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#YearInReview with Nicole Krauss

Watch the video of Krauss' MillerComm Presentation here!

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ASI-UIUC Summer Institute for Human-Animal Studies

View this year's schedule

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The Center for Advanced Study turns 60!

Unearth our history

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Improvisers Exchange: A Two-Year Initiative

Improvisers Exchange is a two-year initiative deeply investigating the field of music improvisation.

KNOWLEDGE THAT ILLUMINATES

The Center for Advanced Study sheds light on interdisciplinary thought that starts conversation, inspires action, and transforms the world.

Support for Faculty

This is where your scholarship flourishes. At the Center for Advanced Study, we’re here to celebrate your ideas, support your research, and promote your accomplishments.

How We Help

Applications

Upcoming Public Events

Sunday

Jul 14

Presentations

2019 Animals & Society Institute/UI Third Annual Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute

Center for Advanced Study
Levis Faculty Center--Suite 200
919 W. Illinois St.
Urbana, IL

Wednesday

Sep 18

Initiatives

Shrinking the Prison Industrial Complex: Strategic Abolitionist Organizing in the 21st Century

Mariam Kaba

4:00pm

Knight Auditorium
Spurlock Museum
600 S. Gregory
Urbana

Wednesday

Oct 23

Annual Lecture

Life and Random Algorithms

Bruce Hajek

7:30pm

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory, Urbana

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Engage with the world’s most talked-about scholars, artists, and scientists at the Center for Advanced Study’s free and open events.

Brilliance
Thrives

Since 1959, the Center for Advanced Study has recognized the world’s top scholars by providing fertile ground where insights are shared, discoveries are revealed, and interdisciplinary connections are made.

Upcoming Application Deadlines

CAS offers faculty time off from teaching in order to pursue a research or creative project, and also helps bring to campus a steady flow of world-class scholars and performing artists for public events and small group meetings.

Programs

CAS/MillerComm Public Events Series

09/24/19

GAM Visiting Professor & Scholars

09/24/19

Research Appointments

Associate (Tenured)

10/01/19

Fellow (Non-Tenured)

10/01/19

Dialogue
Thrives

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CAS in the News

CAS Director and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Tamer Başar has been conferred an Honorary Professorship by Shandong University, Jinan, China, in a ceremony held in Jinan on May 10, 2019

CAS Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences Stephen Long elected to the National Academy of Science

Congratulations to CAS Professor Emeritus of English Rick Powers, the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction!

CAS Professor of Chemistry Catherine Murphy elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

CAS Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Bruce Hajek will deliver the CAS 29th Annual Lecture on October 23, 2019

CAS Associates and Fellows 2019-20 approved by the Board of Trustees on January 31

CAS Professor of Entomology May Berenbaum (GEGC/IGOH) has been named the next Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

CAS Professor of Entomology Gene Robinson elected to the National Academy of Medicine