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November 25, 2009

Science

08/11/09

Engineering | Science | Research | Engineering | Sustainability and environment:  Professor works toward safer nuclear options

An ASU associate professor of engineering is working with the Los Alamos National Laboratory on efforts to make nuclear fuels more effective and on methods to store and better secure spent fuels.

08/10/09

Engineering | Science:  Experienced students help nurture young minds

A senior mechanical engineering student and a doctoral sustainability student are helping introduce youngsters to the worlds of science and engineering.

08/07/09

Arts / Culture | Health care | Science | Innovation / Entrepreneurship | Community | Community partnerships | News coverage | Engineering:  Stroke patients benefit from interactive therapy

A KTVK-3TV report shows how stroke victims’ rehabilitation is changing due to a partnership between Arizona State University researchers and Banner Bay wood Medical Center in Mesa, Ariz.

08/04/09

University | Science | Students | Bioscience / Biotech | Research:  Sun Health Research Institute inspires ASU student intern

New College student Jane Kruchowsky was one of only 16 students selected from 150 applicants for a summer internship with Banner Sun Health Research Institute.

08/04/09

Science:  Finding ourselves: History of exploration launched Apollo 11

Professor Stephen Pyne examines the cultural landscape behind human exploration, from what propelled the 15th century Great Voyages of the Renaissance to the freeze-frame hindsight implicit in contemporary efforts in space.

07/30/09

Engineering | Science | Research | Engineering:  Flight mechanics: Does robofly live up to its name?

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.

07/29/09

Engineering | Science | Innovation / Entrepreneurship:  Breaking barriers with nanoscale lasers

ASU researchers are finding ways to make nanolasers smaller, opening up the possibility of using them to make computers operate more rapidly and efficiently.

07/24/09

Engineering | Education | Science | Faculty and Staff | Students | Bioscience / Biotech:  Nurturing tomorrow's bioengineering leaders

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.

07/13/09

University | Science | Students | Life Science:  Students share research work at international conference

Two ASU students had the chance to meet scientists and mathematicians from around the world during a June conference in New Jersey.

07/10/09

Science | Earth / Space:  ASU rock pile reaches 10,000

An off-hand comment by ASU professor and Mars scientist Philip Christensen at a NASA news conference started an international postal avalanche of rocks.