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Team finds regional, age-related trends in exposure to drug-resistant pathogen
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Plant Biology's Li-Qing to serve as Principal Investigator in new global partnernship
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EEB professor and postdoctoral research associate featured in US-SCAR interview
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Lisa Ainsworth named RIPE Director
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College of LAS honors staff and academic professionals, announcing teaching and advising award winners for outstanding contributions.
The College of LAS has selected 16 professors, graduate students, lecturers, and advisors as the recipients of the 2025 teaching and advising rewards.Additionally, earlier in the year the college announced it was recognizing seven staff members and academic professionals for their outstanding...
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First-Ever Conceptual Model Explains Variations in Agricultural N2O Emissions
Nitrous oxide (N2O) has long been agriculture’s sustainability Achilles heel. While only making up 6% of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, N2O has 300 times the heat-trapping ability ofcarbon dioxide (CO2) and stays in the atmosphere for about...
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Long/Ort step back from RIPE leadership roles they helped create
After decades of impactful and prolific research, two photosynthesis trailblazers are passing the torch, Stephen Long and Donald Ort are retiring from their leadership roles for the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) project at the...
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Entomology researchers have cicada research featured in Science publication
At this year’s Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology (SICB) Conference, Entomology Assistant Professor Marianne Alleyne and graduate student Yutao Chen showcased their research on the...
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Quantifying life history difference in tropical plant communities can help in predicting changes in population size
A University of Illinois team recently published new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences based on their ongoing work on Barro Colorado Island (BCI), a key research site...