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May 12, 2008

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05/08/08

Faculty / Staff | Community | Grants / Awards:  Faculty develop Spanish screener for language disorders

A four-year grant has been awarded to develop the first Spanish language screening measure to identify children at risk for language impairment.

05/08/08

University | Administration | Education:  Middleton appointed to lead new education vision

ASU is creating a new vision for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education in Arizona with professor James Middleton leading the charge.

05/07/08

Grants / Awards | Social Science:  ASU takes ‘Kids Voting’ to the world's newest state: Kosova

ASU's Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies is developing a curriculum and training teachers as part of a new "Kids Voting" program being implemented in Kosova.

05/07/08

Journalism:  Cronkite students part of National Gannett Award

A team of Cronkite students were the first place winners in this year’s Best of Gannett award for breaking news coverage.

05/06/08

Engineering:  ASU takes on major role in cutting-edge project

ASU's Center for Ecogenomics is a key partner in an effort to discover more about Earth's largely unexplored ocean depths.

05/05/08

University | Students:  ASU graduates record class

ASU will graduate a record 8,000 students during ceremonies May 8 at Wells Fargo Arena.

05/02/08

Engineering | Grants / Awards:  NSF award boosts Buneo’s bioengineering research

Engineering professor Christopher Buneo is aiming to understand how the brain combines sensory information to help plan our physical movements.

05/02/08

Sports:  ASU pair heads to College Football Hall of Fame

Former ASU head football coach John Cooper and former football student-athlete Randall McDaniel have been selected to the 2008 class of the College Football Hall of Fame.

05/01/08

Arts / Culture:  Clarinetist earns note for novel research approach

Doctoral student Joshua Gardner is studying an advanced but controversial technique that helps clarinetists better perform compositions that require clarinetists to play "tongued" notes at a fast tempo.

04/30/08

Journalism:  PBS’s Lehrer, MacNeil to be honored by Cronkite

Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil are this year’s recipients of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.