Dec 6, 2022 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases
The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) will catalyze research on sustainable transportation modes in the Midwest thanks to a $1 million gift from the 2019 settlement of a consumer class-action lawsuit. “We will use the funding to invest in...
Oct 12, 2022 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases
A team of Agroecosystem Sustainability Center (ASC) scientists was awarded a grant from the Illinois Nutrient Research and Education Council (NREC) to quantify streambank erosion across the state and its contributions to phosphorus (P) loading of surface waters....
Sep 1, 2022 | I-GUIDE, iSEE Research, News, News Releases
In 2021, iSEE helped establish the Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE), securing a $15 million, five-year grant through National Science Foundation’s Harnessing the Data Revolution. Five such institutes across...
Jun 28, 2022 | Agrivoltaics Project, iSEE Research, RESEARCH PROFILES
Paul Mwebaze likes American football, European football, and agrivoltaics. Let’s break that down if it’s confusing: the first is football, the second is soccer, and the third is integrating agricultural crops and solar panels on the same piece of land. Mwebaze...
May 26, 2022 | I-FARM Project, iSEE Research, News Releases
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that it is funding a new collaboration between two institutes and a research center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign that will create an integrated farm of the future in the U.S. Midwest. Titled...
May 4, 2022 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases, SMARTFARM Project
University of Illinois researchers were part of a multi-institutional team that has significantly improved the performance of numerical predictions for agricultural nitrous oxide emissions using novel modeling that combines artificial intelligence and process-based...