ASU's Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict is offering an Undergraduate Certificate Program in Religion and Conflict that teaches faculty how to navigate controversial issues surrounding religion in the classroom.
A group of Valley high school students spent three days at ASU's West campus, learning about the effects of music on the human mind while also learning that they have what it takes to succeed at a university.
A top ASU researcher recently received a major international honor, the Ken Arrow Award, for his work on how health insurance markets really work and whether existing insurance “risk pools” even make sense.
An engineering professor examines claims about the flight capability of a robotic insect. Tiny, free-flying robots could have significant uses in security and search-and-rescue operations.
The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law's Civil Justice Clinic has received a grant from the Maricopa County Bar Foundation to help it continue to provide legal-related assistance to the public, according to the July issue of Maricopa Lawyer.
In her monthly column in Maricopa Lawyer, law professor Tamara Herrera, warns against using wasteful words and phrases at the beginning of sentences because they take the focus off the main point and may affect clarity.
Jimmy Cool, a third-year student at the College of Law, has co-authored an article, "Doing Well by Doing Good," in the August edition of the American Association for Justice's magazine, TRIAL.
Law professor Marjorie Kornhauser's Tax Literacy Project has received recent good press on various blogs, thanks to Linda Beale, director of Graduate Studies and a tax professor at Wayne State University Law School.
ASU researchers are finding ways to make nanolasers smaller, opening up the possibility of using them to make computers operate more rapidly and efficiently.
Morrison Institute's latest Arizona Indicators Panel data shows a significant change in the past year in Arizonans’ attitudes about job security, the economic crisis, and how the Arizona Legislature is handling the state budget and tax issues.
Through ASU's "GlobalResolve" program, students are directly improving the lives of people in underdeveloped nations throughout the world by finding sustainable ways to help meet the basic needs of poverty-stricken villagers.
Law professor Adam Chodorow will spend the 2009-10 academic year as a Fulbright Scholar at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in southwestern China.
Marjorie Baldwin, of ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business, is part of a group of health care experts providing feedback to the official White House Health Reform Task Force.
Twenty-nine high school students spent over two weeks living at ASU's Hassayampa Academic Village this summer, as they immersed themselves in learning the Chinese language and cuture.
A fellowship with an ethics center operated by the U.S. Nacal Academy will allow an ASU professor to examine the potential social, cultural and ethical issues revolving around the development of new military and security technologies.
Veteran NASA astronaut Bernard Harris spoke about his work to inspire youth to pursue careers in science and engineering on the KAET-Channel 8 show Horizon.
Two ASU professors and a business operations manager in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering have helped make a summer program on biocomplexity a leading attraction for top engineering graduate students around the world.
The ASU Alumni Association recently announced the names of those serving on the organization’s Board of Directors as well as its National Alumni Council for the 2009-10 year.
Social scientist Elinor Ostrom presents an updated version of a multilevel, nested framework for analyzing outcomes achieved in social-ecological systems in the July 24 issue of Science.
ASU President Michael Crow talks about how America needs to re-imagine higher education, in order to reach President Obama's goal of having the highest percentage of college graduates in the world.
Amy Hillman, a nationally renowned professor of management was recently named the new executive dean of the W. P. Carey School of Business and will become second-in-command at the nationally ranked school.
The Alliance for Construction Excellence, an industry outreach group in ASU's Ira A Fulton School of Engineering, is offering companies courses on obtaining and implementing stimulus funding for construction projects.
Nonprofit Quarterly has recognized ASU's Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation for meeting all eight criteria needed to be named a fully comprehensive nonprofit management program.
Small business owners struggling in the rough economy will receive valued education from top professors through a special program at the W. P. Carey School of Business this fall.
ASU's Cronkite School mourns the passing of its namesake with a special Web tribute that includes video, photos and tributes from students, faculty, friends and admirers.
Phoenix-area home prices are “at or close to a market bottom,” according to a new study from W. P. Carey School of Business professor, Karl Guntermann.
An ASU bioengineering student is spending the summer getting an intense introduction to research in a burgeoning area of science and engineering at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Nanobiotechnology.
Polly Pinney, executive director of Facilities Management, has been installed as president of APPA, an international association dedicated to maintaining, protecting, and promoting the quality of educational facilities.
ASU President Michael Crow ordered university flags on all four ASU campuses to be flown at half-mast for one week in honor of the late Walter Cronkite.
The ASU community is mourning the death of journalism legend Walter Cronkite, namesake of ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, who passed away July 17.
Six ASU students have been chosen to receive the prestigious National Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarship and study abroad next year.
G. Edward Gibson will seek to align education and research to face today's construction industry challenges as he takes the helm of the Del E. Webb Construction Programs in ASU's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering.
Victims of scams, fraud and other disputes with little money to live on, much less to hire attorneys and pay court costs, have found hope in the Civil Justice Clinic at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
Law professor Adam Chodorow spent part of the summer teaching a six-week course in Comparative Tax Policy at the Monash University Prato Centre near Florence, Italy.
Professor and Dean Emeritus Paul Bender, of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, recently was quoted in an article, "States Plan on Opting Out of Obamacare," in The New American.
A new anthology published by Cambridge University Press, Critical Tax Theory: An Introduction, includes exceprts from four previously published articles authored by law professor Marjorie Kornhauser.
Professor Emeritus of Law Dale Beck Furnish participated in a panel at the Navajo Nation's Annual Judicial Conference, "Navajo Justice 1959 - 2009 – 50 Years of Reflection," at the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation.
An essay by Dean Paul Schiff Berman of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, "Gunther Teubner: A Generative Scholar for a Plural World," was published as part of a Festschrift volume in Germany.
The imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, operated by ASU professor Mark Robinson, recently had its first of many opportunities to photograph the Apollo landing sites.
