November 20, 2009
A baby's sleep position is the best predictor of a misshapen skull condition known as deformational plagiocephaly, according to findings reported by ASU scientists in the December issue of the journal Pediatrics.
November 18, 2009
For college professor Thomas Moore, an invitation to guest lecture became a demonstration in a lab that led to a joint invention with colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
November 18, 2009
Three college students are back from a weeklong participation in the 2009 Ronald H. Brown African Affairs Series with a keen focus on how they can bring about positive change in Africa.
November 18, 2009
ASU's commitment to sustainability and advancing solar development played a key role in bringing Suntech, China's leading manufacturer of solar panels, to Arizona.
November 18, 2009
The ASU-hosted symposium “Living with the Planet” featured the documentary film "Mud Max" and a panel discussion with Earth scientists.
November 16, 2009
Researchers from ASU have discovered that several species of microbes (cyanobacteria), at least one found prominently in the deserts of the Southwest, have evolved the trait of rope-building to lasso shifting soil substrates.
November 13, 2009
Food baskets stuffed with ingredients for a Thanksgiving meal were assembled by staff, faculty members and students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences again this year for the St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance.
November 12, 2009
A new study co-conducted by ASU on Latino issues in Arizona sheds light on past and present accomplishments and challenges within the Latino community.
November 12, 2009
The Graduate College has awarded 16 dissertation fellowships to outstanding graduate students, including 12 from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, who are in the final stages of post-candidacy doctoral work.
November 10, 2009
Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez and Paul Espinosa, professors in ASU's Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, are the recipients of awards from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education.
November 9, 2009
Comedian Chris Rock takes on the business of African American hair straightening in his new movie, "Good Hair," a cultural phenomenon that college professor Neal A. Lester has studied, taught and lectured about for more than 20 years.
November 5, 2009
The impact of airborne nitrogen released from the burning of fossil fuels and widespread use of fertilizers in agriculture is much greater than previously recognized and even extends to remote alpine lakes, according to a study published Nov. 6 in the journal Science.
November 4, 2009
The "Canalscape Exhibition," a project by the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, opens Nov. 9 at the ASU Art Museum.
November 2, 2009
The Department of Energy has awarded ASU two grants for alternative energy research that has the potential to change the way the nation generates and consumes energy.
October 30, 2009
Leona Aiken, a professor in the department of psychology is honored for her excellence in mentoring activities.
October 29, 2009
The college's Ariel Anbar is leading research on oxygen production in Earth's oceans.
October 29, 2009
ASU's "Ask A Biologist" Web site is a scientific sanctuary for students and teachers alike – and host to this year's Ugly Bug Contest.
October 29, 2009
How forms of wealth perpetuate economic inequality over generations is at the heart of a new study by 26 anthropologists, statisticians and economists, including an ASU professor.
October 26, 2009
"I can't imagine a time in history when what mathematicians do could be more important than now," ASU President Michael Crow said during the launch of the new School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences.
October 26, 2009
Arizona State University has topped $300 million in research expenditures for the first time in its school history.
October 26, 2009
Land, culture, and community are the dominate themes in a new book about English professor Simon Ortiz and his work, titled, "Simon J. Ortiz: A Poetic Legacy of Indigenous Continuance."
October 26, 2009
Instead of killing cancer cells, researchers at ASU will use the laws of physics to figure out how to control them.
October 26, 2009
The Hall of Fame Award, as well as Distinguished Achievement and Distinguished Faculty Awards, will be presented Oct. 30 by the college during this year's Homecoming Week festivities.
October 22, 2009
Two Arizona State University researchers, Robert Page and Gro Amdam, are the subject of a feature article in the Oct. 25 issue of the journal Science, which traces their collaboration, discoveries and extensive published works on the reproductive traits and social life history of honey bees.
October 21, 2009
Kate Lehman, executive director of academic services for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a faculty associate in political science at Arizona State University, has been elected to the senate of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
October 21, 2009
Professor John Duncan, director of the Center for Korean Studies at UCLA, is this year's Robert C. Staley Distinguished Visiting Professor in East Asian Studies. He will present a free public lecture at 7 p.m., Nov. 4, at ASU.
October 21, 2009
Life sciences professor James Elser is joining the prestigious ranks of Regents' Professors for his pioneering work in ecological and evolutionary dynamics, along with his commitment to learning and discovery.
October 20, 2009
The Sparked Synapse Project, a journal developed by an ASU student with support from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Ambassadors, showcases exceptional undergraduate research in the humanities and social sciences.
