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Synopsis
Excerpt from Institute for Advanced Study: Report for the Academic Year 2004-2005
The Institute fills a unique role in postgraduate education and scientific and scholarly research. As the university to universities, in the words of Trustee Vartan Gregorian, the Institute serves all colleges and universities by providing a place where scholars can hone their skills and do their best work, thereby adding substantially to their ability to contribute as both teachers and scholars to the academic institutions where they base their careers. For young scholars just entering the academic world, an opportunity to work at the Institute can set the direction for lifelong research interests and thereby determine professional careers. The Institute provides more mature scholars with the opportunity to take new directions in their research or to complete a major piece of work away from the many obligations of working life at a university. At a time when pure research and schol arly activities are undervalued, the opportunities that the Institute provides have never been more needed.
The Institute's foremost objective is the advancement of knowledge and the deepening of understanding across a broad range of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. One of the Institute's unique strengths is its permanent Faculty of 26 eminent scholars whose broad interests and extensive ties to the larger academic world are reflected in their own work and also in the guidance and direction they provide to the Institute's vis iting Members. The Faculty defines the major themes and questions that become the focus of each School's seminars and other activities, and the Faculty selects and works closely with visiting Members. Small in number and organized in four Schools (histori cal Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science), the Faculty and Mem bers can interact with one another without any departmental and disciplinary barriers.
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