Nov 28, 2023 | iSEE Research, Midwest CASC, News, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
Rohini Vembar is one of two M.S. students in Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences who has received funding from the Midwest Climate Adaption Science Center (CASC) team at the University of Illinois. Working with Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS)...
Jun 28, 2022 | Agrivoltaics Project, iSEE Research, RESEARCH PROFILES
Paul Mwebaze likes American football, European football, and agrivoltaics. Let’s break that down if it’s confusing: the first is football, the second is soccer, and the third is integrating agricultural crops and solar panels on the same piece of land. Mwebaze...
Jan 25, 2022 | RADAR-X Project, RESEARCH PROFILES
Vikram Kumar was always a bright student in elementary and high school, but he felt constrained by the lack of creativity he could engage in when doing schoolwork. Wanting instead to confront questions with undetermined answers, Kumar naturally gravitated toward...
Oct 25, 2021 | E-E FEWS Project, iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
Thanks to the work of Sabrina Summers and her University of Illinois research teammates, you might be able to power your car with your dinner leftovers someday. Summers is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE)...
Sep 1, 2021 | News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES, SMARTFARM Project
Xiangmin “Sam” Sun is a postdoc focusing on field observation of greenhouse gas fluxes for biofuel crops, and has interests in eco-hydrology and data sciences in general. Sun graduated from Lanzhou University in China with a bachelor’s degree in Hydrology. He then...
Aug 10, 2021 | Crops in silico Project, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
The architecture of a plant’s organs, such as leaves, stems, roots, and buds, plays a significant role in its growth and productivity. Even within a single species like sorghum, architectural differences due to genetic variation are common. Like many other genetic...