October 20, 2009
The English Club @ ASU will sponsor an afternoon of poetry, feasting and film in celebration of the Day of the Dead.
October 19, 2009
This year's faculty Fulbright Scholars include two from the college: Souad T. Ali and Mark Schmeeckle.
October 19, 2009
ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is bringing reptiles, "Lucy," meteorites and "meteorwrongs," physics experiments and Jiu-jitsu demonstrations to this year's Homecoming Block Party on Oct. 31.
October 19, 2009
The School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, which serves more than 25,000 students annually, marks a new era of instruction and research at ASU with a ceremony Oct. 27.
October 16, 2009
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences brought the Academic Bowl trophy home for the third straight year, with the college's Maroon team persevering all the way to the end.
October 15, 2009
Astrophysicist Riccardo Giacconi will deliver a public lecture titled "A New Revolution in Astronomy 400 years after Galileo" at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28 at ASU.
October 15, 2009
Professor Bambi Haggins was appointed director of film and media studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
October 15, 2009
ASU's Consortium on Emerging Technologies, Military Operations and National Security will explore the meaning of new war weapons and their ethical ramifications.
October 15, 2009
The college's department of English is sponsoring a celebration of the first National Day on Writing Oct. 20.
October 14, 2009
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences plowed through the opening rounds of the ASU Academic Bowl, placing both its teams in the finals against Fulton and W.P. Carey.
October 14, 2009
The college celebrated the launch of the new School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies during a ceremony Oct. 14.
October 13, 2009
A record 240 Liberal Arts and Sciences majors stepped up as serious contenders to represent the college in this year's Academic Bowl at ASU.
October 13, 2009
College academic unit is finalist for the 2009 Innovator of the Year Award for Academia, part of the Arizona Governor's Celebration of Innovation.
October 12, 2009
ASU Research Professor Elinor Ostrom has won this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, a prize she shares with Oliver E. Williamson of the University of California at Berkeley.
October 8, 2009
Peter and Rosemary Grant, Princeton professors emeritus and winners of the 2009 Kyoto Prize for Lifetime Achievement, come to Arizona State University on Oct. 28 to join in ASU’s Darwinfest.
October 7, 2009
ASU's new School of Social Transformation will foster a teaching and learning environment where all topics can be openly and freely analyzed.
October 7, 2009
College Professor of Practice Jim Buizer contributed to a discussion on charting a course for the U.S., in terms of competitiveness and sustainability, at the National Energy Summit and International Dialogue.
October 6, 2009
"Changing the World: Feminism in Action Generation to Generation" is the topic for the Feldt/Barbanell Women of the World Lecture at 7 p.m., Oct. 13 at ASU's Tempe campus.
October 6, 2009
Law professor to speak at one of the events to mark the launch of the college's new School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies.
October 5, 2009
According to an upcoming ASU lecturer, peace will not come to the Middle East until all parties are treated with equal respect and subject to the same rule of law.
October 5, 2009
The ASU community is invited to a series of events on Oct. 14 to officially launch the new School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
October 5, 2009
English's Joe Lockard creates Project Yao, a new database just launched by scholars in China and the U.S. that will look at what works of American literature Chinese readers devouring, and why.
October 5, 2009
Mark Oct. 21 for "Science and Faith: An Evening with Paul Davies," which begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Sands Kiva Lecture Hall on ASU's West campus in Phoenix.
October 2, 2009
An ASU team, including the college's Sander van der Leeuw, join with educators in Italy on a project to improve educational systems in both countries.
September 30, 2009
The college will partner with ASU's Professional Development School program on a $33.8 million federal grant that will enable more students in Arizona's rural communities to earn teacher certifications.
September 28, 2009
Research across the college – from chemistry to speech and hearing science – is benefitting from more than $32 million in stimulus package research grants awarded to ASU researchers.
September 27, 2009
The ASU community is invited to a series of events on Oct. 7 to officially launch the new School of Social Transformation in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
September 25, 2009
Independent film producer and director Heather Rae, recently named by Variety as one of the industry's "10 producers to watch," will be at ASU to deliver the Jonathan and Maxine Marshall Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m., Oct. 5.
September 25, 2009
The Judaism, Science and Medicine Group, established and organized by ASU's Center for Jewish Studies is working to promote and facilitate a close relationship between the Jewish religion, its cultures and values, and the sciences.
September 25, 2009
An article in Science on EarthScope's USArray project quotes ASU professors and features ASU-generated research.
September 24, 2009
Laurie Marker, the "Ultimate Cat Lady,” will talk about sustainable conservation programs working to ensure Africa’s most endangered cats’ survival, including the fund’s Bushblok project.
September 23, 2009
Human activities have already pushed the earth system beyond three of the planet's biophysical thresholds, according to conclusions published in the Sept. 24 issue of Nature, co-authored by 29 scientists from Europe, Australia and the U.S., including ASU's Sander van der Leeuw.
September 22, 2009
The college's Jane Buikstra, a pioneer in the fields of bioarchaeology and paleopathology, was named an ASU Regents’ Professor, the most prestigious faculty award bestowed at the state university level.
September 21, 2009
The college's Institute for Humanities Research hosts its book award lecture and annual faculty authors reception from 4-5:30 p.m. Sept. 30 in the Memorial Union Alumni Lounge.
September 17, 2009
Nearly 300 volunteers signed up in the first two weeks of a new Arizona weather network, but more are needed, says Arizona State Climatologist Nancy Selover, a research professor at ASU.
September 17, 2009
In recognition of their outstanding teaching and research, four faculty members in the college have been named exemplars this year by President Michael Crow.
September 16, 2009
Two researchers in college's School of Earth and Space Exploration help test NASA's new lunar rover in the Arizona desert.
September 14, 2009
The wings of many ducks are decorated with intense bands of color, while others downright drab. Biologist Kevin McGraw's studies the significance behind why animals display the colors they do.
September 13, 2009
Seth Shostak brings his personal account as an "alien hunter" to ASU for this year's "Science Fact Meets Science Fiction" lecture.
September 4, 2009
Some 25 local, national and international scholars will meet at Arizona State University Sept. 10-11, for an interdisciplinary workshop on immigration and refugees.
September 4, 2009
Nobel laureate Leland Hartwell is joining ASU with an appointment in the college's School of Life Sciences. He will lead an expansive effort to address improving the effectiveness of health care while reducing its costs, and advancing science education.
September 4, 2009
College professor Philip Christensen is hosting a National Academy of Sciences panel Sept. 9-11 to discuss the nation's course in exploring Mars.
September 4, 2009
Two Liberal Arts and Sciences students earn "Reach for the Stars" fellowships from ASU's Graduate College.
September 3, 2009
The ASU Museum of Anthropology brings together prominent Chicana/o artists, community members and students in the Día de los Muertos Exhibit Festival: !Que Vivan los Muertos!
September 3, 2009
College junior Elyse Munoz studied how oxygen affects the body size of insects related to those that existed in the Paleozoic era, as part of summer research with physiologist Jon Harrison.
September 3, 2009
Professor Mark Robinson has a hand in the NASA moon orbiting camera's views of Apollo 12 landing site.
September 1, 2009
Photovoice is a project co-directed by two ASU faculty members that is teaching Valley students how to take riveting photos while helping them become aware of their community and health.
August 26, 2009
Each year, ASU's Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing in the college brings writers of exceptional talent and distinction to the Tempe campus for lectures and residencies.
August 25, 2009
The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing's Online Book Club has changed formats – and direction – but the emphasis will still be on good reading and lively discussion.
August 18, 2009
The college's Randy Cerveny is bringing past weather to light in a new book that shows how weather played a major role in key turning points in history.
August 18, 2009
Jason Robert, the Franca Oreffice Dean’s Distinguished Professor in the Life Sciences, is turning his classroom into a movie theater during the fall and spring semesters, and the public is invited.
August 15, 2009
College alumna Barbara Knowles’ long list of professional accomplishments can be traced back to a pivotal night course in genetics in 1962.
August 13, 2009
Researchers report on evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of the far southern tip of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology in their stone tool manufacturing process.
August 12, 2009
Two in a row! The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reprises last year's success in the Academic Bowl with a resounding victory. How will they do this year?
August 11, 2009
ASU is welcoming new tenured and tenure-track faculty to the university this year.
July 31, 2009
A certificate program offered by the college's Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict teaches faculty members how to navigate controversial issues surrounding religion in the classroom.
July 27, 2009
A study released by researchers at ASU and Princeton University shows that ants can accomplish a task more rationally than ourselves.
July 23, 2009
Social scientist Elinor Ostrom presents an updated version of a multilevel, nested framework for analyzing outcomes achieved in social-ecological systems in the July 24 issue of Science.
July 22, 2009
English Professor Robert Bjork will receive the 2009 Best Edition Award by the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists for "Klaeber 4."
July 17, 2009
Six undergraduate students in the college will receive the prestigious National Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarship and study abroad next year.
July 17, 2009
The imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, operated by professor Mark Robinson, have produced new photographs of Apollo landing sites.
July 13, 2009
Under the direction of the college's Yang Kuang, a research lab provides training for undergraduate and graduate students at ASU Polytechnic.
July 10, 2009
An off-hand comment by the college's Philip Christensen at a NASA news conference started an international postal avalanche of rocks.
July 8, 2009
Researchers, led by college geologist L. Paul Knauth, believe they have found the trigger for the Cambrian explosion of life that occurred on Earth roughly 540 million years ago.
July 6, 2009
In severe economic times, experts say that humanities studies are as important as ever.
July 2, 2009
The first images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera show dramatic views of the Moon's surface, to the delight of ASU's Mark Robinson, the project's lead scientist.
July 1, 2009
ASU mathematical epidemiologist Gerardo Chowell-Puente, is co-author of a new study of the A(H1N1) influenza pandemic strain. The findings are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
June 26, 2009
Mathematicians, biostaticians and public health officials will meet at ASU to focus on understanding, possibly mitigating the spread of the H1N1 flu virus.
June 24, 2009
A graduate student and associate professor in the college publish research on the connectivity between organisms based on water: a water web.
June 23, 2009
A new orbit at an earlier time of day is increasing the sensitivity and efficiency of ASU's THEMIS multi-band camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
June 19, 2009
Joe Lockard, ASU associate professor of English, is the recipient of a Filson Historical Society Fellowship.
June 19, 2009
Bill Konigsberg, who earned an MFA in Creative Writing from ASU, is the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award for his novel "Out of the Pocket."
June 18, 2009
The application of federal environmental law in Indian Country was the focus of a recent workshop presented by the ASU American Indian Policy Institute.
June 18, 2009
Border Governors Conference representatives from the U.S. and Mexico met at ASU June 17-18 for a planning meeting, sponsored by the Arizona-Mexico Commission.
June 17, 2009
ASU life sciences professor Nancy Grimm is one of the authors of a new and authoritative federal study assessing the current and anticipated domestic impacts of climate change.
June 16, 2009
Amanda Gallegos graduated with dual degrees in chemistry and justice studies from the college. Now she uses that knowledge in a toxicology lab, as a forensic scientist for the Phoenix Police Department.
June 12, 2009
Psychology professor Sanford Braver co-authors "Intuitive Lawmaking: The Example of Child Support," which was published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
June 9, 2009
A new master's degree program concentration focses on the perspectives and skills needed to provide effective counseling and spiritual guidance in a variety of care settings.
June 9, 2009
The college's Institute for Social Science Research releases findings from the latest ASU-Southwest Poll.
June 8, 2009
The college's Robert Page is one of the newest members of the oldest scientific academy of science, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
June 8, 2009
George Paulsen, an ASU professor emeritus of history, died June 1 at the age of 86.
June 3, 2009
"It's the smallest possible atom ... the same forces that hold ordinary atoms together; but it's 100 times smaller," says the college's Richard Lebed.
May 29, 2009
The college's Institute for Humanities Research seeds fellowship for two ASU faculty members.
May 27, 2009
College researchers team with Google to create a new feature in Google Earth 5.0 to identify places on Mars to snap with ASU's THEMIS camera.
May 27, 2009
John West, a seismology graduate student in the college, was surprised to find that something unusual existed beneath the Great Basin in the western U.S.
May 22, 2009
The college's International Institute for Species Exploration announces the top 10 new species described in 2008. A pea-sized seahorse, ghost slup and caffeine-free coffee make the list.
May 14, 2009
Sander van der Leeuw, director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change in the college, will join founding director George Poste in co-directing CASI.
May 13, 2009
Regents' Professor Rogier Windhorst has had his hands on Hubble since its inception and over the past two decades he has been involved with more than 45 HST projects.
May 12, 2009
Four outstanding college faculty members have been recognized at the highest level of the university, receiving 2009 Faculty Achievement Awards after being nominated by their deans.
May 11, 2009
President Barack Obama commissioned 40 Army and Air Force cadets from five Arizona universities during the May 13 commencement ceremonies at ASU.
May 7, 2009
A delegation of college researchers participated in an international summit as part of an effort to understand and undertake the social challenges of global change.
May 7, 2009
Six individuals are recipients of distinguished teaching and advising awards given by the college. The annual awards recognize quality teaching, excellence in advising and successful mentoring.
