The Academic Senate Committee on Committees, led by co-chairs Marcia Anderson and Judy Grace, and Duane Roen, the Academic Senate president, have unveiled a list of candidates for the 2007 Academic Assembly election ballot.
Not all of us are destined to be scientists. However growing up near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and having a nuclear physicist as a parent certainly influenced Jane Maienschein’s choices.
In the Modeling Method, students are not being lectured to by the teacher. They instead are guided to develop a model of a physical system using diagrams, maps and mathematical formulas. The teacher acts as a facilitator who is unobtrusively in control of the agenda at all times.
As the child of two Holocaust survivors, David Kader grew up around memories of the atrocities inflicted on the Jews of Europe during the period of Nazi rule of Germany and their lasting impact on that generation.
The science of butterfly wings and the psychology of eating are among topics in a series of free colloquia to be offered this winter and spring by the ASU Emeritus College.
Inmates at Maricopa County's Lower Buckeye Jail can decrease the likelihood of a return stay after their release by completing an online, values-based, goal-centered program offered to them jointly by ASU and LifePilot.
Efforts at ASU to advance knowledge in Web services science will be aided by a grant of more than $400,000 through a National Science Foundation Career Award recently earned by Hasan Davulcu, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering.