Engineering Technology students are exhibiting their spring projects, including applications relating to defense, medicine and alternative propulsion systems, as well as humanitarian efforts.
Researchers in ASU's Arts, Media and Engineering program have utilized cutting-edge research to develop a computerized Mixed Reality Rehabilitation system to assist stroke and Parkinson's disease patients with their physical therapy.
Nutrition professor Donna Winham was awarded a $10,000 grant from the United States Dry Bean Council for work in the area of health/nutrition research.
ASU head women's basketball coach Charli Turner Thorne will lead the 2009 USA Basketball Women's World University Games Team. Competition will take place July 1-11 in Belgrade, Serbia.
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.
Using high-resolution and multispectral images, researchers have started the difficult process of determining the composition of the planet's crust and chronicling its origin and evolution.
The university's Ditch the Dumpster program will include two day-long collection events where dorm residents can bring their unwanted items to any of 13 locations on the Tempe campus.
USA Today has named ASU senior Charlene Bashore as one of the top 20 undergraduates in the country, alongside senior Eric Anderson, who was named to the Second Team of 20 students.
ASU College of Design students and faculty were recognized this spring for their transgenerational toilet design concept by the Northwest Design Invitational.
Sue Clark-Johnson, former president of the newspaper division of Gannett Co. Inc., has been appointed as executive director of ASU’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy.
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.
Obesity and Type II diabetes have presented significant health challenges to Native American youths, and ASU's Diablo Performance Recreation Center at the West campus is pitching in to help in the fight for better health.
Visit CLUB M, an exciting video environment where art meets Salsa, animation tangos with Hip-Hop, and street dancing encounters Flamenco in an urban-club atmosphere.
Although no cases of swine flu have been reported at ASU, it’s important wash your hands thoroughly during cold and flu season, especially after going to the restroom and before eating.
ASU professor Linda Lederman, dean of social sciences in ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is named a Centennial Scholar of Communication by the Eastern Communication Association.
Matthew Fouch, an associate professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, will speak at the EarthScope Symposium and Reception on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on April 29.
Two ASU researchers discuss the need for regulation of nanomaterials to be guided by scientific consensus – and why corporations should support research necessary to reach that consensus.
An ASU program that helps parents transform their children’s educational experience has won the regional 2009 C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award.
Undergraduate students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will present their research findings from 4-7 p.m., April 27 in the Memorial Union, Ventana Ballroom.
An ASU researcher has found that vinegar concoctions that helped lower the effects of carbohydrates on blood glucose levels in pre-diabetics also can help individuals with type 2 diabetes.
For the 10th consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report has ranked ASU's Mary Lou Fulton College of Education among the nation's best graduate programs in education.
Recipients of the President’s Medal for Social Embeddedness and the top multiple SUN Award for Individual Excellence were honored at the President’s Recognition Reception and award ceremony, April 16.
The growing Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at ASU's West campus allows students to individually tailor a program to their specific needs from a variety of interdisciplinary course offerings.
The ASU College of Nursing and Health Innovation is looking for participants to join a project about how Mexican American families care for older relatives in their homes.
The Deer Valley Rock Art Center hosts a reading by Jack Boyd, author of “Mary Wallace Roanhorse,” who will illustrate how place matters to his novel’s main character and to the writer telling her story.
Thousands of aspiring young journalists gathered recently in downtown Phoenix for the largest high school journalism conference in the country with many events taking place at ASU's Cronkite School.
International recording artist and Phoenix resident Dominic Amato will headline ASU’s Green Jazz Series concert, April 27 at the Herberger Theater in downtown Phoenix.
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.
Two ASU colleges are using art as a means to provide health care services to approximately 12,000 residents and to showcase the university’s social embeddedness in the community at large.
Jason Sipe, alumnus of the ASU Herberger College School of Music, ensures that his alma mater has pianos available for faculty, student and concert use.
Law professor Gary Marchant delivered a talk, "Emerging Technologies and the Future of Law," on April 8 at the Washington Courts Appellate Judges' Spring Program in Chelan, Wash.
Two law students represented the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at the 2009 American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution Representation in Mediation Competition.
