CLAS News - Spring/Summer 2005

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Around The College: ASU Foundation Building; Piper Writers House; School of Global Studies; School of Human Evolution and Social Change; Office of Professional Studies; new research institutes

Research Briefs: Exploring Teotihuacan mystery; studying affection’s stress-reducing effects; witnessing birth of new designer ecosystem; examining hair as unifying experience; analyzing drug-prevention program’s effectiveness

Crossing Borders: Several new transdisciplinary initiatives in CLAS are bringing together diverse groups of scholars to provide illumination to the growing problem of illegal immigration and other border issues.

The Ants and the Bees: A Story of Complexity: The School of Life Sciences boasts what may be the best social-insect research group in the world, and that group is now teaming up with scientists from other disciplines to increase understanding of how all complex social systems function.

Strategic Hires: Meet the new chairs of psychology and kinesiology

In Memoriam:

Kevin K. Carroll

John R. Hakac

Nice Genes: Bioethics Club President Ryan Childers writes about his experience helping to organize the inaugural Western Regional Bioethics Conference for undergraduate students.

Alumni Profiles and Class Notes:
Paulette Risher, B.S. in psychology, 1972
Richard Alderman, B.A. in French, 1994
Doug Burkett, Ph.D. in chemistry, 1994
Allison DuBois, B.S. in political science, 2001

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