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- The Illinois Autonomous Farm (IAF) unites researchers, industry leaders, educators, and stakeholders to drive research, education, and outreach for autonomous systems in agriculture across Illinois. Launched in 2020 as a joint effort between the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering...
2021-01-06 - Three agricultural and biological engineering (ABE) faculty members recently received named appointments from The Grainger College of Engineering. These prestigious appointments were granted to Dr. Girish Chowdhary as Donald Biggar Willet Faculty Fellow and Drs. Vijay Singh and Yuanhui Zhang as...
2020-10-19 - Each year, the College of ACES recognizes a select group of faculty, staff, and students who demonstrated outstanding achievements and exceptional service to the college. This year, Jamison Watson, Paul Davidson, Richard Cooke, and the IBRL...
2020-10-16 - URBANA, Ill. – The Appropriate Scale Mechanization Consortium (ASMC) at the University of Illinois received a $2.25 million grant from the United States Agency for International...
2020-10-08 - URBANA, Ill. – Richard Cooke, professor of agricultural and biological engineering at the University of Illinois, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award for the 2020-2021 academic year from...
2020-10-08 - URBANA, Ill. – Even without the added stress of the COVID-19 pandemic, agricultural producers experience high levels of anxiety, depression, substance use, and death by suicide. Researchers at the University of Illinois and Illinois Extension are working to ensure producers and their families have...
2020-09-01 - This year’s AWWA Woodard & Curran Scholarship recipient, Ann Brunton, grew up knowing that water is a big deal. She says, “I’ve always known we need to...
2020-08-31 - While 3D television never really caught on, 3D printing has earned itself a permanent spot in agriculture for creating tools, making replacement machine parts and crafting models for large projects such as grain facilities or 3D models of terrain for erosion control. Saves time, money...
2020-08-31 - URBANA, Ill. — While robots in agriculture haven’t entirely lost their cool factor, they certainly aren’t the novelty they were even five to 10 years ago. “They still have their appeal, but we wouldn’t care less if they didn’t solve a problem,” said Drew Schumacher, president of Rogo Ag, a company...
2020-08-26 - The National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program awarded $20 million to the Center for Digital Agriculture at the University of Illinois...
2020-08-20 - Which cutting-edge nutrient stewardship practice requires a typography map, gates on drainage tile and knowledge of your soil profile? If you thought of the term drainage water management (DWM), you’d be on the right track. In Shelby County, farmers and University of Illinois researchers are...
2020-08-17 - Each year, the Grainger College of Engineering recognizes a select group of faculty, staff, and students for their achievements and contributions to the college and to the world. We are proud to announce that Anne Marie Boone and Professor Girish Chowdhary belong to this distinguished group. Anne...
2020-08-13 - URBANA, Ill. – When engineers develop drinking water systems, they often expect their technology and expertise to work in any context. But project success depends as much on the people and place as on technical design, says Ann-Perry Witmer, lecturer in the ...
2020-07-31 - Four faculty in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Illinois have been promoted to associate professor and granted tenure effective August 2020: Rabin Bhattarai, Maria Chu, Girish Chowdhary, and Paul Davidson....
2020-07-28 - Two new faculty members have joined the ABE department in July 2020: Cody Allen and Mohammed Kamruzzaman. Allen has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering also from Purdue, and bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the U of I. Prior to...