CLAS News - Spring/Summer 2006
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Around The College: New schools, graduate programs, research centers and buildings |
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Research Briefs: Searching for origins of life on ocean’s floor; analyzing jihadi communication strategies; discovering building blocks of social life among bees; re-evaluating evolution of walking; deconstructing the history of intelligence |
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Genes, Machines and Human Beings: A group of CLAS faculty has obtained a half-million-dollar grant to examine the potential impacts of transhuman-ism—the use of advanced technology to enhance the human species. |
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A Brighter Future for Arizona's Mexican-American Youth: A team of CLAS researchers has undertaken the largest study ever of Mexican-American families in an effort to learn why the children’s educational outcomes don’t match up to their dreams and aspirations. |
Strategic Hires: Meet the founding director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration. |
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Faculty Honors: The newest Dean’s Distinguished Professor and Regents’ Professors are profiled. |
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Virgil R. Baker |
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Undergraduate Researchers: Meet three of the inaugural recipients of Undergraduate Research Scholarships, which are designed to foster critical-thinking skills and a professional mindset. |
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Alumni Profiles and Class Notes: |
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