by April Wendling | Feb 6, 2024 | At Illinois
By Sakshi VayaHave you ever been to a landfill? I’m not talking seeing one from 300 meters away sitting in a car. I’m talking up close, face to face with it, standing in the middle of endless hills of everything that humans deem garbage.I recently had the dubious...
by April Wendling | Nov 8, 2023 | Illinois Research
By Gabe Lareau On paper, Esther Ngumbi is a multiple award-winning Professor of Entomology and African American Studies at the University of Illinois, a food security advocate, and a science communicator featured in venues such as NPR, Scientific American, Al Jazeera,...
by April Wendling | Nov 8, 2023 | Janelle Joseph Environmental Writing Contest
By Abby Culloton“Look at me — I’m a chemist!” my teammate enthusiastically declared as she tipped a test tube full of bright blue liquid back and forth. The blue liquid in question was a test for dissolved oxygen in water: an important chemical parameter for...
by April Wendling | Nov 8, 2023 | Memoir
By Levi BeckettOn the island of Guam, some 1,600 miles off the coast of Japan, the sky looked clear, the water looked safe, and I had just bought a snorkel. We got lost several times on the road to the beach and ended up not quite where we intended. But the locals...
by April Wendling | Nov 8, 2023 | Memoir
By Helen AnilWhen my mother was young, the arrival of Onam, a harvest festival, transformed our ancestral home nestled amidst the lush emerald green of Kerala, India. Celebrated in the month of Chingam, it wasn’t just a festival; it was a symphony of local...