May 6, 2009
Eleven outstanding undergraduate students are recipients of the college's spring student awards and honors recognizing student achievement, leadership, and perseverance in the face of adversity.
May 5, 2009
Jane Buikstra, a bioarchaeologist in the college, is joining the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History advisory board.
May 1, 2009
Two college professors - Jane Buikstra and James Elser - have been named as ASU Regents' Professors for 2009.
April 30, 2009
Devens Gust, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the college, is director of the new Energy Frontier Research Center at ASU.
April 30, 2009
College researchers using high-resolution and multispectral images have started the process of determining the composition of Mercury's crust and chronicling its origin and evolution.
April 29, 2009
USA Today has named college senior Charlene Bashore as one of the top 20 undergraduates in the country, alongside senior Eric Anderson, who was named to the Second Team of 20 students.
April 28, 2009
Nathan Newman, associate director of research in the School of Materials, is the first to hold the Lamonte Lawrence Chair in Solid State Sciences.
April 27, 2009
ASU Professor Linda Lederman, dean of social sciences in the college, is named a Centennial Scholar of Communication by the Eastern Communication Association.
April 27, 2009
Matthew Fouch will present results from his research group, which is focusing on high-resolution imaging of the crust and mantle beneath western North America, in Washington, D.C., this week.
April 24, 2009
Dual exhibits at the ASU Museum of Anthropology are shattering attendance records.
April 23, 2009
The key piece of data supporting the hypothesis that microbes are surviving in Blood Falls, Antarctica, came from samples analyzed by the college's Ariel Anbar and a team of ASU researchers.
April 21, 2009
The college's David Altheide builds on his two-decade study of mass media messages of fear to argue that Columbine and other school shootings were redefined as a form of terrorism.
April 21, 2009
Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss was recognized for his high-level involvement in issues of science and society with an award for Scholarship in the Public Interest.
April 20, 2009
Students chose Jane Maienschein, a Regents' Professor and President's Professor. She will talk about “Will Stem Cells Make us Smarter, or Live Longer, or What?” on April 27.
April 17, 2009
If NASA finally picks ASU's astrogeologist Jim Rice to become an astronaut, it'll fulfill a dream going back more than 40 years.
April 16, 2009
College professor James Elser has been named ASU Parents Association 2009 Professor of the Year for his dedication to solving the challenges of our time and inspiring students to do the same.
April 16, 2009
College scientists are using a heat-sensing camera developed at ASU to track a growing dust storm that erupted on Mars in March 2009.
April 16, 2009
Special presentations are planned in the college for May 13 as ASU celebrates International Museum Day.
April 15, 2009
Matthew C. Whitaker, associate professor of history, was elected president of the board of directors at the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center in Phoenix.
April 15, 2009
ASU will offer two new innovative master’s degree programs in ethics that will equip leaders in government and corporate organizations with broad ethical training to make sound decisions.
April 14, 2009
College student Riki Meier is researching the role narratives play in the construction of everyday identities in online book discussion groups.
April 14, 2009
Investigative journalist, television host and author Hugh Downs will be this year’s speaker at the college's convocation on May 15 at Wells Fargo Arena on ASU’s Tempe campus.
April 13, 2009
A team of student scholars from ASU placed 12 out of 32 in its division at the national Intercollegiate Championship Tournament held April 3-4 at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.
April 10, 2009
Julian Hunt, a visiting professor at Arizona State University, will give a special lecture April 17 to celebrate National Mathematics Awareness Month.
April 10, 2009
Chinese universities are eager to expand collaborations with ASU as a result of an early March visit by ASU representatives to China.
April 9, 2009
The Origins Symposium at ASU ended with a 12-hour scientific "jam session" under the direction of college professor Lawrence Krauss.
April 9, 2009
Three graduate students in the college's religious studies program have received prestigious honors for their research in religious diversity and communication.
April 8, 2009
Nearly 1,000 high school students talked science, politics and economics with three Nobel Laureates and an ASU theoretical physicist in the college.
April 8, 2009
Three juniors in the college have been named recipients of prestigious Goldwater Scholarships, the nation’s highest undergraduate awards in science, math and engineering.
April 8, 2009
Maxwell J. Mehlman, a renowned expert in the field of law, ethics and human enhancement, will deliver two lectures as part of the Templeton Research Lectures at ASU.
