ACES celebrates 2025 Funk Awards recipients
The College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences celebrated exceptional faculty, staff, and graduate students at the 2025 Paul A. Funk Recognition Awards banquet on Sept. 15 at Pear Tree Estate.
Can cash payments to low-income families improve romantic relationships?
Financial strain can be a major stressor that impacts people’s wellbeing and quality of life, and it can also affect couple relationships.
ABE Young Alumni Award recipient advances aviation’s future innovation
During her senior year of high school, Anna Oldani visited the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and was impressed by the engineering program and the opportunities the school offered. After a conversation with the admissions office, she knew Illinois was the right fit.
National Science Foundation invests in ACES-led project to reduce grassland fire risk
The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced new funding to understand and reduce grassland fire risk in the Southern Great Plains.
NSCEB and Senator Duckworth visit highlights biomanufacturing innovation in ACES
Last week, members of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology joined U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth in her home state to explore Illinois’ role in strengthening national security and developing greater economic resilience through biotechnology innovation, entrepreneurship, and biomanufacturing.
U of I researchers trace genetic code’s origins to early protein structures
Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is?
Explore agriculture at U. of I.’s Harvest Open House
Looking for a family-friendly event this weekend? Check out the fourth annual Crop Sciences Harvest Open House from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 20 at the Crop Sciences Research and Education Center south of campus.
Global executive, prolific author, and family man: ABE distinguished alumni award recipient reflects on a lifetime of purpose and passion
Paul Wallem turned 91 earlier this year, but that hasn’t slowed him down one bit.
New coordinator of DEI education Cherisse Smith advances inclusive intelligence at ACES
Cherisse Smith (she/her), the new coordinator of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) education for the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences,, is at the forefront of inclusive intelligence at the