As far back as he can remember, Quentin Wheeler, the recently appointed ASU vice president and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been on a quest to discover unknown species. A life-altering moment, he recalls, may have been at age 8, when, trying out his friend's new birthday gift – a cheap department-store microscope – he brought into focus protozoa “swimming” in a drop of water.
An international team of astronomers (including one from ASU) are using the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain the first direct optical images of the aftermath of a titanic explosion that occurred recently in a star system 5,000 light-years from Earth.
Charles Kazilek, of ASU's School of Life Sciences, can see plant biology, chemistry, physics and history all weaving through the microscopic fibers of the thinnest of slivers of paper.
A team of graduate students in the School of Life Sciences won the inaugural quiz bowl at the fourth North American Ornithological Conference, held in Veracruz, Mexico.
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