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Year Est.

  • University of Illinois, Chicago
  • University of California, Irvine
  • 2014

  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • Oakland University
  • 2021

  • University of Florida
  • Columbia University
  • 2008

  • University of Virginia
  • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • 2002

  • Colorado School of Mines
  • Ohio State University
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • 2010

  • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • University of Arkansas
  • 2010

  • Ohio State University
  • 2012

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