technology to reduce those hurdles.”
The Daily Illini
Rokwire’s Illinois app allows anyone with a NetID to create a group chat for friends or people with shared interests. The group function is one of many new abilities available in “Illinois 4,” the updated version of the Illinois app.
Illinois App
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