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November 24, 2009

Community

10/29/09

Science | Community:  With venom and vigor bugs vie to be crowned ‘ugliest’

ASU's "Ask A Biologist" Web site is a scientific sanctuary for students and teachers alike – and host to this year's Ugly Bug Contest.

10/22/09

University | Community:  Initiative challenges ASU community to engage in global issues

ASU's future as a New American University and the pressing challenges it intends to tackle will be the focus of activities on Cady Mall during the Homecoming Block Party Oct. 31.

10/22/09

Arts / Culture | Diversity | Community:  Day of the Dead celebration set for Oct. 28

Arizona State University’s Downtown Phoenix campus is celebrating life by honoring the dead at the annual El Día de Los Muertos festival.

10/19/09

University | Community:  Liberal Arts and Sciences brings bits and pieces of labs and classrooms to Homecoming Block Party

ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is bringing reptiles, "Lucy," meteorites and "meteorwrongs," physics experiments and Jiu-jitsu demonstrations to this year's Homecoming Block Party on Oct. 31.

10/13/09

University | Faculty and Staff | Students | Community:  Weeklong celebration of 'Devilish Homecoming' at West campus Oct. 26-30

From an academic expo to a haunted ball, and from flag football to a talent show, ASU's West campus is the site of a weeklong celebration of the university's "Devilish Homecoming."

10/08/09

Engineering | Community | Community partnerships:  Desert Doghouse: Green living for canines

Arizona high school students will compete Oct. 24 at ASU for a chance to showcase the winning sustainable doghouse project at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Phoenix.

10/06/09

Community | Social Science:  Feminists bring multigenerational perspective to reopen dialogue

"Changing the World: Feminism in Action Generation to Generation" is the topic for the Feldt/Barbanell Women of the World Lecture at 7 p.m., Oct. 13 at ASU's Tempe campus.

10/01/09

Arts / Culture | Faculty and Staff | Students | Community | Community partnerships:  ASU foundry program melds artists, metal casters, public

The American Foundry Society’s Art Casting Conference, hosted in part by the ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, is bringing together metal casters and artists for the first time since 1990.

09/25/09

Humanities | Community:  Indie filmmaker Heather Rae brings her perspective to ASU

Independent film producer and director Heather Rae, recently named by Variety as one of the industry's "10 producers to watch," will be at ASU to deliver the Jonathan and Maxine Marshall Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m., Oct. 5.

09/22/09

Engineering | Diversity | Students | Community | Alumni | News coverage:  Nurturing next generation of innovators

ASU engineering professor Armando Rodriguez is featured in the magazine Engineering: Go For It for his efforts to help youg students pursue education in science, technology, engineering and math.