Some of the nation's leading scientists and science journalists will present their perspectives on the roles of scientists and engineers in popular communication during a symposium April 2 at ASU titled “Essential Dialogues: Why Scientists and Engineers Must Not Speak in Tongues.”
Subhash Mahajan was named an ASU Regents’ Professor, one of several typically chosen for the honor each year for outstanding accomplishments in teaching, scholarship, research, creative activities, and national and international recognition in their fields.
Guy Cardineau, a professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, has been appointed to a federal panel charged with making recommendations about the development and use of genetically engineered agricultural products.
Christopher Zambakari, a December summa cum laude graduate of ASU's New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, is plotting a career course that will do the university's president, Michael Crow, and the architects of the New American University proud.
Lecturer Donny George Youkhanna told the story of his forced exile from Iraq in a recent lecture sponsored by the School of Human Evolution & Social Change, the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, and the Department of Political Science.
ASU's Hispanic Research Center will bring nationally recognized poets to the Phoenix area and will conduct two art exhibits as part of the fifth annual Arizona International Latina/o Arts Festival.
ASU's College of Science and Technology at the Polytechnic campus, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs, has launched the Advanced Technology Innovation Collaboratory.
The Old English Reading Group has been in existence since 1994, and is one of three language study groups that Robert Bjork started when he became director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies that year.
Pupils at a Phoenix middle school recently got a real-world view of crime scene investigation, legal case building and courtroom proceedings with help from students at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
School of Life Sciences (SOLS) graduate students Mike Butler, Nathan Morehouse, Jonathon Douglas, Lisa Taylor, Melissa Meadows and Matthew Toomey have been awarded $29,000 to develop the first SOLS Frontiers in Science Conference to be held at ASU.
The ASU Herberger College School of Art has announced the appointment of New York artist and art historian Arnold Chang as the first distinguished visiting scholar for the newly initiated Marilyn and Roy Papp ASU-Phoenix Art Museum Chinese Painting Program.
Cultural critic and author Marjorie Garber will address issues concerning the present state and the future of humanities in our culture during a lecture sponsored by ASU's Institute for Humanities Research.
ASU Herberger College dance students and faculty premiere the best original choreography from the Herberger College of the Arts during its highly anticipated MainStage New Danceworks concert series.
The University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix , in Partnership with Arizona State University, has received accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education for its new four-year program in downtown Phoenix.
The third annual Pat's Run, held April 7 at Sun Devil Stadium, already has participants from more than 35 states as well as Canada and Asia. April 1 is the end of early registration, while online registration ends April 3.
Now in its second year, the Institute for Humanities Research in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) will celebrate transformational humanities scholarship at a reception.
The number of ASU Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering faculty members winning highly sought-after National Science Foundation Career Awards has risen to five over the past year.
The ASU Alumni Association is celebrating the dedication of faculty and staff members who are members of the Alumni Association by creating the U Devils group and holding a monthlong series of events in the group's honor.
Thanks to a seed grant awarded by the ASU Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family, Peggy Bortner, director of the Center for Urban Inquiry. conducted a research proposal to look at the obstacles of obtaining housing for ex-prisoner women.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will introduce Martin D. Ginsburg, a Washington , D.C. , attorney and professor at Georgetown University Law Center at the upcoming 12th Annual Willard H. Pedrick Lecture.
The Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative is one of many programs and initiatives that are positioning ASU to become the most entrepreneurial university in the country, and perhaps the world.
Renowned recording artist and tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander joins the ASU Concert Jazz Band and the ASU New Music Jazz Ensemble for the Herberger College Jazz Week 2007.
Jere Humphreys, who has been on the ASU faculty for 20 years and Philip Vandermeer, who has served on the College of Liberal Arts and Science's Dean's Advisory Committee on Computing, are the two finalists in the search for an Academic Assembly president.
Professor LeRoy Eyring's contributions to science education and research at ASU were honored March 23 in a ceremony to mark the naming of the LeRoy Eyring Center for Solid State Science (CSSS).
ASU fans are invited to Wells Fargo Arena on Monday, March 26, to watch a telecast of the Sun Devil women's basketball team take on Rutgers in the Greensboro Regional Final.
As one of three exceptional faculty members named this spring as a President’s Professor, Ted Humphrey is known on campus for drawing out his students’ opinions on thorny subjects, and teaching them to think and write critically.
Three faculty members of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at ASU have joined a prestigious international legal association dedicated to improving the administration of justice.
Artists with a flair for entrepreneurship can receive extra financial support to develop and implement their visions through p.a.v.e.: the performing arts venture experience.
The School of Health Management and Policy in ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business will play host to 14 students enrolled in the Executive Master's in Health Care Administration (EMHCA) at Zayed University of the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.).
