ASU is a partner in two grants to further develop solar energy, which were recently awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The grants are part of the Solar America Initiative (SAI), announced last year by President George W. Bush.
Murray Gell-Mann, one of the leading intellectuals of our time and recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics, will present the inaugural lecture of ASU's new cosmic think tank known as Beyond, the Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.
Astrophysicist John M. Grunsfeld will visit ASU March 20 to deliver the annual Robert S. Dietz Lecture, presented by the School of Earth and Space Exploration.
Scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs working on the leading edge of nanotechnology will gather at Arizona State University for the international Nano and Giga Challenges Symposium March 14 to 16.
Several ASU faculty members earned national recognition for their research efforts during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Francisco.
With summer just around the corner, undergraduate life sciences students can look forward to a unique work experience through the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in the School of Life Sciences.
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.