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(Illinois professor Kaiyu Guan has been named a 2026 MacArthur Fellow for pioneering predictive science of agriculture. Photo by Chris Brown Photography, courtesy NCSA) CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Kaiyu Guan, the Levenick Professor of Sustainability at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been named 2026 MacArthur Fellow, receiving what is commonly known as a “genius grant” […]

SINGAPORE — The Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore (Illinois ARCS) has been awarded a four-year, S$10 million grant by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore to develop advanced digital twins that could help strengthen food security and agricultural resilience in Singapore and across Southeast Asia, integrating real-world farming environments with virtual systems. The […]