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The Department of Crop Sciences in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences has opened a new student collaboration space, located on the first floor of Turner Hall at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Peyton Sorensen, a third-year doctoral student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has earned a predoctoral fellowship from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to fund her research.
Kaiyu Guan, Levenick Professor of Sustainability in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, has been named a 2026 MacArthur Fellow, receiving what is commonly known as a “genius grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Two University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have received nearly $1.6 million from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research’s Efficient Fertilizer Consortium to study how fertilizers perform under Midwestern growing conditions.
The undergraduate program in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign earned the No. 4 spot in the nation in U.S. News & World Report’s 2027 Best Colleges rankings, continuing its longstanding place among the nation’s leading agricultural and biological engineering programs.
When Caitlin Bloomer wrestled the massive Crawzilla crawdad — yes, that’s its actual common name — out of the muck during a bio-survey event in Kentucky, she was convinced it was the largest crayfish ever recorded.
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