NASA efforts to modernize aeronautical education includes a grant that will support work by faculty members in ASU's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering to develop new teaching approaches.
William Ditto, chair of the Harrington Department of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering, is working at the forefront of chaotic computing research and what is known as "the butterfly effect."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.