Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Claire Benjamin
The flag leaf is the last to emerge, indicating the transition from crop growth to grain production.
Diana Yates
By drawing from decades of studies, scientists created a timeline marking the arrival of black-legged ticks, also known as deer ticks, in hundreds of counties across 10…
Diana Yates
An unusual study that involved bar coding and tracking the behavior of thousands of individual honey bees in six queenless bee hives and analyzing gene expression in their…
Claire Benjamin
An international effort called Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) aims to transform crops' ability to t
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
A drug widely used to treat fungal infections improved key biomarkers in lung tissue cultures as well as in the noses of patients with cystic fibrosis, a clinical study by…
Marianne Stein
When agrochemical and pharmaceutical companies develop new products, they must test extensively for potential toxicity before obtaining regulatory approval.
Diana Yates
In 1533, the Bom Jesus – a Portuguese trading vessel carrying 40 tons of cargo including gold, silver, copper and more than 100 elephant tusks – sank off the coast of Africa…
Chancellor Robert Jones and Provost Andreas Cangellaris
It sometimes seems a million doesn’t command quite the same attention that it used to. It isn’t mathematically special. And in today’s society, it isn’t even unusually large.…
Sharita Forrest
An interdisciplinary team of Illinois scientists is working with clinicians and community researchers to expand access to COVID-19 testing by providing pop-up testing clinics…
Elizabeth Innes
Every Tuesday afternoon after school, six groups of around 24 excited Franklin STEAM Academy students hang around online a bit longer to conduct independent research on topics…
Alisa King-Klemperer
From the beginning, Kim and Robert Benziger shared a desire to spread positivity and to give back to the community so that others would have the same opportunities.