CLAS News - Spring/Summer 2004

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Around The College: Coor Hall; new academic programs; divisional deans; Center for Biology and Society; Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes; Web site

Research Briefs: Identifying white dwarf supernova source; unearthing Middle Stone Age jewelry; searching for clues to the origins of life; finding water on Mars; understanding female food refusal

The Power of Persuasion: Social psychologist Robert Cialdini has discovered the six basic principles that move people to say "yes."

Hair Matters: Sociologist Rose Weitz gets tangled up in an international controversy over her book on women's hair.

Embryos, cloning and stem cells, oh my!: Life sciences Professor Jane Maienschein brings perspective to the brave new world of biomedical science.

This isn't your Great-Grandfather's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: CLAS is undergoing a fundamental redesign that is breaking down its traditional organizational structure in favor of a network of overlapping, boundary-less, transdisciplinary units.

Strategic Hires: Meet the new chair of anthropology, director of life sciences and a mathematics whiz from Cornell.

Regents' Professors: Five CLAS faculty members join the select group of scholars who bear the Arizona Board of Regents' title.

Exemplary Faculty: English Professor Neal Lester is the newest Dean's Distinguished Professor, plus three CLAS scientists earn tenure and designation as "rising stars."