Three members of the College of ACES community — Lisa Kelly, Carissa Nelson, and Mynda Tracy — are recipients of the 2026 Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Award. This is one of the highest honors for staff at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and reflects the meaningful impact of their work across ACES and beyond.
Having opportunities to expand my professional network outside of campus has been one of the most valuable aspects of my student career in the College of Agricultural Consumer and Environmental Sciences.
When the semester ended this May, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said goodbye to one of its most beloved professors. Paul Stoddard has retired after more than 25 years of dedicated service to the university and the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.
We recognize that the Canvas outage has created significant disruption during finals week for both students and instructors.
For decades, livestock producers and evaluators have relied on trained eyes to judge how animals move. Now, researchers in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign aim to turn those visual assessments into measurable data, helping improve cattle health, longevity, and management.
The ACES Study Abroad Office facilitates a portfolio of undergraduate, credit-bearing study abroad programs for Illinois students going abroad and for students from international partner institutio
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