Law professor Art Hinshaw organized and helped facilitate a program entitled, "Law Professors' Forum: Mediation Shoptalk," at the 11th Annual ABA Dispute Resolution Section Conference, April 15-18 in New York City.
Professor and Dean Emeritus Paul Bender, of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, was quoted in an April 20 article in The Arizona Republic about the U.S. Supreme Court getting involved in a 17-year-old legal battle about how Arizona treats students who are still learning English.
In her 12th week as the CEO of the state of Arizona, Gov. Janice Brewer visited the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and recited a favorite quotation from the 20th President of the United States, James A. Garfield.
Concept bested court and controversy as a clever diorama created by the Ross-Blakley Law Library staff captured the top prize in the American Bar Association's first Peeps in Law gallery competition.
Indian law should be added to the Arizona State Bar Examination for practical and professional reasons, according to an article written by two students in the College of Law's Indian Legal Program and published in the May issue of Arizona Attorney.
When cancer recently prevented Mitchell Alvarez from attending a ceremony where he would take his citizenship oath from Sandra Day O'Connor and fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming an American, the retired U.S. Supreme Court justice came to him instead.
The potentially negative impacts of new technology on individual privacy were discussed recently by law faculty Gary Marchant and Andrew "Sandy" Askland on a city of Phoenix cable television program.
ASU’s David Altheide builds on his two-decade study of mass media messages of fear to argue that Columbine and other school shootings were redefined as a form of terrorism.
Earth-minded student groups at ASU are taking the opportunity to celebrate and spread their message of sustainability for the university's Earth Day, April 22.
Arizona State University and Yale University researchers found that even students studying to become dietitians may have a bias toward the overweight or obese.
The ASU Herberger College Dance and The Daniel Nagrin Theatre, Film and Dance Foundation, Inc. present the Daniel Nagrin Memorial to celebrate the career of the modern dance legend, author and choreographer.
Rudd, a California native and the third highest ranked power forward prospect in the country, will be one of four signees joining the men's basketball team in the fall.
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.
Julie Cart, a 1980 journalism graduate of ASU and member of the Cronkite School Alumni Hall of Fame, won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a Los Angeles Times series on fighting wildfires.
Three talented faculty members who are known for their ability to inspire students have been chosen for the 14th annual Last Lecture Series this month.
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.
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.
Law professor and Dean Emeritus Paul Bender was quoted in an ASU State Press article regarding a report from a team of economists from the state's three universities who are studying solutions to the looming budget deficit.
Law professor and Dean Emeritus Paul Bender recently was quoted in the Arizona Capitol Times in an article about the possible elimination of state tax credits to help resolve Arizona's financial problems.
Law professors Adam Chodorow and Marjorie Kornhauser will participate in "Comparative Tax Law and Culture," an international conference on June 9-11 at the Monash University Prato Center in Italy.
An essay by law dean Paul Schiff Berman, "A Pluralist Approach to International Law," was recently reprinted in an edited collection titled Legal Pluralism: Concepts and Critiques, published in India by Amicus Books.
The scores of people working in forensic science disciplines deserve strong leadership, improved training, support from Congress and better science, a federal judge recently told an audience at the College of Law's annual Pedrick Lecture.
Professor Catherine O'Grady, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and the Profession at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, will speak on May 9 in Cleveland, Ohio, at the plenary presentation at the AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education.
A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education titled "Peru v. Yale: A Battle Rages Over Machu Picchu," included comments from Professor Emeritus Dale Furnish at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
Seeing is believing, and the visual presentation of ASU Magazine, as well as that of a signature university event, Founders’ Day, recently received recognition four times over in the 2009 American Inhouse Design Awards contest.
Biology professor James Elser has been named the ASU Parents Association 2009 Professor of the Year for inspiring his students to take on solving the challenges of our time.
Faculty associate Heidi Osselaer newly published book, “Winning Their Place: Arizona Women in Politics, 1883-1950,” explores the participation of women in Arizona's early politics.
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.
Since 1977, museums around the world have joined to celebrate their mission with an International Museum Day each May 18. ASU will celebrate the day this year on May 13.
The Sun Devils will battle the Wildcats as part of the last home game of the season and also Senior Day, where the team will honor it's sole senior, Laila Abdala.
