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iCAP Update: Greener Transportation

Campus has had great success fulfilling many Transportation objectives. But big challenges remain — in particular, negating emissions from air travel.

Climate Change and Urbanization: Team Employs New Modeling Framework

Process-based climate modeling and machine learning/artificial intelligence produce a real simulation of climate dynamics in urban landscapes.

iCAP Update: Toward ‘Zero Waste’

Campus has made significant strides in many areas, but it is behind schedule on its target of reducing overall campus waste by 10 percent in 2024.

I-GUIDE Team Examines the Vulnerability of Dams across the United States

Research into this aging infrastructure across the nation can ‘help inform decision-makers, especially for regions most at risk.’

iCAP Update: Educating Our Entire Campus about Climate Change

iSEE’s Environmental Leadership Program is a crowning achievement.

Making an Impact: Q&A With Sustainability Programs Coordinator Miriam Keep

Miriam Keep brings a global background to her new position as iSEE’s Sustainability Programs Coordinator. After receiving her Master’s in…

iCAP Update: Building Resilience with Green Infrastructure, Jobs

Team helps prepare the greater community for an uncertain environmental future.

iCAP Update: Sustainability Starts With Energy Generation, Conservation

First in a series of updates on Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP).

Climate Win-Win: Enhanced Weathering

A new method developed by Leverhulme Centre researchers calculates the carbon-capture potential of basalt rock applied to cropland.