This grant supports travel for conducting basic research in China or conducting China studies-related research in databases, collections and archives anywhere in the world. Graduate students in a Ph.D. program and non-tenure track faculty at any career stage are eligible.
Travel Grants in China Studies
Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship
$104,000 is available towards a two-year master’s degree in preparation for entry to the U.S. Foreign Service Agency for International Development (USAID). The program includes mentorship, two paid summer internships and USAID employment. Applicants must be college seniors or graduates who are U.S. citizens.
Illinois researchers prove new method to measure ozone stress in soybeans
As the world focuses on not only solving the climate crisis but also sustaining the world’s food supply, researchers need tools to evaluate how atmospheric pollutants affect crops. Over the past decade, the agriculture community has turned to solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) measurements to detect stresses on plants.
ACES alum uses farm management for community impact
URBANA, Ill. – It did not take long for alum Sophia Hortin (ACES ’23) to use her degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to make an impact in her role managing Clearview Farm and its popular sunflower fields in Northwest Champaign.
Graduate Student Appreciation Week: Meet Camila Bogarin, doctoral student in ABE

It’s Graduate Student Appreciation Week! These students impact our college in such a positive way by assisting with research, mentoring other students and bringing creative ideas to higher education. Meet Camila Bogarin, one of our graduate students in the College of ACES:
ACES students selected for 2023 Homecoming Court
Four students from the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) were selected for the 2023 Homecoming Court at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
ACES expert: Nature exposure can ease ADHD symptoms
URBANA, Ill. — As organizations bring attention to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in October for ADHD awareness month, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign expert says time in nature can ease symptoms of the common child- and adulthood condition.&
Crossbred cattle as a response to climate change

Victor Funes-Leal is a doctoral student in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics (ACE)
Don’t feel appreciated by your partner? Relationship interventions can help
URBANA, Ill. – When we’re married or in a long-term romantic relationship, we may eventually come to take each other for granted and forget to show appreciation.