In April, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences (MANRRS) chapter traveled to Memphis, Tennessee to take part in MANRRS: I Am Because You Are: 39th Annual Training Conference & Career Expo.
In April, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences (MANRRS) chapter traveled to Memphis, Tennessee to take part in MANRRS: I Am Because You Are: 39th Annual Training Conference & Career Expo. Here, students reflect on their experiences.
Senior Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES) major Guadalupe Montero said,
Two leaders from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Determining, analyzing, or predicting how crops will grow in the field takes time and labor. The interactions between genetics, environment and agricultural practices are challenging to measure. The newly published results of a five-year study on maize (or corn) demonstrate that autonomous ground robots can accurately and reliably capture this information.
Ben Riseman, a marketing intern for the College of ACES, covers student life from a student’s perspective. In this piece, he highlights one of the college’s most immersive experiential learning opportunities: The Spice Box is a capstone project that gives hospitality management students full creative and operational control of a fine dining restaurant.
Through a partnership among the College of ACES, the Illinois Department of Agriculture, and Feeding Illinois, student-raised livestock from the Illinois State Fair Sale of Champions is being transformed into meaningful support for local food banks — helping nourish neighbors and fight food insecurity.
When piglets don’t get enough milk in the first weeks of life, the chances of them thriving dramatically decline. In the U.S. pork production system, piglets with limited access to their mothers’ milk are typically “cross-fostered” with other sows. But in the E.U., a different solution is gaining ground. In certain circumstances, underfed piglets are artificially reared with milk replacer, mimicking feeding setups used in biomedical research.
Summer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign means it’s time to welcome future Illini to campus for ACES Family Academies
The Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute has announced their 2025 Community-Academic Scholars.