News

Here, we publish articles about the Centre and its activities, as well as interviews with our scholars about their time at CAS and the progress and results of their research.

12 January 2018

Project Update: 'Molecules in Extreme Environments'

CAS fellows give an update on their work to push the boundaries of theoretical chemistry.

20 December 2017

CAS fellows featured in 'Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics'

Scholars participating in the CAS project 'Molecules in Extreme Environments' publish their research on the 'superheavy' element Copernicium.

14 December 2017

CAS announces selection of 2018 YoungCAS projects

Up-and-coming scholars from the Universities of Tromsø and Oslo will lead research groups as the YoungCAS concept expands in 2018.

12 December 2017

Former CAS project featured in 'Nature Ecology & Evolution'

Scholars from the 2015/16 project 'Climate Effects on Harvested Large Mammal Populations' publish their research on the Scandianvian brown bear in the prestigious scholarly journal.

12 December 2017

John Comaroff: Conflict and (Dis)order Among Tswana in Colonial and Postcolonial South Africa

John Comaroff, professor of African and African-American Studies and Anthropology at Harvard University, deconstructs myths about political structures in Southern Africa in this CAS Oslo seminar.

30 November 2017

CAS fellow wins ERC Consolidator Grant

Assistant Professor Andrew Teale, a participant in the project 'Molecules in Extreme Environments,' is recognised by the European Research Council as one of Europe's top scholars.

22 November 2017

Are There 'Good' Civil Wars?

CAS fellows involved in the research project 'The Nordic "Civil Wars" in the High Middle Ages in a Comparative Perspective' debate whether some civil wars can have positive consequences -- and whether they should even be called civil wars.

03 November 2017

Researching Something That Does Not Exist

Extreme chemistry may sound exciting to work with, but for most of us it can be very hard to grasp what researchers in such fields are actually working on. This is especially true if they are looking into the composition and properties of elements that do not exist on Earth.

12 October 2017

Dag O. Hessen: The Value of Nature

As part of Forskningsdagene 2017, CAS Oslo invited six current and former research fellows to give a 12-minute talk about science and values. In his talk, biologist Dag O. Hessen presents a range of ways to look at the value of nature.