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November 25, 2009

Science

05/13/09

Engineering | Science | Students:  ASU, NASA modernizing aeronautical education

NASA efforts to modernize aeronautical education includes a grant that will support work by faculty members in ASU's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering to develop new teaching approaches.

05/11/09

Engineering | Science | Research | Engineering:  Better computing through chaos and the butterfly effect

William Ditto, chair of the Harrington Department of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering, is working at the forefront of chaotic computing research and what is known as "the butterfly effect."

05/05/09

Engineering | Science | News coverage | Engineering | Sustainability and environment:  Air pollution research, social media combine to provide asthma alert system

An ASU's professor's research spawns an idea to make Facebook, MySpace and Twitter part of an air-pollution and asthma alert system.

04/30/09

Science | Bioscience / Biotech | Research | Sustainability and environment:  DOE funds bio-inspired solar fuel center at ASU

ASU is now home to a new Energy Frontier Research Center, which will pursue advanced scientific research on solar energy conversion based on the principles of photosynthesis.

04/28/09

Engineering | Science | Engineering:  Effort to boost materials science and engineering under way

His selection as the first to hold the Lamonte Lawrence Chair in Solid State Sciences will give professor Nathan Newman resources to help boost materials science and engineering education and research at ASU.

04/24/09

University | Arts / Culture | Science | Faculty and Staff | Humanities | Research | Social Science:  ASU archaeologist earns Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship

04/23/09

Science | Life Science | Earth / Space:  Unlikely life thriving at Antarctica’s Blood Falls

The key piece of data supporting the hypothesis that microbes are surviving in Blood Falls, Antarctica, came from samples analyzed by Associate Professor Ariel Anbar and a team of ASU researchers.

04/23/09

Engineering | Science | Faculty and Staff | Research | Earth / Space | Engineering:  Vivoni studying human impact on Southwest's ecosystems

ASU associate professor Enrique Vivoni is undertaking research that will help guide environmental management of federal lands in the Southwest.

04/21/09

Science | Faculty and Staff | Grants / Awards:  Krauss receives award for ‘Scholarship in the Public Interest’

Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss was recognized for his high-level involvement in issues of science and society with an award for Scholarship in the Public Interest.

04/20/09

Engineering | Science | Innovation / Entrepreneurship | Students | Community:  Popularity spurs growth of computer game camp

ASU's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering is expanding the summer "CampGame" program for teens that teaches the fundamentals of computer video game development.