What defines a refugee and how Arizona plays a role in the resettlement process will conclude the ASU School of Letters and Sciences Fall 2009 Humanities Lecture Series.
Former ASU President Lattie Coor will be appearing at the Downtown Phoenix campus as part of Barrett Honors Lecture Series, to drum up support for a new state initiative.
For the second year in a row, ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus is using the power of music to connect students, faculty and staff with the local community.
An ASU researcher is leading an overall effort and reporting on the fact that oxygen production began in the Earth's oceans at least 100 million years before oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere.
How forms of wealth perpetuate economic inequality over generations is at the heart of a new study by 26 anthropologists, statisticians and economists, including an ASU professor.
A two-day conference, “Goldwater at 100: His Politics, Ideology and Legacy,” will bring more than a dozen noted scholars to the Arizona State University campus Nov. 12 and 13.
The School of Business is making it even easier to get an MBA with the opening of a new Scottsdale location, offering its evening MBA program, currently ranked in "Top 25" in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
The Sally Campbell Memorial Best for Babies Seminar, held on Oct. 23 at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, was covered by the State Press and included comments from Dean Paul Schiff Berman.
An article by Dean Paul Schiff Berman of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, "The New Legal Pluralism," was published in the December 2009 edition of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
Broadcast students in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication are producing a new magazine sports show, “Sun Devils 101,” for FOX Sports Arizona.
The largest, most comprehensive exhibition on the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II is on display at ASU's Labriola National American Indian Data Center through Nov. 13.
Drawing on her experience at Georgetown University, Marcy Karin has joined the College of Law as an associate clinical professor and director of the Civil Justice Clinic's new Work-Life Policy Unit.
Carl Artman, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, recently joined the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law as a professor and director of the Economic Development in Indian Country Program.
ASU celebrates the launch of its new School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, which strives to meet educational challenges as well as serve as a research hub for the university.
Land, culture, and community are the dominate themes in a new book about English professor Simon Ortiz and his work, titled, “Simon J. Ortiz: A Poetic Legacy of Indigenous Continuance.”
Arizona State University is deeply saddened to report that a male graduate student apparently committed suicide at the Design South building on the Tempe campus this morning.
Andy Grewal, the College of Law's inaugural Visiting Associate Professor of Law, developed his interest in tax law while at the University of Michigan Law School.
The Center for Ecogenomics, directed by ASU's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Dean Deirdre Meldrum, has a key role in a new cancer research center at the university.
Professor Marjorie Kornhauser delivered a talk, "Tax Politics and the Common Folk: 1932-1936," on Oct. 22, at the Legal History Roundtable at Boston College Law School.
Instead of killing cancer cells, researchers at Arizona State University will use the laws of physics to figure out how to control them at the new Center for Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer Biology at ASU.
The Hall of Fame Award, as well as Distinguished Achievement and Distinguished Faculty Awards, will be presented Oct. 30 by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences during this year's Homecoming Week festivities.
Celebrating the flu isn’t something one would normally do, but Dr. Allan Markus was thanked recently for his contribution to pandemic flu planning with an autographed basketball.
The ASU Alumni Association will present its awards for Alumni Service and Alumni Appreciation during the halftime program of the ASU-California Homecoming game on Oct. 31.
Associate professor David Wodrich is working with epileptologists at Phoenix Children's Hospital to measure what teachers know about seizure disorders and their confidence in teaching children with epilepsy.
Two ASU researchers are the subject of a feature article in the Oct. 25 issue of the journal Science, which traces their collaboration, discoveries and extensive published works on the reproductive traits and social life history of honey bees.
ASU's future as a New American University and the pressing challenges it intends to tackle will be the focus of activities on Cady Mall during the Homecoming Block Party Oct. 31.
Arizona’s 31 state parks are in “imminent crisis” and face closure and irreparable deterioration unless new and sustainable funding is established, parks officials and supporters warned at an October 22 news conference to release a special report, The Price of Stewardship: The Future of Arizona State Parks.
This Homecoming, the ASU Alumni Association has a "spooktacular" good time planned for those who stop by the organization's area at the Block Party between 9 a.m. and noon on Oct. 31.
Keith Galbut, a 2003 alumnus of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, recently was interviewed for an article in the Oct. 9 Phoenix Business Journal entitled "Attorney recommends businesses implement flu outbreak plan."
Kris Mayes, a 2003 alumna of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and chairwoman of the state's Corporation Commission, was quoted Oct. 9 in an Arizona Capitol Times article entitled "Funding shortage plagues Corp Comm; Tucson office to close."
