WHERE CURIOSITY DRIVES IMPACT

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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. 

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Windmills
Illinois wind patterns show signs of change, study finds
 Winds across Illinois are beginning to still. A new study led by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers has found that average wind speeds across the state have declined over the past three decades—and that the prevailing wind direction is slowly shifting southward. The findings...
From left: Derek Fultz, James Robert Frame, Candace Penn Frame, and Shaowen Wang
Alumni support the upgrade of an important laboratory
 In a discipline devoted to spaces, one of the most significant transformations came recently in Davenport Hall where a little-used room was converted to a new, state-of-the art geospatial laboratory thanks in large part to a generous donation from Candace Penn (BS, ’72, ...
Kara Federmeier
2026 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture speaker announced
 Psychology and neuroscience professor Kara Federmeier will deliver the 2026 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture at Alice Campbell Alumni Center 4 p.m. March 4, 2026.The...
Alma Mater
College names recipients in Study in a Second Discipline Program
 The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has awarded funding to several faculty members through the Study in a Second Discipline Program, which gives professors time and support to push beyond their primary...
Benedek Kurdi
Is unintentional bias changeable?
 In a new paper, psychology professor Benedek Kurdi proposes a fresh approach to confronting implicit, or unintentional, bias in diverse organizations. He spoke with News Bureau life sciences editor Diana Yates about the problems associated with...
Shannan Mason
Exploring how people consumed nature in early America
 This fall, the Department of History welcomes Shannan Mason as a lecturer. Mason is a historian of early American history whose research explores relationships between science, nature, and economics. How people think about nature and how they...
Benjamin Snyder
Illinois chemist named 2025 Packard Fellow
 Benjamin Snyder, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been named a 2025 Packard Fellow by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.The foundation cites Snyder’s work “developing new methods to define and...
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...

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