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WELCOME TO OUR CAS ASSOCIATES 2025-26
Applications for 2026-27 due: Tuesday, October 7, 2025
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WELCOME TO OUR CAS FELLOWS 2025-26
Applications for 2026-27 due: Tuesday, October 7, 2025
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Upcoming Public Events
Tuesday
Jul 15
Presentations
Rethinking Medicine, Public Policy and the “Multi-Species Family”: A Social Justice Model of Access to Care
Jane Desmond
2:00 PM

Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)
Room 2039
1405 Springfield, Urbana

Thursday
Jul 17
Presentations
Why people (for the most part) love bees but hate wasps
May Berenbaum
2:00 PM

Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)
Room 2039
1405 Springfield, Urbana

Friday
Jul 18
Presentations
The Evolution of Animal Advocacy: Alternative Strategies to Achieve Animal Welfare Advances
Chris Green
2:00 PM

Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)
Room 2039
1405 Springfield, Urbana

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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.

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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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CAS/MillerComm Public Events Series
 

09/30/25

GAM Visiting Professor & Scholars
 

09/30/25
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10/07/25

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CAS in the News

Welcome to our CAS Associates and Fellows 2025-26!

Seven new CAS Professors elected in December 2024!

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In memoriam, Dale Van Harlingen, CAS Professor of Physics, July 20, 2024

Kashmiri folktales by SL Sadhu, English professor to former CAS Director Braj Kachru, available for download.
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