President Donald Trump’s Jan. 26 funding freeze directly impacted the University’s Soybean Innovation Lab, which was forced to close, according to Peter Goldsmith, director of the SIL and professor in ...

Peter Goldsmith received official notice late Wednesday afternoon that the moment he hoped to avoid had arrived. President Donald Trump’s administration had terminated the federal government’s ...

Peter Goldsmith, director and principal investigator of the Soybean Innovation Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, told “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal that his work has ...

Recent actions by the Trump administration have put at risk a collection of 19 university-based laboratories that conduct specialized research on agricultural challenges facing underdeveloped ...

Frank Charles Russo, 64 an area resident since 1990 and formerly of New Rochelle, passed away on February 24, 2025 at Westchester Medical Center, surrounded by his family and friends. Born in New ...

Layoffs at U. of I. soybean lab For more than a decade, Peter Goldsmith has run the USAID-funded Soybean Innovation Lab at U. of I.’s Urbana-Champaign campus. The lab, one of 19 similar ...

Peter Goldsmith, the Director and Principal Investigator at the SIL, got an email on January 27th saying because of an executive order, they needed to cut expenses. Four days later, the university ...

At the Soybean Innovation Lab, based at the University of Illinois, funds were shut off quickly after Trump’s order, said lab director Peter Goldsmith. The lab expects to permanently close in ...

Peter Goldsmith, director and principal investigator at the Soybean Innovation Lab, said the group has helped open international markets to U.S. farmers and made the crop more prevalent in Africa.