From Curiosity to Impact
Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences are on the frontline of addressing the world's most pressing issues, including AI, Alzheimer's, ice sheet loss in Greenland—and more. These are big problems, and our faculty members are relying on millions of dollars in grant funding to explore solutions for a better tomorrow.
Check out some of the funded projects our researchers investigated in the 2023-2024 academic year.
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We Love Our Supporters
Gifts to the College of Arts and Sciences can help our students make the most of their college careers. To do this, CAS needs your support. Your contributions help us ensure that teaching, research, advising, mentoring, and support services are fully available to every student. Thank you!
What’s Happening in CAS?
Grab your lab coat and let's see what CAS faculty members are researching. The March issue of CAS Connection features our annual research report, a glimpse into how grants are supporting our faculty as they work toward innovation, from the frontiers of science to a better understanding of the human experience.
This month's issue also looks at a history PhD candidate and a 17th-century court case she discovered. That court case led to an essay about how early scientists named their specimens and a prestigious award.
Undergraduate Studies
Wherever your academic goals eventually take you at the UO, all Ducks begin their journey with foundational courses in CAS. More than 60 percent of students go on to pursue a major in a CAS department or program. With more than 50 departments and programs, there’s an intellectual home for almost any interest, talent, or career aspiration.
Graduate Studies
The College of Arts and Sciences offers more than 30 master's programs and more than 20 doctoral programs across a diverse range of disciplines. Both as contributors to research teams and through their own scholarship and teaching, our CAS graduate students are indispensable to the vitality of the UO academic mission.
Student Support Services
We provide our students with a variety of resources to help you thrive inside and outside the classroom. Through Tykeson Advising, we provide comprehensive academic and career advising from the start of your journey at the University of Oregon. Learn about career preparation and get assistance in selecting the very best classes. Connect with labs, libraries, IT and tutoring. Find your community on campus.
World-Class Faculty
The College of Arts and Sciences faculty members are a driving force of the high-output, high-impact research activity that has earned the UO membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU). Our world-class faculty members are inspiring teachers.
Among them are five members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, four members of the National Academy of Sciences. They are committed to helping students discover their academic passion. Every day, they work to expand students’ intellectual horizons, preparing them for life after college with real-world knowledge and skills.
Meet our Dean
In the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), we are committed to excellence in research and teaching, student success, and diversity, equity, and belonging.
A liberal arts education—one that offers a breadth of intellectual approaches and perspectives and depth in a major discipline—is the foundation to a purposeful life as a life-long learner, engaged citizen, and leader. The skills you will learn here—from written and verbal communication to analytical and quantitative reasoning, to compassion and understanding—are those that employers seek and will open the door to a wealth of opportunities.
You will find more than 50 majors and a multitude of minors within CAS, and seemingly endless opportunities for personal exploration and discovery. Whether you are an incoming first-year student, a grad student or a transfer student, you can map an exciting future and be part of a fun, warm, engaged liberal arts community here. Come join us. And go Ducks!
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Happening at CAS
2:00–3:00 p.m.
Students taking WR 121z, 122z, or 123 are invited to drop by the Tykeson 3rd floor Writing Lab (glass room, 351) for candy and quick writing support. Our GE Writing Support Specialists (tutors) are available to help you with any part of a WR assignment, from coming up with ideas to reading to revising to polishing up a final draft. Join us!
Mondays 3-4 and Thursdays 2-3, beginning week 4, for the rest of Winter quarter 2025.
2:00–5:00 p.m.
Join us on March 13 (Thurs) from 2:00- 5:00pm at the UO Ford Alumni Center. This Educator Career Fair is open to all UO students and alumni interested in pursuing careers in education. Come meet with local and regional school district representatives looking to recruit you to entry level classifed, licensed teacher, and or professional licensed positions. Practice marketing yourself and hopefully get some valuable interviews!
Register via Handshake Today!
Log onto the UO's Handshake, the UO Career Centers networking site, with your UO Student ID# Search “Events / Career Fairs hosted at your School” for the “2025 UO Educator Career Fair,” Click here to "+JOIN EVENT" Complete the short registration surveyContact Amy Harter (aharter@uoregon.edu), Field Services Coordinator with questions or accommodation requests.
7:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
The free and virtual eighth annual Mentoring and Advising Summit, aims to cultivate a strong culture of student success and inclusion, convening mentors, advisors, coaches, and administrators from around the globe to discuss new trends and best practices in mentoring and advising.
During this virtual summit hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, participants will engage with and learn about specific tools, techniques, theories, and concepts to support undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs as they chart goals, develop enduring networks, and sustain their pursuit of success after graduation. These aims are important as together, we work to make our institutions of higher education more dynamic and inclusive places for everyone, most especially for at-promise student populations including first-generation, income-eligible, underrepresented minority, exploratory, transfer, rural, international, and those in need of academic intervention.
Register at https://www.accelevents.com/e/2025summit
3:00 p.m.
Organic/Inorganic/Materials Seminar Series 3rd Year Talks – Winter 2025
3:00pm – Dwaipayan Roychowdhury Proton Intercalation Kinetics Near Solid-Electrolyte Interface
3:30pm – Vi Baird 2,2’-bipyridine-Containing Cycloparaphenylenes as Nanohoop Ligands
4:00pm – Faiqa Khaliq Size Dependent Optical Properties of Nanoscale Metal-Organic Frameworks