May 2, 2024 | News, News Releases, Sustainable Low-Carbon Transportation Initiative
Jessika Trancik is a professor at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research examines the dynamic costs, performance, and environmental impacts of energy systems to inform climate policy and accelerate...
Apr 18, 2024 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases, Sustainable Low-Carbon Transportation Initiative
There is a pressing global need to ensure the efficiency, sustainability, and resilience of transportation systems for both urban and rural communities. Transporting people and goods with fossil-fueled vehicles has long been recognized as unsustainable for most...
Apr 11, 2024 | Campus Sustainability, iCAP Update, Land & Water, News, News Releases
As a land-grant institution, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has a responsibility to acknowledge the historical context in which it exists. We are currently on the lands of the Peoria, Kaskaskia, Peankashaw, Wea, Miami, Mascoutin, Odawa, Sauk, Mesquaki,...
Feb 28, 2024 | iCAP Update, News, News Releases, Transportation
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is well past the halfway point from Illinois Climate Action Plan 2020 to iCAP 2025. It’s time to check in on each of the iCAP chapters to gauge progress, address the challenges our campus faces, and celebrate some...
Feb 15, 2024 | News, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES, Seed Funded Projects
With climate change driving temperature increases, water scarcity, and limited access to energy in urban areas, it has become more important than ever to understand the relationships between urban areas and their resources. Lei Zhao, Assistant Professor of Civil and...