Recent ACES alumna Molly Boyd contributing to agricultural education in Ghana through prestigious International Agricultural Educational Fellowship
As part of a prestigious fellowship sponsored by The Norman Borlaug Institute, Molly Boyd, a 2024 graduate from the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
UIAA honors dedicated couple for Distinguished Service Award
The University of Illinois Alumni Association has named Jim and Marlene Evans the 2024 recipients of the
What this chocolate scientist got to learn from — and teach — cacao farmers in Trinidad and Tobago
Editor's note: This article was written for The Hershey Company by chocolate scientist and College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences alum Allison Brown, Ph.D., who volunteered to help cacao farmers and business owners in Trinidad and Tobago maximize the value of their crops.
Big dreams to big data: ACES alum shares her path from crops to data science
Jarai Carter didn’t know she could combine her passions for big data and agriculture when she enrolled as a crop sciences major in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
He cut class to see her at breakfast. Nutrition became their lives
Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day. But it was beyond important for Henry Leung, PHD ’75 ACES, and Cecilia Tsun-Tai Jen Leung, MS ’71 ACES, PHD ’74 ACES, back when they were international graduate students—he from Hong Kong, and she from Taiwan.
After a frightening accident, Susannah Scaroni continues to break boundaries in wheelchair track
ONE MINUTE, wheelchair racer Susannah Scaroni, ’14 ACES, MS ’22 ACES, was pushing through a normal long training session, heading east on Windsor Road not far from campus. The next, she was moving ahead much more quickly than she expected.
It was early morning on Sept. 16, 2021. A month before, Scaroni had been in Tokyo for the Paralympics, where she won a gold medal in the 5,000 meters and a bronze medal in the 800 meters.
Sign up now for ACES Family Academies on July 10-12
Summer is here, and that means ACES Family Academies is back on campus.
From blue jacket to Illini orange — Doyle Karr’s colorful career in agricultural communications
What seems like not long ago, Doyle was a young child growing up on his family’s farm in Wapella, Illinois. The sixteenth of nineteen children, Doyle held responsibilities on their farm just as his siblings did: milking cows, collecting eggs, and working in the garden.
In the blink of an eye, Doyle Karr, a 1986 graduate from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, found himself standing on stage in front of the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences’ graduating class of 2024 as a distinguished alumnus and this year’s keynote speaker.
Siblings enshrine educational legacy through gifts to ACES
Education has always been an important value in the Gardner and Hinderliter families.