April 8, 2009
The college's Distinguished Foundation Professor of History Donald Fixico will talk about the making of the PBS Documentary Series "We Shall Remain" that begins airing April 13.
April 7, 2009
Author Sarah Hrdy comes to ASU to discuss the evolution of human societies as part of Darwinfest’s Darwin Distinguished Lecture Series.
April 6, 2009
Robert Howard, a junior majoring in American Indian Studies and accounting, and a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, won a Morris K. Udall Scholarship to help him advance the lives of other Native Americans.
April 6, 2009
If he were alive today, William Shakespeare would be 445 years old. To celebrate his birthday, the English department in the college will host a mélange of performances and discussions April 23-24.
April 5, 2009
Stephen Hawking has digitally recorded for the ASU audience the full audio for the lecture he intended to give in person April 6 at ASU Gammage. His daughter Lucy will provide additional discussion.
April 3, 2009
NPR’s “Science Friday,” with host Ira Flatow, was broadcast live from ASU April 3 as part of the Origins Symposium organized by Lawrence Krauss, a cosmologist in the college.
April 2, 2009
David Hemphill, who has been proactive in bringing black theater to the Phoenix community, is this year’s recipient of ASU’s A. Wade Smith Community Award for Advancement of Race Relations.
April 2, 2009
The monsoon is a crucial water source in the Southwest that Enrique Vivoni, an associate professor in the college, will explore in depth this summer as he begins a large-scale study.
April 2, 2009
College student Amirah Ismail's efforts to bridge the gap between the Western world and the Middle East have landed her a competitive graduate fellowship award.
March 30, 2009
A book authored by Rachel Fuchs, professor in the ASU Department of History, has been awarded the Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize by the Western Association of Women Historians.
March 30, 2009
Engineers met with biologists at ASU recently to focus on developing bio-inspired solutions to engineering problems. Stephen Pratt, an assistant professor in the college, hosted the workshop.
March 30, 2009
College scientists are part of a team who discovered that a suite of proteins thought to be a minor player in the regulation of cellular processes – is not minor at all.
March 30, 2009
Four of the original members of the ASU Academic Bowl winning team from the college will compete in the national Intercollegiate Championship Tournament April 3-4.
March 26, 2009
College graduate students in the museum anthropology program have created Past Forms, an assemblage of archaeological and historical ceramic pieces from collections at ASU.
March 26, 2009
A CD of the world premiere of the Navajo oratorio “Enemy Slayer" by Laura Tohe, an associate professor in the college, is slated for release this month.
March 25, 2009
Few tickets remain for the April 6 morning and afternoon sessions of the Origin Symposium at ASU, though college students can also watch live webcasts and broadcasts.
March 23, 2009
College faculty members from the School of Life Sciences will lead hikes at the Desert Botanical Garden, April 4.
March 19, 2009
No time to tour the wonders of Earth and space in the museums at ASU? The college has the next best thing – a bite-size, five-minute tour in a display case located in the Dean’s Office.
March 18, 2009
The world’s leading science intellectuals and authors will discuss forefront questions of origins at ASU’s Origins Symposium April 3 and April 6.
March 13, 2009
Local chapters affiliated with the ASU Alumni Association will strengthen communities across the U.S. on March 21, when they volunteer with community-improvement events.
March 13, 2009
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich will deliver this year’s John P. Frank Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. March 19 in the Evelyn Smith Music Theatre on ASU’s Tempe campus.
March 12, 2009
Almost 40 years after his paradigm-shifting discovery, paleoanthropologist Don Johanson writes about "Lucy's" latest contributions to the field of human origins.
March 11, 2009
ASU is hosting a OneBookAZ event featuring "Capirotada," a memoir of growing up in Nogales by college professor Alberto Álvaro Ríos.
March 10, 2009
Lars Krutak, a graduate student in ASU's School of Human Evolution and Social Change is getting his own television series. Tattoo Hunter premiered March 7 on the Discovery Channel.
March 10, 2009
Jianguo “Jingle” Wu, a professor in the college, is one of 19 Leopold Leadership Program Fellows chosen for their scientific excellence.
March 9, 2009
ASU will acquire a sophisticated electron microscope that promises to help make advances in energy production technology, national security and sustainable materials.
March 9, 2009
Researchers in the college's psychology department show that having a more flexible approach to resolving an acute conflict interaction results in more frustration and anger.
March 9, 2009
Gerald Taiaiake Alfred, author, educator and activist, will speak at ASU on the “Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being" at 7 p.m., March 23 at the Heard Museum, Steele Auditorium.
