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New Method Has Promise for Accurate, Efficient Soil Carbon Estimates

Agroecosystem Sustainability Center researchers share the strategy and data publicly.

Cover Crop Management: Trade-Off between Carbon Benefits, Crop Yield

Ecosys model helps assess the impacts of winter cover cropping.

Teachers: The Environmental Heroes We Didn’t Know We Needed

Levenick iSEE Teaching Fellow Samantha Lindgren created a course to address sustainability issues in education — and her students highly recommend it.

Illinois Green Fund Marks Two Decades

Allocated by the Student Sustainability Committee, two student fees have generated $16.7 million — funding 353 campus projects and counting!

iSEE Seed-Funds Two New Projects

Campus as Living Lab research will apply automation to farming, waste solutions.

The Microbiome Connecting Thread: From Farm to Food to Human Health

IRAI seed-funded project explores how regenerative farming practices lead to healthier soils and ultimately healthier people via the human microbiome.

Sidney Lu MEB: Elegant and Sustainable

Additions to the Mechanical Engineering Building foster community and sustainability.

A Winding Path to a Writing Career

2019 Certificate in Environmental Writing recipient Zack Fishman now reports for NewsGuard Technologies, which rates the trustworthiness of news sites.

iSEE Seeking Proposals for Research on Next-Gen, Low-Carbon Transportation

Deadline Feb. 27, 2023, for concept paper, preliminary information from researchers; funding will be $300,000 over three years.