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    Jessica Conroy receives NSF grant to study tropical water cycles
    2019-06-03 - Conroy was awarded the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate past patterns of the water cycle in the tropical Pacific.
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    Dr. Andrew Miller receives Distinguished Research Scientist award
    2019-05-15 - Dr. Andrew Miller, affiliate of Plant Biology, was presented with the Distinguished Research Scientist award from the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois during a Celebration of Excellence held to honor the outstanding achievements of its employees.
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    Excessive rainfall as damaging to corn yield as extreme heat, drought
    2019-05-01 - University of Illinois scientists have linked historical crop insurance, climate, soil and corn yield data to quantify the effects of excessive rainfall on corn yield.
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    Stephen Long Elected to National Academy of Sciences
    2019-04-30 - University of Illinois plant biology and crop sciences professor Stephen P. Long is one of 100 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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    Daniel Raudabaugh awarded Schmidt Science Fellowship
    2019-04-08 - Daniel Raudabaugh, Plant Biology grad student in Andrew Miller's lab received a highly prestigious Schmidt Science Fellowship - after passing through several rounds of interviews.
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    Crops in silico 2.0: Project Extended with $5 million grant
    2019-03-15 - 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 plant virtually.
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    Ainsworth to receive 2019 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
    2019-01-23 - Elizabeth Ainsworth, USDA Agricultural Research Service, also an adjunct professor at Illinois and a member of the IGB Genomic Ecology of Global Change research theme, will receive the 2019 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences.
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    Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth by 40 percent
    2019-01-16 - Scientists Don Ort (left), Paul South (center) and Amanda Cavanagh (right) study how well their plants modified to bypass photorespiration perform beside unmodified plants in real-world conditions. They found that plants engineered with a synthetic shortcut are about 40 percent more productive
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    Oxford students make their way to Illinois’ research fields
    2019-01-04 - This summer, a new exchange program allowed nine interns from the University of Oxford the opportunity to conduct research alongside highly qualified researchers and experience a different culture at the University of Illinois.
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    Four Illinois faculty members elected AAAS Fellows
    2018-11-30 - From left, mechanical science and engineering professor Narayana Aluru, computer science professor William Gropp and plant biology professors Andrew Leakey and Ray Ming are among 416 scientists elected AAAS Fellows this year.
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    North American checklist identifies the fungus among us
    2018-11-29 - Some fungi are smelly and coated in mucus. Others have gills that glow in the dark. Some are delicious; others, poisonous. Some spur euphoria when ingested. Some produce antibiotics. All of these fungi – and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, more – occur in North America. Of those that are known to science, 44,488 appear in a new checklist of North American fungi, published this month in...
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    Professors Emeriti receive international awards
    2018-07-17 -  
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    Discoveries in the Garden by James B. Nardi
    2018-04-18 - James B. Nardi's latest book is published by The University of Chicago Press.
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    Diverse Tropical Forests Grow Fast Despite Widespread Phosphorus Limitation
    2018-03-08 - In Panama's lowland tropical forest, tree species growing on low phosphorus soils grew faster, on average, than species growing on high phosphorus soils. Credit:
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    Ecological Society of America honors Wendy Yang
    2018-03-06 - The Ecological Society of America has named Wendy H. Yang, a professor of plant biology and geology at Illinois, as an Early Career Fellow.

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