Highlights:
CAS Professor Nick Holonyak, Jr., inventor of the first visible light-emitting diode (LED), will be inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame in ceremonies to be held early in May, 2008.

CAS Professor Benita S. Katzenellenbogen was awarded an Honorary Degree (Laurea ad Honorem) from the University of Milan, Italy on November 26, 2007. Dr. Katzenellenbogen was recognized for “biomedical research that has advanced our understanding of the actions of estrogens and estrogen receptors in women’s health and diseases such as breast cancer”. During the formal awards ceremony, Dr. Katzenellenbogen presented a lecture on her recent research contributions.

CAS announces 2008-2009 Associates and Fellows

CAS initiative for academic year 2008, Science and Technology in the Pacific Century (STIP)

The Chancellor's CAS Special Lecture Series. The purpose of these events is to provide a vehicle for faculty with exceptional recent achievements to describe their work in a manner oriented to a non-specialist audience.

CAS Publications
Defining Values for Research and Technology: The University's Changing Role (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).

Improving the System for Protecting Human Subjects: Counteracting IRB "Mission Creep" (2005). The Illinois White Paper.

"Making Public-Service Telecommunications: Past and Present Challenges to Networked Information Infrastructures," Info, Dan Schiller, guest editor, Vol. 9 (2007). Edited versions of papers presented at CAS conference held April, 2006.