Greetings, and happy fall semester! Campus is abuzz with excitement as students, faculty, and staff re-engage in face-to-face activities. It is wonderful to hear “I-L-L I-N-I” again.

Over the summer of 2021, I was able to participate in a virtual internship in Cape Town, South Africa with VA Corps, where I collaborated with public health leaders and nonprofit organizations in the field of HIV/AIDs relief and education.

Although this wasn’t my original plan for the summer of 2021 (I would have preferred an in-person study abroad experience), I believe the circumstances that brought upon this experience were unchangeable and I found the program, nonetheless, to be extremely valuable to both my personal and academic aspirations.

When Dr. Germán Bollero became interim dean for the College of ACES in late September, he left a vacancy in the Office of Research. Fortunately, Dr. Alex Winter-Nelson agreed to step into the role of acting associate dean for research and director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. But Winter-Nelson's shift left an opening in the Office of International Programs. With her expertise in international development, Dr.

My name is Lauren Moy and I am a first-year pharmacy student at University of Illinois Chicago College of Pharmacy. I am from the city of Chicago, so going to this school meant I was able to come home. I graduated from the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in May 2021.

Vanessa Cahill, an ACES graduating senior in ACE, majoring in policy, international trade and development, delivered this December’s ACES convocation speech. She said, "Due to the pandemic, I was unable to study a semester abroad as planned during my time at Illinois. This pushed me to buckle down and finish my degree by December to take a few months and explore new parts of the world before starting work. If ACES has shown me one thing, it is the endless opportunity in this industry. That being said, I am not limiting myself to working in America.

The ACES community is filled with passionate people – some in the spotlight and some behind the scenes. They care about and focus on world-changing work like:

I grew up in Kenya, just outside the capital city, in a community of smallholder farmers, and have experienced first-hand what it is like to grow food for subsistence. This has shaped my appreciation for agriculture and the role it plays to combat hunger and improve the livelihoods of communities around the world.

Dietetics students from the Food Science and Human Nutrition (FSHN) 329 Communication in Nutrition course celebrated National Nutrition Month by hosting a National Nutrition Month Fair in the Student Dining and Residential Programs Building (SDRP) on March 7. The booths covered various nutrition topics for college students, including Fad Diets, the Flexitarian Diet, Intuitive Eating, Alcohol, Meal Planning, Gut Health, Cannabis Nutrition for COVID-19 Prevention and Recovery, Sports Nutrition, and Eating on a Budget.

When Eweek shows up in my inbox, I’m all in. I scroll to the “Research Participation” section first every time. In my two years at the University of Illinois, I’ve developed, well, a taste for taste testing food. In the name of research, of course.

It started with cookies. All I had to do was answer some questions online to take part in a Food Science & Human Nutrition (FSHN) study.