diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 2598011d69..4f0b82fdec 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Software Library and Utilities
 
 NCSA HDF5 (Hierarchical Data Format 5) Software Library and Utilities 
 Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 by the Board of Trustees 
-University of Illinois.  All rights reserved.
+of the University of Illinois.  All rights reserved.
 
 Contributors: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the
 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Lawrence Livermore