Food For Thought 2025-26

This Center for Advanced Study public events series features presentations of research and creative projects by recent CAS Associates and Fellows. 

We are delighted to showcase the work of some of our most productive and creative faculty in a series of intellectually and spiritually invigorating presentations. You are invited to drop in and learn about the exciting projects undertaken by our faculty. 

Please contact Masumi Iriye at iriye@illinois.edu if special accommodations are needed to access these events. 

All events will be held at the Center for Advanced Study, Levis Faculty Center--Suite 200, 919 W. Illinois, Urbana.

Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Ripan Malhi (Anthropology) and Yurii Vlasov (Electrial & Computer Engineering)
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Thursday, November 6, 2025
Lei Zhao (Civil & Environmental Engineering) and Jozsef Balogh (Mathematics)
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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Aleksei Aksimentiev (Physics) and Ewa Maslowska (Advertising)
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Monday, March 2, 2026
Yi-Cheng Wang (Food Science & Human Nutrition) and Russell Weinstein (Labor & Employment Relations)
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Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Merle Bowen (African American Studies)
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Thursday, April 16, 2026
Alison Bell (Evolution, Ecology, & Behavior) and Ramón Soto-Crespo (English
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