Kathryn Polkoff, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumna, entrepreneur, and scientist, is on a mission to reduce methane emissions from cattle and create more sustainable livestock production. 

A bacterial protein fragment called corisin drives the process of pulmonary fibrosis by infiltrating and disrupting the cell’s quality-control system, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Mie University in Japan found in a new study. Meanwhile, blocking corisin with an antibody impeded the damage.

The Morrow Plots in the heart of campus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign hold significance as a landmark and a lasting contribution to agricultural research.

Celebrating National Toasted Marshmallow Day with alumna Jessie Yang

Jessica “Jessie” Yang has taken what she learned as a food science student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and turned it into something spectacular: a marshmallow that changes color when you toast it.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently proposed a rule that would change how new ingredients enter the food supply for humans and animals. The agency states that, since 1958, manufacturers have been permitted to draw their own conclusions about the safety of these ingredients through a “Generally Recognized as Safe” (GRAS) framework. The proposed rule would require companies to notify the FDA of all GRAS determinations going forward.

Black parents who experienced higher levels of appropriated racial oppression — defined as shaping one’s behavior and self-concept around dominant cultural norms of whiteness — were less likely to transmit positive, culturally protective messages that affirmed racial pride and self-worth to their adolescent children, a recent study found.

This fall, the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign welcomes not only its 2026 freshman class, but also an outstanding cohort of new and newly promoted faculty. This year, the college promoted 22 faculty members and hired eight more.

Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications will become the eighth academic department in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, following final approval by the Illinois Board of Higher Education on Aug. 19.

Illinois soccer junior forward and Richmond, British Columbia native, Emma Yee has been named to Canada's roster for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Poland, the association announced last week. Yee is a junior in Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, part of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.