08/24/2023 - The south entrance to the Natural History Building has a new statue - a life size mammoth. Appropriate for Illinois, these magnificent creatures were native to the region until they went extinct...
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12/06/2022 - SESE Sophomore Sakshi Vaya was a finalist in the Reimagine Our Future Sustainability Competition - her project “Jeevatva – Bringing Waste into the Cycle of Use”. View her work and that of the other...
10/06/2022 - Two mounds on the Louisiana State University campus may be the oldest known structures in the Americas, with their oldest layers being 11,000 years old. Stratigraphic analysis and carbon dating of...
10/26/2020 - Professor Larry Di Girolamo is a co-Principle Investigator on the MAIA (Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols) NASA mission, working on the formulation and implementation of the mission, instrument design...
09/11/2020 - Warren Lavey and Holly Rosencranz describe the new Climate Change, Law & Health course at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This course is open to undergraduates across the...
07/22/2020 - The New York Times just featured an article about the RELAMPAGO project in Argentina - a project run by our own Department of Atmospheric Science. The project was lead by Professor Steve Nesbitt,...
06/03/2020 - Erinn Dady, a junior studying earth, society, and environmental sustainability, is working with Kevin Tan,...
02/26/2020 - Cloud seeding has become an increasingly popular practice in the western United States, where states grapple with growing demands for water. Measuring how much precipitation cloud seeding produces...
02/11/2020 - This past weekend in Washington, D.C, ESES major Erinn Dady presented her poster titled, "Soil Fertility and Arbuscular Mycorrhiza: Impact on Herbivore Induced Plant Volatiles in Tomato," at the...
09/12/2019 - Clouds hold the key to understanding climate change - and University of Illinois are flying through storms to get the data we need to predict future change. See the...
09/11/2019 - University of Illinois geologists Jack Albright, left, and professor Patricia Gregg are part of a team that has developed new computer models to help researchers better forecast volcanic eruptions....
09/09/2019 - Professor Stephen Altaner led over 45 students and staff on the 2019 Annual SESE Field Trip. Participants were able to collect shattercones at the Kentland Impact Site, the site where U of I alumnus...
07/29/2019 - A group of young scholars from Zhejiang University are participating in a summer school program in SESE for the next two weeks. Welcome to the University of Illinois!
07/16/2019 - Nidhi Shastri talks about the opportunities Illinois has provided to help her find her voice in the college newsletter
05/13/2019 - Since 1892, the Natural History Building has been a landmark at the University of Illinois. Designed by the renowned Nathan Ricker—Illinois alumnus and first architectural graduate in the U.S.—the...
