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November 25, 2009

Science

04/17/09

Science | Faculty and Staff | Earth / Space:  ASU researcher looks to fullfill astronaut dream

ASU astrogeologist Jim Rice is heading to NASA's Johnson Space Center to be poked, prodded and analyzed as one of about 40 candidates in the running for NASA's next astronaut class.

04/17/09

University | Arts / Culture | Science | Faculty and Staff | Humanities | Life Science | Research | Social Science:  Institute of Human Origins participates in Santa Barbara symposium

04/17/09

Engineering | Science | News coverage | Bioscience / Biotech | Research | Engineering:  How's your health? Check your cell phone

Two ASU engineering researchers are working on integrating "smart phones" with sensors that can monitor people's health condition.

04/16/09

Science | Earth / Space:  ASU instrument monitors developing Mars dust storm

Scientists at ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility are using a heat-sensing camera developed at ASU to track a growing dust storm that erupted on Mars in March.

04/10/09

Science | Faculty and Staff:  Visiting professor: Math brings awareness to climate change

Julian Hunt, a visiting professor at Arizona State University, will give a special lecture April 17 to celebrate National Mathematics Awareness Month.

04/09/09

Science:  The origins of it all: Symposium ends with 'jam session'

The Origins Symposium at ASU, a four-day affair that brought together more than 70 of the world's leading scientists to discuss the origins of everything, drew to a close with with a 12-hour scientific "jam session."

04/08/09

Science | Community:  Nobel Laureates talk science with high school students

The energy level was pulsating at North High School in Phoenix when nearly 1,000 high school students talked science, politics and economics with three Nobel Laureates and an ASU theoretical physicist.

04/05/09

Science | Community:  Hawking presentation goes virtual for Origins Symposium

Due to an illness physicist Stephen Hawking has digitally recorded the presentation he intended to give in person April 6 at the ASU Origins Symposium.

04/03/09

Science:  ‘Science Friday’ at ASU: Cosmology, astrobiology and the origins of life

NPR’s “Science Friday,” with host Ira Flatow, was broadcast live from ASU April 3 as part of the Origins Symposium organized by professor Lawrence Krauss.

04/02/09

Engineering | Science | Faculty and Staff | Earth / Space | Sustainability and environment:  Professor to study links between humans, monsoon

Associate professor Enrique Vivoni is the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for his efforts on exploring how human impact may effect annual monsoons.