2025-06-27
- Three programs within the College of LAS have received funding this year from the Chancellor’s Research Program. They include programs ranging from Indigenous language development to assistance for transfer students...
LAS News Archive
- 2025-06-24 - Individuals and teams from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences who have made a visible impact on society were recently recognized with the 2025 Campus Awards for...
2025-06-24 - Individuals and teams from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences who have made a visible impact on society were recently recognized with the 2025 Campus Awards for Excellence...
2025-06-17 - Laboratory and field experiments have repeatedly shown that modifying the process of photosynthesis or the physical characteristics of plants can make crops more resilient to hotter temperatures. Scientists can now alter the abundance or orientation of leaves, change leaf chemistry to improve...- 2025-06-10 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign political science professor Nicholas Grossman is the author of “Drones and Terrorism: Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat...
2025-06-03 - Enantiomers, or molecule pairs that are mirror images of each other, make up more than half of FDA-approved drugs in use today, including those used in treatments for cancer, neurologic diseases and arthritis. Separating enantiomers is critical for drug manufacturing because the effect of...
2025-06-03 - Editor's note: This is a first person account of Arctic research by Ellen Buckley, professor of Earth science and environmental change.UTQIAQGVIK, Alaska — My boots crunch into the snow as I step onto the frozen Arctic Ocean...
2025-06-03 - In a review in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Stephen Long, a professor of crop sciences and of plant...
2025-06-03 - Ilaria Strocchia, a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese specializing in Spanish literatures and cultures, recently won first place in The...
2025-06-03 - Anke Pinkert, professor and head of the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, recently published “Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest”...
2025-06-03 - Editor's note: This is a first person account of Arctic research by Ellen Buckley, professor of Earth science and environmental change. UTQIAQGVIK, Alaska — My boots crunch into the snow as I step onto the frozen Arctic Ocean. It’s April in...
2025-06-03 - In a review in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Stephen Long, a professor of crop sciences and of plant...
2025-06-03 - Anke Pinkert, professor and head of the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, recently published “Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest” (...-
2025-06-03 - Enantiomers, or molecule pairs that are mirror images of each other, make up more than half of FDA-approved drugs in use today, including those used in treatments for cancer, neurologic diseases and arthritis. Separating enantiomers is critical for drug manufacturing because the effect of each...
2025-06-02 - The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship has been awarded to six College of LAS undergraduate students this spring. They are among 42 recipients from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.“With 42 recipients, the U of I ranks among the top 10 producers of Gilman Scholars across...
2025-06-02 - The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship has been awarded to six College of LAS undergraduate students this spring. They are among 42 recipients from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.“With 42 recipients, the U of I ranks among the top 10 producers of Gilman Scholars across the...
2025-05-29 - Classes moved from classrooms to computer screens, trips and gatherings were put on hold, and an entirely different kind of learning experience ensued after the momentous onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even now, five years later, campus continues to feel its effects—and not in entirely bad...
2025-05-29 - To hear Kenn Allen tell the story, it seems like happenstance.It started with an announcement in “The Daily Illini.”In 1963, campus was launching a new organization focused on student volunteering within the Champaign-Urbana community, and Allen was a sophomore struggling to...
2025-05-29 - To hear Kenn Allen tell the story, it seems like happenstance. It started with an announcement in “The Daily Illini.” In 1963, campus was launching a new organization focused on student volunteering within the Champaign-Urbana community, and Allen was a sophomore struggling to...
2025-05-29 - On May 5, 1992, a diverse coalition of more than 450 people, mostly students, gathered in and around the U of I’s Henry Administration Building with the goal of increasing institutional support for Latina/o students and programs on campus.The students called for the creation of a...
2025-05-29 - Imagine pushing a button and watching as a digital philosopher chooses a topic, does the research and writes a professional-level, publishable work—all without human intervention. It’s an intriguing idea that’s currently being explored by Kevin Scharp, professor and research director at the...
2025-05-29 - Classes moved from classrooms to computer screens, trips and gatherings were put on hold, and an entirely different kind of learning experience ensued after the momentous onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even now, five years later, campus continues to feel its effects—and not in entirely bad ways....
2025-05-28 - Shaowen Wang, professor of geography and geographic information science and associate dean for life and physical sciences in the College of LAS, discusses the dramatic advancement of his work and field. What are you studying? ...
2025-05-28 - “I was absolutely gassed,” said Laura DeBruler Santos, recalling the intense volleyball game against perennial national champion Penn State back in September of 2010. She was still recovering from a bout with mono and wasn’t at full strength. Coach Kevin Hambly gave DeBruler Santos (BS, ’11,...
2025-05-28 - Lakisha Tawanda David’s career represents, in many ways, a lifelong search for identity.David, a professor of anthropology, uses her research to reunite those with severed ties to their ancestry through DNA connections. One branch of her work utilizes...