WHERE CURIOSITY DRIVES IMPACT
October 22, 2025

LAS Day of Giving

Join us today to celebrate our second annual Day of Giving. By making a gift, you will support students and faculty who don’t just adapt to change but create it. 

Learn more

Change begins with curiosity.

From exploring new ideas to solving the world’s biggest issues, LAS empowers thinkers and doers to transform curiosity into measurable impact.

We believe that education is more than lectures and textbooks. It’s about cultivating minds that question, explore, and act with purpose. And we know that when curiosity meets opportunity, innovation follows—and the impossible becomes possible. 

Explore where curiosity drives impact

LAS News

Electron micrographs of bacterial viruses, also known as phages.
Illinois-led initiative will build precision phage platform for promoting health
 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scientists, including microbiology professor Asma Hatoum-Aslan, will partner with investigators from several industrial and academic institutions on a five-year, up to $28M initiative...
Joshua-Paul Miles
New professors, new paths in LAS
More than 40 tenure track professors are launching new careers this fall at the College of LAS, in fields from communication to astronomy and history, chemistry, economics, political science, linguistics, and many more. We caught up with a few of them to help capture the new angles of teaching and...
Emily Van Duyn
Research: Political misinformation/disinformation leads to divorces, breakups
 Political misinformation or disinformation was the key reason for some U.S. couples’ recent divorces or romantic breakups, a new study found.Emily Van Duyn, a professor of communication, conducted in-depth interviews with 28 people who had...
Omar Yaghi
Chemistry alumnus wins Nobel Prize
 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumnus Omar M. Yaghi, a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of three recipients of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Yaghi received a PhD in chemistry from Illinois in 1990.Yaghi and his co-recipients, Susuma...
Clara Alvarez-Leyva and Carlos Hernandez
Two LAS students awarded Voyager Scholarships
 College of LAS students Clara Alvarez-Leyva, Carlos Hernandez and Danielle Mitchell are recipients of the annual Voyager Scholarship, the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service.With part of her scholarship funds,...
Huimin Zhao
U of I celebrates opening of iBioFoundry, National Institute for Biofoundry Applications
Scientists, government officials and participants from around the world gathered on the  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus for the grand opening of the National Science Foundation’s Illinois BioFoundry, or iBioFoundry, and the...
James O'Dwyer
New model can accurately predict a forest’s future
 One of the great challenges of ecology is to understand the factors that maintain, or undermine, diversity in ecosystems, researchers write in a new report in the journal Science. The researchers detail their development of a new model that — using a tree census and genomic data collected...
Military family
Study: Few military spouses use formal support services
 Cycles of deployment and reintegration can be stressful, disruptive times for military spouses and their families. Although the Department of Defense and its military communities offer a number of formal resources to help military spouses cope during these challenging periods, very few of...

Read more news

 

Ready to discover your impact?

The application for Undergraduate admissions is now open. Apply to LAS today to see where your curiosity can take you.
Apply
99.6%
of Illinois students take a class in LAS
70+
majors offered within LAS
33%
of campus' tenure-track faculty members work in LAS
180,000
network of LAS alumni
Full profile
Learn more about LAS

New students: Start your LAS journey

Fuel your curiosity, explore big ideas, and discover what drives you. Designed for new students, LAS First-Year Experience will help you connect, grow, and step confidently into college life.

Learn more

Make your mark

When you support the College of LAS, you play a crucial role in shaping the success of thousands of students and faculty.

Join us in creating a powerful network of influential thinkers and proven achievers—and help us seek a better tomorrow, today.

Give now