Category Archives: Institute Highlights

Greening Libraries Wins Award in the 2013 Green Books Festival

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Laura B.

Via Library Juice Press. Laura Barnes, Prairie Research Institute Librarian and liaison to the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, authored a chapter in the book. The 2013 Green Book Festival awarded its top honor in the category of Best Business Book … Continue reading →

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Patent awarded to ISTC researcher

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Laura B.

Junhua Jiang is listed as co-inventor on a patent entitled “Electrochemical process for the production of nitrogen-fertilizers”, which was issued patent number 8,398,842 on March 19, 2013, by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Patent abstract: The present invention … Continue reading →

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Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON)

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Laura B.

Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) is a product of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Core Science Analytics and Synthesis Program. BISON is an information system that allows users to access, explore, and download U.S. species occurrence data from participating data … Continue reading →

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60 years of tornado detection by radar–brought to you by ISWS

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Susan Braxton

Today is the 60th anniversary of the first documented detection of a tornado by radar, by Illinois State Water Survey (ISWS) staff at Willard Airport.  The event was documented in  Stout, G.E., and F.A. Huff. 1953. Radar records Illinois tornadogenesis. … Continue reading →

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Two new publications from the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Laura B.

The Illinois Sustainable Technology Center has published two new reports: RR – 122 / Risks to Birds in the Lake Calumet Region from Contaminated Emergent Aquatic Insects / Soucek, David J.; Levengood; Levengood, Jeffrey M.; Gallo, Sue; Hill, Walter R.; Bordson, … Continue reading →

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New Technical Report from ISTC now available

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Laura B.

TR- 049 –  Use of Treated Effluent Water in Cellulosic Ethanol Production / Ramchandran, Divya; Singh, Vijay; Rajagopalan, Kishore; Strathmann, Timothy — Champaign, IL : Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, 2013. [available at http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42595]. The report is the result of a … Continue reading →

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Illinois town provides a historical foundation for today’s bee research

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Laura B.

Read the full story from the University of Illinois News Bureau. A study published in the journal Science reveals a decline in bee species since the late 1800s in West Central Illinois. The study could not have been conducted without … Continue reading →

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Sewage lagoons remove most – but not all – pharmaceuticals according to study by ISTC researcher

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Laura B.

Read the full story from the University of Illinois News Bureau. Rural sewage treatment lagoons remove most, but not all, of the pharmaceutical and personal care product and hormone contaminants from wastewater, suggests a new study lead by Wei Zheng, … Continue reading →

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GLRPPR Link Newsletter now archived in IDEALS

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Laura B.

The archives of the Great Lakes Regional Pollution Prevention Roundtable’s Link Newsletter, which was published in print through 2008 when it was replaced by the GLRPPR Blog,  are now available in IDEALS, the University of Illinois’ institutional repository. GLRPPR recently … Continue reading →

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Two ISTC researchers guest edit a special issue of Challenges

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Laura B.

William Bullock and Joy Scrogum, both with ISTC’s Sustainable Electronics Initiative, are guest editors for a special issue of Challenges entitled “Electronic Waste — Impact, Policy and Green Design.” Challenges (ISSN 2078-1547) is an international, peer-reviewed scientific open access journal … Continue reading →

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