The Biodesign Institute is continuing in its development of novel DNA sequencing technologies with new funding to help usher in the personalized medicine era.
The William T. Grant Foundation has awarded ASU professor Sandra Simpkins a $350,000 grant for a five-year study to investigate the factors influencing Mexican-origin children’s participation in after school programs.
Two assistant professors in ASU's School of Life Sciences have been chosen to receive National Science Foundation Career Awards. Manfred Laubichler and Jiunn-Liang (Julian) Chen, who has a joint appointment in the department of chemistry and biochemistry, are among the university's latest recipients to earn the much sought-after awards, which were created to recognize scientists and engineers who have the potential to become leaders in advancing knowledge in their fields.
The joint venture team of Sundt Construction Inc. and DPR Construction Inc. has won a 2007 Aon Build America Award for construction of Building B at ASU's Biodesign Institute.
Research into some of the environmental implications of the nanotechnology revolution will be supported by a $100,000 prize awarded recently to Paul Westerhoff, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of ASU's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering.
La Verne Abe Harris, an assistant professor of graphic information technology in the College of Science and Technology at ASU, has been awarded the 2006-2007 ASU Foundation Women and Philanthropy Excellence and Access Award.
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