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June, 2007

06/29/07

ASU News:  Route 66 exhibit to appear at Fletcher Library

‘Route 66 through British Eyes’ features photos, memorabilia

06/29/07

University | Administration:  Changes streamline organizational structure

ASU's executive vice president and provost, Elizabeth D. Capaldi, recently announced organizational changes for the Polytechnic and West campuses as part of the next steps in ASU's decentralization of academic functions.

06/29/07

Law:  Berch, Gallagher receive legal honors

Michael Berch, a professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and Michael Gallagher, a graduate of the college and a leading Phoenix attorney, will receive top honors at the 2007 State Bar of Arizona Convention.

06/28/07

University | Engineering:  ASU helps students achieve success

Something wonderful is happening at Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix, and ASU has had a role in making it happen.

06/28/07

Community:  Holistic health program emerges in Phoenix

Body scans, trauma-releasing exercises, assessment of air quality and toxins, and progressive relaxation are just a few of the experiential class activities that will be required of students in the new graduate level certificate in the assessment of integrative health modalities being launched this fall by ASU's School of Social Work.

06/27/07

ASU News:  New advanced degrees establish state's first Ph.D. criminology program

New advanced degrees establish state's first Ph.D. criminology program

06/27/07

Sports | Students:  ASU finishes among Director’s Cup elite

The ASU athletic department finished 10th in the U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cup standings, as ASU’s top 10 finishes in women’s indoor and outdoor track and field, women’s basketball, baseball and softball led the way to its 11th straight top 20 finish.

06/27/07

Science | Bioscience / Biotech:  Researcher earns bioinformatics award

The highest honor for lifetime achievement in biomedical informatics has been awarded to Ted Shortliffe, founding dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, and a faculty member of ASU's Department of Biomedical Informatics.

06/27/07

Arts / Culture | Faculty / Staff:  Staff sets first 'Devils' Workshop'

ASU's first-ever summer staff arts extravaganza has a name: The Devils' Workshop: Staff Artfest 2007.

06/26/07

ASU News:  Anna Olibarria – From New College to TGEN

Alumna finds road to career a winding path

06/26/07

Science | Faculty / Staff:  ASU's James Rice makes space fame

James Rice, of ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility, was one of the initial eight inductees into the Space Camp Hall of Fame at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.

06/25/07

Journalism:  Jane Pauley named 2007 Cronkite Award winner

Jane Pauley, the long-time popular anchor of NBC’s “Today” show and founding co-host of “Dateline NBC,” will be this year’s recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

06/25/07

Education:  Middle school students move to Barrett

College students are getting younger, or so it seems. Nearly 50 seventh-graders from around Arizona will move into the halls at Barrett, the Honors College at ASU, on June 24 for a week of rigorous advanced math classes and fun.

06/25/07

Alumni:  Alumni Association group wins big

Seeing is believing – and the marketing and communications department of the Alumni Association has a lot to look at lately. The group has been recognized nine times in the last several months for the quality of the marketing materials and publications that they produce.

06/25/07

Science | Earth / Space:  Scientist uncovers Earth's mysterious layer

Laboratory measurements of a high-pressure mineral believed to exist deep within the Earth show that the mineral may not, as geophysicists hoped, have the right properties to explain a mysterious layer lying just above the planet's core.

06/21/07

Science | Faculty / Staff | Earth / Space:  ASU geophysicists detect molten rock layer deep below American Southwest

A sheet of molten rock roughly 10 miles thick spreads underneath much of the American Southwest, some 250 miles below Tucson. From the surface, you can't see it, smell it or feel it.

06/21/07

Community:  Latino male dropout crisis focus of symposium

More than 40 local and national experts in the fields of at-risk education, educational policy, community outreach, and educational research will convene June 22-23 at ASU to address the Latino male dropout crisis at a forum sponsored by the Center for Community Development and Civil Rights.

06/21/07

University | Faculty / Staff:  University-wide HR system takes effect July 2

The Office of Human Resources is launching a new software system to help all ASU staffers and faculty members better manage their futures at the university. Human Capital Management (HCM) is a new process for managing time, vacation, pay and other HR “touch points” for the ASU community.

06/20/07

Earth / Space:  Fate and Stars

Rogier Windhorst has spent his entire career thinking big. He has to. He is an astrophysicist. He uses the most advanced telescope systems ever developed to peer into deep space, and essentially back in time.