Five people from Arizona State University have been named to the 2009 Phoenix Business Journal Forty Under 40 list that honors young leaders in metro Phoenix.
Matthew C. Whitaker, associate professor of history, was elected president of the board of directors at the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center in Phoenix.
Sean Nevin's newly published book, “Oblivio Gate,” a collection of tender poems about an Alzheimer’s patient, takes a look at memory and how it works, the self, family and relationships.
ASU will offer two new innovative master’s degree programs in ethics that will equip leaders in government and corporate organizations with broad ethical training to make sound decisions.
ASU student Kara Horowitz has been named a recipient of the Dr. Carlos E. Castañeda Memorial Scholarship, sponsored by International Studies Abroad (ISA), a provider of study abroad programs in Latin America and Europe.
Journalism major Emily Graham rises with the sun each weekday to talk stories with her bosses from ABC News in New York as chief of the ABC News on Campus bureau at ASU's Cronkite School.
Investigative journalist, television host and author Hugh Downs will be this year’s speaker at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences convocation on May 15 at Wells Fargo Arena on ASU’s Tempe campus.
Bruce Snyder, the head football coach at Arizona State University for nine seasons (1992-2000), passed away on Monday after being diagnosed with cancer last June.
A team of student scholars from ASU placed 12 out of 32 in its division at the national Intercollegiate Championship Tournament held April 3-4 at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.
The Academic Complex project at ASU's Polytechnic campus earned the 2009 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel award (IDEAS2).
A new book that law professor James Weinstein edited with British barrister Ivan Hare was feted as an "extraordinary volume" during a gathering April 9, at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
ASU internships are a valuable tool to have in your graduation portfolio, and the experience can be enhanced when you know the do's and don'ts around the professional work world.
Sun Devil fans are invited to participate in ASU's select-a-seat promotion during ASU's annual spring game Saturday, April 18 at Tempe Sun Devil Stadium/Frank Kush Field.
ASU will name and expand the university's most important scholarship program to honor President Barack Obama and is apologizing for the recent honorary degree confusion.
Jamilyn Manning-White won the Young Artists Voice Division at the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) 2009 National Conference and took home a $3,000 prize.
Foreclosure activity in March 2009 represented 31 percent of the 8,610 resale homes recorded sold, which is down from the 51 percent of foreclosure activity in transactions for February 2009.
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."
Three graduate students in the ASU's religious studies program have received prestigious honors for their research in religious diversity and communication.
Scott Seymann, a third-year student at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, was featured in the April edition of Student Lawyer, which wrote about a 5K run/walk that he organized as a fundraiser for the Phoenix FBI Citizens' Academy.
Homes in the Phoenix area lost about a third of their value last year, according to the latest numbers from the Arizona State University-Repeat Sales Index.
Patty Ferguson-Bohnee, director of the Indian Legal Clinic at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, recently testified on voting in Indian Country at a hearing, before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Elections, "The 2008 Election: A look back on what went right and wrong."
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.
Three ASU juniors have been named recipients of prestigious Goldwater Scholarships, the nation’s highest undergraduate awards in science, math and engineering.
Professor Gary Marchant of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law has co-authored, along with third-year law student Yu Cai, an article, "Ethical Implications of Epigenetics Research," in the April issue of Nature Reviews Genetics journal.
Maxwell J. Mehlman, a renowned expert in the field of law, ethics and human enhancement, will deliver two lectures as part of the Templeton Research Lectures at ASU.
Joe Sims, alumnus of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law's founding graduating class (1970) and a partner in Jones Day's Washington, D.C., offices, recently was selected as one of 25 "Dealmakers of the Year" by The American Lawyer magazine.
Distinguished Foundation Professor Donald Fixico will talk about the making of the PBS Documentary Series "We Shall Remain" that begins airing April 13.
Katosha Nakai, a graduate of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Class of 2003, recently was appointed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer as Policy Advisor on Tribal Affairs.
Law professor Adam Chodorow recently presented a paper, "The Laws of Interest: A Comparative Look at the Jewish and U.S. Federal Tax Approaches to Defining Interest," at The Critical Tax Conference at Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Ind.
The Dance Annualhighlights the 2008-09 Herberger dance season with the most captivating work created throughout the year, in coordination with new works that challenge audience interaction, community engagement and the virtual world.
