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Eric Wolske: Just Keeping Digging

Eric Wolske, a member of Illinois’ Agroforestry for Food (A4F) team, has found a simple way to explain the project’s…

Crops in silico 2.0: Project Extended with $5M Grant from Foundation FAR

Grant will be a major boost for crop modeling researchers, who started project with iSEE seed funding in 2015.

Institute Seed-Funds a Record Nine New Research Projects for 2019 Initiatives

Five projects added as part of 2019 interdisciplinary seed-funding initiative; four added under Campus as a Living Lab initiative.

Reading the leaves: Illinois Ph.D. student models crops in silico

It might come as a surprise that Crops in silicon researcher Colleen Heinemann, a Ph.D. student in the Informatics Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, wasn’t always convinced of her passion within computer science.

iSEE Offers Research Funding Support

Interdisciplinary, interdepartmental proposals for up to $30,000 due Dec. 3.

Ilsa Kantola: Sustainable Farming has its Roots in Soil

iSEE Communications Intern Jenna Kurzweil profiles Postdoctoral Research Associate Ilsa Kantola, a member of the Illinois team working for the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation (LC3M).

Sustainability Microcosm: New Research to use Campus as ‘Living Lab’

One project will try to redirect waste heat through a thermochemical battery; the other will test turning food scraps into fuel while treating wastewater and creating fertilizer.

Meet Allison Parker — Taking the Battle to the Mosquitoes

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iSEE Researchers Develop New Powder to Combat Oil Spills in Bodies of Water

iSEE-funded scientists at the Illinois are offering a new hope to combat oil spills: an environmentally friendly remedy that attacks the problem at an atom-to-atom level.