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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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    Introducing Beescape: a new online tool and community to support bees
    2019-04-17 - A new online tool and community, called Beescape, enables beekeepers, or anyone interested in bees, to understand the specific stressors to which the bees in their managed hives, home gardens or farms are exposed, according to researchers at the University of Illinois, through a collaboration with Penn State University.
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    Team measures puncture performance of viper fangs
    2019-04-17 - Like other vipers, puff adder skulls have hinged jaws that deploy the fangs when the animal opens its mouth to strike.
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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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    Researchers: Pesticides influence ground-nesting bee development and longevity
    2019-03-12 - Study explores little-understood effects of soil exposure on subterranean colonies. Results from a new study suggest that bees might be exposed to pesticides in more ways than we thought, and it could impact their development significantly.
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    2019 World of Biology Photo Competition
    2019-03-05 - Deadline for submissions: 12:00 noon, Friday, April 5, 2019 Exhibit of Entries: 3‐5 PM, May 2, 2019 during the SIB Award Ceremony at NHB
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    Termite threats on the big screen at Insect Fear Film Festival
    2019-02-22 - This soldier termite and related species are called nasutes. Their mouthparts are fused to form a projection that squirts defensive chemicals to repel marauders attacking the colony, in contrast to other types of termites that have long, swordlike mandibles. Termites are the theme of the annual Insect Fear Film Festival on Feb. 23.
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    Study of Arctic fishes reveals the birth of a gene – from ‘junk’
    2019-02-12 - Animal biology professor Christina Cheng and her colleagues determined how the gene for an antifreeze protein in Arctic fish evolved from noncoding DNA.
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    A new partnership for the bees: Illinois teams with Anheuser-Busch for bee research
    2019-02-05 - There’s plenty of sweet irony in a new partnership between Illinois and St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, LLC, that will raise money for bee research at the university. Anheuser-Busch has pledged $5,000 to The Healthy Bee Fund at Illinois. In addition, the company will donate $1 to the fund for every case sold of b, a new alcoholic honey beverage scheduled to go on sale in the Northeast U.S. in...
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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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    Dracula ants possess fastest known animal appendage: the snap-jaw
    2018-12-12 - The mandibles of the Dracula ant, Mystrium camillae, are the fastest known moving animal appendages, snapping shut at speeds of up to 90 meters per second.
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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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