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Welcome, May!

Read our new director's letter here

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Food for Thought

Presentations by our recent Associates and Fellows

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

Monday

Oct 25

Initiatives

Local Misinformation, Small Town Populists, and Platform Politics

Nikki Usher

4:00pm CDT

Zoom presentation

Monday

Nov 01

Initiatives

Eugenics and Expertise: The "Science" of Race Crossing

Rana Hogarth

2:00pm CDT

Zoom presentation

Wednesday

Nov 03

Presentations

Food for Thought: Diwakar Shukla and Amanda Ciafone

Diwakar Shukla

Amanda Ciafone

11:00am-1:00pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
919 W. Illinois St
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

09/21/21

GAM Visiting Professor & Scholars

09/21/21

Research Appointments

Associate (Tenured)

10/05/21

Fellow (Non-Tenured)

10/05/21

Dialogue
Thrives

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CAS in the News

Please welcome the new CAS Director May Berenbaum, CAS Professor of Entomology. She replaces former CAS Director Tamer Başar who retired on December 31, 2020.

CAS Professor of Dance Cynthia Oliver receives 2021 United States Artists Fellowship

Congratulations to the new CAS Associates and Fellows 2021-22, approved by the Board of Trustees at the January 21 meeting!

CAS Director and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Tamer Başar is a recipient of the 2021 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal. The Wilbur Cross Medal is the highest honor that Yale Graduate School bestows on its alumni

Congratulations and welcome to the seven new CAS Professors!

CAS Professor of Entomology Gene Robinson named Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

With great sadness we report the passing on Saturday, April 25, 2020 of CAS Professor emeritus of ECE Thomas Huang.

CAS Director and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Tamer Başar was conferred an Honorary Doctorate by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, in a white-tie ceremony held in Stockholm Concert Hall on November 15, 2019

Leon Dash, CAS Professor of Journalism and former CAS Director, inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists' Hall of Fame along with other members of the Washington Post's Metro Seven

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