March 9, 2009
Social psychologist John T. Cacioppo will deliver a public lecture “Loneliness and the Need for Social Connection” from 6-8 p.m. on March 31 in the Lyceum Theatre on ASU’s Tempe campus.
March 9, 2009
Gary Paul Nabhan will speak at a lecture sponsored by ASU’s Department of English in the college at 6:30 p.m. April 18 in Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 S. McClintock drive in Tempe, Ariz.
March 9, 2009
The college will host its annual Alumni Leaders Panel featuring three college alumni at 4:30 p.m. March 17 in the Student Services Building Amphitheater on ASU’s Tempe campus.
March 5, 2009
Economic forecasts are dismal, yet many Southwesterners are optimistic that conditions in the U.S. will improve over the next year, according to the most recent ASU-Southwest Poll.
March 5, 2009
Charlene Bashore, a biochemistry major in the college, was once a self-proclaimed “science nerd.” Now she is working with DNA in hopes of discovering new ways to manufacture medicine.
March 3, 2009
The efforts of college faculty members and an alumnus were recognized at this year's ASU Founders' Day event.
March 3, 2009
Science teachers from Arizona visited Mars vicariously and learned how to take their classrooms with them on future trips.
March 2, 2009
Some of the greatest minds in science, including six Nobel Laureates, will gather to discuss the origins of everything, from the universe to humanity, April 6, in ASU Gammage.
March 2, 2009
A graduate student and assistant professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration are paving the way for a geoscience interpretative exhibit at the Grand Canyon.
February 27, 2009
ASU hosted a health professions fair Feb. 24 for students applying to a professional school in health fields, including dentistry, medicine and pharmacy.
February 27, 2009
Syndicated columnist, women’s activist and economist Julianne Malveaux will present this year's A. Wade Smith Memorial Lecture on Race Relations at 7 p.m. March 30 on ASU’s Tempe campus.
February 25, 2009
Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu received the first ASU Distinguished Global Leadership Award in a Feb. 23 ceremony on campus.
February 25, 2009
ASU’s Django Paris has been awarded the Mary Catherine Ellwein Outstanding Dissertation Award for Qualitative Research Methodology from the American Educational Research Association.
February 25, 2009
ASU hosted a pre-conference on the subject of sustainability and the balance of work and life Feb. 14.
February 23, 2009
Professor Melissa Pritchard takes a look at Virgina Galvin Piper, the namesake of ASU's creative writing center, in a new biography.
February 20, 2009
Planetary scientist and impact specialist H. Jay Melosh is this year’s recipient of the Eugene Shoemaker Memorial Award presented by the BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.
February 20, 2009
Women of color who have been elected to the office of president of national learned societies will gather at ASU Feb. 27 for an unprecedented summit and leadership workshop.
February 20, 2009
College graduate students are bringing top researchers of deserts from around the world to ASU and presenting science in a way that’s unexpected – as art.
February 20, 2009
ASU’s Institute for Humanities Research has taken the lead in promoting excellence and innovation in humanities scholarship by contributing to scholarly research and engaging the community.
February 20, 2009
ASU is one of seven U.S. universities selected for a new initiative to infuse university-based humanities and social science research into the Department of Defense.
February 19, 2009
Neal A. Lester, professor and English chair in the college, will present “African American Women Writing their Lives and Experiences” on Feb. 26.
February 19, 2009
The college is seeking nominations for the A. Wade Smith Community Award for Advancement of Race Relations. Nominations for the award are due March 6.
February 19, 2009
Several college faculty members made presentations on their new technologies at a Tech Forum organized by Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE), the technology venturing arm of ASU.
February 19, 2009
The college's Paul Davies challenged the orthodox view that there is only one form of life in a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
February 17, 2009
The ASU Academic Bowl winning team from the college came in second at a regional championship to UCLA Feb. 7. The team earned a wild card for the national tournament.
February 16, 2009
Scholars and lovers of Beowulf are invited to gather Feb. 27-28 for the Third Annual Beowulf Symposium.
February 16, 2009
ASU’s Institute for Humanities Research offers two fellowship programs; one program supports two ASU faculty teams and the other two visiting fellows.
February 13, 2009
Trade in exotic goods comes with significant local economic costs, explains the college's Charles Perrings at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science.
February 13, 2009
ASU associate professor of anthropology Anne Stone discussed how diet holds keys to understanding who we are at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting.
February 12, 2009
The idea of reducing whale populations to increase fish quantities appears to be nothing more than a whale of a tale, according to research by college scientist Leah Gerber.
