ASU researchers have found that possible precursor compounds to the origin of life on Earth have been shown to carry “handedness” in a larger number than previously thought.
ASU staff is holding demonstration sessions for faculty members and graduate students who are interested in learning more about Geocoding, focus groups and Web collaboration tools.
Two members of the Arizona State University cross country program, Ali Kielty and Jenna Kingma, have been named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic team for the 2007 cross country season, the Association announced Friday.
Sherry Ahrentzen, interim director and associate director of research at the ASU Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family at Arizona State University, will add her perspective to a Housing Foreclosure Forum on Saturday that features Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts and Congressman Ed Pastor of Arizona.
Briann January scored 13 of her 17 points in the second half and Dymond Simon scored all 13 of her points in the first half as Arizona State won its third straight game, defeating UCLA 73-67 on Thursday night.
The preliminary trials of day two of the Pac-10 Women's Swimming Championships brought about a new school record for the Sun Devils. Caitlin Andrew shattered her own school record in the women's 50 free, bringing her time down to 22.14 from 22.39.
The No. 10 Arizona State University water polo team (10-7, 0-2 MPSF) will return to the road this weekend for a pair of Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) games as the Sun Devils are set to face No. 8 San Jose State (8-6, 1-1 MPSF) at noon Saturday in San Jose, Calif., before closing the trip at 1 p.m. Sunday at No. 2 Stanford (9-2, 1-1 MPSF).
ASU has joined with the Greater Phoenix Urban League to create a snapshot of the status of blacks in Arizona, the issues they face and the progress that has been made.
ASU is enhancing the nation's security through a partnership with the University of Arizona to develop new technologies and training programs for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The Arizona State University wrestling team will open the championship season this weekend as the Sun Devils head to McArthur Court in Eugene, Ore., for the 46th Pac-10 Conference Wrestling Championships, hosted by Oregon, Sunday and Monday.
Day one of the women's Pac-10 Championships concluded with the Arizona State women's swimming team earning 93 points total. The Sun Devils stand in seventh place after day one.
The ASU Alumni Association is expanding its group travel program, Sun Devil Destinations, and invites its members, ASU employees and the public to a free open house for the program.
Arizona State junior 3B Brett Wallace has been named the Pac-10 Player of the Week, the conference announced today. It is the second time in his career he has earned the honor from the conference.
ASU researchers converged at the world’s largest interdisciplinary science forum with presentations concerning climate change, science and democracy and nanotechnology, to name a few.
Public scholar Michael Bérubé will explore how scientific theory, neurology and disability studies have transformed what it means to be human at his Feb. 28 lecture “The Humanities and the Limits of the Human.”
More than 400 fourth graders are visiting three ASU campuses this week and next week, as part of a partnership program between ASU and the Rodel Foundation’s Math Achievement Club.
"We felt good about the way we played against Washington, but we face an enormous challenge on Thursday night. We have already played this team once. We were just talking down the hall that I think at one point we were down 100-2. I don't know that promotes good feelings, we did feel good about the way we played against Washington."
The Arizona State women's soccer team competed in two spring matches Sunday as they defeated both Nebraska and Loyola Marymount, 2-1, at Sun Devil Soccer Stadium in Tempe.
The No. 2 Sun Devil Softball Team ventured into international play on Tuesday afternoon as they held an exhibition doubleheader against Team Canada which saw them fall 3-2 in the first game and 10-0 in the second.
Marsha Speck is guiding the state's first M.Ed. in high school leadership as she joins the faculty at ASU's College of Teacher Education and Leadership.
A new ASU Web site is offering a one-stop shop for charities looking for volunteers, organizations searching for volunteer group activities and people contemplating ways to connect to a cause.
Danforth Chapel, the non-denominational church on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus, will celebrate 60 years of weddings and religious services on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.
The Sun Devils host the fourth-ranked Bruins Thursday at 8:30 p.m. MT and then host the Trojans on Saturday (March 1) at 4 p.m. MT, with FSN Arizona broadcasting both tilts.
