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Calling the Muses to Oklahoma

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The Illinois Flamenco-Jazz Project, feat.Flamenco guitarist David Chiriboga

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Framing the Global Immigrant Challenge

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New initiative: ABOLITION

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

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Wednesday

Sep 25

Presentations

Calling the Muses to Oklahoma: Native North American Writing on Greco-Roman Antiquity

Craig Williams

12:00pm

Center for Advanced Study
Levis Faculty Center--Music Room (208)
919 W. Illinois, Urbana

Thursday

Oct 10

MillerComm Lecture Series

The Illinois Flamenco-Jazz Project, featuring Flamenco guitarist David Chiriboga

David Chiriboga

7:00pm

Knight Auditorium
Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory, Urbana

Thursday

Oct 17

MillerComm Lecture Series

Framing the Global Immigrant Challenge: Evidence from Tweets Sent by Elected Representatives

David D. Laitin

4:00pm

Auditorium, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
1205 W. Clark Street, Urbana

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09/24/19

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CAS in the News

CAS Director and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Tamer Başar will be conferred an Honorary Doctorate by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, in a white-tie ceremony to be 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

CAS Director and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Tamer Başar has been conferred an Honorary Professorship by Shandong University, Jinan, China, in a ceremony held in Jinan on May 10, 2019

CAS Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences Stephen Long elected to the National Academy of Science

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

CAS Professor of Chemistry Catherine Murphy elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

CAS Professor of Entomology May Berenbaum (GEGC/IGOH) has been named the next Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

CAS Professor of Entomology Gene Robinson elected to the National Academy of Medicine