May 1, 2018 | Campus Sustainability, iSEE Research
Campus as a Living Laboratory Turning campus into a test bed for solutions to real-world problems Research Menu Main Page: Major Initiatives CABBI: Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation I-GUIDE: Institute for...
May 1, 2018 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases
MAY 1, 2018 — The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) is pleased to announce seed funding for the first two sustainability research projects in its Campus as a Living Lab program. One study will examine possibilities for redirecting waste heat...
Nov 30, 2017 | iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES, Stormwater and Mosquito Control Project
Meet Allison Parker — Taking the Battle to the Mosquitoes The saying goes that in war you must “know your enemy” to defeat it, and that’s exactly the aim of Allison Parker’s research. She’s a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in Entomology at the University of Illinois, and...
Mar 1, 2017 | Crops in silico Project, iSEE Bios, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
Ph.D. Candidate Kavya Kannan confidently sits behind her laptop explaining a series of charts and graphs. By looking at her screen, you’d never know that her computer — a manmade mixture of metals and complex engineering — allows her to enhance one of the earth’s most...
Dec 21, 2016 | iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES, Smart Water Disinfection Project
Kelley Goncalves is a Ph.D. student in Molecular and Cellular Biology, so her part in the Smart Water Disinfection project is mostly under the microscope. The Smart Water project as a whole seeks a more detailed understanding of how viruses become inactivated...
Dec 21, 2016 | iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES, Smart Water Disinfection Project
Bernardo Vazquez Bravo is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Engineering focusing on drinking water disinfection. As part of the Smart Water Disinfection project, he is working to understand more precisely how widely-used modern virus inactivating methods like chlorine...