Students in ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication are winning recognition for work ranging from public awareness campaigns to international news reporting and multimedia reporting projects.
As part of Sam’s Club’s commitment to give back to the communities it serves, company executives presented Arizona State University with a $60,000 grant for its Sustainable Cities Network.
Consortium of universities will collaborate with businesses, NGOs and governmental agencies to develop global database of information on the lifecycle of products
An article by law professor Kenneth Abbott, "Strengthening International Regulation Through Transnational New Governance: Overcoming the Orchestration Deficit," has been published in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.
An article in the July 12 edition of The Arizona Republic about the Barrett Summer Scholars Program at ASU included comments from third-year law student Jimmy Cool of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
If you are an undergraduate student, and the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are your cup of tea, it's time to submit an abstract for consideration at this year's Discipuli Juncti conference at ASU's West campus.
An online bachelor's degree that will offer students the practical theory and skills-based knowledge necessary to succeed in today's expanding legal market will be introduced this fall by ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
Assistant professor Evan Scannapieco is part of a team of international theoretical astrophysiscists responsible for uncovering a model that expands our knowledge of clusters, the largest structures in the Universe.
More than 100 middle school students will fill the halls of ASU’s Barrett, the Honors College this summer, as they engage in an extensive three-week program that gives students an opportunity to experience an enriched academic curriculum.
Pinal County residents can earn their bachelor's degrees in education in their own back yard, thanks to a collaborative program between ASU and Central Arizona College.
ASU researcher N.J. Tao has made new discoveries into the fundamental properties of graphene – a super-material poised to transform the electronics and nanotechnology landscape.
Nikki Borchardt, Class of 2009 graduate of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and member of the Paiute Tribe of Utah, recently emceed her tribe's Queen and Princess Pageant at the Restoration Gathering.
Presiding Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Barbara Rodriguez Mundell, an '81 alumna of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, recently was presented the Mark Santana Law-Related Education Award by the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services and Education.
Law professors Carissa Byrne Hessick, Jeffrie Murphy and Mary Sigler, have contributed essays and comments to a new and authoritative overview of hot-button criminal law issues, which has just been published by Oxford University Press.
A comparative study by ASU's Decision Center for a Desert City examines how Portland and Phoenix's varying characteristics inform water, climate and land-use conditions.
ASU's Laboratory for Algae Research and Biotechnology provides training for graduate and undergraduate students from many disciplines, including mathematics.
An off-hand comment by ASU professor and Mars scientist Philip Christensen at a NASA news conference started an international postal avalanche of rocks.
As the founder of a company that produces ultra high-density, low-cost renewable energy storage, ASU alumnus Cody Friesen has made his mark in the emerging field of renewable energy.
In its 2009 Symposium Issue, the John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law published an essay by law professor Dennis Karjala titled, "Access to Computer Programs Under the DMCA."
A new Web site is offering a way for ASU departments to re-use office supplies, lab supplies, some types of furniture or other un-needed items, while reducing the university's waste handling costs.
Law professor Marjorie Kornhauser will spend part of her spring 2010 sabbatical as a Visiting Scholar Professor at Queen Mary, University of London School of Law.
Regents’ Professor Jeffrie Murphy will deliver four Stanton Lectures at Cambridge University in May 2010, at the invitation of the University’s Divinity Faculty.
Researchers, led by ASU geologist L. Paul Knauth, believe they have found the trigger for the Cambrian explosion of life that occurred on Earth roughly 540 million years ago.
A gathering of 150 Latino high school students converged on ASU's West campus for three days last month for an introduction to higher education and the secrets to a successful transition.
For high-achieving West Valley high school students who have completed their junior year, there's still time to register for the July 14-16 ASU Collegiate Scholars: Student Enrichment Program at the West campus.
ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus is offering a Bachelor of General studies degree this fall geared at strengthening workforce skills while easing the path toward graduation.
ASU's College of Teacher Education and Leadership is working with a new clinic to help children with brain injuries reintegrate into the classroom and function to their highest level.
W. Walsh Doane recounts a story of wind, waves, fright and, finally, safety, in her memoir, “Flight of the Curlew,” published in the current issue of Emeritus Voices, the journal of the Emeritus College.
The College of Nursing and Health Innovation is expanding its undergraduate educational offerings to help registered nurses obtain a nursing degree completely online.
When a university professor retires, he or she leaves behind the academic network of colleagues, deadlines for research work and writing, help with computer problems – and, of course, a feeling of belonging.
ASU student Martin Popov recently earned a prestigious scholarship from FBI National Academy Associates that will help achieve his goal of working with law enforcement agencies to provide national security.
The ASU Alumni Association snagged three awards from the 2009 APEX Awards for Publication Excellence competition, including honors for its quarterly publication, ASU Magazine, and the association’s successful 2009 Founders’ Day event.
Law professor Myles Lynk, a visiting faculty fellow in ASU's Barrett, The Honors College recently spoke with Barrett undergraduate students about the rule of law in the United States.
The first images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera show dramatic views of the Moon's surface, to the delight of ASU's Mark Robinson, the project's lead scientist.
Christine K. Wilkinson, president of the ASU Alumni Association, was honored by the local organization Asian Pacific Community in Action at their annual “Art of Giving” reception.
Law professor and Dean Emeritus Paul Bender, was interviewed by KNXV-TV reporter Tim Vetscher about President Obama's nominee to replace retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law's Technology Ventures Services Group recently was the subject of an article, "ASU students counsel startup entrepreneurs: New product lines get assist from law school," in the June 20 edition of The Arizona Republic.
A new report co-authored by ASU's Morrison Instiute for Public Policy combines research on the costs and benefits of health insurance and tells the stories of Arizonans who lack health insurance.