The third-ranked Arizona State women's golf team is in first place after the first round of the Wildcat Invitational in Tucson, Ariz. ASU shot a 3-over 287 for the first round, one stroke ahead of second place teams Arizona, Oklahoma State, Duke and UCLA.
Arizona State junior forward Lauren Lacey was named the Pac-10 Women's Basketball Player of the Week according to an announcement by Pac-10 Commissioner Tom Hansen on Monday.
Top ranked Arizona State scored seven runs in the first inning and never looked back, shutting out #7 Oregon State 11-0 to close out a weekend sweep at the DeMarini Invitational.
After being picked to finish ninth in the Pac-10 preseason poll and going 8-22 and 2-16 in league play a year ago, Coach Sendek's Sun Devils have clinched a winning season with its 17-9 overall record and four freshmen making 73 total starts.
The third-ranked Arizona State women's golf team travels to instate rival University of Arizona to compete in the Wildcat Invitational, Feb. 25-27. The three-round tournament will be held at the par-71, 6,238-yard Arizona National Golf Club.
The top-ranked Arizona State University Academic Bowl team took nine out of 10 matches to win the College Bowl Regional Championship Tournament Feb. 23 in Colorado Springs.
Professor Donal Godfrey of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been named the Broadcast Education Association's 2008 Distinguished Education Service Award winner.
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication will host 90 high school students from across the state for a daylong journalism workshop sponsored by the Arizona Latino Media Association.
Recent articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Arizona Republic, the East Valley Tribune, and the State Press published this week have stated that one of the recommendations in reports assessing the Virginia Tech tragedy will require students to disclose their mental health history to universities and colleges. No such recommendation exists in any of the six independent reports that Arizona State University has reviewed.
The Arizona State's men's hoops team, 16-9 and 6-7 in the Pac-10 under second-year coach Herb Sendek, travels across the Evergreen State to take on the Washington Huskies on Saturday (Feb. 23).
Students in ASU's School of Global Management and Leadership are emerging as planetary champs once again in a semester-long test that attracted teams from over 100 universities around the world.
Ariel Jones, a doctoral student in School of Life Sciences was awarded a predoctoral fellowship from National Institutes of Health (NIAID) to study the “Role of coronavirus membrane protein carboxy tail in virus.”
Classically trained Harry J. Lennix is addressing what it means to be a black actor though a discussion of the ways his race affects his opportunities and approaches to acting.
U.S. Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer detailed his vision of the United States Constitution and a citizen’s role in making it work at the 12th annual Willard H. Pedrick Lecture.
Rustum Roy, research professor, is featured in a new documentary film that explores claims of revolutionary advances in the scientific understanding of the most essential material for life – water.
ASU is issuing a media alert to clarify the university's position on requiring students to disclose any mental health history. ASU is not requiring – and will not consider requiring – such disclosure.
The Arizona State Sun Devils will continue their spring 2008 home duel campaign this weekend as they host the seventh-ranked UCLA Bruins on Friday, February 22 at 1:30 pm and the No. 12 USC Women of Troy on Sunday, February 23 at noon.
Sybil Dosty scored 14 points and Lauren Lacey added 12 as Arizona State beat Washington State 59-30 Thursday night, holding the Cougars to the lowest point total ever in a Pac-10 women's basketball game.
Families at the border of an Amazon rainforest in Ecuador could soon experience a dramatic improvement in their living conditions through the work of students in ASU’s Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering.
The Sun Devils open Pac-10 play this week in Los Angeles. The Sun Devils compete against UCLA Friday February 22 and USC Saturday February 23. The Sun Devils are currently 5-0.
The Arizona State University track and field team will send several athletes to Flagstaff, Ariz., this weekend to compete in the NAU Tune-Up, which will be held Saturday inside the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona campus.
Henkel, a Fortune Global 500 company, and ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability are developing a process to measure the environmental impact in every stage of a product’s life.
