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Upcoming Public Events
Wednesday
Mar 31
Presentations
An evening with author Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel
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Amy Hassinger
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Alex Shakar
6:00pm CDT

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Thursday
Apr 08
MillerComm Lecture Series
Working on Mayan Languages: A Community-Based Research
Pedro Mateo Pedro
7:00pm CDT

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Wednesday
Apr 14
MillerComm Lecture Series
73 Stains: Sweet Potatoes, Sustenance & Sustainability
Seitu Ken Jones
5:30pm CDT

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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.

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03/02/21

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CAS in the News

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!
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