06/20/07

ASU News:  ASU and Teach For America join forces to develop master's program

Program designed specifically for TFA corps members – top tier college grads who commit to teaching in low-income urban communities

06/20/07

University | Education:  Annual teacher round-up scheduled

School district representatives from Arizona and other parts of the country will come to Tempe to hire teachers at ASU's 30th annual Recruiter Round-up, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., June 22, in the Wells Fargo Arena on the Tempe campus.

06/20/07

University | Administration:  Gordon takes reins as Emeritus College dean

Len Gordon, professor emeritus of sociology, has been named dean of the Emeritus College , beginning July 1. He will succeed Richard Jacob, the college's founding dean.

06/19/07

University | Science | Faculty / Staff | Life Science:  Pew award creates buzz for Amdam

Amdam, an assistant professor in ASU’s School of Life Sciences who heads social insect studies in laboratories at ASU and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences’ Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, is one of 20 researchers chosen this year to enter the trusts’ exclusive rolls as a Pew Scholar in the biomedical sciences.

06/18/07

Administration | Arts / Culture:  Downtown leaders set up new post

Perhaps the current occupants of the Downtown Phoenix post office don't have quite as colorful histories as some of the luminaries involved during the project's inception during the early 1900s.

06/18/07

University | Administration:  Former Emeritus College dean looks back

For the past three years, Richard Jacob has been putting in 20 hours a week – and sometimes more – as the Founding Dean of the Emeritus College. Jacob will relinquish the deanship June 30, but he won't give up his workload.

 

06/18/07

Science:  Study reveals insect 'supersociety'

How social or altruistic behavior evolved has been a central and hotly debated question, particularly by those researchers engaged in the study of social insect societies of ants, bees and wasps.

06/15/07

Students:  ASU students travel abroad

This summer, six ASU students traveled to Cyprus (Turkey Republic of Northern Cyprus) May 15-20 to take part in an international multicultural festival at Eastern Mediterranean University.

06/14/07

Sports:  Baseball team heads to World Series

The ASU Baseball is heading to its third College World Series appearence under baseball coach Pat Murphy.

06/14/07

University:  Polytechnic name changes support growth

ASU's Polytechnic campus is undergoing a variety of changes starting with new college names.

06/14/07

Faculty / Staff:  Stone hurdles into retirement after 40-year career at ASU

After spending most of his professional career running through the halls and campuses at ASU, William Stone, a professor and chair of the Department of Exercise and Wellness, plans to call it quits at the end of June, finishing a 40-year career here.

06/14/07

Engineering | Science | Community:  Grant targets math, science teaching

An innovative ASU program that helps high school math and science teachers excel in teaching will receive $525,000 from the Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz).

06/14/07

Administration | Education:  Hynd to lead Mary Lou Fulton College of Education

George W. Hynd has been named senior vice provost for education and innovation and dean of the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education at ASU.

06/13/07

ASU News:  Productivity, innovation, quality are focus of School of Global Management and Leadership

Workshops designed to identify issues impacting wide range of industries

06/13/07

Education:  College of Education holds forum

ASU's Mary Lou Fulton College of Education will serve as co-sponsor and host for a forum this month themed “Strengthening Professional Learning Communities: Mentoring Partnerships for Success.”

06/13/07

Arts / Culture:  Camp Broadway announces Tempe auditions

Camp Broadway, the award-winning theater company that creates special Broadway-themed events, experiences and educational programs for children, teens and families, will perform in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for the fifth consecutive year.

06/13/07

Faculty / Staff:  Professors earn praise for teaching

ASU professors Nancy Rodriguez, William Simmons and Jordan Lowe have been announced as 2006-2007 West campus Faculty/Academic Professional Achievement Award winners.

06/13/07

Arts / Culture:  Faculty compete in international exhibition

Designs by two ASU Herberger College School of Theatre and Film faculty members are part of the USA National Exhibit at the 11th edition of the International Competitive Exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Architecture.

06/13/07

Science:  Cosmic thinkers probe secrets of the atom

ASU's innovative “cosmic think tank” – BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science – will conduct an international workshop this month to probe the innermost secrets of the atom.

06/12/07

Humanities:  Social work students present grad gifts that keep giving

The parting gift from spring graduates of Aneesah Nadir’s social work class was more than a new scoreboard, bigger than a campus directional map, more meaningful than a new logo at the school entrance.

06/12/07

Life Science:  Research sheds light on bee society

A team of researchers from ASU, Purdue University and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences has discovered evidence that honeybees have adopted a phylogenetically old molecular cascade and put it to use in caste development.