ASU’s departments of Exercise and Wellness and Nutrition are playing host to physical activity, nutrition and wellness experts from around the world for the third annual Building Healthy Lifestyles Conference.
Addison McGrath scored a program-record seven goals and Caylinn Wallace stopped 12 shots, but it was not enough as the No. 8 Arizona State University water polo team dropped a 13-12 decision to visiting No. 4 Hawai'i Wednesday night in Mountain Pacific Sports Federation action at the Mona Plummer Aquatic Center in Tempe.
After three home meets, the Sun Devils hit the road to compete against Pac-10 foe Washington. Although 1-6, the Sun Devils have been consistently improving throughout the season.
A mathematical model that looks at different strategies for curbing hospital-acquired infections suggests that antimicrobial cycling and patient isolation may be effective approaches when patients are harboring dual-resistant bacteria.
Biology is crucial to understanding psychosis, “but there is more to psychosis than mere biology,” says Jason Robert, an ASU bioethicist and philosopher of science.
The Arizona State's men's hoops team, 16-8 and 6-6 in the Pac-10 under second-year coach Herb Sendek, travels north to face 20-game winner Washington State on Thursday (Feb. 21) at 6 p.m. PT and then jumps across the Evergreen State to take on the Washington Huskies on Saturday (Feb. 23).
The Amateur Softball Association announced today the selection of Arizona State centerfielder Kaitlin Cochran (Yorba Linda, Calif.) as the USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Week for the week of February 11-17.
ASU sustainability institutions are getting a boost with the appointment of Rob Melnick as executive director and chief operating officer of Global Institute of Sustainability.
The 2007 Pac-10 Champion Arizona State Sun Devils open the 2008 season by hosting one of the premiere tournaments in the country, the DeMarini Invitational.
Arizona State junior and senior Kaitlin Cochran and Katie Burkhart have both been honored this week as the Pac-10 Player and Pitcher of the Week in response to their efforts on the diamond last weekend as announced by Pac-10 Commissioner Tom Hansen today.
Five students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences – members of the 2007 Arizona State University Academic Bowl championship team – are heading to the regional tournament.
Walter Alvarez, world-renowned geologist and author of “T. rex and the Crater of Doom,” will deliver a lecture Feb. 21 on scientific revolutions that shaped history.
The National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) and its six-affiliate teams held their annual Senior Draft on Monday to select 24 of the best college players in the four-round draft, which saw Sun Devil Katie Burkhart selected as the number one draft pick overall for the Philadelphia Force.
The No. 4 Sun Devil Softball team rattled off their eighth consecutive win Monday afternoon in Tempe as they topped the Southern Utah Thunderbirds 9-3.
The Arizona State University wrestling team concluded its regular season schedule at home Sunday afternoon as the visiting Cardinal of Stanford jumped to a 12-0 lead before winning the dual, 28-16, on Senior Day inside Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe.
The February 14, 2008 Northern Illinois University shootings will be a day that will be remembered forever. We are deeply saddened, and those affected are in our hearts and minds during these difficult days.
At age 22, Megan McGinnity has traveled around the world studying child slavery and human trafficking. Now, this stellar ASU student has won top national honors from USA Today.
Devanei Hampton had 21 points and 12 rebounds and Ashley Walker sparked a key second-half run that helped No. 9 California finish off its first regular season sweep against Arizona State in nine years with a 70-60 victory Thursday night.
An eight-run fifth inning led by Rhiannon Baca's grand slam coupled with Megan Elliott's complete game effort helped lead the No. 4 Sun Devil Softball team to their fourth win of the season as they topped the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers 11-3 in six innings Thursday night in Tempe.
The Arizona State men and women's swimming and diving teams will host in-state rival Arizona this Saturday at 1:00 p.m. at the Mona Plummer Aquatic Center. Saturday's meet is the final dual of the season before the Pac-10 Championships.
