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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A collaboration between Princeton University engineers and entomologists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign began with the researchers chasing grasshoppers in a hot parking lot. Their eventual focus on the hindwings of one species of grasshopper, Schistocerca...

From Illinois to York: what studying abroad taught me about learning and life

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I never imagined I’d study abroad. Before this past spring, I had never even left North America, and my worldview was shaped by a distinctly American perspective. That changed when I transferred to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My mom studied abroad in Scotland while she was in...

New model can accurately predict a forest’s future

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — One of the great challenges of ecology is to understand the factors that maintain, or undermine, diversity in ecosystems, researchers write in a new report in the journal Science. The researchers detail their development of a new model that — using a tree census and genomic data...