Jan 18, 2017 | Levenick Fellows, News, News Releases
JAN. 18, 2017 — The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) has named Animal Biology Professor Ken Paige and Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Jeffery Roesler the first Levenick iSEE Teaching Fellows as they prepare to teach the fall...
Jan 11, 2017 | Illinois sesquicentennial, News, News Releases
JAN. 12, 2017 — Researchers from the University of Illinois and collaborating institutions predict that Midwest soil may lose as much at 15% of its stored carbon — and thus its agricultural fertility — over the next 100 years due to the effects of global climate...
Dec 21, 2016 | iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES, Smart Water Disinfection Project
Kelley Goncalves is a Ph.D. student in Molecular and Cellular Biology, so her part in the Smart Water Disinfection project is mostly under the microscope. The Smart Water project as a whole seeks a more detailed understanding of how viruses become inactivated...
Dec 21, 2016 | iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES, Smart Water Disinfection Project
Bernardo Vazquez Bravo is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Engineering focusing on drinking water disinfection. As part of the Smart Water Disinfection project, he is working to understand more precisely how widely-used modern virus inactivating methods like chlorine...
Dec 21, 2016 | iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES, Stormwater and Mosquito Control Project
Allison Gardner is a Ph.D. Candidate in Entomology researching the effects of habitat quality on the reproduction of mosquitoes. In particular, she studies how different species of leaves caught in a storm drain — a favorite breeding place for mosquitoes — can help or...
Dec 21, 2016 | iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES, Stormwater and Mosquito Control Project
Andrew Mackay is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Entomology with a broad interest in arthropods and public health. He joined Associate Professor Brian Allan’s lab in 2012, just as Allan was starting to turn his mind toward human-made stormwater...