ASU Regents’ Professor Carlos Castillo-Chavez is drawing recognition from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his work with underrepresented students.
Charities looking for volunteers, organizations searching for volunteer group activities and people contemplating ways to connect to a cause will be able to utilize a new Web site to be launched Feb. 25 by Volunteer Information and Referral Services at Arizona State University.
Arizona State University, Sun Devil Sports Marketing and OfficeMax announced today that they have reached accord on a partnership agreement in support of ASU Athletics.
An unprecedented winning trio of graduate students at ASU’s School of Public Affairs collected the first-ever multiple awards from the Phoenix Women’s Commission for the Mary Ann Huerta Jenkins Fellowship.
Bruce Hooper has a lot on his plate as the newly appointed risk manager of a major university, but brings 15 years of experience and a level head to alleviating potential risk situations at ASU.
The Sun Devils (8-3, 0-0 MPSF) will play host to No. 3 USC (4-2, 0-0 MPSF) at noon on Sunday before facing No. 4 Hawai'i (5-2, 2-0 MPSF) in a mid-week contest starting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Led by junior All-American Azahara Munoz, the Arizona State women's golf team finished in fourth place at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge in Palos Verdes, Calif.
The No. 4/5 Sun Devil Softball squad will open up the 2008 home season this weekend as they set to host Western Kentucky on Thursday night at 6 p.m. before hosting the Kajikawa Classic all weekend at both Farrington Stadium and Tempe Sports Complex.
Former Arizona State University cornerback Kevin Miniefield has been named Coordinator of Former Student-Athlete Development, Vice President for Athletics Lisa Love announced Wednesday.
Kaelynn Sporka, an ASU tourism development and management major, is getting a hands-on education on the high seas with a scholarship from the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
ASU’s West campus has been nominated as a “Point of Pride" for the city of Phoenix. Voting for the honor is open online to the general public and runs through March 20.
In the current state of affairs in college sports, all too often the players and coaches that created the foundation of a program can get lost in the shuffle as time passes.
The Sun Devil Softball team are gearing up for the 2008 Kajikawa Classic this weekend and plan to partner up with SSBTR, Special Olympics and Make-A-Wish to spread the word about the programs ASU Softball has strong connections with.
Management professor David Waldman took his message on corporate social responsibilty halfway around the world – where he was a featured guest of the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies.
Kaelynn Sporka, an ASU tourism development and management major, is getting a hands-on education on the high seas with a scholarship from the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
Jeff Pendergraph has been named the U.S. Bank Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week for Feb. 4 - 10, Commissioner Tom Hansen announced today.
ASU’s Department of Exercise and Wellness needs women between the ages of 45-65 for a study looking at six physical activity questionnaires, as well as tests of walking performance that commonly are used in larger studies of women’s health.
The Arizona State's men's hoops team, 15-7 and 5-5 in the Pac-10 under second-year coach Herb Sendek, hosts one of the hottest teams in the nation in the seventh-ranked Stanford Cardinal.
The second-ranked Arizona State women's golf team is currently in eighth place after the first round of the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge in Palos Verdes, Calif.
The second-ranked Arizona State University women's golf team returns to competition Feb. 11-13 at Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge in Palos Verdes, Calif. The three-day tournament will be held at the 5,912-yard, par-71 Palos Verdes Golf Club.
The No. 2 Sun Devil Softball Team wrapped opening weekend on Sunday at the Sportco Classic which saw ASU take game one against Loyola 8-6 and fall to UNLV 2-1. The Sun Devils are now 3-1 overall as Loyola falls to 2-3 and UNLV advances to 3-1.
For the second dual in a row, the Arizona State University wrestling team faced a Top 10 team from Iowa and came out on the short end of the scoring, this time falling to No. 9 Iowa State, 32-3, Sunday afternoon inside Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe.
Jerry Y.S. Lin, interim chair in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering is planning to add to the department’s faculty and improve its academic rankings.