Kenton D. Jones, '86 alumnus of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, was recently appointed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to the Yavapai County Superior Court, according to the Prescott Daily Courier.
Martin Quezada, '08 alumnus of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, plans to run for the Arizona State House of Representatives, according to ASU's student-run newspaper The State Press.
Kate Lehman, executive director of academic services for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a faculty associate in political science at ASU, has been elected to the senate of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Professor John Duncan, director of the Center for Korean Studies at UCLA, is this year's Robert C. Staley Distinguished Visiting Professor in East Asian Studies.
An internship in the Middle East is giving an ASU environmental engineering student experience working on large-scale projects and alongside colleagues from different cultures.
Life sciences professor James Elser is joining the prestigious ranks of Regents' Professors for his pioneering work in ecological and evolutionary dynamics, along with his commitment to learning and discovery.
Alumnus Laureen Vigil is returning to ASU for the third time as a cast member in the “Phantom of the Opera” Broadway tour, playing at Gammage Oct. 28 through Nov. 22.
James Svara, professor in the School of Public Affairs, recently received the 2009 Academic Award in Memory of Stephen B. Sweeney from ICMA, the international organization that advances professional local government management worldwide.
Rev. Al Sharpton joined other civil rights leaders in an interactive community discussion during a Civil Rights Forum on Oct. 16 hosted by ASU's Center for Community Development and Civil Rights.
The Sparked Synapse Project, a journal developed by an ASU student with support from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Ambassadors, showcases exceptional undergraduate research in the humanities and social sciences.
For the first time since 2007, average home prices went up in all regions of the Phoenix area from one month to the next, according to the latest Arizona State University-Repeat Sales Index report.
Willard H. Pedrick, founding dean of the ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and its leader for most of its first decade, has been chosen for the Maricopa County Bar Association Hall of Fame.
An article by Rebecca Tsosie, executive director of ASU's Indian Legal Program, has recently been published in a new book, Gathering Native Scholars: UCLA's Forty Years of American Indian Culture and Research.
Congressman George Miller (D-Calif.) spoke about the current state of education and the legacy of the No Child Left Behind bill at an event Oct. 19 at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
ASU is the second highest public research university in the nation for winning student Fulbright grants, according to rankings released by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Special education professor Alfredo J. Artiles has received the 2009 Curry Foundation Distinguished Alumni Award from his alma mater, the University of Virginia, for his outstanding scholarship and service to advance the education of children with disabilities.
The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business publications, ranks ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business high on its new list of the world’s best executive MBA programs.
ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is bringing reptiles, "Lucy," meteorites and "meteorwrongs," physics experiments and Jiu-jitsu demonstrations to this year's Homecoming Block Party on Oct. 31.
The School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, which serves more than 25,000 students annually, marks a new era of instruction and research at ASU with a ceremony Oct. 27.
The humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan and what to do - or not to do - about it is the focus of an upcoming public lecture at ASU’s West campus.
The Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering Gold team competed in the final night of the 2009 Academic Bowl, emerging victorius from the first round before being elimnated by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Maroon team.
ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences brought the Academic Bowl trophy home for the third straight year, with the college's Maroon team persevering all the way to the end.
The story of U.S. Supreme Court Justice (ret.) Sandra Day O'Connor will be told in an exhibition, "Sandra Day O'Connor - A Citizen for All Seasons," which opens Oct. 22 in the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park.
Morrison Institute for Public Policy will hold a news conference Oct. 22 to publicly release its report, The Price of Stewardship: The Future of Arizona State Parks, and to make researchers and Arizona State Park officials available for questions by the media.
An article by College of Law O'Connor Fellow Urska Velikonja, "Making Peace and Making Money: Economic Analysis of the Market for Mediators in Private Practice," was discussed by California attorney Steven G. Mehta on his blog, Mediation Matters.
More than 800 individuals are current University Club members and the organization is aiming to increase this number to extend the benefits of U-Club membership to more ASU employees.
The university will use renewable energy, in partnership with Arizona Public Service Co., to power ASU's football game against the Washington Huskies Oct. 17.
Astrophysicist Riccardo Giacconi will deliver a public lecture titled "A New Revolution in Astronomy 400 years after Galileo" at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 28 at ASU.
A new annual project competition challenges students from across the Herberger Institute to transform a public space into an enhanced, activated place.
Design Innovation is home to multiple, team-based transdisciplinary courses and programs that stress communication and teamwork as benchmarks for project success.
ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts encompasses seven distinct disciplines and a diverse collection of research and programs – all geared to create a new paradigm for innovation in the 21st century.
