Fellowship Applications Now Open 

at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 

at Stanford University

 

Stanford, CA:  August 6, 2013 – The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University is now accepting applications for residential fellowships for the 2014-2015 academic year. Interested scholars may apply or seek more information at the Fellows page on the Center’s website (www.casbs.org).  The deadline to apply is October 3, 2013.

 The Center’s bucolic setting has offered accomplished and promising scholars an academic idyll, wherein they may pursue the research of their own choosing, as well as interact with their peers from a wide variety of disciplines within the behavioral sciences and humanities.  Former Fellows have described their time here as transformational.

 About the Center

Since its founding in 1954, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University has brought together distinguished scholars in the behavioral sciences to confront societal problems worldwide. The Center is honored to count among its Fellows 22 Nobel laureates, 14 Pulitzer Prize winners, and 44 MacArthur Fellows, in addition to hundreds of members of the National Academies.

Fellows have contributed to fields as diverse as medicine, education, electoral politics, crime prevention, and international development, as well as the core behavioral science disciplines.  And they’ve played key roles in starting new interdisciplinary fields such as behavioral economics.