RESEARCH PROFILES
Elena Blanc-Betes: More than Grazing the Surface
One of the biggest struggles of forging a sustainable path to the future is making sense of the complexity of the problems we face. It’s not enough to figure out how to produce enough food for 10 billion people — we must also rise to the challenge of producing that...
Cameron Schwing: What’s the Buzz
Commonly written off as mere nuisances, mosquitoes actually pose a significant threat to human health, as they are vectors for dangerous diseases such as Zika virus, West Nile virus, and malaria. According to National Geographic, mosquito-borne diseases are...
Mike Masters: Deeply Rooted in Sustainability, the U of I
Mike Masters, Field Research Specialist for the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation (LC3M), is no stranger to sustainability or to the University of Illinois — in fact, he’s been with both since the very beginning. “I’ve been around forever!” Masters...
Ghana Challa: Crop Modeling Truly a ‘Growth’ Industry
Ghana Challa, a Postdoc on the Crops in silico (Cis) team and member of Principal Investigator Amy Marshall-Colón’s lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has an incredible vision for the future of farming. “My vision is this: In 10 or 20 years,...