Mar 21, 2022 | News, News Releases, SMARTFARM Project
There is much more carbon stored in Earth’s soil than in its atmosphere. A significant portion of this soil carbon is in organic form (carbon bound to carbon), called soil organic carbon (SOC). Notably, unlike the inorganic carbon in soils, the amount of SOC, and how...
Feb 8, 2022 | Campus Sustainability, News Releases
In September 2020, one NPR headline had all the environmentalists talking: “How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled.” This was no clickbait. Indeed, less than 10 percent of plastic is recycled each year, due to a combination of factors:...
Jan 25, 2022 | RADAR-X Project, RESEARCH PROFILES
Vikram Kumar was always a bright student in elementary and high school, but he felt constrained by the lack of creativity he could engage in when doing schoolwork. Wanting instead to confront questions with undetermined answers, Kumar naturally gravitated toward...
Oct 25, 2021 | E-E FEWS Project, iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
Thanks to the work of Sabrina Summers and her University of Illinois research teammates, you might be able to power your car with your dinner leftovers someday. Summers is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE)...
Oct 1, 2021 | Campus Sustainability, News Releases
May 2024 update: iSEE Intern Madison Holcomb interviewed Nicholas Puddicombe, Siebel’s Senior Associate Director of Operations & Experience, about the building’s sustainable features. Listen here: A wooden ceiling and gray brick-tiled floor extend past...