Extreme Speech and Democracy, a book that law professor James Weinstein edited with British barrister, Ivan Hare, is the centerpiece of the Cronkite School's annual National Freedom of Speech Week.
The newly established Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts encompasses seven distinct disciplines and a diverse collection of research and outreach programs.
ASU's Consortium on Emerging Technologies, Military Operations and National Security will explore the meaning of new war weapons and their ethical ramifications.
Regents' Professor of law Michael Saks and associate professor of psychology Dawn McQuiston-Surrett, have published an article, "The Testimony of Forensic Identification Science: What Expert Witnesses Say and What Factfinders Hear."
Associate clinical professor Marcy Karin presented to a meeting of the Phoenix Work/Life Network an update on Workplace Flexibility 2010 and discussed her new post at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences plowed through the opening rounds of the ASU Academic Bowl, placing both its teams in the finals against Fulton and W.P. Carey.
The dean of ASU's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and one of the schools' faculty member will join an effort by the National Academy of Engineering to foster creative approaches to improving engineering education.
A theory that knowledge literally has its price and is being bought up by intellectual property advocates to the detriment of the scientific community is the focus of the Eighth Annual Hogan & Hartson Jurimetrics Lecture at the College of Law.
Well-known rock art scholar Ekkehart Malotki will give a talk entitled “The ‘Deep Structure' of Non-Iconic Rock Art: Human Universals” at the Deer Valley Rock Art Center.
Professor Gary Marchant will speak at The National Academies' 18th meeting of the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law on Oct. 19-20 in Washington, D.C.
Acrylic paintings, some on canvas, some on glass and some on wood, and digital prints inspired by data streams for sunspot cycles and solar wind, will be on display at ASU Gammage Oct. 21-Nov. 23.
Two-thirds of the Phoenix-area homes that changed owners last month were either new foreclosures or resales of properties that had recently been foreclosures, according to the latest Realty Studies report from ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business.
From an academic expo to a haunted ball, and from flag football to a talent show, ASU's West campus is the site of a weeklong celebration of the university's "Devilish Homecoming."
Associate clinical professor of law Marcy Karin will be the keynote speaker at the Work-Life Harmony Conference on Wednesday, Oct. 14, in Salt Lake City.
ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education has launched a three-year Doctor of Education degree program, which prepares intellectual leaders for a range of careers in higher and postsecondary education.
The ASU Alumni Association recently announced the members of its newly formed Young Alumni Council, which will direct and facilitate the development of the association’s Arizona State Young Alumni program, aimed at ASU graduates age 35 and younger.
O'Connor Fellow Brian Sawers will present his paper, "Tribal Land Corporations: Using Incorporation to Combat Fractionation," at the Federal Bar Association's 11th Annual D.C. Indian Law Conference.
Two ASU entities are finalists for the 2009 Innovator of the Year Award for Academia, which is given out as part of the Arizona Governor’s Celebration of Innovation.
Japanese aviation students are beginning a specialized aviation program as part of an academic partnership between Oberlin University in Tokyo and Arizona State University.
Arizona State University Research Professor Elinor Ostrom has won this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, a prize she shares with Oliver E. Williamson of the University of California at Berkeley.
Check your fears at the door of Chad Johnson's spider lab, where behavioral research into black widow spiders and their feeding habits is a study that at first frightens and, eventually, serves as a learning tool for students.
Student volunteers are needed for the Greenbuild 2009 expo, a conference dedicated to educating businesses on how “going green” can help them grow as a company.
Enrollment at ASU this fall has reached a record 68,064 students, as the university continues to respond to the rapid growth in the number of eligible Arizona high school graduates.
ASU electical engineering professor Gerald Heydt has won one of most prestigous awards in his field for his accomplishments in electrical power engineering.
Robert B. Denhardt, director of ASU's School of Public Affairs, recently was presented with an Honorary Membership award by ICMA, the international organization that advances professional local government management worldwide.
A recent lecture by James G. Hodge Jr., the Lincoln Professor of Health Law and Ethics at the College of Law, about the global legal response to the H1N1 outbreak was reported on by the ASU State Press.
ASU’s Safety Escort Service has apparently received calls from female students reporting that a man in a white van contacted them claiming to be from Safety Escort Services and asking for their phone number.
Peter and Rosemary Grant, Princeton professors emeritus and winners of the 2009 Kyoto Prize for Lifetime Achievement, come to Arizona State University on Oct. 28 to join in ASU’s Darwinfest.
For their significant contributions to our economy and community, two top business executives will be honored as new members of the W. P. Carey School of Business Homecoming Hall of Fame this month.
