Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for researchers, but with a significant limitation: The inability to explain how it came to its decisions, a problem known as the “AI…
Diana Yates
I can barely hear Esther Ngumbi over the roar of greenhouse fans as she shows me around her rooftop laboratory in Morrill Hall. The benches are full of tomato plants, and the…
Lois Yoksoulian
Using evolution as a guiding principle, researchers have successfully engineered bacteria-yeast hybrids to perform photosynthetic carbon assimilation, generate cellular energy…
Lauren Quinn
The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture is investing in University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research that could expedite the development of climate-resilient…
Jonathan King
Mohammed El-Kebir (CAIM/IGOH) is an assistant professor of computer science researching cancer genomics, who investigates combinatorial optimization algorithms for problems in…
Ananya Sen
Previous scientific studies have indicated that North American dog lineages were replaced with European ones between 1492 and the present day. To better understand the timing…
Ananya Sen
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a majority of schools across the U.S. shifted to virtual learning. In a new study, published in Social Education Research, researchers…
April Wendling
This past June, CABBI undergrad Jack Mason won a hackathon competition at Plant Biology 2024, a yearly conference held by ASPB, the American Society of Plant Biologists.
…Ananya Sen
A defining feature of scientific inquiry is that it draws from the knowledge and experience of researchers from different backgrounds. Science belongs to everyone, whether you…
Lauren Quinn
Elephant conservation is a major priority in southern Africa, but habitat loss and urbanization mean the far-ranging pachyderms are increasingly restricted to protected areas…
Sarah Schwartz
It has been a busy summer for a group of postdoctoral and graduate student researchers who participated in the 10-week Early Innovator Program (EIP) at the Carl R. Woese…
Ananya Sen
The process by which phages—viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria—enter cells has been studied for over 50 years. In a new study, researchers from the University of…