KIAS is a major endowed research institute based at the University of Alberta. KIAS will facilitate transformational interdisciplinary and comparative research at the highest level nationally and internationally, guided by the ideals set forth by the founding benefactors, and the purpose of research and learning at the University of Alberta, articulated by President Henry Marshall Tory in 1908: “the Uplifting of the Whole People.

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