The Beijing Olympic Games will feature 16 people with ties to ASU’s athletic department set to compete – or work with competitors that will compete – on the biggest stage in sport.
The Sun Devils open the 2008 season on Saturday, August 30, when they play host to the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks at Frank Kush Field/Sun Devil Stadium. ASU features 39 returners from last season's 10-win team, including seven starters on both offense and defense.
Senior Azahara Munoz and incoming freshman Carlota Ciganda both qualify for match play of the 2008 U.S. Women's Amateur. Munoz and Ciganda are representing their home country of Spain.
Engineering professor Dean Kashiwagi has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and conduct research at the University of Botswana in Africa during the 2008-09 academic year.
Morgan Olsen, executive vice president and treasurer at Purdue University, has been named Arizona State University's new executive vice president and treasurer.
Police departments across the country have a new resource in the battle against gang-related crime, thanks to a guidebook authored by an ASU professor.
Krista Long has been there, done that when it comes to facing life's challenges. Now, after graduating from ASU with a bachelor's degree in social work, she's turning her past experiences into a means of helping others.
Arizona State women's gymnastics head coach John Spini announces the hiring of two assistant coaches. Jamie Dantzscher and Jean-Luc Cairon will replace Maggie Ethier and Bob Peterson as assistant coaches.
An ASU anthropologist who found himself in the middle of a dramatic confrontation between police and protestors on the streets of Seattle is the author of "Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization."
Jody Brannon will direct a 12-university, $7.5 million project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to explore new ways to produce in-depth multimedia journalism.
As announced by the Pac-10 this week, the Sun Devil Volleyball Team will be broadcast twice this fall on FSN in the 2008 season, with both matches being played at ASU's Wells Fargo Arena.
Program coordinator Anita Luera is hitting the road with a fully-equipped Cronkite School hybrid SUV, in an effort to get high-school students around the state interested in journalism.