Sep 26, 2018 | iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
“From an early age, I was aware of farming going on around me, and the importance of land and soil to everything in our lives.” Originally from Sacramento, a vibrant city nestled at the top of California’s Central Valley, iSEE Postdoctoral Research Associate Ilsa...
Feb 12, 2018 | Critical Infrastructure and Transportation Project, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
Meet Jia Zhong — Modeling a Better Future Most people don’t look to economics to solve issues in sustainability. However, Jia Zhong, a member of the Critical Infrastructure and Transportation project and a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural...
Nov 30, 2017 | iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES, Stormwater and Mosquito Control Project
Meet Allison Parker — Taking the Battle to the Mosquitoes The saying goes that in war you must “know your enemy” to defeat it, and that’s exactly the aim of Allison Parker’s research. She’s a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in Entomology at the University of Illinois, and...
Oct 30, 2017 | iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES, Stored Solar Stove Project
Meet Sam Lindgren — Selling Sun Buckets to the Next Generation Sam Lindgren is a Ph.D. Candidate in Agricultural and Biological Engineering and a member of iSEE’s Stored Solar Stove research team. While her teammates work to technically perfect the “Sun Bucket”...
Apr 21, 2017 | Critical Infrastructure and Transportation Project, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
William Naggaga Lubega is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil Engineering’s Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability (EWES) program at Illinois, and is one of several student members of the Critical Infrastructure and Transportation project...
Mar 1, 2017 | Crops in silico Project, iSEE Bios, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
Ph.D. Candidate Kavya Kannan confidently sits behind her laptop explaining a series of charts and graphs. By looking at her screen, you’d never know that her computer — a manmade mixture of metals and complex engineering — allows her to enhance one of the earth’s most...