Sep 24, 2024 | News, News Releases
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce the creation of the Levenick Center for a Climate-Smart Circular Bioeconomy, the first such named center in the United States, pending approval by the Board of Trustees in November. Funded by a...
Sep 16, 2024 | Levenick Fellows, News, News Releases
The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) has selected four external scholars to be part of the Stuart L. and Nancy J. Levenick Resident Scholar in Sustainability Leadership program for the 2024-25 academic year at the University of Illinois...
Sep 13, 2024 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases, Seed Funded Projects, Uncategorized
Existing global energy projections underestimate the impact of climate change on urban heating and cooling systems by roughly 50% by 2099 if greenhouse gas emissions remain high, researchers report. This disparity could profoundly affect critical sustainable energy...
Sep 12, 2024 | Campus Sustainability, News, SWATeams, Transportation
The University of Illinois community has made steady progress and encountered a fair share of challenges on the road to its goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 — a target set out by the Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP). However, keeping that central...
Sep 3, 2024 | News, Uncategorized
As the inaugural recipient of iSEE’s Doug and Dawn Sitton Award, University of Illinois senior Rudy LaFave won a paid internship to work with the Illinois Environmental Council (IEC) on lobbying efforts during the Illinois General Assembly’s spring legislative...
Jul 9, 2024 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases, Seed Funded Projects
An iSEE seed-funded research project that uses robotics and artificial intelligence to autonomously manage “high tunnel” food production is entering its second year at the University of Illinois Sustainable Student Farm. U. of I.’s Robot Integrated High Tunnels...