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  Institute for Advanced Study - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Institute for Advanced Study is a private institution in Princeton Township, New Jersey, U.S.A. (although it is not part of Princeton University), designed to foster pure cutting-edge research by scientists in a variety of fields without the complications of teaching or funding, or the agendas of sponsorship.
The founding of the institute was fraught with brushes against near-disaster; the Bamberger siblings pulled their money out of the stock market just before the Stock Market Crash of 1929, and their original intent was to express their gratitude to the state of New Jersey through the founding of a dental school.
There are other, older institutions such as All Souls College, Oxford in the United Kingdom and the Collège de France in Paris, France which may be said to be part of the inspiration for the Princeton Institute, but these do not belong to the SIAS consortium.
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 Encyclopedia: Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Advanced Study, The, although organically and administratively separate from Princeton University, has had, since its founding in 1930, close academic and intellectual relations with the University.
The Institute's primary purpose has been ``the pursuit of advanced learning and exploration in fields of pure science and high scholarship.'' It awards no degrees and usually admits to membership scholars who have already taken their highest degree.
While the Institute maintains residential and other facilities necessary for academic life and provides the opportunities for continuing intellectual interaction within its own community of scholars, it also gains from a symbiotic relationship with the University, with its wider range of disciplines and larger faculty.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Institute-for-Advanced-Study   (474 words)

  
 Institute For Advanced Study Announces New Program In Theoretical Biology: Martin Nowak To Lead Research Initiative
April 7, 1998: The Institute for Advanced Study announced today that it will begin a new program in theoretical biology, to be headed by Martin Nowak, one of the world's leading researchers in this area.
An independent, private institution whose academic membership, including permanent faculty, numbers about 200 at any given time, the Institute has been from the beginning a community of scholars whose primary purpose is the pursuit of advanced learning and scholarly exploration.
Institute faculty and Members have received thirteen Nobel Prizes, and 27 out of 36 Fields Medalists, the Nobel equivalent for mathematicians, have come from the Institute.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1998-04/IfAS-IFAS-070498.php   (1160 words)

  
 The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality
The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality is the only graduate school in the United States, and one of the few in the world, approved to train sexologists.
Institute graduates are employed in a variety of settings, including medicine and nursing, secondary and higher education, research, the media, social work, counseling and therapy, the clergy, the humanities and administrative positions.
The mission of the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality is to provide a graduate course of study for those persons considering and preparing for careers in human sexuality or already working in the field and in so doing, to make a significant contribution to the quality of professional work in the field.
www.iashs.edu   (390 words)

  
 Institute for Advanced Study, The,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The first director of the Institute was Abraham Flexner, who was succeeded in 1939 by Frank Aydelotte, in 1947 by Robert Oppenheimer, in 1966 by Carl Kaysen, and in 1976 by Harry Woolf.
The School of Historical Studies is broader in scope, including all learning for which the use of the historical method is a principal instrument.
The Institute provides facilities for residence and study for approximately one hundred and fifty visiting members who are admitted each year for short periods to pursue scholarly projects away from their normal duties at their home institutions.
etcweb1.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/institute_advanced_study.html   (549 words)

  
 NIAS (nias)
And that is precisely what the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar offers to approximately fifty carefully selected fellows each year.
Scholars who have already made a significant contribution to their field are given the opportunity to devote themselves exclusively to their own academic projects for a ten-month period, individually or as part of a research theme group.
The Institute is ideally situated in a very attractive wooded residential area only three kilometres from the North Sea beaches, yet with easy access to all universities, libraries and cultural venues.
www.nias.knaw.nl   (175 words)

  
 OSVITA / Programs / Misc / Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science:
Member awards are funded by the Institute for Advanced Study or by other sources, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
There have been many studies over the years of such matters as the modernization and development of emerging economies postcolonial culture and politics, ethnic rivalries within and among nations, and post-Cold War realignments.
Most such studies have been conducted within the context of "globalization," and have used categories of analysis that, in the light of recent history, appear dated and inadequate to the task.
www.osvita.org /eng/programs/misc/ias   (481 words)

  
 Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study - Harvard University
The mission of the Radcliffe Institute is to create an academic community where individuals can pursue advanced work in any of the academic disciplines, professions, or creative arts.
The Radcliffe Institute is committed to dialogue about important issues and events and enriches Harvard University's intellectual life through a robust program of lectures, conferences, colloquia, exhibits, and performances.
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study exists to foster transformational research across all academic disciplines, professions and the creative arts.
www.radcliffe.edu   (433 words)