Arizona high school students will compete Oct. 24 at ASU for a chance to showcase the winning sustainable doghouse project at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Phoenix.
ASU is topping the charts for its efforts in sustainability, earning high marks from the Sustainable Endowments Institute’s College Sustainability Report Card 2010.
Whether your companions are overweight or skinny and how much they put on their plates can greatly influence how much you eat, according to a new study co-authored by associate professor of business Andrea Morales.
The restructuring of ASU's colleges of education and the recent award of a $33.8 million federal grant are but two milestones in the university's effort to improve the quality of America’s K-12 education system.
ASU contributed to a discussion on charting a course for the U.S., in terms of competitiveness and sustainability, at the National Energy Summit and International Dialogue in Washington, D.C.
Associate professor of law Andy Hessick gave a preview of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2009 term during a meeting of a section of the State Bar of Arizona.
The University Design Consortium at Arizona State University is accepting submissions for the 2010 International Awards for Innovative Practices in Higher Education.
Members of the greater Phoenix community are invited to join ASU faculty, administrators and students on Oct. 14 to discuss new ways to collaborate and develop partnerships that are mutually beneficial.
"Changing the World: Feminism in Action Generation to Generation" is the topic for the Feldt/Barbanell Women of the World Lecture at 7 p.m., Oct. 13 at ASU's Tempe campus.
David Kader, law professor, will speak on the Kosovo constitution as part of a panel on "Eastern Europe in Transition: Secularization and Resacralization in Postsocialist Eastern Europe."
Goldman Sachs Chief U.S. Economist Jan Hatzius will receive the prestigious 2009 Lawrence R. Klein Award for his uncanny economic forecasting that anticipated the global financial crisis.
According to an upcoming ASU lecturer, peace will not come to the Middle East until all parties are treated with equal respect and subject to the same rule of law.
The ASU community is invited to a series of events on Oct. 14 to officially launch the new School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Project Yao, a new database that has just been launched as a tri-university project by scholars in China and the United States, takes a look at what works of American literature are Chinese readers devouring, and why.
Barrett, the Honors College at ASU, now has a new $130 million seven-building campus featuring housing, classrooms, faculty offices, a fitness center, computer lounge and dining hall with covered terrace and garden.
ASU's New College and its Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies has announced a schedule of upcoming events that includes gallery installations, a presentation featuring internationally recognized theoretical physicist Paul Davies, and an open mic night for electronic musicians.
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law alumnus Jesse E. Guerra Jr. (Class of 2006) is one of the top 25 minority attorneys in Texas, according to Texas Lawyer.
Rebecca White Berch (Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Class of 1979), chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, and other members of the court, were featured in The Arizona Republic on Thursday, Oct. 1, after hearing oral arguments on the CityNorth case.
Students in the LL.M. in Biotechnology and Genomics program at the College of Law have begun a journal club that will meet semi-monthly for discussion of articles relating to genetics and the law.
Law professor Betsy Grey recently participated in a meeting of the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines, where she spoke about the development of cause-in-fact jurisprudence under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
Rebecca Tsosie, executive director of the Indian Legal Program, was quoted in a recent Associated Press article, "In Arizona, push for Indian law on state bar exam."
Engineering professor and director of an ASU Biodesign Institute research center has received the 2009 Award for Research Excellence from the Arizona BioIndustry Association.
Dean Paul Schiff Berman and professor Robert Clinton of ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law recently were appointed to the Hopi Tribal Court of Appeals.
ASU's College of Nursing and Health Innovation is opening a health center which specializes in the treatment and prevention of child and adolescent mental health disorders.
ASU Police received an anonymous report October 2 of an individual with a gun in Apache Parking Structure on the Tempe campus, but no threat or subject was located.
A recent trip to Modena, Italy by an ASU team has brought two countries, two institutions and two educational systems together to join in an educational partnership.
A National Science Foundation grant will allow an ASU project team to continue work on efforts to keep pulic policy and ethical guidlines on pace with rapid technological advancements.
Fulbright Scholar Mayank Kumar is joining the Decision Center for a Desert City to study water-management systems that inform his environmental history of India.
ASU is combining energy, innovation and expertise in STEM education to develop a new institute that will produce a community of middle school math and science teachers.
The American Foundry Society’s Art Casting Conference, hosted in part by the ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, is bringing together metal casters and artists for the first time since 1990.
Holocaust survivor Bernard Scheer will recount the true stories of great suffering, remarkable determination and many acts of heroism at an Oct. 8 lecture on the Downtown Phoenix campus.
