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Released: 18-Apr-2012 4:00 PM EDT
Professor Known for Work with Hunter-Gatherers Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Arizona State University School of Human Evolution and Social Change Professor Ana Magdalena Hurtado has been elected to join the 2012 cohort of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Released: 18-Apr-2012 3:20 PM EDT
ASU Professor of Chemistry Named 2012 Professor of the Year
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The Arizona State University Parents Association honored Ian Gould, professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), as the 2012 Professor of the Year for his lifelong commitment to science and his ability to inspire students to become innovative in often-difficult chemistry classes.

Released: 17-Apr-2012 5:00 PM EDT
ASU Provides Technology, Teotihuacán Facility to Explore Ancient Urban Roots
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Equipped with a GigaPan robotic camera mount and Stitch software, an ASU media team trekked to the Mesoamerican ruins of Teotihuacán to capture the essence and magnitude of this ancient city, once one of the largest in the world.

Released: 16-Apr-2012 4:00 PM EDT
'Desert to Rainforest' Global Classroom Links Future Teachers, Classrooms in Phoenix and Panama
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Smithsonian Youth Access Grant and Vidyo video conferencing technology empower future teachers, middle school student learning and ecosystem science in Phoenix and Panama

Released: 10-Apr-2012 4:35 PM EDT
Cultivating a Food Desert
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Are you living in a food desert? Research in low-income communities helps pave the way to better urban health.

Released: 6-Apr-2012 4:05 PM EDT
Unchained: Young ASU Alum Launches Non-Profit to Fight Sex Trafficking
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The average age of entry into prostitution is 12.8 nationally and between 13 and 15 in Phoenix. So when ASU graduate Jamie Roberts learned about “Dignity House,” a residential program for victims of sex trafficking, she was immediately drawn in.

4-Apr-2012 2:15 PM EDT
Nature and Nurture: World‐First Discovery Sheds New Light on Congenital Birth Defects
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Scientists have made a landmark discovery that could help women minimize or even avoid the risk of having a baby born with congenital birth defects. The study is published today in the prestigious international journal Cell.

Released: 3-Apr-2012 8:00 AM EDT
New Light Shined on Photosynthesis
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

One of the outstanding questions of the early Earth is how ancient organisms made the transition from anoxygenic (no oxygen produced) to oxygenic photosynthesis. A team of scientists from Arizona State University has moved closer to solving this conundrum.

Released: 21-Mar-2012 7:00 PM EDT
New Discoveries About Brain-Hand Connection Sought to Improve Therapies, Treatments, Prosthetics
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Research at Arizona State University and Columbia University to better understand the intricate sensory and cognitive connections between the brain and the hands has won support from the National Science Foundation. New discoveries about such connections could benefit people with neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease and cerebral palsy, and those who need prosthetic hands.

Released: 19-Mar-2012 4:20 PM EDT
Patrick Kenney Named Dean of Social Sciences at ASU
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Patrick Kenney, professor of political science, founding director of the School of Politics and Global Studies, and director of The Institute for Social Science Research, has been appointed dean of Social Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.

Released: 19-Mar-2012 3:45 PM EDT
Hearing Aid: Arizona State Group to Walk 5k to Support African Health
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Faculty and students from ASU will help give the gift of hearing to people in Malawi, Africa, this summer, with the help of the “AZ Walk to Silence Tinnitus” 5K sponsored by the American Tinnitus Association on March 24.

Released: 19-Mar-2012 3:15 PM EDT
Team Produces First Complete Geologic Map of Io
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

More than 400 years after Galileo’s discovery of Io, the innermost of Jupiter’s largest moons, a team of scientists led by Arizona State University (ASU) has produced the first complete global geologic map of the Jovian satellite.

Released: 3-Feb-2012 11:05 AM EST
Sidelining Stereotypes, but Not Spirit, for Super Bowl XLVI
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

This Super Bowl Sunday, while the New England Patriots go head-to-head with the New York Giants, cut your eyes away briefly to the sidelines to consider the cheerleaders. Who are these women wielding pom-poms?

Released: 17-Jan-2012 4:50 PM EST
Tropical Classroom Inspires Exhibit, Smithsonian Field Station Design
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The ASU Design School traveling studio introduced graduate students in architecture, biology and design to Panama's tropical forest and Smithsonian researchers. Their biology-inspired designs will be showcased in an exhibit "Learning from Organisms" on Jan. 24, 2012.

   
Released: 17-Nov-2011 8:00 AM EST
Archeologists Investigate Ice Age Hominins Adaptability to Climate Change
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Computational modeling that examines evidence of how hominin groups evolved culturally and biologically in response to climate change during the last Ice Age also bears new insights into the extinction of Neanderthals. The complex modeling was done at Arizona State University and the University of Colorado Denver. Published in Human Ecology.

31-Oct-2011 9:00 AM EDT
Creating Markets to Pay for Public Good Offer Promise, Peril
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Payment mechanisms designed without regard for the properties of the services they cover may be environmentally harmful, say seven of the world’s leading environmental scientists, who met to collectively to study the pitfalls of utilizing markets to induce people to take account of the environmental costs of their behavior and solutions.

Released: 31-Oct-2011 10:35 AM EDT
Ugly Bugs Compete in ‘Wild West’ Showdown
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Little hombres in a gang of creepy, crawling critters are contending in the 2011 Ugly Bug Contest hosted on the Arizona State University "Ask A Biologist" website.

Released: 1-Sep-2011 8:00 AM EDT
Mars Scientist Philip Christensen to Receive ASU Shoemaker Memorial Award
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Philip R. Christensen, the principal investigator for numerous instruments of Mars exploration carried on NASA spacecraft, will receive the 2011 Eugene Shoemaker Memorial Award Oct. 13 at Arizona State University.

Released: 29-Aug-2011 8:00 AM EDT
Future of Water Use Becomes Focus of ‘Changing Planet’ Town Hall at Arizona State University
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Water – its scarcity and adapting to its future – were center stage in the thirsty Southwest at Arizona State University Aug. 25 for a town hall videotaped by NBC Learn. The fast-paced event will be broadcast in November on The Weather Channel and featured in the December issue of Discover magazine.

Released: 17-Aug-2011 4:10 PM EDT
Fat-Stigma Research: Mass Media Messages Appear to Trump Opinions of Family, Close Friends
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Women harbor a fat-stigma even though their family and closest friends may not judge them as “fat,” according to findings by Arizona State University social scientists. Those research results, published Aug. 17 in the journal Social Science & Medicine, have scientists questioning the weight of messages from sources outside one’s social networks, especially those in mass media marketing.



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