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  • Bruce Fouke with samples of coral reefs in his lab.
    Get to know cancer researcher and ESEC professor Bruce Fouke
    2026-05-13 - The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) has more than 125 members from across the Illinois campus, including the Ralph E. Grim Professor in Earth Science & Environmental Change, ...
  • Two people in graduation caps and gowns.
    Teaching the questions, not just the answers
    2026-05-08 - For many students, their introduction to earth science and environmental change begins in Max Christie’s classroom at the University of Illinois...
  • Sydney Geiger-Bryce.
    ES student Sydney Geiger-Bryce named a 2026 Community-Academic Scholar
    2026-05-06 - The Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute is proud to introduce our 2026 Community-Academic Scholars (CAS). Representing 23 majors and minors in seven colleges, the 19 scholars in this cohort encompass a diverse array of fields of study, from kinesiology to computer engineering to urban...
  • jess Johnson in front of some ruins.
    The double life: GGIS undergraduate studies geography and history
    2026-04-30 - What happens at the end of science? Philosophy?It is the kind of question that can pause a conversation. Not because science fails, and not because philosophy is waiting at the edge of the laboratory to correct it, but because every discipline, if you follow it far enough, begins to run into its...
  • The mammoth statue in front of Noyes Hall.
    ESES to ES: A new name for what we've always been about
    2026-04-27 - Starting Fall 2026, the Earth, Society and Environmental Sustainability (ESES) Bachelor’s degree will become Environmental Sustainability (ES). If you've been around our program, this might already sound familiar — students, faculty, and staff have been calling us "Environmental Sustainability...
  • Mark Lara and Zhuoxuan Xia standing in front of a digital display.
    Team tracks vegetation recovery from sudden permafrost collapse
    2026-03-30 - Some Arctic regions regain their “greenness” within a decade of a sudden permafrost collapse, while others can take a century or more to recover, researchers report in a new study. The difference is directly related to each site’s gross primary productivity, a measure of its photosynthetic capacity...
  • Jordan McAlister in front of a waterfall.
    Meet Jordan McAlister: A Q&A with GGIS’ newest professor and advisor
    2026-03-23 -  Jordan McAlister is a human geographer with interests in the built environment, historical geography, and historic preservation. A native of Texas, he has long taken an interest in the cultural and regional geographies of...
  • Coral in the ocean.
    Still standing but mostly dead: Recovery of dying coral reef in Moorea stalls
    2026-03-11 - In April 2019, a marine heat wave struck a coral reef on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia, killing much of the coral and the beneficial algae that colonized it. This “bleaching” event reduced live coral populations on the reef from about 75% beforehand to less than 17% a year later and led...
  • Remnants of resource mining in Bangladesh.
    Study documents conflict between commerce and conservation at mining operation in Bangladesh
    2026-03-11 - A new study using multidecade satellite imagery and face-to-face human interviews tracked the environmental and societal impacts of gravel mining in the Lubha River, Northeast Bangladesh. The researchers found that the river had recovered its natural shape within just four years after gravel mining...
  • The cover of Severe and Hazardous Weather.
    Inside the new edition of Severe and Hazardous Weather: A Q&A with author Bob Rauber
    2026-03-09 - For decades, professor emeritus Bob Rauber has helped students understand some of nature’s most powerful and destructive forces. A longtime professor of the department of climate,...
  • Dracula Urbanism and Smart City Mania cover and David Wilson.
    GGIS professor's book explores ‘Dracula Urbanism,’ the dark side of smart city development
    2026-02-17 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — City development is increasingly associated with creating “smart cities” that use technology for managing city services, home construction and attracting resources. But those strategies come with negative consequences to a city’s poor residents, said...
  • Anita Shore standing in a restored prairie.
    Building knowledge and agency through Online Environmental Sustainability
    2026-02-13 - Anita Shore enrolled in the online Environmental Sustainability program to deepen her understanding of the environmental challenges facing our world today — and to gain the tools to help address...
  • Kelvin Droegemeier standing in front of a computer posing for a photo.
    What’s the state of the research landscape?
    2025-12-22 - The first year of President Trump’s second term has ushered in a host of policy changes to higher education, research funding, and priorities. Kelvin Droegemeier, professor of climate, meteorology and atmospheric science at the...
  • Two students taking a tree ring core from a tree.
    ‘Trees are time machines’: How a graduate geology course uses tree rings to read Earth's climate history
    2025-12-15 - Geology can take many forms, from the study of rocks and minerals to the living records preserved in trees. At Homer Lake Forest Preserve, graduate students from the ...
  • The Natural History Building from the South.
    SESE Facilities Operations Manager receives LAS staff award
    2025-12-12 - Eight staff members and academic professionals are being honored by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences for outstanding professional contributions. As a facility operations coordinator for the Departments of Mathematics and...

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