News Releases | ILLINOIS

Let it Bee! The Student behind U of I’s New Bee Campus USA Certification

Oct 30, 2018 | Agriculture, Land Use, Food, and Sequestration, News, News Releases

Communities across the country are pulling together in support of the nation’s pollinators, and the University of Illinois recently added its name to the list. This year, the U of I applied for Bee Campus certification through Bee City USA, an initiative of the Xerces...

Cool Idea: Transportation Building Reinvests its Energy Savings Award

Oct 24, 2018 | Energy Conservation and Building Standards, News Releases

If you were handed a neat stack of cash and told you could use it for anything, would you choose to spend it on sustainability? After winning a 2017 cash prize in Facilities & Services’ Energy Conservation Incentive Program (ECIP), occupants of the Transportation...

Field to Library: U of I Collaboration for Sustainable Book Conservation

Oct 17, 2018 | News, News Releases, Purchasing, Waste, and Recycling

A dynamic partnership in the works at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign aims to prove that paper doesn’t — and perhaps shouldn’t — grow on trees. The participants? Fresh Press — a hand papermaking studio at the School of Art + Design — and the U of I...

Student Energy Consumption Research

Oct 12, 2018 | iSEE Research, Levenick Fellows, News, News Releases

Home ownership comes with all kinds of benefits: private space, property investing, reliable laundry access. Those conveniences also come with costs such as a mortgage and utility bills. However, if you are a student living in a dormitory, you do not have many of...

iSEE Helps Secure $6M+ in New Grants

Sep 14, 2018 | News, News Releases

URBANA, Ill. — The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment is pleased to announce it has helped attract two grants totaling more than $6 million for University of Illinois and partner researchers this month: $5M DOE Grant for Energy Crops Study A U of...

iSEE Seeks Critical Conversation Topic

Sep 13, 2018 | News, News Releases

The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) invites proposals to organize a Critical Conversation during the 2018-19 academic year on a topic that presents a grand societal challenge related to environmental sustainability. Preference will be...