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She is currently an associate professor of Plant Biology and Geology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. [2] She is known for her work in soil biogeochemistry and ecosystem ecology, specifically examining the way nitrogen cycles through an ecosystem and the effects that anthropogenic use of nitrogen has on ecosystems. [3]
The Natural History Building is a historic building on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. Built in 1892, the building originally housed the university's departments of botany, zoology, and geology. In addition to classroom space, the building also included a natural history museum. [2]
The building was set to undergo a $70 million renovation beginning in 2014, and upon completion in 2016, will house the School of Earth, Society and Environment (which includes the departments of Atmospheric Sciences, Geology, and Geography and Geographic Information Science) and teaching labs of the School of Integrative Biology. [9]
Gillette attended Grinnell College, where she received a B.A. in biology. She went on to receive an M.S. in zoology from the University of Hawaiʻi and a Ph.D. in developmental biology from the University of Toronto in 1976. Gillette conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Cruz. [1]
Ainsworth was inspired by her first measurements of photosynthesis to dedicate her research career to plant biology. [3] She was a doctoral student under the supervision of Stephen P. Long at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, [5] before spending a year as a Humboldt Fellow at Juelich Research Center.
Esther Ndumi Ngumbi is a Kenyan entomologist and academic who is currently Assistant Professor of Entomology and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She was awarded the 2018 Society for Experimental Biology Presidential Award.
Hauber was an undergraduate student at Yale College, where he majored in organismal biology. [2] He started focusing on birds, and the differences between the brains of different species. [ 1 ] He worked toward his doctorate at the Cornell University , where he studied brood parasitic cowbirds . [ 3 ]
Alison M. Bell is an American ecologist who studies animal behaviour at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She has focused on the evolution of and mechanisms that underpin animal personality. In 2020, she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.