  
 The Daily Princetonian - Page 3, Monday, October 6, 2003
Since it was founded in 1930, the Institute has always been a retreat for top scholars in various disciplines — including historical studies, mathematics, natural and social sciences and the arts — to come and pursue their research "free of any distractions" found at typical universities and conservatories.
Whidden, who serves as the Institute's spokeswoman, said that a common misconception is that the Institute is a part of Princeton University, though it has always been entirely separate.
Institute researchers spend months and years toiling on projects that range from the obscure to the profane.
www.dailyprincetonian.com /archives/2003/10/06/page3   (1266 words)

  
 Harvard University: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
DESCRIPTION: The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has a dual mission--to support advanced work across all the academic disciplines, the professions, and the creative arts, while simultaneously sustaining a commitment to the study of women, gender, and society.
Radcliffe Institute Fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts.
In recognition of Radcliffe's historic contributions to the education of women and to the study of issues related to women, the Radcliffe Institute sustains a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society.
www.biu.ac.il /RA/www/rserch/calls/calls/radcliffe_fellowship.html   (417 words)

  
 Drew Gilpin Faust Named Dean of Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study at Harvard University
This perspective is crucial to the success of an institute for advanced study that aspires to the highest level of academic quality across a wide range of disciplines and fields, including significant work in the field of women, gender, and society.
She is currently working on a study of the impact of the Civil War's enormous death toll on the lives of 19th-century Americans.
Besides directing the Women's Studies Program, Faust has served in an array of administrative and leadership roles at Penn. She is a trustee of Bryn Mawr College and the National Council for History Education, and serves on the educational advisory board of the Guggenheim Foundation.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2000/04.06/faust.html   (1080 words)

  
 Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia supports basic research through interdisciplinary initiatives that have the potential to make important advances in knowledge.
The Institute brings together researchers from UBC with distinguished scholars from around the world to conduct fundamental research drawing upon and contributing to a wide range of diverse disciplines.
Rhonda Goodman is the new Institute Secretary and Receptionist as of February 3, 2006.
www.pwias.ubc.ca   (1206 words)

  
 Institute of Advanced Study - Università di Bologna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Institute of Advanced Study presents its new web site which is part of the University of Bologna Portal Project.
The Institute of Advanced Study advises that research fellowships are available in the fields of the Life Sciences, of the Natural Sciences and Technology, and of the Humanities.
The Institute of Advanced Study of the University of Bologna has been conceived as a place of learning for inquisitive minds to explore fundamental issues in a powerfully and genuinely cross-disciplinary context.
www.isa.unibo.it   (185 words)

  
 About the Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Some of the foremost string theorists in the world are Institute Faculty, and in that regard and others, Einstein’s legacy is strongly felt at the Institute.
The Institute’s four Schools – Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Social Science – and the hundreds of postdoctoral scholars who visit each year to work with the Faculty and Emeriti, are a testament to the great scientist’s intellectual curiosity and passion.
In the spirit of Einstein’s generosity, the Institute donated 65 of his possessions to the Historical Society of Princeton in 2004.
www.ias.edu /SpFeatures/einstein/ae-p1.php   (536 words)

  
 Bristol University, IAS - Institute for Advanced Studies homepage
The mission of the Institute for Advanced Studies is to develop research at the University of Bristol by facilitating visits by scholars from the UK and overseas and to encourage interdisciplinary research.
The Institute is located in the heart of the university, in the Royal Fort House, which has been described as the ‘most satisfying Rococo villa to be found anywhere in Britain’, set within beautiful landscaped gardens designed by Humphry Repton.
The IAS enjoys links with many other Institutes around the world, particularly those within WUN universities, and especially with the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia in Perth, which, like our own IAS, embraces all disciplines.
www.bris.ac.uk /Depts/IAS   (458 words)

  
 About the Institute
Noted historian Drew Gilpin Faust is the first dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and is the Lincoln Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
The Institute offers especially rich opportunities for scholarship both at Harvard and beyond in the field of women, gender, and society, which serves as a focus within the Institute's broad range of inquiry.
The mission of the Institute is supported and enhanced by the Schlesinger Library, the preeminent library documenting the history of women in America, a repository of 80,000 volumes and 13,000 linear feet of manuscripts, and by the Henry A. Murray Research Center, a singularly valuable archive of longitudinal social science data.
www.radcliffe.edu /about   (594 words)

