Guan receives endowed professorship in iSEE's Levenick Center
A first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary center focused on creating a climate-smart circular bioeconomy is poised for significant growth, with the appointment of a director, two endowed professorships, and a major campus commitment to hire four new faculty in departments across the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Jeremy Guest, Associate Director for Research at the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) and award-winning Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Grainger College of Engineering, has been selected as Director and iSEE Levenick Professor at the new Levenick Center for a Climate-Smart Circular Bioeconomy at Illinois.
iSEE recently received a $10 million gift from Stuart L. and Nancy J. Levenick to establish the Center in collaboration with the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES).
Kaiyu Guan, Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES) at ACES and Founding Director of the Agroecosystem Sustainability Center at iSEE, has been chosen as the ACES Levenick Professor. Guan is a prolific researcher known internationally for his work using agroecosystem sensing and modeling to improve agricultural productivity and sustainability.