Centre for Advanced Study

at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

  • CAS Fellow Jacqueline Sztepanacz . Photo: Camilla K. Elmar /Centre for Advanced Study (CAS)

    CAS Fellow awarded the Dobzhansky Prize: ´I am absolutely thrilled´

    Jacqueline Sztepanacz has been awarded the prestigious prize for her “accomplishments and future promise” as an outstanding young evolutionary biologist.

  • ´The essence of why we need research and innovation´

    The Minister of Research and Higher Education, Henrik Asheim, honours the Young CAS Fellows 2020/21.

  • Former CAS fellow, Erica Baffelli

    Alumni Spotlight: Erica Baffelli

    When asked about her time at CAS, she admits that it feels “rather bizarre” these days to think about the freedom and social life that is essential to a stay at CAS.

  • The MultiGender project members now work online.

    Why do some words have gender?

    CAS is all about being together. The Corona pandemic forces us to work differently. Now that their fellows are spread worldwide, Terje Lohndal and Marit Westergaard have moved their seminars online, but you can still read about their research.

  • Atle Mysterud is an expert on deer. Photo: Nils Olav Talgøy

    Alumni Spotlight: Atle Mysterud

    Five years have passed since Atle Mysterud and Jon Swenson led the CAS project Climate effects on harvested large mammals. The project has not lost its relevance.

  • Musicologist Catherine Anne Bradley and chemist Erik Tellgren are Young CAS Fellows 2020/21. Illustration: Camilla K. Elmar / CAS

    Announcing the 2020/21 Young CAS Fellows

    From the study of French fragments of medieval musical compositions found in Sweden, to fundamental problems in computational chemistry: Catherine Anne Bradley and Erik Tellgren are the Young CAS Fellows for 2020/21.

  • Young CAS Fellow programme important for successful research funding

    Hilde Nesse Tyssøy says that her Young CAS Fellowship has been important for her grant from the Norwegian Research Council’s Programme on Space Research.

  • NOK 30 million to research on multilingualism

    CAS project leader Marit Westergaard becomes Director of a new Aurora Center, which entails a generous grant from UiT The Arctic University of Norway, enabling her and some of her CAS colleagues to build on the group research carried out at CAS.

  • SHE: a New Centre for Excellence in Education

    Sustainable Healthcare Education: CAS fellows pen successful application to Centre for Excellence in Education

    Eivind Engebretsen and Kristin Heggen, respectively project leader and fellow of one of this year’s CAS projects, manage one of the new Centres for Excellence in Education

  • Geiranger in Møre og Romsdal county in Norway. The Research Council of Norway grants CAS project leader Terje Lohndal funding for studying grammatical gender in Norwegian dialects in Møre og Romsdal, Nordland, Vestland, Innlandet, Agder and western parts of Viken.

    How are Norwegian dialects changing?

    CAS project leader Terje Lohndal receives NOK 12 million from the Research Council of Norway to investigate grammatical gender in Norwegian dialects.

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