State Farm Research and Development Center
The State Farm Research and Development Center opened in January 2005 at the Research Park of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The insurance company State Farm has been involved in academic programming, student assistance and research at U of I for over 35 years, but this facility allows for of college interns working on projects to benefit the company as a whole, while students get to apply what they learn in class to business problems.