 In this role, Ikenberry led the consolidation of the University's Medical Center and Chicago Circle campuses to form the current University of Illinois at Chicago, now the largest and most comprehensive research university campus in metropolitan Chicago.In Urbana-Champaign, Ikenberry led several major academic initiatives, including the creation of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.Ikenberry led the Universities first major capital campaign and launched a second campaign in the late 1980s to raise in excess a billion dollars.