2025-05-09 - Shaowen Wang issues this straightforward invitation: Your perspective is needed now more than ever.He’s encouraging you to attend the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress (SRI2025) June 16-19 in Chicago. The cyberGIS and geospatial science expert...
2025-04-30 - Marynia Kolak is a professor of geography and geographic information science and principal investigator for the Health Regions & Policies Lab. As a health geographer and spatial data scientist, Kolak is...
2025-04-14 - Scientific collaboration often begins with a simple conversation, an exchange of ideas that transcends borders. For Bruce Rhoads, a professor of geography and geographic information science and river dynamics expert, and Alexander Sukhodolov, a research...
2025-04-01 - PhD student Gyudae "GD" Kim has received the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Excellence Award in Undergraduate Teaching for a Graduate Teaching Assistant and the...
2024-04-03 - GEOSCIENCE Camp for Girls is planning to return for two days in July 2024 under the new name Earth, Society & Environment Camp for Girls! This 2-day camp will host 30 students from Urbana Middle School to encourage curiosity and foster interests related to Earth, Society...
The south entrance to the Natural History Building has a new statue - a life size mammoth. Appropriate for Illinois, these magnificent creatures were native to the region until they went extinct about 13,000 years ago, around the same time as humans first came to the what is now Illinois. Photo by...
SESE Sophomore Sakshi Vaya was a finalist in the Reimagine Our Future Sustainability Competition - her project “Jeevatva – Bringing Waste into the Cycle of Use”. View her work and that of the other finalists at https...
Two mounds on the Louisiana State University campus may be the oldest known structures in the Americas, with their oldest layers being 11,000 years old. Stratigraphic analysis and carbon dating of ash layers suggest that the mounds were built and used, at least intermittently, over thousands of...
Professor Larry Di Girolamo is a co-Principle Investigator on the MAIA (Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols) NASA mission, working on the formulation and implementation of the mission, instrument design (particularly in its spectral, sampling, and orbital attributes), and cloud and aerosol...
Warren Lavey and Holly Rosencranz describe the new Climate Change, Law & Health course at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This course is open to undergraduates across the university through the Campus Honors Program, and attempts to address one the greatest challenges facing the...
The New York Times just featured an article about the RELAMPAGO project in Argentina - a project run by our own Department of Atmospheric Science. The project was lead by Professor Steve Nesbitt, with Professors Jeff Trapp, Francina Dominguez, and Deanna Hence as major participants with...
Erinn Dady, a junior studying earth, society, and environmental sustainability, is working with Kevin Tan, an assistant professor of social work, ...
Cloud seeding has become an increasingly popular practice in the western United States, where states grapple with growing demands for water. Measuring how much precipitation cloud seeding produces has been a longstanding challenge. Researchers have developed a way to use radar and other tools to...
This past weekend in Washington, D.C, ESES major Erinn Dady presented her poster titled, "Soil Fertility and Arbuscular Mycorrhiza: Impact on Herbivore Induced Plant Volatiles in Tomato," at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Emerging National Researchers in STEM. Erinn was...
Clouds hold the key to understanding climate change - and University of Illinois are flying through storms to get the data we need to predict future change. See the article in verge...