The recently expanded and renamed Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Department at ASU focuses on U.S. and Mexican regional immigration policy and economy, media literature and arts, and transborder community development and health – areas that have a significant impact in the Latino community.
The Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust is committing $7.8 million over the next four years to fund college scholarships for students in Arizona and Indiana whom traditional scholarship programs typically overlook.
ASU CARES is partnering with the city of Mesa to enhance Park of the Canals – a historic park that is one of the few places where abandoned Hohokam canals can be seen.
This summer, while most ASU students are taking advantage of much-needed time away from the books, Dane Klett will be in Florida, riding a bicycle to raise money for those with disabilities.
Dean Kwang-Wu Kim wants to change the old perception that fine arts colleges are static institutions where the elite work from inflexible educational models, so he is renaming the Herberger College of Fine Arts the Herberger College of the Arts.
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.
ASU ecologist James Elser is at the leading edge of a research field that focuses on understanding the processing of energy and multiple chemical elements in plants, animals and microbes, and how they sculpt ecosystems, also known as ecological stoichiometry.
The Sun Devil Service Award Luncheon is a special university celebration that recognizes ASU employees who are celebrating long-term anniversaries and those retiring with 25 or more years of continuous service to ASU.
Moorhead, a shining star in ASU's guitar program in the Herberger College's School of Music, has won numerous prizes in national guitar competitions, and now he has his eye on international events – and a career as a solo guitarist.
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.
In a paper published in the Public Libry Nelsoary of Science journal PLoS Biology, ASU School of Life Sciences researchers together with a University of California-affiliated researcher, have shown that a single gene, vitellogenin, controls multiple aspects of honey bee social organization.
As the largest producer of social work graduates in Arizona, the ASU School of Social Work is responding directly to community needs for Spanish speaking social workers.
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.
Two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera heads to ASU Gammage March 13-18 in a musical that celebrates her astonishing career as one of America 's most beloved stage performers.
Admirers of early music will get to hear the distinctive timbres of a rare Italian Baroque organ at a March 11 MainStage Organ concert, titled “Order versus Beauty: A Juxtaposition of German and Italian Styles.”
A new Center for Applied Nanoionics (CANi) promises to provide major new collaborations and advances in this burgeoning field, which focuses on the behavior of materials on an atomic scale.
To promote the choices ASU students, faculty and staff have with respect to traveling to campus, the Commuter Options office is launching a campaign that will focus on various commuting options including biking, the ASU U-Pass, on-campus transit, intercampus shuttles and carpooling.
The ASU Art Museum has announced the opening of “Connivences: Stefan De Jaeger/Stéphane Janssen, A history of art, family and friends,” through May 12.
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.
Known as a “Conversation with the Country,” Vice Adm. John G. Morgan came to ASU March 1 to discuss with students their perceptions and ideas about creating a new maritime strategy for the Navy.
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.
Two innovative entrepreneurial companies from Mexico have announced their intent to establish U.S. operations at SkySong, the ASU-Scottsdale Innovation Center : Ensitech and Energy Ventures, both based in Monterrey, Mexico.
As a talented musician who also loves teaching, Jorge Montilla touches the lives of his students with his infectious enthusiasm and his genuine caring.
Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown is stepping away from the camera and up to the podium as he joins prestigious faculty at ASU's Barrett, the Honors College and Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
For its commitment, ASU's College of Teacher Education and Leadership received a “Best Practice Award for Effective Partnerships” by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE).
Researchers at ASU have enlisted the help of a high school student to study the impact of nanoparticles, such as titanium dioxide/oxide (TiO2), which is found in sunscreen and many other products, on aquatic organisms.
A study just completed by faculty in the School of Health Policy and Management at ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business shows that health sector expenditures contribute to local economies.
A Founders’ Day dinner and awards presentation, conducted by the ASU Alumni Association will mark the day in March of 1885 when the 13th Territorial Legislature established the Territorial Normal School of Arizona, which later became ASU.
Researchers at ASU's Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC), in partnership with Mexican institutions, have developed a research partnership to better understand how different psychosocial, health and educational factors are associated with the decision that Guanajuato's youth make about migration.
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.
Researchers at The University of Arizona and Arizona State University have been awarded more than $2 million to fund collaborative biomedical research projects designed to accelerate the translation of research discoveries to the clinic and target diseases such as asthma, Parkinson’s disease, valley fever and cancer.
ASU and Thunderbird School of Global Management have partnered on a research study showing that executives who look beyond profits can improve their bottom lines.
Pledging to significantly reduce and eventually neutralize carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming, ASU President Michael Crow has announced his signing of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment.
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.
