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Study reveals how racial discrimination in home-renting affects environmental inequality Economists and urban planners generally agree that local pollution sources disproportionally impact racial minorities in the U.S. The reasons for this are largely unclear, but a University of Illinois study provides new insights into the issue. Our work finds experimental evidence that racial discrimination in the home-renting process actively sorts minority renters into neighborhoods with higher levels of pollution." Peter Christensen, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economi...

Facebook Out of this world: U of I bioenergy researchers accurately measure photosynthesis from space As most of us learned in school, plants use sunlight to synthesize carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates in a process called photosynthesis. Post to Facebook Out of this world: U of I bioenergy researchers accurately measure photosynthesis from space As most of us learned in school, plants use sunlight to synthesize carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates in a process called photosynthesis. Check out this story on FarmersAdvance.com: https://www.farmersadvance.com/story/news/2021...

 E-Mail URBANA, Ill. - Economists and urban planners generally agree that local pollution sources disproportionally impact racial minorities in the U.S. The reasons for this are largely unclear, but a University of Illinois study provides new insights into the issue. "Our work finds experimental evidence that racial discrimination in the home-renting process actively sorts minority renters into neighborhoods with higher levels of pollution," says Peter Christensen, assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics (ACE) and an affiliate in Center for the Economic...

The team leveraged the Blue Waters supercomputer, housed at the U of I National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), in their research. Their paper was published in Earth System Science Data in February 2021.

C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute Welcomes First International Consortium Member KTH Royal Institute of Technology The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (DTI) today announced that KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden has become the eighth university member and first international member of the academic and industry consortium. Karl H. Johansson, Professor at the KTH School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has joined the C3.ai DTI Executive Committee as campus lead. Johansson also leads the cross-disciplinary Digital Futures research center at KTH, la...