The Arboretum at ASU is sponsoring two small farmers markets featuring ASU’s own home-grown dates, and organically grown produce from two student groups and the Arboretum garden.
Remarks on forensic science by The Honorable Harry T. Edwards, chief judge emeritus for the Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., were reported in the April 4 edition of The Arizona Republic.
Rebecca Tsosie, executive director of the Indian Legal Program at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, has been named Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission Study Committee on Model Tribal Legislation on Collateralization of Interest in Real Property.
Law professor Jonathan Rose will participate in a seminar on April 4 at Berkeley Law at the University of California, Berkeley, to discuss a new book on the history of law in Europe.
Law professor Carissa Byrne Hessick will present a paper, "Ineffective Assistance of Counsel at Sentencing" at a panel on criminal law at the Law and Society conference in Denver in May.
Law professor Aaron Fellmeth will deliver a talk, "Nondiscrimination as a University Human Right," at Yale Law School's annual conference honoring Yale Law Professor W. Michael Reisman.
If he were alive today, William Shakespeare would be turning 445 years old and to celebrate his birthday, ASU's English department a mélange of performances and discussions, April 23-24.
The Sun Devil volleyball squad look forward to seeing friends, fans and alumni during the Annual Alumni Game, next Thursday, April 16 at Wells Fargo Arena. Admission is free.
The Sun Devils wil seek to repeat last year's win, as they host 16 schools during the 2009 Thunderbird Invitational, April 10-11 at ASU's Karsten Golf Course.
Brian Williams, the anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News,” will be this year’s recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
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.
Online RSVP and ticketing information is now available for ASU graduates at the commencement website for ASU's May 13 ceremony featuring President Barack Obama.
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.
StartupWeekend@ASU is an entrepreneurial boot camp where students can develop their idea and business plan, and receive mentoring from industry professionals.
The Earth Day Feastival event at ASU's Polytechnic campus gives the community an opportunity to enjoy locally grown food and learn about sustainable endeavors.
David Hemphill, who has been proactive in bringing black theater to the Phoenix community, is this year’s recipient of ASU’s A. Wade Smith Community Award for Advancement of Race Relations.
High school students from across the Valley visited ASU's Tempe campus for the Fifth Annual Science Extravaganza where they explored the exciting opportunities available in engineering today.
Professor Paul Bender, of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, was quoted in the March 24 edition of The Arizona Republic in an article about the U.S. Senate delaying a vote on the proposed tax on bonuses of American International Group executives.
Marianne Alcorn, Head of Reference and Faculty Services at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, co-authored an article in the April edition of Arizona Attorney about the crushing volume of capital cases in Maricopa County, which has been called "a leader in seeking the death penalty."
Professor Ira Ellman, of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, is quoted in a column on a legal study on family dissolution in the March 31 edition of The Washington Times.
Law professor Gary Marchant gave a presentation on "Elements of Our Changing Healthcare Delivery System," at the annual meeting of executives of health-insurance providers on March 18-21 in Scottsdale.
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.
Laura Dickinson, faculty director of the Center for Transnational Public-Private Governance at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, recently published an essay, "Public Values/Private Contract."
Leading practitioners and scholars of forensic science will gather at the College of Law to examine a new federal report that makes recommendations for overhauling a broken forensic science system.
ASU student Amirah Ismail's efforts to bridge the gap between the Western world and the Middle East have landed her a competitive graduate fellowship award.
Devils seek to remain undefeated in conference play as they face No. 8 Cal on Friday, April 3 at 1:30 p.m. and No. 10 Stanford at noon the following day.
Top Sun Devil Briann January is one of eight players from around the country that will compete in the 21st annual College Slam Dunk and Three-Point Championships, today. Event will air at 6 p.m. PT on ESPN.
ASU bioengineering student Liliana Rincon earned a distinctive honor of selection for a summer program in neurobiology at the renowned Woods Hole laboratory.
The Intellectual Property Student Association hosts Movie Night: "Flash of Genius," a film with Greg Kinnear, 6 p.m. at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at ASU.
Student-Athletes Briann January (Women's Basketball) and Josh Spence (Baseball) have been named ASU's Athletes of the Week for the week ending April 4.
