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Campus Expanding Geothermal Option with Foundations at Hydrosystems Lab

May 15, 2019 | Energy Generation, Purchasing, and Distribution, News, News Releases

Geothermal energy foundations will be installed this summer as part of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s (CEE) Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory addition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Substantial completion of the...

UPDATE: Eco Illini Win Competition!

Apr 22, 2019 | News, News Releases

UPDATE: The Eco Illini team won the Prototype Batter Electric Competition, topping 21 other teams, at the Shell Eco Marathon in early April. “We are very pleased with these results, and they show us we have a good foundation for next year,” Team President...

Arbor Day and Earth Week: Top 5 Trees to See on Urbana-Champaign Campus

Apr 18, 2019 | News, News Releases

The Horticulture Club is hosting a Tree Walk on Thursday, April 25, 2019 — part of Earth Week and the U of I’s Arbor Day celebration. The Tree Walk will include 20 trees from all around campus, which has been a registered Tree Campus USA since 2015. On Friday,...

Greek Life/iSEE Partnership Sparks Green Action by Campus Chapters

Apr 12, 2019 | Green Campus Certifications, News, News Releases

The college lifestyle is fast-paced, encouraging students’ “to-go” mentality and behaviors, whether that be employing reusable coffee cups or Styrofoam food containers. But this type of lifestyle is traumatic to the earth. University of Illinois juniors Julia Irle and...

Transforming Scraps into 3D Models

Apr 4, 2019 | News, News Releases

Sawdust flies through the air as students quickly finish up class projects. As the day calms and the students leave, the sawdust settles near the ground. Just another day in the life of an architecture workshop and many fab-labs across campus. All the sawdust,...

Crops in silico 2.0: Project Extended with $5M Grant from Foundation FAR

Mar 15, 2019 | Crops in silico Project, iSEE Research, News, News Releases

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Crops in silico (Cis) project has received a $5 million grant from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) to continue building a computational platform that integrates multiple models to study a whole...