The Arizona State men's golf team is in second place after the second round of the Hawaii Hilo Intercollegiate as it shot a 8-under 272 for a two day total of 543.
This Week The Arizona State Sun Devils will continue their sping 2008 home duel campaign this weekend as they host the 32nd-ranked Golden Panthers of Florida International and the Houston Cougars.
Rick Rodriguez, former executive editor of the Sacramento Bee, is joining ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication to create a new specialization in Latino coverage.
Dave Cornelius, a longtime educator who built Arizona’s premier high school broadcast education program, has joined the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication as director of the Stardust High School Journalism Program.
The Arizona State University track and field team will send several athletes to only one meet this weekend as the Sun Devils will travel to Nampa, Idaho, to compete in the Bronco Invitational hosted by Boise State on Friday and Saturday inside the Jacksons Track Center.
ASU football signed 27 student-athletes to national letters of intent Feb. 6 in what is largely recognized as one of the school's most talented signing classes in the past 25 years.
Greg Kraft, Director of Track & Field at Arizona State University, and his coaching staff have signed three high school seniors to National Letters of Intent to continue their education and athletic careers with the Sun Devils.
The Arizona State's men's hoops team, 14-7 and 4-5 in the Pac-10 under second-year coach Herb Sendek, begins the second half of Pac-10 play in Tucson as it takes on the Arizona Wildcats.
The College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation is launching an educational program in an effort to boost the inadequate numbers of child mental health providers.
The Arizona State men's golf team is tied for first place after the first round of the Hawaii Hilo Intercollegiate as it shot a 9-under 271, led by three newcomers in the top 13.
Riding a six-game winning streak, the No. 11 Arizona State University water polo team (6-1, 0-0 MPSF) will travel to Palo Alto, Calif., this weekend for four games in the Stanford Invitational.
Arizona State junior gymnast Ashlee Hinkle has been named Pac-10 Event Specialist of the Week for January 29 - February 4, Commissioner Tom Hansen announced today.
ASU's Fred Walumbwa is putting his management and leadership expertise to practice as a senior scientist in the Gallup organization's prestigious Distinguished Science Advisory Council.
Chemical Engineering professor Bryan Vogt is receiving a NSF Career Award that will support an effort to incorporate nanotechnology concepts in Arizona classrooms.
The Arizona State University wrestling team (9-5, 3-4 Pac-10) will play host to a pair of duals against Top 10 foes this weekend as the Sun Devils welcome No. 1 Iowa (16-1) and No. 9 Iowa State (12-4) to the Valley of the Sun for their final non-conference duals of the year.
The Lodestar Foundation and the ASU Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Management is unveiling the ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation.
Margie Giordano of the volleyball team and Troy Nolan of the football team have been named the Student-Athletes of the Fall Semester, the Office of Student-Athlete Development announced Monday.
Thom Ortiz, head coach of the Arizona State University wrestling team, has announced a partnership with both Food City and Cigna, both of whom will sponsor the Sun Devils' dual with No. 1 Iowa.
Single game tickets for the 2008 Sun Devil baseball season at Winkles Field-Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark will go on sale this Thursday, February 7.
ASU’s Gail Hackett holds the distinction of authoring some of the most cited works in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Counseling Psychology.
Taj Gibson had 19 points and seven rebounds, freshman O.J. Mayo also scored 19, and USC took command early in the second half to beat Arizona State 67-53 on Saturday night for its fifth win in six games.
The 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth is February 12, 2009 and the count-down continues this year. This February 12th at noon, the School of Life Sciences and the Natural History Collections will sponsor a birthday tea.
An article published in the journal Science on Feb. 8, penned by Arizona State University ecologist Nancy Grimm and her colleagues, considers global change and the ecology of cities.
Events during Black History Month at ASU will touch on many themes, from health, music and art to the forces that shaped the Civil Rights movement in the United States.
Debra Friedman, dean of the College of Public Programs, has been given the title and additional duties of university vice president for ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus.
