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.
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.
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.
Smithsonian Youth Access Grant and Vidyo video conferencing technology empower future teachers, middle school student learning and ecosystem science in Phoenix and Panama
Are you living in a food desert? Research in low-income communities helps pave the way to better urban health.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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