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George A. Miller Visiting Artist

Artist, writer and teacher, Ricardo Basbaum investigates art as an intermediary device and a platform for the integration of sensorial experiences,

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Initiative: ABOLITION

Abolition examines the interconnected power dynamics across prisons, police, immigration, gendered and sexual violence, environmental justic

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Jul 11

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2021 Animals & Society Institute/UI Fourth Annual Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute

Available as video only after July 17.

Monday

Sep 13

MillerComm Lecture Series

The Genealogical Sublime: New Narratives of Numerical Selves

Julia Creet

4:00pm

Knight Auditorium
Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory, Urbana

Monday

Sep 20

Presentations

To Survive on This Shore

Jess T. Dugan

Vanessa Fabbre

Gloria Allen

Mary Statzer

4:00pm

Knight Auditorium
Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory, Urbana

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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!