  
 Institute for Advanced Study on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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www.encyclopedia.com /html/I/InstitutA1S1.asp   (402 words)

  
 Institute for Advanced Study
JOHN MASTEN APPOINTED AS NEW ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AT THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
Albert Einstein was one of the Institute's first Faculty members.
The Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry, marks this year the 75th anniversary of its founding in 1930.
www.ias.edu   (83 words)

  
 STIAS - Home Page
The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) is a high-level research facility dedicated to keeping South Africa at the fore­front of international scientific develop­ments.
It is modelled on success­ful examples of Institutes of Advanced Study elsewhere in the world.
These institutes have won themselves a reputation for pro­ducing advanced, cutting-edge research and for achieving break­throughs in many fields.
academic.sun.ac.za /stias   (523 words)

  
 The Geometry of the Sphere
Institute for Advanced Study during July of 1996.
In plane geometry we study points, lines, triangles, polygons, etc. On the sphere we have points, but there are no straight lines --- at least not in the usual sense.
We will study the incidence relations between great circles, the notion of angle on the sphere, and the areas of certain fundamental regions on the sphere, culminating with the area of spherical triangles.
math.rice.edu /~pcmi/sphere   (410 words)

  
 The School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Since their residence requirements were minimal (in the former case, nonexistent in the latter), while those of the Institute were for him only from October to April 15, Einstein did not see any incompatibility; on the other hand, if Flexner felt otherwise, he would agree to terminate the arrangement with the Institute....
A number of colleagues in physics and historical studies stated that it had always been their understanding that there was some agreement prohibiting the Institute to offer a professorship to a Princeton University colleague.
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 NATO Security Through Science: Advanced Study Institutes - Notes for Applicants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Grants are offered to organize Advanced Study Institutes, which are high-level tutorial activities where a carefully defined subject is treated in depth by lecturers of international standing, and which include new advances in the subject not yet in university courses.
An Advanced Study Institute (ASI) is a high-level teaching activity where a carefully defined subject is treated in depth by lecturers of international standing, and new advances in a subject, not taught elsewhere, are reported in tutorial form.
Selection of applications for Advanced Study Institutes is based on peer review, and applications are selected for support following the recommendations of an international Advisory Panel appointed by the NATO Science Committee.
www.nato.int /science/support/asi/asi-nfa.htm   (1452 words)

  
 Homepage : Institute for Advanced Study : University of Minnesota
The Institute for Advanced Study is a new initiative which brings together exciting new work across the university community.
The Institute offices and public spaces in the Nolte Center provide a place where faculty and students can meet informally for discussions with one another and for more structured presentations, concerts and conversations.
The IAS also houses the activities of the Humanities Institute, the Center for Medieval Studies, and the Center for Jewish Studies.
www.ias.umn.edu   (321 words)

  
 Director of Institute for Advanced Study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nominations and applications are invited for the directorship of the Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study (IUIAS).
This institute was established 20 years ago "to further research and creative activity by providing an intellectually stimulating center for visitors from all over the world." Since then the number of ways of providing that intellectual activity have expanded.
The director provides creative leadership for IUIAS and serves as a representative of advanced study to various constituencies both inside and outside the university.
www.indiana.edu /~emeriti/DirNotice.html   (310 words)

  
 Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Company Description: The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University (GMU) was chartered in 1990 as a private nonprofit Virginia corporation from a bequest from Shelley Krasnow.
Focus: study of a simple invertebrate nervous system to understand key role of calcium in regulation of memory storage.
At the end of its first decade, the Krasnow Institute is well-positioned at the crest of an intellectual wave that is captivating humanity, on the campus of a growing, innovative, public university, 15 miles from the nation's Capital.
www.training.nih.gov /JobFair2001/Exhibitors01/krasnow_institute_for_advanced_s.htm   (430 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Institute for Advanced Study, United States (Colleges, U.S.) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Institute for Advanced Study, United States (Colleges, U.S.) - Encyclopedia
Institute for Advanced Study, Colleges, U.S. Related Category: Colleges, U.S. Institute for Advanced Study, at Princeton, N.J.; chartered 1930, opened 1933.
Felix Fuld as a center for graduate study, it subsequently became a research center for advanced study in mathematics and the natural and social sciences.
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