February 12, 2009
Researchers in the college are finding that the compounds responsible for amping up red, orange and yellow colors of birds also may play a role in a bird’s ability to reproduce.
February 11, 2009
Psychology student and College Ambassador Stefani Baca is a proven undergraduate researcher. She was selected as a Millennium Scholar by the Society for Research in Child Development.
February 10, 2009
ASU’s North American Center for Transborder Studies has presented a report to President Obama urging his administration to strengthen certain U.S. partnerships with Canada and Mexico.
February 9, 2009
A drug used to improve blood flow to the brain could improve learning and memory and reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study with two researchers in the college.
February 5, 2009
Professor Mary Davies in psychology part of a research team looking at the health benefits of affectionate human touch.
February 4, 2009
The ASU Academic Bowl championship team from the college is heading to the University of California, Los Angeles, Feb. 7 for a regional tournament.
February 4, 2009
Six writers from the 2009 Desert Nights, Rising Stars writing conference at ASU, will read from their work on four evenings, beginning Feb. 18 ASU's Tempe campus.
February 3, 2009
Social scientists in the college are part of an international team publishing new research that reveals nut-cracking abilities in our 2.5-million-year-old relatives.
February 2, 2009
Regents' Professor Alberto Rios describes his life growing up as a mélange of cultures, traditions and experiences in “Capirotada: A Nogales Memoir,” which has been selected as OneBookAZ for 2009.
January 30, 2009
“Darwin’s Strange Inversion of Reasoning” is the topic of this year’s signature lecture to be presented Feb. 18 by ASU's BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.
January 30, 2009
Feb. 16 is the deadline for nominations for the Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award, which is presented annually by ASU’s Institute for Humanities Research in the college.
January 30, 2009
Leading evolutionary scientists and philosophers will be at ASU to celebrate the work of Charles Darwin.
January 29, 2009
ASU will host a two-day colloquium Feb. 13-14 on the subject of Theravada Buddhism and its encounter with modernity in South and Southeast Asia since the early 19th century.
January 28, 2009
Several museums and collections in the college are open to the public Feb. 16 on the Tempe campus. Guided tours are scheduled.
January 26, 2009
A four-day film festival is slated for February at ASU and includes the Arizona premiere of “Sizzle,” a global warming comedy.
January 26, 2009
A book authored by Victor Peskin, an assistant professor in the college, has been selected as a Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title for 2008.
January 23, 2009
Jameson Wetmore, an assistant professor in the college, looks at how society and technology influence one another and affect the world in a dynamic new anthology he co-edited.
January 21, 2009
A plan to establish a School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning in the college is part of a major academic reorganization.
January 16, 2009
Scholar Dan Schowalter will investigate the three temples built by Herod the Great at a lecture at 7 p.m., Jan. 29 on ASU's Tempe campus.
January 16, 2009
Why does Darwin matter? ASU joins the global celebration of Darwin‘s 200th birthday (Feb. 12) and commemorates the 150th anniversary of the publication of “On the Origin of Species,” with Darwinfest.
January 16, 2009
The college community will remember Noel Stowe, a professor of history, from 2-4 p.m. Jan. 31 on ASU's Tempe campus.
January 16, 2009
Humanist and author, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak will track the role of humanities work both inside and beyond the university during a lecture at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 29 on ASU’s Tempe campus.
January 13, 2009
Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist in the college, will co-chair the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists with Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman.
January 13, 2009
Hwihyun Kim, a graduate student in the college's School of Earth and Space Exploration, was recognized by the American Astronomical Society for her exemplary research.
January 8, 2009
An ‘honest indicator’ has been discovered by a scientific team in the college that reveals reproductive cheating – in ants.
January 8, 2009
The college's Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies organizes citizen's exchange seminar for Kosovo delegation.
January 7, 2009
Paul LePore, a sociologist, is the new associate dean for Student and Academic Programs in the college.
January 7, 2009
Matthew Whitaker, associate professor of history in the college, is the recipient of the Promoting Inclusiveness Award presented by the city of Glendale.
January 7, 2009
Memoirs about growing up in Nogales is on the winter/early spring calendar for ASU's Piper Online Book Club.
January 2, 2009
Undergraduate students conducting research in the college are being recognized for their innovation and excellence and are receiving research scholarships for spring 2009.
January 2, 2009
James Blasingame, associate professor of English education in the college, has been named to the board of directors for a nonprofit group dedicated to improving children’s literacy.
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