06/12/07

Life Science:  New study adds to the benefits of eating your veggies

In a new physiological study of birds, a researcher at ASU has found that carotenoids appear to fight off the negative impacts that testosterone can have on an animal’s health.

06/11/07

Bioscience / Biotech:  Professor makes proteins from scratch

A new Biodesign Institute research team, led by John Chaput, is trying to mimic the process of Darwinian evolution in the laboratory by evolving new proteins from scratch.

06/11/07

Engineering | Science | Students:  Local winners place at Intel fair

Seven high school students who won top honors at regional science fairs in Arizona participated in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

06/08/07

Education:  College of Teacher Education and Leadership presented with Rich Media Impact Scholastic Achievement Award

Recognizes Professional Development School's innovative use of web communications

06/08/07

Business | Students:  2 student teams win marketing awards

Two teams representing ASU's School of Global Management and Leadership won “Business Strategy” competition awards in the recent Best Strategy Invitational that featured 176 teams from around the world.

06/08/07

University | Law | Faculty / Staff:  Law school bids farewell to Lowenthal

The list of things retiring professor Gary Lowenthal will miss about the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law is as colorful and substantial as his famed collection of loud ties and patterned socks.

06/08/07

University | Science | Faculty / Staff:  Cheng to lead AzTE

Augustine Cheng, associate general counsel and head of Columbia University's Patent & Licensing Group, has been appointed the managing director of Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE).

06/07/07

Sustainability / Environment:  Stardust Center home earns merit

The Guadalupe House, a 2006 affordable and sustainable residence designed and built by the ASU Stardust Center for Affordable Housing, has been nominated for the Arizona Republic Seven Wonders of Notable Structures contest.

06/07/07

Science:  Clinical lab program holds reunion

ASU Clinical Laboratory Sciences Program (formerly known as Medical Technology) will hold its first reunion June 9.

06/06/07

Faculty / Staff:  Summer arts festival features staff

For the first time, ASU staff members will have a chance to “strut their stuff” during a summer arts festival on the Tempe campus during the month of July.

06/06/07

Bioscience / Biotech | Engineering:  Grant advances neuroscience project

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a four-year $1 million grant for a research project being conducted in the Neural Microsystems Laboratory in the Harrington Department of Bioengineering.

06/06/07

Students:  Glamour magazine picks ASU student for Top 10 College Women list

Megan McGinnity, ASU senior, is featured in the June 2007 issue of Glamour magazine as one of “Glamour’s Top 10 College Women.”

06/05/07

Administration:  Rodriguez, Simmons, Lowe earn West campus recognition

Faculty are awarded Professional Achievement honors

06/05/07

Business | Faculty / Staff:  Leading scholar joins W. P. Carey School

Anthony Sanders, one of the leading real estate finance scholars in the United States, will join ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business faculty.

06/04/07

University | Sports:  Craig and Connie Weatherup give $5 million to ASU Athletics

Craig Weatherup, ASU alumnus and past CEO of Pepsi Cola, and his wife, Connie, have given a lead gift of $5 million to ASU Intercollegiate Athletics to help ASU’s basketball programs play on a national stage.

06/04/07

Law:  College of Law pays homage

Two Phoenix attorneys were recently given the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.

06/04/07

University | Arts / Culture:  Gammage kicks off concert series

ASU Gammage is kicking off their Summer Concert Series at Memorial Union Stage by providing an up-close experience with some of today's hottest bands from Arizona.

06/04/07

Engineering:  Technology addresses global health challenge

An ASU research team's work is highlighted on the cover of the May issue of the Analyst, an international journal that reports on new analytical and bioanalytical techniques.

06/01/07

Bioscience / Biotech:  Alliance aims to boost biomedicine

The Arizona Proteomics Alliance (AZPA), a statewide consortium, has been formed to advance the emergent science of proteomics, a science whose broad vision is to understand the biological role of the complete set of proteins in the human body, or proteome.

06/01/07

Sports:  Columnist: Sendek beginning to find his way at ASU

Paola Boivin, a sports columnist for the Arizona Republic, recently spoke to Sendek to find out how he's adjusted to life in the Valley – and as a Sun Devil.

06/01/07

Sports:  ASU softball team looks to stay alive at Women's College World Series

ASU's softball squad will look to keep its season alive June 2, when the team faces DePaul at the Women's College World Series.

06/01/07

University | Sustainability / Environment:  Conservation drives Wrigley's investment in ASU

Julie A. Wrigley is making a $10 million investment in ASU to recruit four of the world's leading sustainability scholar-researchers.