ACES Seminars

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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  "Underground connections: microbial interactions in US farming systems" with Dr. M. Soledad Benitez Ponce

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  W109 - Turner Hall

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Thursday, October 16, 2025

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  Speaker Jingru Jia - The Economic Behavior of AI Agents: Rationality and Reasoning in Large Language Models

  12:30 - 1:30 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

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Friday, October 17, 2025

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  NRES SEMINAR | The Spark Bird Project: Using personality science to study birding

  3:00 pm

  W-109 Turner Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 20, 2025

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  Speaker Zihao Yi - High Temperature Alerts and Criminal Activities: The Role of Information Disclosure

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

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  "Agricultural Stress and Mental Health: Research and Resources to Protect Producers and Communities" with Dr. Josie Rudolphi

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  W109 - Turner Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 24, 2025

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  Speaker Bruce McCarl -Climate Change - What Do We Do About It? Explorations on Agricultural Adaptation

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

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  NRES SEMINAR | Wings in the wild: How bats & birds navigate natural landscapes

  3:00 pm

  W-109 Turner Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

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  Speaker Keliang Xiao - Trade Policy and the Emissions Content of Agricultural Trade

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

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  "Emerging threats to food security: Lessons learned from tar spot of corn and the critical importance of having a strong connection between research and Extension." with Dr. Darcy Telenko

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  W109 - Turner Hall

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  Speaker Khashi Ghorbani - Strategic Responses to Ban Enforcement Uncertainty: Antibiotic Application Decisions in Plant Agriculture

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

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  Speaker Shahadat Hossain - Animal-sourced Food Price, Shadow Wages, and Male and Female Labor Allocation in Bangladesh

  12:30 - 1:30 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 31, 2025

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  Speaker Jane Kolodinsky - Community Perspectives on Dairy Industry Impacts and Waste Management Technologies

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

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  NRES SEMINAR | Understanding communication landscapes & societal dimensions of environmental risks & technologies

  3:00 pm

  W-109 Turner Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 3, 2025

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  Speaker Gustavo Nino Chaparro - Title TBA

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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  Speaker Saurav Raj Kunwar - Pricing Agricultural Environmental Services Under Policy-Consistent Normalizations

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  "The African Orphan Crops Consortium, Building Capacity and Delivering Impact" with Dr. Allen Van Deynze

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  W109 - Turner Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 7, 2025

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  Speaker David Ortega - Food Prices, Inflation Expectations and Consumer Sentiment

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  NRES SEMINAR | Behavioral ecology & conservation of the Kirtland's warbler: A full annual cycle perspective

  3:00 pm

  W-109 Turner Hall

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Monday, November 10, 2025

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  Speaker Hyungsun Yim - Title TBA

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

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  "Chemistry of agricultural trade " with Dr. Spencer Walse

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  W109 - Turner Hall

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  Speaker Richie Ma - Title TBA

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

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  Speaker David Buller - Effects of Emigration on Labor Markets in Migrant Origin Areas: Evidence from Internal Migration in Indonesia

  12:30 - 1:30 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

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  Speaker Hanna Willwerth - Do Input Markets Follow the Forecast? Weather Signals and Maize Seed Choice in Kenya

  12:30 - 1:30 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 14, 2025

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  FSHN Graduate Seminar- Dr. Patricio Lozano

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Bevier Hall- Room 180

  FSHN Graduate Seminar Presenter: Patricio Lozano, PhD R&D Director Kerry Ingredients and Flavors Title: TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Speaker Tina Andarge - Title TBA

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

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  NRES SEMINAR | Stable isotopes reveal tropical Pacific climate & ocean variability through time

  3:00 pm

  W-109 Turner Hall

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Monday, November 17, 2025

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  Speaker Nicole Renno Castro - Title TBA

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

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  "AI-Powered Plant Phenomics: Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges " with Dr. Kevin Wang

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  W109 - Turner Hall

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  Speaker Jaeseok Hwang - Economically Optimal Nitrogen Rate as a Distributional Choice: How Higher Moments of Yield Re-shape EONR under Variable Weather

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

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Thursday, November 20, 2025

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  Speaker Manny Kim - How Global Donors Make Aid Allocation Decisions in Response to Food Crises in Multiple Fragile States

  12:30 - 1:30 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

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Friday, November 21, 2025

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  NRES SEMINAR | Collect, preserve, & discover: The Illinois Natural History Survey biological collections at the University of Illinois

  3:00 pm

  W-109 Turner Hall

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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

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  "Plant and bacterial technologies to enhance associative biological nitrogen fixation in non-leguminous crops. " with Dr. Jean-Michel Ane

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  W109 - Turner Hall

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Friday, December 5, 2025

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  Speaker Jonathan Bauchet - Title TBA

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  428 Mumford Hall

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  NRES SEMINAR | Leveraging psychological insights to strengthen indigenous & rural communities' engagement in sustainable land management behavior

  3:00 pm

  W-109 Turner Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

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  "TBD. " with Dr. Eliana Monteverde

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  W109 - Turner Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium