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October 18, 2019
When Lillian Keyes visited Washington, D.C., from Poughkeepsie, New York, on Friday, she didn’t know she would have the opportunity to...
October 17, 2019
Arizona State University psychology graduate student Victoria Woner is traveling to Chicago this week as a winner of the prestigious...
October 17, 2019
These jeans still fit.I could do that abstract painting.I could take that guy.Self-deception like this seems very human. Now, thanks to a...
October 16, 2019
“An honor and a dream come true.” That’s how Associate Professor YoungJu Shin of the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication described her...
October 16, 2019
They go together like milk and cookies. Peanut butter and jelly. Batman and Robin. Disease and mosquitos. Wait, what?Like other famous...
October 15, 2019
College wasn’t even on Sergio Loza’s radar when a recruiter came to visit his high school in the mostly Latino, low-income neighborhood of...
October 14, 2019
A research team from the MIPT Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-Related Diseases collaborated with colleagues from the U.S...
October 14, 2019
Growing up in Phoenix, Arizona State University alumna Laura Medina enjoyed getting the day off school for Columbus Day every October. But...
October 14, 2019
When Jaime Martinez and Bret Larsen graduated from Arizona State University, they each wanted to make an impact in their communities.After...
October 11, 2019
This summer, the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant that has been providing jobs and economic support for residents in and...
October 11, 2019
The 19th Amendment of the American Constitution officially gave women the right to vote in 1920, putting to rest decades of contention,...
October 11, 2019
Latino youth and young adults born and raised in United States who are fluent in English and steeped in American culture still feel...
October 10, 2019
A lot had changed in the 15 years since Earl Swift last set foot on Tangier Island, located in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay. Whole swaths of...
October 9, 2019
This spring, the Department of English at Arizona State University wants you to plug in.Or at least, it wants you to consider when, where,...
October 9, 2019
A team of undergraduate researchers at Arizona State University spent a year mining and analyzing data to produce a first-of-its-kind...
October 9, 2019
Ever since its days as the imperial Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, where efficient canals reminded invading Spaniards of Venice, Mexico...
October 9, 2019
An expert in remote sensing and GIScience, Soe Myint has been selected as the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Environmental Studies to...
October 9, 2019
A recent study published in “Circulation,” the journal of the American Heart Association, concludes that having a dog is associated with a...
October 8, 2019
Every semester, when thousands of students move their graduation cap tassels from right to left, it doesn’t mean education has ended for...
October 7, 2019
If you could travel back in time 3.5 billion years ago, what would Mars look like? The picture is evolving among scientists working with...
October 7, 2019
The challenge of designing a synthetic artificial cell has been accepted by a team of researchers from institutions across the country,...
October 7, 2019
Academics spend decades doing research, teaching and public outreach. When they finally reach retirement, many choose to stay involved in...
October 6, 2019
If you’re Italian, you don’t miss Mama’s “red lead” on Sunday night.If you’re German, it’s schnitzel and kraut.In the South, they like...
October 4, 2019
Last month, Arizona State University alumna Shaandiin Parrish stood in front of a crowd at the annual Navajo Nation Fair and waited to...
October 4, 2019
A newly discovered mineral, navrotskyite, has been named after Arizona State University Professor Alexandra Navrotsky for her significant...
October 4, 2019
What awards course credit, builds your resume, provides hands-on experience and gives you the opportunity to travel the world?Study abroad...
October 3, 2019
Sometimes the best conversations are the ones where all we do is listen. And when it comes to communing with the environment, there’s a...
October 2, 2019
Catalysis is an essential component of industrial chemistry and the economic and societal benefits of catalysis are almost incalculable....
October 2, 2019
For more than a decade, scientist Stephen Albert Johnston and his team at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have pooled their...
October 2, 2019
Over the summer, Arizona State University's School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning invited seven students to participate in the...
October 2, 2019
Sediment samples, collected from the ocean floor, have unlocked scientific mysteries around the world. By analyzing these sediment cores,...
October 1, 2019
What’s better than spending a hot Arizona summer working in a cool basement? Spending a hot Arizona summer in a cool basement, building a...
October 1, 2019
Human behavior over time has been extraordinarily complex; that's partly why so many different fields exist to study it. From economics and...
October 1, 2019
Human behavior over time has been extraordinarily complex; that's partly why so many different fields exist to study it. From economics and...
October 1, 2019
The Graduate College has launched the Graduate College Fellows Initiative and named two Arizona State University faculty members to serve...
October 1, 2019
Arizona State University marked a record first-year undergraduate cohort of nearly 14,000 on-campus students this fall. The College of...
September
September 30, 2019
Menstruation may be a taboo topic to bring up in social settings, but it happens to roughly half of the population of the world. Every...
September 30, 2019
At one time or another, we were all scientists. There is a reason a child’s first questions include: “What is it?”, “Why?” and “How?”A...
September 30, 2019
A community garden occupies a diminutive dirt lot in Phoenix. Rows of raised garden beds offer up basil, watermelons and corn, making this...
September 27, 2019
Jessica Salow was 27 when she started her undergraduate degree at Arizona State University, and she already had a number of years of...
September 27, 2019
Weather is active, moving and constantly changing. It's intriguing to watch as storms develop on the horizon. For students studying...
September 27, 2019
True crime shows are beloved by many for their comprehensive (if not entirely accurate) portrayal of forensics investigations. But amid all...
September 26, 2019
September is Recovery Month, a national observance designed to increase awareness and understanding of mental and substance use disorders...
September 26, 2019
Arizona State University Regents Professor Austen Angell, of the School of Molecular Sciences, recently enjoyed three days of festivities...
September 26, 2019
Researchers at Arizona State University are busy making preparations for a “first light” experiment — a pivotal moment that will lead to...
September 26, 2019
During her senior year of high school, with an appointment to West Point, Katie Richardson thought her plans were set. However, a severe...
September 25, 2019
Americans today are being assailed by the rise of “fake news” and a growing combativeness around democratic principles, including freedom...
September 24, 2019
The Pew Research Center has reported that more and more people identify themselves as “spiritual but not religious.” How can this be...
September 24, 2019
The School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership will launch the third season of its “Civic Discourse Project” on Sept. 25, an...
September 24, 2019
Diane Wilson’s goal for her study abroad experience this past summer? Help bring knowledge and healing to the people of Tanzania.“It was a...
September 24, 2019
This month, five former ASU faculty and staff and Valley leaders are being recognized for their outstanding contributions to the Hispanic...
September 23, 2019
Effective diagnosis and treatment of disease draws on painstaking research, which often relies on biological samples. The avalanche of...
September 23, 2019
Representation and inclusivity in modern American fiction are essential components of honest, accurate writing, novelist Jess Row told a...
September 20, 2019
Professor Paul Hirt wears many hats at Arizona State University as well as in the community: active public speaker, lecturer and...
September 20, 2019
How do we think about the future during precarious times? As Thought Huddle podcast host Mary-Charlotte Domandi notes, the latest episode...
September 20, 2019
Cooperative behaviors, which differ from one country to another, from one community to another, can make the world an interesting — though...
September 19, 2019
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September 19, 2019
From a project focused on mobile home parks to work with indigenous communities, members from the Arizona State University School of...
September 19, 2019
Witches, pagans and polytheists: They’re not seance-holding weirdos, tree-worshipping nudists or Stonehenge-dancing hippies.They hold...
September 18, 2019
Naruro Hassan took a seat among 10 other undergraduate research fellows in John Carlson’s “Inquiry into Religion and Conflict” course one...
September 17, 2019
Deep within the subterranean confines of Building C — the latest addition to the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University — a...
September 17, 2019
In September 1787, the delegates of the Constitutional Convention took the monumental step of signing the document they had drafted during...
September 17, 2019
Until recently, if you wanted to make a map of a coral reef, you had a lot of options, all of them bad. That’s changing, thanks to a pair...
September 16, 2019
The American Political Science Association (APSA) has award Narayani Lasala-Blanco, an assistant professor in Arizona State University’s...
September 16, 2019
Earth is enormous, and while humans have done a decent job of being able to map out the boundaries of countries and states, the roads in...
September 13, 2019
Were archaeology to be defined solely by the movies, you’d assume it involves traveling to exotic lands and stealing ancient relics.Of...
September 12, 2019
Imagine being fully aware of the present moment, all of your sensations, feelings and thoughts, and being OK with it. Now imagine taking a...
September 12, 2019
The Humanities Lab is very pleased to welcome Juliann Vitullo as its new Humanities Lab co-director. Vitullo is a faculty member with the...
September 11, 2019
Suicide, which is responsible for more than 800,000 deaths annually worldwide, is now the second leading cause of death among young adults...
September 10, 2019
When Audrey Ruiz first came to Arizona State University, she was terrified.“I was so intimidated by this huge public university,” she said...
September 10, 2019
Dr. Joseph Furst, a Mayo Clinic physician, annually spends two weeks in the summer providing medical care to at-risk communities in other...
September 9, 2019
From nonprofit and industry work to professorships and research, forging a career after graduate school isn’t always straightforward. A...
September 6, 2019
Suicides are up across the board in America, according to a recent national study showing a 33% increase since two decades ago, the highest...
September 5, 2019
Frequent incidents over the past few years in which appearances by conservative speakers have been shut down or canceled at college...
September 5, 2019
Among Jupiter’s 79 moons, Europa jumps out at planetary scientists. Covered in an ice crust, it has the smoothest surface of any object in...
September 5, 2019
How important is mom? What about dad?According to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the well-being of a child’...
September 3, 2019
Across the country, more than 10,000 regulations restrict people with criminal records from obtaining occupational licenses, according to a...
September 2, 2019
Wildfires are widespread across the globe. They occur in places wherever plants are abundant — such as the raging fires currently burning...
August
August 30, 2019
Marija Drozdek always had a strong passion for languages and cultures. This passion coupled with her family’s Balkan roots led to her...
August 30, 2019
Immigration policy is at the forefront of national news today. For Arizona State University alumna Susie Haslett, a childhood in Arizona...
August 30, 2019
For L. Benjamin Rolsky, a 2006 undergraduate alumnus in history and religious studies, his passion for research is practically a genetic...
August 29, 2019
Arizona has become the first in the country to recognize occupational licenses from other states, ending a redundant recertification...
August 29, 2019
Hollywood has always imagined the arrival of beings from other worlds as the cause to run through streets screaming, call up fighter jets,...
August 29, 2019
Michael Tristano Jr., a graduate teaching associate at Arizona State University's Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, received the...
August 29, 2019
The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have announced that Professor Nancy Jurik of Arizona...
August 29, 2019
Arizona wants to make it easier for workers who need an occupational license for their jobs.A bill making its way through the state...
August 28, 2019
How are people’s political beliefs organized, and what leads them to subscribe to certain beliefs?Answering these kinds of questions has...
August 28, 2019
Elizabeth Rapacz began her college career at Arizona State University two weeks earlier than her first-year student peers by enrolling in...
August 28, 2019
Responding to steady growth in English and film and media studies programs and to Arizona State University's largest class of first-year...
August 27, 2019
We don't often think about medieval and Renaissance culture. While brushing our teeth, driving to work or school, cooking dinner or...
August 27, 2019
Editor's note: Be sure to check back on ASU Now for this developing story, and the website Hawaiicoral.org as we provide further updates. ...
August 27, 2019
Editor's note: Be sure to check back on ASU Now for this developing story, and the website Hawaiicoral.org as we provide further updates. ...
August 27, 2019
If all goes as planned, one day this October a spacecraft the size of jumbo loaf of bread will leave from Wallops, Virginia, packed aboard...
August 26, 2019
When researchers examined the mitochondrial DNA of Ötzi, a man entombed in ice some 5,300 years ago, high in the Tyrolean Alps, they made a...
August 26, 2019
In the 70 years since the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty established an international alliance to prevent future devastation like...
August 26, 2019
Nearly 1 in 4 Arizona teens have used a highly potent form of marijuana known as marijuana concentrate, according to a new study by Arizona...
August 23, 2019
Everyone wants to be appreciated at work, and inclusive and culturally diverse workplaces are more innovative and outperform competitors....
August 23, 2019
19th Amendment Resolution. Courtesy of National Archives General RecordsAfter 304 votes in the House of Representatives, 56 votes in the...
August 23, 2019
Arizona State University’s Project Humanities has developed a reputation for its provocative and engaging programming. This year is no...
August 22, 2019
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the largest and most diverse academic unit at Arizona State University. With 23 field-spanning...
August 21, 2019
Recently, dramatic news came out of Africa concerning Ebola, one of the world’s deadliest and most feared diseases. New drugs can overcome...
August 21, 2019
ASU faculty members are pretty smart — and we don't just mean being experts on carbon capture, space exploration or Shakespeare and race....
August 20, 2019
If you sit in a typical lecture hall at any university, you’ll likely see some students distracted by their phones, or worse, napping or...
August 20, 2019
Cosmochemistry expert and new ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) Director Meenakshi Wadhwa and drylands researcher Osvaldo...
August 20, 2019
Each year, the city of Tempe recognizes one individual or organization as a “Bike Hero” — highlighting the work being done in the community...
August 19, 2019
The 2019–20 school year is about to begin, and with new beginnings come new faces on the Arizona State University campuses.The School of...
August 19, 2019
Anthony Johnson arrived in Virginia in 1621. He farmed other people’s land in the new English colony before he acquired land of his own and...
August 16, 2019
In recent years, political scientists across the globe have taken note of an alarming rise in the number of populist candidates in...
August 15, 2019
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named Terry Alford, Devens Gust and Andreas Spanias as senior members for fostering a spirit of...
August 15, 2019
If you walk with Don and Alleen Nilsen through the well-manicured retirement community where they reside in Tempe, you might take note of...
August 14, 2019
Getting involved in research as an undergraduate can have significant benefits, such as enhancing a student’s ability to think critically,...
August 14, 2019
Undergraduate global health student Mariyah Dreza spent her summer researching mental health in Guatemala and along the way had the...
August 14, 2019
Ramona Melikian was born into a global family. Her grandparents were Armenians uprooted by the 1915 Armenian Genocide who fled to Russia,...
August 14, 2019
In high school chemistry, we all learned about chemical reactions. But what brings two reacting molecules together? As explained to us by...
August 13, 2019
From hair and eye color to how our biological system is regulated, the blueprint of life is held in the genome.The gene also is what...
August 13, 2019
“Islam” and “feminism” are two words most people in Western society wouldn’t usually associate with one another. But recent developments in...
August 12, 2019
Sun Devil supporters bolstered scholarships, medical advancements, professorships and research opportunities as part of a banner...
August 8, 2019
About 35 million years ago, an asteroid hit the ocean off the East Coast of North America. Its impact formed a 25-mile diameter crater that...
August 8, 2019
Editor's note: Aug. 11 marks the end of "the dog days of summer," the most sweltering days of the year. (For those of us in the Northern...
August 8, 2019
A new type of blood test for breast cancer could help avoid thousands of unnecessary surgeries and otherwise precisely monitor disease...
August 7, 2019
Each year, nearly 20% of U.S. students do not finish high school on time, which experts say puts them at high risk for poverty, poor health...
August 7, 2019
With a literary oeuvre that includes 11 novels, several children’s books, plays, and even an opera, Toni Morrison long has been revered as...
August 7, 2019
A new course at Arizona State University aims to empower students to become wiser and more effective interpreters of news about the...
August 7, 2019
In June, the Arizona State University-led mast-mounted camera system for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission, "Mastcam-Z," was delivered to NASA...
August 6, 2019
For four years in a row, the Military Times group has ranked Arizona State University as one of its “Best for Vets” colleges. With the help...
August 5, 2019
Every family has traditions. Tim Vasquez’s has baseball, cooking and Arizona State University. He and his father, George, were both rising...
August 2, 2019
Matt Cavanaugh, a new professor of practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies and an affiliated faculty member with the Center...
August 1, 2019
If there is any consolation to be found in cancer, it may be that the devastating disease dies with the individual carrying it. Or so it...
July
July 31, 2019
When Alison Rohrer graduated from Towson University Honors College in 2018 a semester early she realized she wanted to keep her momentum....
July 31, 2019
Comparing a living cell to a virus is a bit like comparing the Sistine Chapel to a backyard doghouse. Lacking the intricate machinery of...
July 30, 2019
Humans and animals can develop resistance to harmful bacteria (pathogens) over time or with help from antibiotics or vaccines. And it’s...
July 30, 2019
Ahwatukee Foothills News reporter Becky Bracken encourages parents to speak to their kids about racism amid discussion about a proposed...
July 29, 2019
A byproduct of oil and gas production is a large quantity of toxic wastewater called brine. Well-drillers dispose of brine by injecting it...
July 26, 2019
Editor's note: July 3 marked the start of "the dog days of summer," the most sweltering days of the year. (For those of us in the Northern...
The College’s Center for Evolution and Medicine selects new director to lead next phase of operation
July 25, 2019
When diagnosing and treating illnesses, traditional medicine looks to the ailment itself. But what about the biological, environmental and...
July 25, 2019
Scientists know that air pollution affects plant populations.Nitrogen and sulfur deposited in the soil from industrial agriculture and the ...
July 25, 2019
After traveling to 24 different countries on missions ranging from delivering medical supplies in West Africa during the Ebola epidemic to...
July 25, 2019
Cordelia Candelaria, Regents Professor Emeritus in the School of Transborder Studies, wants to bridge the past with the present by making...
July 25, 2019
In 1985, Patience Huntwork was freshly graduated from Yale Law School and working in Phoenix when an article about the American Bar...
July 24, 2019
Drinking alcohol alone can be a warning sign of alcohol abuse. But drinking in stimulating group environments can put people at risk for...
July 24, 2019
Most cases of anxiety and depression among school-age children are untreated. Among those receiving treatment, prescriptions and counseling...
July 23, 2019
With bee populations on the decline, researchers have a growing interest in the viruses that may be affecting them. However, with the...
July 22, 2019
Gas-giant planets orbiting close to other stars have powerful magnetic fields, many times stronger than our own Jupiter, according to a new...
July 22, 2019
It started out as a typical day at work for ant researcher Christina Kwapich.Like other mornings, she set out before the sun came up to...
July 22, 2019
Arizona State University announced today that it has been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build a...
July 19, 2019
Professor Kenro Kusumi, a genome biologist, has been selected as the new director for Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences,...
July 18, 2019
Most Americans believe science and religion are incompatible, but a recent study suggests that scientific engagement can actually promote...
July 18, 2019
Fifty years ago, the Eagle landed.“Man on the moon!” said CBS television news anchor Walter Cronkite, whose exclamation would make for...
July 17, 2019
The community of viruses is staggeringly vast. Occupying every conceivable biological niche, from searing undersea vents to frigid tundra,...
July 16, 2019
As the Apollo 11 Lunar Module approached the moon's surface for the first manned landing, commander Neil Armstrong switched off the auto-...
July 16, 2019
Pardis Mahdavi possesses a deep reservoir of empathy.That quality makes her a perfect fit for her new position as director of Arizona State...
July 16, 2019
Tamales, churros, raspados, elotes. On the streets of Los Angeles, the hands that serve these dishes from the shade of a vending cart may...
July 15, 2019
This summer, Arizona State University religious studies PhD candidate Jamie Edmonds decided to incorporate technology into the final...
July 15, 2019
Flourishing in spectacular numbers in lakes and ponds around the world, tiny creatures known as Daphnia play an essential role in...
July 15, 2019
There are a few things in life upon which we can rely, and one of those things is that Phoenix is hot in the summer. But how hot? It’s a...
July 12, 2019
Arizona State University history alumnus Kino Reed regularly teaches O’odham cultural studies and social studies at Salt River High School...
July 11, 2019
Editor's note: July 3 marked the start of "the dog days of summer," the most sweltering days of the year. (For those of us in the Northern...
July 10, 2019
Ajit Maan, a new professor of practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies and an affiliated faculty member with the Center on the...
July 9, 2019
Irina Levin, the new director of the Critical Languages Institute at Arizona State University, sees a delicate balancing act in her goals....
July 9, 2019
Astrophysicists know that iron (chemical symbol: Fe) is one of the most abundant elements in the universe, after lightweight elements such...
July 8, 2019
School of Human Evolution and Social Change alumna Sara Becker has one particularly clear memory from her undergraduate years at Arizona...
July 8, 2019
For Arizona State University alumna Laura Medina, home started out as a shaky concept.
She was born in New Mexico and grew up on the...
July 8, 2019
Honeybees serve as pollinators for the majority of the world’s crops, and their global decline threatens the world’s food supply.However,...
July 3, 2019
Editor's note: July 3 marks the start of "the dog days of summer," the most sweltering days of the year. (For those of us in the Northern...
July 3, 2019
Editor's note: July 3 marks the start of "the dog days of summer," the most sweltering days of the year. (For those of us in the Northern...
July 3, 2019
Ayanna Thompson is the director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University. She is currently...
July 3, 2019
When an earthquake or a tsunami strikes, aid groups and rescue teams begin assessing emergency needs right away. But other crises are...
July 3, 2019
The ASU-led NASA Psyche Mission is inviting undergraduate students from any university or community college in the U.S. and its territories...
July 2, 2019
Along with the fireworks, festivities and barbecues that celebrate the Fourth of July, one of the most moving events to witness is a...
July 1, 2019
Arizona State University senior Monica Orillo has been tackling different parts of the world in her pursuit of a future career in...
July 1, 2019
Just breathe.If detecting lung infections were as simple as taking a breath, patients with cystic fibrosis would be able to seek treatment...
July 1, 2019
On June 13, the National Academy of Sciences appointed Arizona State University School of Social Transformation Associate Professor Marlon...
June
June 28, 2019
Fifty-six years ago, on a humid Sunday in early May, thousands of African American congregants walked calmly out of the New Pilgrim Baptist...
June 28, 2019
Meenakshi Wadhwa has looked up her whole life.At the Himalayas, looming over her hometown of Chandigarh in northern India, formed 40 to 50...
June 28, 2019
It’s hard to imagine what the world looked like millions of years ago. But in Arizona, a journey through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado...
June 27, 2019
Inspired by movie streaming services such as Netflix or Hulu, an astrophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute developed a technique...
June 27, 2019
There’s a scene in Season 1, Episode 2 of FX’s acclaimed series "Pose" that chronicles the ballroom culture of New York City in the late '...
June 27, 2019
Recently, the culture is moving to change transportation habits for both health and environmental benefits. Many people have picked up the...
June 27, 2019
A decade ago, an Atlas V rocket blazed across a bright and clear Florida sky to mark the 21st century's first major lunar rendezvous....
June 27, 2019
Do happy, well-functioning families benefit the economy? The government of the United Kingdom wants to know, and they partnered with...
June 27, 2019
More than 60 high school students from Arizona, California and Texas recently spent a week on the Tempe campus at Arizona State University...
June 25, 2019
The first week in Washington, D.C., for Arizona State University students participating in the Capital Scholars program feels like a...
June 21, 2019
During World War II, the U.S. government forced around 120,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast out of their homes and into 10...
June 21, 2019
Israel and the West Bank offered the latest opportunity for students in The College’s School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership...
June 20, 2019
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s …OK, maybe we don’t know what it is.That seems to be the case being made by a group of...
June 19, 2019
William Kiser attended Arizona State University from 2009 to 2016. In those seven years, he earned his master’s degree and PhD in history...
June 19, 2019
In 1899, when Arizona had not yet gained statehood and Arizona State University was a fledgling institution known as the Tempe Normal...
June 18, 2019
When recent graduate Lyndsay Campbell transferred to Arizona State University in 2017, she also started a part-time job. Her work, as the...
June 18, 2019
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has officially evaluated temperature record extremes of 54.0 C (129.2 F) at two locations, one...
June 17, 2019
A Biodesign Institute research group has received a three-year, $2.3 million grant from NASA to study and characterize the risks posed by...
June 17, 2019
Arizona State University recently hosted the 38th annual conference for the Sudan Studies Association of North America.The conference, held...
June 14, 2019
The Arizona State University-led mast-mounted camera system for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission, "Mastcam-Z," achieved a major milestone...
June 14, 2019
As a transgender woman and first-generation student from the Navajo community of Teec Nos Pos in northeastern Arizona, Arizona State...
June 13, 2019
Two groundbreaking DNA studies give fresh clues about the ancestry of North American peoples and ancient groups’ migrations across Beringia...
June 13, 2019
One of the most practical ways to explore strange new worlds in our solar system is to go in the opposite direction: to the bottom of the...
June 13, 2019
Advances in technology make modern living easier, from improving communication to creating new tools such as the internet and smartphones;...
June 13, 2019
We all know the meaning of that blue decal with a stick figure person that hangs from rearview mirrors. What we probably don’t know is how...
June 11, 2019
Arizona State University prides itself on an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to solving some of the world’s most prominent...
June 11, 2019
Women get autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, eight times more than men do. On the other hand...
June 10, 2019
Arizona State University’s Institute for Social Science Research recently announced the winners of their spring 2019 poster contest. Among...
June 10, 2019
For professionals involved in geospatial science — an area of study related to geography — it is standard operating procedure to help...
June 7, 2019
This past March, Megan Thielges returned to Arizona State University not as an undergraduate chemistry student, but as the keynote speaker...
June 7, 2019
Athena Aktipis wants brains. Not because she’s a zombie but because she’s been zombi-fied. And so have you.By social media. By stress. By...
June 7, 2019
Arizona State University's Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict has named Tracy Fessenden as the first director of strategic...
June 7, 2019
Arizona State University founded the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership in 2017 in part to promote civil discourse and...
June 7, 2019
The Arizona State University charter describes a commitment to linking innovation with the advancement of research and discovery of public...
June 6, 2019
OncoMyx Therapeutics, the latest biotech spinout company from Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, announced today it has raised...
June 6, 2019
In a recent article by The Arizona Republic, author Karina Bland delves into the pressure to be a "perfect mom." She writes, “Google the...
June 5, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Matt Weber had earned his master’s degree and knew he...
June 5, 2019
At a swearing-in ceremony early in May, Arizona State University alumna Arlene Chin became the newest member of the Tempe City Council and...
June 4, 2019
Alexandria Maese grew up knowing firsthand how international affairs hit home.
“My dad is a U.S. Army veteran, and so part of the direction...
June 4, 2019
Arizona State University has moved into the top 10 of all universities worldwide for U.S. patents awarded in 2018. The university jumped to...
June 3, 2019
A new archaeological site discovered by an international and local team of scientists — including ASU researchers — working in Ethiopia...
June 3, 2019
Being named an Association for Psychological Science Rising Star and receiving two early career awards, one from the American Educational...
May
May 31, 2019
Though much has been done over the past few decades to raise awareness about the threat of heart disease, it continues to be the leading...
May 30, 2019
Wherever animals live together as groups, behavior patterns emerge.In a flight across the world, this is apparent in the square patches of...
May 30, 2019
Bert Hölldobler, Regents’ and Foundation Professor with Arizona State University's School of Life Sciences, recently earned the German...
May 30, 2019
The rates of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders in American youth are all on the rise. But over 90% of proven treatments and...
May 29, 2019
In 2016, what began as a grassroots effort against the Dakota Access Pipeline drilling project in North Dakota grew into a sweeping...
May 29, 2019
Each day, more than 1,000 Americans are treated in emergency rooms for opioid use, and more than 130 die from an overdose. Only 20% of the...
May 29, 2019
Having a conversation is something most of us take for granted. For people with autism, especially children, talking with family or friends...
May 28, 2019
The spring and early summer temperatures in Arizona are perfect for outdoor activities such as hiking, mountain biking and camping. And...
May 28, 2019
One of the surest signs that spring has sprung is the abundance of fresh blooms sprouting from greenery everywhere. For that, we have the...
May 27, 2019
A team of scientists from Arizona State University has taken a significant step closer to unlocking the secrets of photosynthesis, by...
May 24, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.ASU Now caught up with six recent graduates from the...
May 24, 2019
Some students major in the humanities; others take a humanities class just to check off a general credit. No matter how you end up in a...
May 23, 2019
Each year, Arizona State University's Center on the Future of War supports a group of exceptional writers, scholars and thought leaders...
May 23, 2019
Arizona State University Biodesign Institute researcher Hao Yan has been named to Fast Company’s list of “Most Creative People in Business...
May 23, 2019
The unseasonably temperate weather in the Phoenix metropolitan area this spring may have everyone scratching their heads, but rest assured...
May 22, 2019
Two Arizona State University professors have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jane Buikstra, a Regents' Professor...
May 21, 2019
Xochitl Arlene Smola, a first-generation college student in Arizona State University’s Department of Psychology, was recently awarded the...
May 21, 2019
A mammal’s posture while moving, or locomotor posture, plays a key role in how variable the number of vertebrae in its spinal column can be...
May 21, 2019
In the United States, obesity rates among children ages 2 to 19 years old have skyrocketed from 10% in 1999 to over 18.5% in 2016. This has...
May 20, 2019
On April 23 at 9:09 p.m. local time, residents of Aguas Zarcas, a small town in Costa Rica, saw a large “fireball” in the sky.The reported...
May 20, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Wendy Caldwell grew up in Hendersonville, Tennessee, home...
May 20, 2019
A program at Arizona State University is starting undergraduate students on a career path that could lead them to join NASA spaceflight...
May 20, 2019
One in four adults in the U.S. has a disability — a condition of the body or mind that makes it more difficult for the person with that...
May 20, 2019
Arizona State University alumna Shannon Ditto, who is currently studying at the University of Strasbourg in France on a Fulbright...
May 20, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Sonia Lopez, who graduated with a biological sciences...
May 17, 2019
Living in space is going to present problems. Lots of them. Heat. Cold. Radiation. Is the company liable for overtime pay when the ship...
May 16, 2019
Joseph Conant has planned on joining the U.S. Navy since he was a child.
Coming to Arizona State University, he zeroed in on the usual...
May 15, 2019
Ad spending broke records during the 2018 midterm elections, with placements ranging from local TV to Facebook.Each election cycle brings...
May 15, 2019
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.
Hailing from Sandwich, Massachusetts, a Cape Cod town...
May 14, 2019
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Arizona State University has received a $1 million grant from NASA’s Earth Science Division to...
May 14, 2019
On April 25, Charles G. Ripley III, lecturer in Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies, was the opening speaker...
Richard Amesbury joins ASU as new School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies director
May 13, 2019
Arizona State University's School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies has announced its new director: Richard Amesbury....
May 10, 2019
In fall 2017, the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter took a series of images of the...
May 10, 2019
It doesn’t take special insight to recognize dog owners love their dogs. A lot. But the latest episode of ASU Now’s Thought Huddle podcast...
May 10, 2019
Stacey McCreary first enrolled at Arizona State University in 1993 as a self-described “very young” 18-year-old. And while she said she had...
May 10, 2019
Logan Johnson is a senior at Arizona State University majoring in global studies and Russian within The College of Liberal Arts and...
May 9, 2019
Frank Smith III arrived at Arizona State University knowing what he planned to be when he grew up.“I joke with my friends that I wanted to...
May 9, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Andrea Garza, a senior studying psychology and justice...
May 9, 2019
Scientists know that age and weight are risk factors in the development of cancer. That should mean that whales, which include some of the...
May 9, 2019
Announced today in Washington, D.C., by Blue Origin, Arizona State University has signed a memorandum of understanding with Blue...
May 9, 2019
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.
Libraries and hip-hop might not seem the most obvious...
May 9, 2019
Brass, bronze and steel are metal alloys in which the combination of chemical elements — copper and zinc, copper and tin, iron and carbon,...
May 8, 2019
Arizona State University empowers students to find their places, like the newsroom, the trading floor or the design studio. The three new...
May 8, 2019
Each year, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University recognizes exceptional teaching that inspires intellectual...
May 8, 2019
Meet Trilly: The black-and-tan, floppy-eared, 9-year-old Gordon setter may have just made medical history by receiving a shot that may...
May 7, 2019
Sparky may be Arizona State University’s mascot, but the face that sticks in the minds of many students, both past and present, is that of...
May 7, 2019
In 2010, Tomas Robles found himself in Phoenix with an accounting job he didn’t love and what felt like a troubling political tide he was...
May 7, 2019
The ASU-led NASA Psyche Mission, a journey to a unique metal world, has been inspiring professional and amateur artists since the...
May 7, 2019
Tests.We can study for them. We can prep and practice for, cram, pass, fail or ace them.Taking tests is one way students can find out...
May 6, 2019
On May 6 at the UNESCO world headquarters in Paris, the United Nations released a global assessment on biodiversity as part of the...
May 6, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Erika Flores is the oldest of four children, born into a...
May 6, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.ASU Online student Shauna Hughes has been hard at work...
May 6, 2019
Editor's note: ASU Now will be updating this story all week with additional photos from the university's various convocations.College of...
May 6, 2019
Artificial intelligence has made impressive strides.You can ride in a car that drives itself or ask a device in your home to play music or...
May 6, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.When Brianne Jones was a college junior, she was searching...
May 5, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.When Zach LeBaron was a young child, he would sit on his...
May 5, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Imagine maintaining a perfect GPA throughout your college...
May 3, 2019
Each year, geographers from around the country and the world gather for the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers. Part...
May 3, 2019
The School of Social Transformation is excited to announce that Pardis Mahdavi has been named its new director.Mahdavi is an accomplished...
May 3, 2019
For Me’lisa Crawford, talking about poop isn’t gross or impolite — it’s an important part of a day’s work. Crawford is an Arizona State...
May 3, 2019
As part of the largest academic body at Arizona State University, faculty in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences interact with...
May 3, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Representation matters. It certainly did for Arizona State...
April
April 29, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Emily Morris is among the outstanding students awarded a...
April 29, 2019
Arizona State University President’s Professor Ariel Anbar has been selected to receive the 2019 Science Innovation Award from the European...
April 29, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.In the United States, approximately 8% of women ages 15 to...
April 29, 2019
A group of students from Arizona State University brought home the trophy from this year’s Southwest Undergraduate Mathematics Research...
April 29, 2019
Each spring, high school students across the U.S. declare their college decisions, a first major step in carving their future path, and it...
April 26, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.As a child, Cody Sorce remembers seeing images of turtles...
April 26, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Arizona State University doctoral student Katie Alford was...
April 26, 2019
What makes us who we are and how does that change as we get older?It’s a question Arizona State University College of Health Solutions...
April 26, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Isaiah Sampson has had his sights set on a career in...
April 26, 2019
Meilin Zhu, a student at Barrett, The Honors College who will be receiving her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry with a concentration in...
April 26, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Ntombizodwa Makuyana will be graduating in May from...
April 26, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Sierra Murphy will be graduating in May with not one...
April 25, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Cheyenne Piepmeyer is a self-proclaimed go-getter, and her...
April 25, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Juggling work and a toddler is a daunting task. When you...
April 25, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement. Vanessa Davis chose to attend Arizona State University...
April 25, 2019
Taryn O’Boyle is a graduating senior in the biochemistry program at The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' School of Molecular Sciences ...
April 25, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.
For Connor Vuong, a senior in The College of Liberal Arts...
April 25, 2019
Arizona State University representatives from across campuses attended a symposium April 17–18 in Phoenix to gain insight into the veteran...
April 25, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Mary “Katie” Kennedy is a model of undergraduate...
April 24, 2019
A third of all Americans have difficulty sleeping, and many of them turn to melatonin supplements to catch some Zs. However, scientists don...
April 24, 2019
The 2019 Annual Awards Ceremony hosted by Arizona State University’s School of Molecular Sciences was held on Monday, April 22, at Old Main...
April 24, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Elana Quint grew up asking the big questions. It starts...
April 24, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Keziah Ampadu-Siaw struggled to find a degree that was...
April 24, 2019
The shot clock reads 0:05 in Game 7. Two players — one in yellow, the other red — hurtle towards the edge of the court, hands outstretched...
April 24, 2019
Professor and cosmochemist Meenakshi Wadhwa has been selected as the new director for Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space...
April 24, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.In today’s fraught political climate, when newsfeeds...
April 23, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Not only is Jackson Kellogg graduating from Arizona State...
April 23, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Abigail Duarte’s journey at The College of Liberal Arts...
April 22, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.David Ackerman chose to attend Arizona State University...
April 22, 2019
As part of Arizona State University’s efforts to advance sustainability education for K–12 students, a faculty-led student group created a...
April 22, 2019
Cindi SturtzSreetharan was driving her daughter home from school when her daughter asked, “Do you think my thighs look fat?” The child was...
April 22, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.It’s not every day a superstar in your field of study...
April 22, 2019
This Tuesday, April 23, marks the inaugural Arizona State University Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium, an event that allows students...
April 22, 2019
Dragonglass is a valuable material in the “Game of Thrones” franchise — but its real-world counterpart, obsidian, has been prized, gathered...
April 22, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Depression and anxiety disorders affect almost 20% of the...
April 22, 2019
More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, according to the United Nations. That’s just shy of 4 billion people. By 2045,...
April 22, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Sarah Dillon, who will be receiving her master’s degree in...
April 19, 2019
There have been five mass extinctions in the history of the Earth. But in the 21st century, scientists now estimate that society must...
April 19, 2019
Peter W. Singer, a new professor of practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies, was in Tempe this semester to begin filming for...
April 18, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Graduating Arizona State University student Kimberly...
April 18, 2019
Scientists have found the remains of what they believe to be a new species of ancient hominin, Homo luzonensis, on the Philippine island...
April 18, 2019
On March 31, 1995, trailblazing Mexican American Tejano musician Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was shot to death by the president of her fan...
April 18, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Aira Valera, a family and human development major in the T...
April 18, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.For Paula Kibuka Musoke, college has been about pushing...
April 18, 2019
The acronym DOWM is a trope many scholars of Western canon are familiar with. It refers to the argument that the body of literature, music...
April 18, 2019
James P. Collins, professor with Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences, was recently awarded the Henry S. Fitch Award for...
April 18, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Bailey Reynolds chose to attend Arizona State University...
April 18, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.As an Arizona native, Alexa Drew had always planned on...
April 18, 2019
Through their generous philanthropic investments, Leo and Annette Beus have already made a lasting ASU impact. They have changed the face...
April 18, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Before Alex Miller even began kindergarten, his mom would...
April 18, 2019
Studying online takes more than a laptop and a comfortable desk chair. Students have to be self-motivated, organized, and yes, even willing...
April 18, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Have you ever wondered how infants convert a bunch of...
April 18, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Graduating senior Chiara Hommel has interests stretching...
April 18, 2019
The NASA Psyche Mission is a journey to a unique metal world called Psyche, an asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The...
April 18, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Cami Mcintire, a family and human development major in the...
April 17, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Spanish Professor Cynthia Tompkins knew there was...
April 17, 2019
Arizona State University Professor Hal Smith has been named a fellow of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science...
April 17, 2019
Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder, largely affects movement and causes irreversible neuronal damage. It may start with a...
April 16, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Senior communication major in the Hugh Downs School of...
April 16, 2019
The School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University has formed a National Board of Counselors to advise the...
April 16, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Alexandria Paterson’s desire to have a positive impact on...
April 15, 2019
A tiny piece of the building blocks from which comets formed has been discovered inside a primitive meteorite. The discovery by a Carnegie...
April 15, 2019
On Tuesday, May 7, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest achieving students from...
April 15, 2019
Oct. 1, 2019, is almost 50 years to the day since a precocious assistant professor named Alexandra Navrotsky started her independent career...
April 12, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Paris Masek is graduating from Arizona State University...
April 12, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.A first-generation college student, George Brusch...
April 12, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.“I think it’s really important that anyone that has gone...
April 12, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.What’s most remarkable about graduating English major Erin...
April 12, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Avery Underwood heard her mom say it her entire life: It’s...
April 12, 2019
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has just awarded the 2019 Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography to ASU Emeritus Regents' Professor...
April 12, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.Water and earth are two driving forces in Rosemary Huck's...
April 12, 2019
The Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) at Arizona State University recognizes graduate and professional students who...
April 12, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.She had the passion, but not the know-how.Brittany-Rose...
April 12, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement. Brandon Favre’s inspiration to study genetic engineering...
April 12, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement.When Anna Wanless was growing up, her Sun Devil parents...
April 11, 2019
Arizona State University alumnus Dan Shilling considers himself a good example of somebody whose life was changed by the humanities.A self-...
April 11, 2019
Dan Fellner, faculty affiliate with the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies in The College of Liberal Arts and...
April 11, 2019
The U.S.-Mexico border is a complicated mosaic of unpredictable policies and shifting economic tides. A patchwork of man-made and natural...
April 11, 2019
Arizona State University's Graduate and Professional Student Association recently announced winners from six different award categories....
April 10, 2019
If you had asked Patrick Brooks 15 years ago where he would be today, he never would have said he'd be a philosopher.But Brooks graduated...
April 10, 2019
When you search online for “CTE and NFL,” you’ll find a list of 54 professional football players who have died and were diagnosed with the...
April 9, 2019
When speaking with young writers, Chicana essayist, playwright and poet Cherríe Moraga has a perennial piece of wisdom — for an authentic...
April 9, 2019
At-home DNA test kits are exploding in popularity. So much so that experts expect more than 100 million people’s DNA will be part of...
April 9, 2019
For most people, the thought of Greece may elicit images of sandy beaches and beautiful buildings cascading toward the shore, but for Matei...
April 9, 2019
Voices speaking in dozens of languages ring out, offering their appreciation: “Čestitam" (Slovenian). "Gratuluję” (Polish). "Поздравляю" (...
April 8, 2019
Hurricane Harvey made landfall on Aug. 25, 2017, then stalled over Texas for three days as a tropical storm. The Category 4 storm claimed...
April 5, 2019
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1777. At the end of a daylong battle, George Washington’s right flank has completely collapsed. British troops...
April 5, 2019
An arrest in the decades-old Golden State Killer case.A Chinese scientist creating the first gene-edited twin baby girls.DNA is clearly...
April 4, 2019
America has lost the “owner’s manual” to democracy and must focus on restoring civics education to the next generation to reclaim it,...
April 4, 2019
Angelica Berner is one of 2019's new class of Brooke Owens Fellows.The “Brookies,” as they are affectionately called, are exceptional...
April 4, 2019
On April 27, 1994, just four years after spending nearly three decades in prison, Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s new leader in the...
April 4, 2019
This coming football season, the Arizona Cardinals will take social media breaks every 20 minutes during meetings. While Head Coach Kliff...
April 3, 2019
On March 29, Arizona State University’s School of Politics and Global Studies hosted a daylong, nonpartisan training — called Elect Her —...
April 3, 2019
Once, wolves roamed free in great numbers across the deserts, arboreal forests, grasslands and Arctic tundra of the continental U.S. Today...
April 2, 2019
The success of illegal drug trafficking through wider and wider swaths of Central America is a consequence of law enforcement activity to...
April 2, 2019
Of the estimated more than 4 million dogs that end up in animal shelters each year, about half a million are euthanized. To increase the...
April 2, 2019
Kristy Dohnel grew up in a small town of around 4,000 people; she lived in a mobile home on a 100-acre ranch. From little Bishop,...
April 2, 2019
Dale Snyder discovered her love of seashells while living on isolated beaches as a Navy wife in the 1970s.In retirement, she has become a...
April 1, 2019
Editor’s note: Winter is coming. As are spoilers. But to be fair, the show has been out since 2011, so if you think this has a happy ending...
April 1, 2019
From hip-hop to fashion and narrative art to indigenous urban pop culture: The seventh annual Phoenix Indian Center Youth Leadership Day on...
April 1, 2019
A unique center officially opens on April 3 at Arizona State University, housed within the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of...
April 1, 2019
Beginning about 60,000 years ago, our species spread across the world occupying a wider range of habitats than any other species. Humans...
March
March 30, 2019
Sports is a microcosm of the racial and gender issues facing society, and it often serves as the vehicle for change, according to several...
March 29, 2019
Hwæt. “Beowulf: A Tale of Monsters and Men” arrives at Arizona State University in an award-winning performance with harp by Chris...
March 29, 2019
White supremacists, misogynists and alt-right groups have occupied space on the internet and social media channels for nearly a decade. ...
March 29, 2019
When Connor Vuong, a senior in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University, first applied to join the ASU Academic...
March 29, 2019
Does instant access to huge amounts of information help or hinder how we determine what is real? What impact does social media have on how...
March 28, 2019
Arizona State University’s Center of Global Discovery and Conservation Science (GDCS) is entering into a partnership with the Lenfest Ocean...
March 28, 2019
When Arizona State University alumna Elaissia Sears was sworn in as a justice of the peace for the West Mesa Justice Court this January,...
March 28, 2019
“Space is compelling,” understated astronaut Cady Coleman at the end of her inaugural lecture at Arizona State University as the new Global...
March 27, 2019
When it comes to climate change and carbon reduction, Susanne Neuer is thinking small — extremely small.The Arizona State University...
March 27, 2019
Some 1.7 billion people are speaking or learning English around the world today, a number expected to hit 2 billion by 2020. As demand for...
March 27, 2019
Arizona State University today announced that it has joined forces with Planet, a San Francisco-based Earth-imaging company, as its first...
March 27, 2019
Arizona State University's Emerge, a festival of futures, interweaves art, science and technology to explore the future in evocative ways....
March 26, 2019
When ASU President Michael Crow signaled to the university community with the launch of the Global Sport Institute in 2017 that sport...
March 25, 2019
Sustainability shouldn’t only be taught within the walls of universities. It should also be an integral part of kindergarten through high...
March 25, 2019
In 2016, the School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University embarked on a journey to change how biochemistry could be taught and...
March 25, 2019
Leigh McLean, an assistant research professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, was recently awarded almost $1....
March 25, 2019
The string of volcanoes in the Cascades Arc, ranging from California’s Mount Lassen in the south to Washington’s Mount Baker in the north,...
March 22, 2019
How a queen bee achieves her regal status that elevates her from her sterile worker sisters has been a long-standing question for...
March 21, 2019
In front of a sold-out crowd of 800 community leaders, business executives and ASU alumni on March 20, the 2019 Founders’ Day celebrated...
March 19, 2019
A team of Arizona State University scientists has been using the latest space technology, combined with ground measurements, to assess the...
March 19, 2019
Nietzsche and Kelly Clarkson have it wrong: What doesn’t kill you might not make you stronger.And that is OK, according to Arizona State...
March 19, 2019
The central goal of nanotechnology is the manipulation of materials on an atomic or molecular scale, especially to build microscopic...
March 19, 2019
Any scientist who has struggled to analyze their data is familiar with the situation: sitting in front of the computer, searching the...
March 18, 2019
The combination of “data” and “statistics” might not sound exciting, but careers relying on data and statistics are projected to grow by 30...
March 15, 2019
These days, it’s not uncommon for students to complete two bachelor’s degrees at the same time, but a new cohort of students arriving at...
March 15, 2019
The ASU Alumni Association Founders’ Day awards program honors the pioneering spirit of the institution’s founders and celebrates the...
March 15, 2019
Recent political climates at home and abroad may leave many feeling increasingly insecure about the future of democracy.Our phones, TVs,...
March 15, 2019
For the first time, a team of scientists has isolated and measured the weak force between protons and neutrons within the nucleus of an...
March 14, 2019
There are two narratives in climate change right now. One is the day-to-day drumbeat of news stories, usually a new scientific study, and...
March 14, 2019
Mary Doyle and Karissa Greving Mehall, co-directors of the MAS-MFT program in Arizona State University’s T. Denny Sanford School of Social...
March 14, 2019
Have you heard the one about the aliens and the pyramids? Or what about the technologically advanced but tragically lost city of Atlantis?...
March 13, 2019
Biomolecules, such as DNA and proteins, are not static structures. They undergo complex conformational changes that are essential to their...
March 13, 2019
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series showcasing alumni of the School of Molecular Sciences.Kaitlyn Mandigo graduated from...
March 13, 2019
Most often when we think of glass, we think of the panes in our windows and the dishes on our tables. And most of us feel we have a basic...
March 12, 2019
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series showcasing alumni of the School of Molecular Sciences.Regaled with tales of science during...
March 12, 2019
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series showcasing alumni of the School of Molecular Sciences.Ryan Muller graduated from ASU in...
March 12, 2019
Do you change the channel when you see an ad for the Gardasil vaccine? Maybe you are a man and don’t think you are at risk of acquiring...
March 12, 2019
For 18 years, Arizona State University’s Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) has been orbiting Mars onboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey...
March 11, 2019
In 2002, “The Pianist” took home an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. It told the story of Jewish composer Władysław Szpilman and the...
March 11, 2019
Tyler Rockwood is finishing up his 4+1 master’s degree in biochemistry and medicinal chemistry in the School of Molecular Sciences at...
March 11, 2019
An image of a dirt road and boxy houses hangs in Maria Cruz-Torres’ office at Arizona State University. She snapped the photo in a village...
March 11, 2019
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series on outstanding School of Earth and Space Exploration alumni.Cassie Collins earned her...
March 11, 2019
If you’ve returned from spring break in a panic because you haven’t yet made your fall 2019 class selections, we can help.The Department of...
March 8, 2019
Recently, at ASU Day at the Capitol, School of Politics and Global Studies alumna Ana Licona reflected on experiences that led her to...
March 8, 2019
After beginning her time at Arizona State University on a journey cycling from Flagstaff to Tempe, it was only fitting that Mia Armstrong...
March 8, 2019
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series on outstanding School of Earth and Space Exploration alumni.William “Billy” Merino...
March 7, 2019
Mamie Locke was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor of Hampton, Virginia. Since 2004, Locke has served as a member of the...
March 7, 2019
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series on outstanding School of Earth and Space Exploration alumni.Ángel García recently earned...
March 7, 2019
Compared with other animals, chimpanzees show tremendous variation across groups in their behavior — from the types of tools they use in...
March 6, 2019
Avid hikers know to be cautious of plants with leaves made up of three leaflets if they are red in the spring or fall. Parents worldwide...
March 5, 2019
The Force is strong not only in "Star Wars" lore but also as a fundamental property in physics. For example, scientists can put two...
March 4, 2019
Arizona State University graduate student Glenn Randall was recently awarded a research fellowship to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (...
March 4, 2019
Among the zoo of biomolecules essential to life, proteins are the most startlingly varied and versatile.These complex structures, generated...
March 1, 2019
The 18th annual Local to Global Justice Forum and Festival, held at Arizona State University Feb. 22–24, featured workshops, panels,...
February
February 28, 2019
What do tiny specks of silicon carbide stardust, found in meteorites and older than the solar system, have in common with pairs of aging...
February 27, 2019
Whether used to decipher an ancient culture or connect with the people around us, language is a cornerstone of societies around the world....
February 27, 2019
Shiv Shah is a scientist first and foremost. And he looks every bit the part, clad in a white coat, seated behind a microscope, peering...
February 27, 2019
Today, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences boasts the most students, courses and — as of fiscal year 2018 — the most externally funded...
February 26, 2019
Editor's note: This story is part of an ASU Now series celebrating the centennial of the Grand Canyon National Park.If you live in Arizona...
February 26, 2019
David Kilcullen, a new professor of practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies, was in Tempe this February to film a lecture for...
February 26, 2019
The World Health Organization is targeting neurological diseases as one of the greatest threats to public health. In industrialized...
February 25, 2019
Oxygen in the form of the oxygen molecule (O2), produced by plants and vital for animals, is thankfully abundant in Earth’s atmosphere and...
February 25, 2019
For Adisa Podrug, an alumna of Arizona State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, justice was a concept learned early on. ...
February 25, 2019
Editor's note: This story is part of an ASU Now series celebrating the centennial of the Grand Canyon National Park.
In 1908, President...
February 25, 2019
Editor's note: This story is part of an ASU Now series celebrating the centennial of the Grand Canyon National Park. “For each man sees...
February 24, 2019
The final Open Door event introduced visitors to everything from rescue robots to healthy eating. More than a hundred activities awaited...
February 21, 2019
Boasting a bevy of Gila monsters, horny toads, chuckwallas and ring-tailed cats, the iconic Buckhorn Baths Motel in Mesa, Arizona, was once...
February 21, 2019
Growing up in East Los Angeles, Erika Camacho, an associate professor in the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences at Arizona State...
February 21, 2019
An English master’s student, a business sophomore and an urban planning undergrad walk into a classroom. There is no punchline here, and...
February 21, 2019
Frank McManamon is an archaeologist who has devoted his career to guiding policy in a way that balances concerns about sensitive tribal...
February 20, 2019
Arizona State University’s Assistant Professor Petr Sulc of the School of Molecular Sciences and the Biodesign Institute recently...
February 20, 2019
A specialized program at ASU has trained nearly 200 students who have entered the workforce in careers that have a positive and profound...
February 19, 2019
A volunteer working with the NASA-led Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project has found the oldest and coldest known white dwarf — an old Earth-...
February 19, 2019
Sit in on any WWI history class in U.S. schools today and you probably won’t hear much about the American occupation of Germany that...
February 18, 2019
Earlier this month, Arizona State University hosted the Geoscience Alliance, the nation's leading organization devoted to promoting...
February 18, 2019
David King, assistant professor in Arizona State University’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, examines the connection...
February 18, 2019
It isn’t every day the humanities and sciences combine their research, but when they do something new is created and explored. Such will be...
February 18, 2019
“A lot of students think we’re just going to talk about art and aesthetics, but I challenge them to think about the cultural importance of...
February 17, 2019
Tucked away somewhere, in the annals of many a university’s research archives, are the theses of the students of yesteryear. Grand ideas,...
February 15, 2019
Professor Brian Rasley (ASU Class of ‘82) remembers clearly a conversation he had with Professor Ted Brown: Rasley told Brown he wasn’t...
February 15, 2019
The Graduate College Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards bring attention to a crucial component of graduate education — the many hours...
February 15, 2019
NASA has selected a new space mission that will help astronomers understand both how our universe evolved and how common are the...
February 15, 2019
Last chance.The words jumped off the page.And for senior Nicholas Ambus, those words turned into the chance of a lifetime. As a freshman at...
February 14, 2019
Behind Greg Chase's bright, helpful smile is an Arizona State University psychology student who is determined to make a difference.Chase is...
February 14, 2019
It's common knowledge that rabbit populations are not easily controlled — they reproduce swiftly, and as a result, they have a severe...
February 14, 2019
“What is the language we need to live right now?”That’s the question Arizona State University poet Natalie Diaz posed to an audience of...
February 13, 2019
Ellie Perez, an alumna of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University, was born in Veracruz, Mexico. But since...
February 13, 2019
Valentine’s Day is upon us, and that means chocolate.Before you take that first delectable bite to satisfy your sweet tooth, you might want...
February 13, 2019
For Sister Donna Moses, a member of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, a certificate, an associate degree, two bachelor’s degrees,...
February 13, 2019
Exemplifying Arizona State University’s commitment to innovation and impact, four faculty members have been named Senior Members of the...
February 12, 2019
Hispanic and Latino youth are more likely to drink alcohol at a younger age than their African-American and non-Hispanic Caucasian peers,...
February 12, 2019
In the midst of increasing chaos caused by climate change, from devastating hurricanes to deadly polar vortexes, the literary genre of...
February 11, 2019
Scientists from Arizona State University’s School of Molecular Sciences, in collaboration with colleagues from Albert Einstein College of...
February 11, 2019
Fear. Anxiety. Hope. Desire. Love. Anger. Guilt. Grief. These are just a few of the emotions universal to our human experience.But why some...
February 11, 2019
When Arizona State University alumna Lynn Robinson had the chance to give back to her alma mater, her first thought was William Fabricius...
February 11, 2019
Since 1988, Arizona State University has participated in the national NASA Space Grant Program that is designed to provide STEM...
February 11, 2019
The dominating performances by nine African-American male track athletes in the 1936 Olympics was an inspiration for those who followed...
February 8, 2019
"Animal House" and "Van Wilder" are fictional accounts of college, yet the role alcohol plays in these two film comedies is rooted in...
February 7, 2019
Honeybees frequently make international news, as their global decline threatens the world’s food supply. Since honeybees pollinate the...
February 7, 2019
When Reyna Montoya first moved to Mesa, Arizona, in 2003, it was hard to feel at home.Violence had forced her family from Tijuana, Mexico,...
February 7, 2019
Leigh McLean of Arizona State University’s T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics was recently awarded a nearly *$1.4...
February 7, 2019
Sarah Allen Gershon returned to Arizona State University, this time not as a student defending her dissertation, but as an honored alumnus...
February 6, 2019
Drylands account for 40 percent of the Earth’s surface. They are home to 30 percent of the people, including some of the most vulnerable,...
February 6, 2019
Before becoming the first trained anthropologist to helm the American Anthropological Association, Ed Liebow got his start at Arizona State...
February 5, 2019
The public lecture Oxford Professor Jonathan Bate delivered Tuesday night at Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix, cheekily titled "The End...
February 4, 2019
You could say Stewart Fotheringham is where he is now because of a dogged preoccupation with that perennial question of the human condition...
February 4, 2019
Each year at Arizona State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, alumni, community members and other supporters contribute to...
February 4, 2019
For those who study humanity, it’s tough to get the big picture if they limit themselves to the culture, history and environment of just...
February 4, 2019
A new partnership between the Office of Distinguished Graduate Fellowships and the U.S. Army Department of Military Science at Arizona...
February 1, 2019
Arizona State University Professor Donald L. Fixico doesn’t like surprises, especially when they involve a boss.Last October, he was...
February 1, 2019
A collection of miniature artist’s books and a limited-edition English translation of poetry by a child Holocaust victim are now available...
January
January 31, 2019
A clever use of nonscience engineering data from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has let a team of researchers, including an Arizona State...
January 31, 2019
As a global studies and linguistics double major, senior Karina Alonso has grown accustomed to learning about the world through her classes...
January 31, 2019
On Thursday night, explorers gave a first report of a new land.A packed house at Arizona State University heard the first details of the...
January 31, 2019
ASU Library has announced that four Arizona State University students have been selected to attend three days of seminars and research at...
January 31, 2019
In preparation for its annual meeting, the American Association of Geographers has named its 2019 Fellows. Included in this year’s honors...
January 31, 2019
On Thursday, President Donald Trump tweeted that Democrats are becoming the “party of late-term abortion.” The contentious issue took up...
January 31, 2019
When we think of life on Earth, we might think of individual examples ranging from animals to bacteria. When astrobiologists study life,...
January 30, 2019
As many as 30 to 50 percent of adults experienced abuse or neglect when they were children. Such abuse can lead to physical and mental...
January 30, 2019
The NASA Psyche Mission is a journey to a unique metal world called Psyche, an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The...
January 30, 2019
The challenge of Alzheimer’s disease is hard for the patient, painful for the family and, in many ways, still baffling for researchers....
January 29, 2019
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series of profiles showcasing students in the School of Molecular SciencesCharlie Amador is a...
January 29, 2019
After a 35-year career as an Air Force officer, NASA scientist and astronaut for missions aboard the Space Shuttle and International Space...
January 29, 2019
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series of profiles showcasing students in the School of Molecular Sciences.Gabriel Juarez is a...
January 29, 2019
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series of profiles showcasing students in the School of Molecular Sciences.Humza Zubair is a...
January 29, 2019
In an academic field where female researchers comprise a talented minority, two professors from Arizona State University's School of...
January 28, 2019
Wanting to lose weight or get the best deal are not the only influences on what people buy at the grocery store: Religious and moral...
January 28, 2019
In his human development theory, the late psychoanalyst Erik Erikson called the seventh of eight life stages the generativity phase, a term...
January 25, 2019
Gaymon Bennett explores modernity’s role in contemporary religion and biotechnology. He says innovation requires soul work, which, in turn...
January 25, 2019
Depending on who you ask, happiness can be a lot of things.The Dalai Lama might tell you that happiness is the practice of compassion.A...
January 24, 2019
Steven Corman, a professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University, was honored with a Patriot Award in...
January 24, 2019
Why does your co-worker drive a flashy car? Why do people make art? Are there any common threads in what makes people fall in love or feel...
January 23, 2019
Fitness goals are typically at the forefront of New Year’s resolutions for many Americans. A recent study from Arizona State University...
January 22, 2019
Knowing who needs to be where, on what day and at what time. Buying a bigger pair of pants before a child outgrows what is currently...
January 22, 2019
Arizona State University’s Professor Giovanna Ghirlanda and Assistant Professor Matthias Heyden, both of the School of Molecular Sciences,...
January 22, 2019
Earning a college degree can be a crucial step toward life success. But some Arizona State University students want more — they are earning...
January 21, 2019
Talking, listening and connecting: They’re the three pillars of Arizona State University’s Project Humanities, and there were plenty of...
January 17, 2019
On a February morning in 1998, tragedy struck the Bailey family and Arizona State University. A van carrying members of the Geography Club...
January 17, 2019
A Mars-orbiting camera designed and controlled at Arizona State University is the key ingredient in a project that will place a giant map...
January 17, 2019
Arizona State University Professor Neal A. Lester agrees with poet Maya Angelou’s words: “We are more alike, my friends, than we are...
January 16, 2019
For many years, there existed among scholars of the medieval and Renaissance periods the old chestnut that those were the times before the...
January 16, 2019
He was a civil rights activist and academic.The son of a Native American who taught at an all-black college.A bold demonstrator in the...
January 16, 2019
People who are severely injured in the upper extremities may experience nerve damage that impairs motor function from shoulder to hand....
January 15, 2019
Fluvial landscapes and the availability of water are of paramount importance for human safety and socioeconomic growth. Hydrologists know...
January 14, 2019
One of the most important large-scale artworks in the world sits in the desert of northern Arizona, where artist James Turrell has spent...
January 11, 2019
In his poem “Song of Myself,” Walt Whitman wrote: “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”For Arizona...
January 10, 2019
Internationally acclaimed honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr., emeritus provost of Arizona State University and University of...
January 10, 2019
Everyone can be an explorer — that’s the goal of Arizona State University’s NASA-funded digital teaching network, “Infiniscope.” This...
January 9, 2019
Postpartum bleeding is the world’s leading cause of death for women during and after childbirth, and the third-leading cause in the United...
January 9, 2019
If a scientific finding cannot be replicated, can it be true? The replication of experimental findings is a crucial part of the scientific...
January 9, 2019
Most of us think of cybersecurity and biology as distinct areas of study. To better understand how we might apply principles of immunology...
January 9, 2019
Combining the artistic space of a traditional residency with the teaching and professionalization of an academic fellowship, the Virginia G...
January 8, 2019
The work of ASU archaeologists has been in the spotlight thanks to the Phoenix Art Museum’s current exhibition "Teotihuacan: City of Water...
January 8, 2019
For Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th and current Dalai Lama, his love of science began in childhood. Curious to know what made a mechanical watch...
January 8, 2019
In a new study, researchers at the Biodesign Institute explore a safe and simple treatment for one of the most devastating and perplexing...
January 8, 2019
From an early age, Nick Stephanopoulos was curious about the world around him. The love of science and the “what if’s” — and a father who...
January 7, 2019
A prominent British biographer, broadcaster, eco-critic and Shakespearean is visiting Arizona State University this spring to elevate...
January 4, 2019
Tucked away in a quiet corner of Arizona State University's Tempe campus, the Archaeological Chemistry Laboratory analyzes samples from...
January 4, 2019
The World Health Organization estimates roughly 47 million people worldwide are currently living with dementia. By 2050, that number is...
January 4, 2019
Nature has made extravagant use of a simple molecule — DNA, the floor plan of all earthly life.Inventive researchers have used the same...
January 3, 2019
Arizona State University sustainability scientists Rimjhim Aggarwal and Ariel Anbar were recently awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations...
January 3, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates. Marianna Kaneris, an Arizona...
January 3, 2019
Music or a painting that catches your breath and makes you see the world in a new way. Looking up at the vast red cliffs of Zion, across...
January 3, 2019
Putting mortarboards on Native Americans has historically been a challenge for colleges and universities.Indigenous peoples’ pathways to...
January 2, 2019
Poachers are still making headlines as the demand for rhinos, elephants, tigers and other endangered animals remains strong. Climate change...
January 2, 2019
Jane Jackson was the first woman to receive her PhD in physics at Arizona State University. This month she celebrates 25 years working with...
January 1, 2019
Arizona and Zimbabwe are at opposite ends of the alphabet, and traveling from one to the other really has been a trip from A to Z for...
2018
December
December 31, 2018
Arizona State University has no shortage of students who are passionate about changing the world, and many have launched startups and...
December 28, 2018
speech (/spēCH/), a formal address or discourse delivered to an audience, or what ASU business student Lauren Barney calls confidence...
December 28, 2018
From the dusk of the drive-in to the dawn of the login, America’s movie-watching journey has traversed a twisty plot of romance, drama,...
December 27, 2018
Each year, millions of Americans commit to changing something in the New Year, like making better financial decisions, improving their...
December 21, 2018
Researchers across the country are looking for ways to successfully find the pieces to the biological puzzle of diseases like cancer and...
December 20, 2018
Given the enormous attention recently trained on a Chinese scientist who performed a gene-editing experiment on human twins, interest in...
December 20, 2018
Continuing on its path as a rapidly growing research enterprise, Arizona State University reported $545 million in research expenditures...
December 20, 2018
With entire social media handles dedicated to the genre, today’s epic stories of animal connections enjoy an easy ride to internet fame....
December 19, 2018
The Institute for Social Science Research at Arizona State University has awarded seed-grant money to Professor Pauline Hope Cheong at the...
December 19, 2018
As Arizona State University senior sustainability scientists Nalini Chhetri and Netra Chhetri know, some educational experiences are more...
December 18, 2018
According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, there are 2,220,300 Americans in U.S. federal and state prisons and county jails. Over...
December 18, 2018
Arizona State University graduate student Shantel Marekera has been awarded the 2019 Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest and perhaps most...
December 18, 2018
While scientists and engineers are essential to the success of a space mission, artists also play an increasingly pivotal role, providing a...
December 18, 2018
Just two years ago, 31 teenagers died by suicide in the East Valley. Teen suicide is not just localized to large cities like Phoenix; it is...
December 17, 2018
Over the past 65 years, global literacy has increased by 4 percent every five years, but the poorest countries still have large percentages...
December 17, 2018
The study of religion is becoming more prominent as countries around the world continue to connect with one another. Religion plays a large...
December 17, 2018
We all know the scene in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” where Indiana Jones narrowly escapes a giant rolling boulder, and at one point or...
December 17, 2018
Can you solve this cipher?"tdehahrtmitehriiscm."About 100 students arrived early on Saturday, Nov. 17, to try to do just that. They teamed...
December 17, 2018
Do you make resolutions every New Year's but find by February or March that those goals start to disappear from focus? You’re not alone. U....
December 14, 2018
What are the best holiday gingerbread houses made of? Sugar and spice and engineering advice.Early this month, to spark some holiday cheer...
December 14, 2018
Everyone has a story, and everyone has the voice to tell it.That was the advice given by Arizona State University English Professor James...
December 14, 2018
Ernst Bauer, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the Physics Department, has been recognized for his lifelong work and his...
December 13, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates. For Angelica Berner, a negative...
December 13, 2018
Though holiday traditions may vary between countries and cultures, no festive gathering would be complete without that most ubiquitous...
December 13, 2018
The 2019 Roebling Medal, the highest award of the Mineralogical Society of America for outstanding original research in mineralogy, is...
December 13, 2018
A key discovery on the birth of stars and unexpected conditions in the early universe by Arizona State University cosmologist Judd Bowman...
December 12, 2018
Connor Sheehan, a professer at ASU's T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, shares insights from his recent study on sleep...
December 12, 2018
Arizona Supreme Court Justice John R. Lopez believes college students interested in a law career don’t get enough face time with the...
December 11, 2018
A hit comedy series that helped to shape the image of the modern-day woman has been adopted into a gender studies class at Arizona State...
December 10, 2018
Aim high, set lofty goals and work hard to reach them is the advice Marine veteran and Arizona State University PhD student Nicholas Sisco...
December 10, 2018
Space is daunting in its enormity and tantalizing in its mysteries, and missions to explore those mysteries are audacious and ambitious....
December 10, 2018
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, newly arrived at asteroid Bennu, has found strong spectral evidence that the asteroid's rocks have undergone...
December 9, 2018
Editor's note: This story is being highlighted in ASU Now's year in review. Read more top stories from 2018 here.When the recession hit in...
December 8, 2018
With only seven months left in the U.S. Navy, Arizona State University undergraduate Adam Villanova is elated and grateful as he comes to...
December 7, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates. Megan Hodges grew up on her...
December 7, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.For as long as she can remember,...
December 7, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates. Netanya "Tanya" Quino likes to...
December 7, 2018
On Tuesday, Dec. 11, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest achieving students...
December 7, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates. For religious studies graduate...
December 7, 2018
Some people learn about what’s going on in the world around them by turning on cable news or scrolling through their Twitter feed. This...
December 6, 2018
An international team of researchers led by Arizona State University planetary scientist David Williams has created the first global...
December 6, 2018
Our Milky Way Galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars and is more than 100,000 light-years across. So how do you pick your favorite star?...
December 6, 2018
Clint Penick is feeling a little “antsy” about his new project — in the excited way one might feel about opening a holiday gift.Penick, an...
December 6, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates. Reed Bjorklund has spent the...
December 6, 2018
By age 60, one in three American women have had a hysterectomy. Though hysterectomy is a prevalent and routine surgery, the removal of the...
December 6, 2018
Whether it’s the smartphone in your pocket or the Fitbit on your wrist, most of us don’t think twice about the working parts behind the...
December 6, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates. Adwa Alhatlan loves biology and...
December 6, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates. “Being a leather-clad,...
December 5, 2018
In the late 1990s, the University of Pennsylvania had a problem: The neighborhood surrounding the university was unsafe. Parents didn’t...
December 5, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates. Darian Takase always knew she...
December 5, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates. There were times Kara Barron...
December 4, 2018
Arizona State University research technician and Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z calibration engineer Andy Winhold waited patiently on the loading dock...
December 4, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates. Soleil Wallen-Balmir, a first-...
December 4, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates. Diana Francis always knew she...
December 4, 2018
In the summer of 2002, when Michael Crow became president of Arizona State University, he set about restructuring the university in a way...
December 3, 2018
Arizona State University’s Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA) recently announced the winners of their prestigious 2018...
December 3, 2018
Perceptive residents of downtown Phoenix may already be aware of the latest mural to crop up in the city’s ever-growing collection. Located...
December 1, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.Hailing from the tiny town of...
December 1, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.Originally from a small town in...
December 1, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.When Aidan Schneider moved from...
December 1, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.Graduating doctoral student Matt...
December 1, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.Graduating Arizona State...
December 1, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.Stephanie Brians has been a...
December 1, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.Melinda Weaver found a soulmate....
December 1, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.What do you do when school doesn’...
December 1, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.Originally from Katy, Texas, Cera...
December 1, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.Michelle “Mickee" Engl knew she...
November
November 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.As Allyson Shaw reflects on her...
November 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.Laura Rocha knew by the time she...
November 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.Kat Nicolopoulos originally chose...
November 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.In a sterling example to her...
November 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.A passion for working with...
November 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.In addition to coursework, Thato...
November 29, 2018
Thousands of Americans every year contribute their time and abilities to communities around the world through service in the Peace Corps....
November 29, 2018
Saying yes to an opportunity can open doors in your life that you didn’t know existed. This is especially true for Arizona State University...
November 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. Read about more graduates.Unlike many students, Fabiola...
November 29, 2018
A new era for humanity has unexpectedly arrived in the form of gene-edited twins.On the eve of the second International Summit on Human...
November 28, 2018
Matthew Jernstedt felt nervous before entering the room where he would be interviewed by a three-person panel for the prestigious Thomas R...
November 28, 2018
Resistant strains of bacteria pose a serious threat to the security of our global health system. As more and more bacteria develop...
November 28, 2018
Social and behavioral science has a bias problem, argues Arizona State University Professor Daniel Hruschka in The Conversation.“The vast...
November 27, 2018
One way to describe Matthew Dietz is busy.He is pursuing a dual major in biochemistry and kinesiology with a minor in general business and...
November 27, 2018
There’s a big difference between a migrant, who’s primarily angling to enter the United States to make more money, and a refugee, who is...
November 27, 2018
In the latest ASU KEDtalk, Christy Till, an assistant professor in Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, tells...
November 26, 2018
The annual Tempe Writing and Cover Design contest, now in its fifth year, again invites ASU students from all majors and campuses in...
November 26, 2018
From Prescott, Arizona, to the United Kingdom, K’Tera Bartels has taken history with her everywhere. She has always been fascinated with...
November 26, 2018
Philip Robertson has come a long way from Rocky Valley, Iowa, and has tackled many challenges while pursuing his master’s degree in history...
November 26, 2018
Despite significant advances in cancer research, the disease continues to exact a devastating toll. Because cancer is a disease of the body...
November 22, 2018
Africa harbors the greatest diversity of large-bodied mammals today, though this was not always the case. As recently as 50,000 years ago,...
November 21, 2018
An extremely rare, first-edition copy of a 17th-century literary work by one of the world’s most fascinating female writers has found a...
November 21, 2018
An extremely rare, first-edition copy of a 17th-century literary work by one of the world’s most fascinating female writers has found a...
November 21, 2018
Matthew Jernstedt is a student at Arizona State University studying political science. With the help of the Undergraduate Travel Support...
November 20, 2018
Joshua LaBaer, executive director of the Biodesign Institute, co-hosted a lively and innovative symposium Nov. 9, greeting the...
November 20, 2018
Imagine feeding your pigs, tending your cabbage and collecting your eggs — all before heading to class.Arizona State University Associate...
November 20, 2018
Every year at Arizona State University, one program works to bring students from different universities and even countries together to...
November 19, 2018
If you’ve been tempted lately to pull a Jughead and draw pupils on your closed eyelids to catch a few extra Z’s in your morning meetings,...
November 19, 2018
Halloween and its abundance of candy for most people signals a months-long slide into "I can eat whatever I want" and calories be damned...
November 19, 2018
“If you put your problems in a bag, would you take your own or someone else’s?” That’s the question freshman student Taylor Zimelman’s...
November 19, 2018
Each year, over 4 million dogs enter animal shelters in the United States. Less than 20 percent of these dogs are reclaimed by their owners...
November 19, 2018
Until humans can find a way to geoengineer ourselves out of the climate disaster we’ve created, we must rely on natural carbon sinks, such...
November 16, 2018
Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz, a microbiologist and associate professor with Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences, has received a...
November 16, 2018
The Arizona Chapter of the American Planning Association recently held their annual conference, during which members from Arizona State...
November 16, 2018
In recent years, talk of border security, child separation, caravans of migrants and building — or not building — “the wall” has dominated...
November 16, 2018
Margot Plunkett is a bubbly freshman studying English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.A participant of the Early Start program...
November 15, 2018
Forget everything you thought you knew about drag. “It’s not (about) gender. Drag is everything; whatever you can imagine,” said local...
November 15, 2018
Arizona State University School of Molecular Sciences Regents’ Professor of chemistry and biochemistry C. Austen Angell has received the...
November 15, 2018
Regents’ Professors are the elite of the academic world. To be awarded the distinction, scholars must be full professors, with outstanding...
November 14, 2018
During World War II, cartoons, posters and screwball comedies were just as deadly as panzers and Thunderbolts.And they unified the troops...
November 14, 2018
Arizona State University celebrates innovation every day. Once a year, the state of Arizona shines a light on those who do it best. This...
November 13, 2018
For Arizona State University’s Dmitry Matyushov, professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and the Department of Physics, years of...
November 13, 2018
It’s official: Arizona is now a battleground state. This, according to Margie Omero, one half of the “The Pollsters” podcast duo rounded...
November 12, 2018
The near-term future of Earth is one of a warming planet, as urban expansion and greenhouse gas emissions stoke the effects of climate...
November 9, 2018
Five Arizona State University faculty members have been named President’s Professors, an honor that recognizes faculty who have made...
November 7, 2018
NCAA college basketball rarely makes it to the far reaches of the Navajo Nation. But this weekend, the Arizona State University women’s...
November 7, 2018
Military personnel are often thought of as strong, adaptable and resilient men and women who make great sacrifices to protect our country....
November 7, 2018
Where did Earth's global ocean come from? A team of Arizona State University geoscientists led by Peter Buseck, Regents' Professor in ASU’s...
November 7, 2018
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced 36 projects that together have been awarded $80 million to support early-stage bioenergy...
November 7, 2018
“Honey, where’s Mom?”“Count to 10 and I’ll be there shortly.”This simple exchange is an example of how an Amazon Echo Dot app, known as a...
November 6, 2018
Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.”Studying...
November 6, 2018
Arizona State University has a secret weapon: Distinguished military leaders who have served at the highest levels at home and abroad...
November 5, 2018
Judging by the success of Duolingo, Rosetta Stone and Babbel, tech-based language-learning is here to stay. But can we truly harness...
November 5, 2018
Pursuing a graduate degree can be daunting to many in today’s world. Between finding the funds, time and energy, the dream of continued...
November 5, 2018
There is a problem with the set of tools social scientists use to study human behavior.Trusted questionnaires and visual aids, they’re...
November 4, 2018
If they weren’t so humble, active-duty Army Capts. Natalie and Ed Mallue could serve as the face of a major beer label’s advertising...
November 2, 2018
You’re making spaghetti for a dinner party, but you’ve forgotten mushrooms, onions and Parmesan. You need one of your friends to hit the...
November 1, 2018
In Burkina Faso, the government is considering using genetically modified mosquitoes in hopes of eradicating malaria. In Nantucket,...
November 1, 2018
Arizona State University's Alexandra Ros has received the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies Innovation Award...
November 1, 2018
Student veterans, cadets and midshipmen will compete for the third annual flag football tournament title to honor America’s service members...
October
October 30, 2018
Words do matter, especially to adolescents.New research shows that crude, vulgar or offensive talk — even among friends in private — can...
October 30, 2018
Tempe Town Lake has been a part of the city's landscape for over 19 years, and Hilairy Hartnett's lab has been measuring and collecting...
October 30, 2018
Three accomplished individuals are being recognized for bringing honor to their alma mater, Arizona State University. They’ve pushed for...
October 29, 2018
Arizona State University Associate Professor Natalie Diaz has been named the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary...
October 29, 2018
For many students, deciding where to attend school and what to study can take serious deliberation.For Charles "Spike" Lawrence, who...
October 29, 2018
Matt Bell knows the importance of a sense of place. A native of Hemlock, Michigan, a small community about two hours outside Detroit, the...
October 29, 2018
Originally, alumna Nikki Halle’s plan was to stay close to home and attend Michigan State with all of her friends. But then her father sat...
October 29, 2018
Melanie Katzman was born curious and said she always planned to study psychology.During her undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania,...
October 26, 2018
The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has used its High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) to make a mosaic image of Greeley Crater...
October 25, 2018
What causes some adolescents to thrive while other teenagers struggle with substance abuse and mental health? Through years of research,...
October 25, 2018
You may think of Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck as the lovable cartoon characters you grew up watching in Sunday morning cartoons. But...
October 24, 2018
The game of baseball unfolds slowly, over nine innings and over the course of three hours or more — and yet it can reach a critical...
October 24, 2018
Martin Pasqualetti, professor with the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, was recognized this weekend as a distinguished...
October 24, 2018
It happens all too often each summer: Yet another litany of weekend shootings in Chicago appears in the news.A new Arizona State University...
October 23, 2018
In 2000, duck hunters found the body of a young woman near the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Her remains were badly decomposed, but she had long...
October 23, 2018
Fifty years after his shocking protest against racism on the medal podium at the Olympics in Mexico City, John Carlos has seen the vicious...
October 23, 2018
Imagine a renaissance city where revolutionary ideas in urban planning, politics, economy, ecology and the arts all arose at the same time...
October 22, 2018
Scientists at Arizona State University are celebrating their recent success on the path to understanding what makes the fiber that spiders...
October 22, 2018
Between rising temperatures, melting glaciers and intense hurricanes, climate change not only has long-term effects but is impacting our...
October 19, 2018
In 1776, when members of the Second Continental Congress met at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia to sign a document declaring...
October 19, 2018
With new technology, astronomers are entering a golden age, witnessing cosmological phenomena as never before.It’s paved the way for Nobel...
October 19, 2018
Most archaeological fieldwork in the U.S. is federally mandated for historic preservation. That means that the agencies doing that...
October 18, 2018
“And so it stays just on the edge of vision,/ A small unfocused blur, a standing chill/ That slows each impulse down to indecision./ Most...
October 18, 2018
One of the balancing acts faced by conservation agencies is how to conserve and protect as many species as possible from extinction with...
October 18, 2018
New observations by two Arizona State University astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have caught a red dwarf star in a violent...
October 18, 2018
Things we learned at the first day of the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting:Tap water is just as good as sterile saline at cleaning wounds...
October 17, 2018
Last year almost 87,000 pounds of marijuana were sold to the nearly 153,000 Arizonans who carry medical cards legally allowing them to buy...
October 17, 2018
Arizona State University celebrates innovation every day. Once a year, the state of Arizona shines a light on those who do it best. This...
October 17, 2018
Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict interim director John Carlson warned audience members at an event Tuesday evening on Arizona...
October 16, 2018
In 1855, an English photographer named Roger Fenton traveled to Crimea to document the war there. British troops dubbed one spot on the...
October 16, 2018
Arizona State University student Carla Castillo likes to do her research before making big decisions, and that included determining what...
October 16, 2018
Starting college is exciting and liberating, but sometimes it can be overwhelming or stressful. Many college students end up feeling...
October 15, 2018
For Alec Guthrie, a graduate student pursuing an MA in global security at Arizona State University, the past couple of years could not have...
October 12, 2018
When Paul LePore traveled to Virginia in April to participate in the Department of Defense’s oldest and most prestigious public outreach...
ASU prof says changes to canon law could make it easier to hold priests accountable for sexual abuse
October 12, 2018
The 2002 landmark reporting of The Boston Globe that uncovered pervasive child sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests opened the...
October 11, 2018
Eight Arizona State University faculty researchers are part of an eight-campus consortium of U.S. universities that is revolutionizing...
October 10, 2018
Female action heroes. Everyman poet-musicians. Fake news. Publishing YA lit. Saving the planet. Writing theft. A history of English.These...
October 10, 2018
Why and when did humans begin to rely on culturally transmitted information? Does culture allow humans to adapt to a wide range of...
October 10, 2018
Assistant Professor Karen Taliaferro, in Arizona State University's School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, has been named an...
October 9, 2018
About 50 years ago, the first ant farms took off in popular culture, turning children into backyard scientists.Turns out, a child’s natural...
October 9, 2018
In 1954, a group of 32 social scientists led by Kenneth B. Clark, an African-American psychologist, filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme...
October 8, 2018
Artificial intelligence and cooling atoms is just a glimpse into the topics of discussion when the greatest minds in computer science and...
October 8, 2018
Understanding the relationship between Earth history and human evolution is an enduring challenge of broad scientific and public interest....
October 8, 2018
Discarded pizza boxes. Empty energy-drink cans. Dozens dancing. And hundreds of people cracking, hacking and tapping away on laptops during...
October 7, 2018
Today millions of Americans are enjoying a day off work — a tip of the hat to Christopher Columbus, the man who history says discovered...
October 5, 2018
Meteorites tell us when the solar system was formed — approximately 4.6 billion years ago. But they can also tell us how.They likely...
October 5, 2018
Monsters exist across time and culture, from the infamous Count Dracula to the more obscure Filipina vampire creature, the Manananggal, who...
October 5, 2018
Greg Asner and Robin Martin, both scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., will join Arizona State...
October 5, 2018
In July 1670, observers on Earth witnessed a “new star,” or nova, in the constellation Cygnus. Where previously there was dark sky, a...
October 4, 2018
If conservation science is going to save the myriad species under threat in the world today, it’s going to have to go about it more...
October 4, 2018
How would you dance with a Yiddish accent? Or express the tensions of Jewish-Arab relations through movement?Arizona State University is...
October 4, 2018
Biologists know a lot about how life works, but they are still figuring out the big questions of why life exists, why it takes various...
October 4, 2018
Arizona State University poet Natalie Diaz has been named one of 25 winners of this year's John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation...
October 4, 2018
Schools that install a lot of indoor cameras may not be improving security while in fact making children feel less safe, a U.S. study...
October 3, 2018
“By the year 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Without the ocean, we wouldn’t have life.”It’s a powerful opening...
October 2, 2018
"You're going to need a bigger boat.""We're not in Kansas anymore.""I'll have what she's having.""Go ahead, make my day."Quotes from movies...
October 1, 2018
Moist air rises from the Amazon river basin, colliding with Saharan dust blown over the Atlantic. Temperatures rise in the ocean around the...
September
September 30, 2018
Needlework pieces are often seen as simple decorative heirlooms, but many were actually borne from matters of persecution and strife. In a...
September 28, 2018
In 2015, world leaders agreed to establish 17 goals to achieve a better world by 2030. An end to poverty and hunger. Clean water and energy...
September 27, 2018
In the 19th century, the German chemist August Kekulé, while enjoying a fireside nap, dreamed of a snake swallowing its own tail to help...
September 27, 2018
For the seventh year, the ASU English Department is recognizing a hard-working staff writer at Arizona State University who deserves public...
September 27, 2018
Arizona State University’s Origins Project is being transitioned into the Interplanetary Initiative, which is headed by Lindy Elkins-Tanton...
September 27, 2018
For seven weeks this summer, Arizona State University sophomores Courtney Langerud and Elliot Wasbotten traveled throughout East Africa,...
September 27, 2018
This summer, Arizona State University organized an interdisciplinary team for the AI commentator track of the Korea Advanced Institute of...
September 27, 2018
Arizona State University Facilities Development and Management was busy during summer 2018 opening several new buildings and completing...
September 27, 2018
Courtney Baxter originally intended to get a degree in music from Arizona State University, but after having second thoughts, she changed...
September 26, 2018
So, you’ve started your postdoc experience. Whether you are here because you love to research or because you are pursuing a career in...
September 26, 2018
Antia Sanchez Botana grew up in the northwest of Spain and was drawn to physics at an early age. The subject appealed to her natural...
September 25, 2018
Siddarth Karkare is used to climbing great heights.An avid mountain climber, Karkare has climbed many of the world’s peaks. His star...
September 25, 2018
Arunima Singh joins ASU as one of the Department of Physics' newest associate professors. Born in a small farming village where...
September 25, 2018
The office shelves of Arizona State University scientists are usually lined with books related to their research. Neuroendocrinology books...
September 23, 2018
At Saturday’s 41st annual Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards, the Arizona State University-led NASA Psyche Mission’s official videography team,...
September 21, 2018
It’s not easy being a kid, especially in middle school (sixth and seventh grade), when fitting in and finding place among your peers can be...
September 21, 2018
Nearly two decades after the devastating events of Sept. 11, the United States is still waging a war on terror. In the compelling...
September 20, 2018
While Nancy Gomez was preparing for doctoral exams, she spent her study breaks working on her walk.And it paid off: The PhD student in...
September 20, 2018
Six years ago, a doctor told Stephanie Cahill that she most likely wouldn’t graduate high school, and that college was definitely out of...
September 19, 2018
Between 25 and 30 percent of children under the age of 18 in the United States do not get enough sleep. Sleep deprivation in children can...
September 19, 2018
Twenty years ago, an ebullient, young assistant professor named Omar Yaghi sat down in Professor Michael O’Keeffe’s office in what was then...
September 19, 2018
Researchers are on the lookout for hydrogen, a key component of water, thought to reside in the moon’s ever-dark craters. Craig Hardgrove...
September 19, 2018
Think about where you are right now. Your office chair, your living room couch, your spot of shady sidewalk. The land under your feet has a...
September 17, 2018
The mission of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University started with the desire to replicate a single blade of grass.That’s what...
September 17, 2018
The American Political Science Association (APSA) has award Mark Ramirez, an associate professor in Arizona State University’s School of...
September 14, 2018
Capturing a big, complex idea in 60 seconds is not easy. It may be especially challenging for scholars accustomed to the time and space a...
September 14, 2018
Autumn means looking forward to the first crisp evenings and breaking out the cozy layers — elsewhere in the country, that is. In Phoenix,...
September 14, 2018
The excitement in Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Ríos’ voice when he tells a crowd of people gathered at a recent Changing Hands Bookstore...
September 14, 2018
During the day, Andrea Adeusi works hard to support her family. At night, she works toward her dream of becoming a pediatrician. Adeusi is...
September 13, 2018
One of the best ways to learn if you should study psychology in college is to go and experience psychology in action. Carolyn Cavanaugh-...
September 13, 2018
Sun Tzu, the general of ancient China, wrote in his enduring military treatise “The Art of War” of the importance of knowing one’s enemy....
September 11, 2018
New research by an Arizona State University professor shows that some methods of addressing security in schools may actually make students...
September 11, 2018
American democracy is eroding quickly, and it’s not being threatened by an outside force or another country. We’re doing it to ourselves...
September 9, 2018
Fear of being eaten by a wild animal is our most ancient emotion.Physiologically, evolution has equipped humans with a cocktail of...
September 7, 2018
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that Arizona State University's Everett Shock will be awarded their prestigious 2019...
September 7, 2018
Sarah Jones, a doctoral candidate in ASU’s Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, is one of 100 women in the U.S. and Canada selected to...
September 7, 2018
Online style publication Voyage Phoenix recently profiled artist Antonieta Carpenter-Cosand, an Arizona State University graduate student ...
September 7, 2018
This fall, the Department of English at Arizona State University is getting another upgrade, and this time it’s personal. Rather, personnel...
September 6, 2018
The Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) announced the winners of its annual awards program to honor excellence in...
September 6, 2018
Editor's note: ASU Now chooses not to use the word that is the proper name of the Washington NFL football team in this or any future story...
September 5, 2018
There are scores of saccharine quotes about friendship floating around — “Friends are the relatives we choose,” for example. (Really, the...
September 4, 2018
With its emerging skyline, newly renovated stadium and continual growth, sometimes it’s easy to forget that Arizona State University’s...
September 4, 2018
Imagine walking into your high school physics classroom only to be handed a surprise quiz on angular momentum. What if there was a more...
September 3, 2018
Editor's note: To demystify the process of attaining distinguished graduate fellowships, ASU Now will feature a multipart series of...
August
August 31, 2018
The granddaughter of a man who served as the warden of Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary sometimes referred to as “the Alcatraz of...
August 31, 2018
It is nearly impossible to drive down a city street without seeing a car with a fuzzy pink mustache or sticker in the front window. Uber...
August 31, 2018
Arizona State University English Professor Devoney Looser has been named a Foundation Professor effective fall 2018. This distinction is...
August 30, 2018
Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating and progressive illness that affects almost 6 million Americans and their families. There are many...
August 30, 2018
Stories are a big part of sports: the underdog who triumphs with a last-second pass, the cursed team that finally wins the championship,...
August 30, 2018
At the moment Mexico scored a game-winning goal against Germany in the recent World Cup, two seismometers in Mexico City picked up...
August 30, 2018
YoungJu Shin, assistant professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication and affiliated faculty at the Center for Asian Research,...
August 29, 2018
Before she was the first lady of the United States, Laura Bush was a librarian, and in 1995 she founded the Texas Book Festival as a way of...
August 29, 2018
Twenty years after Romanian studies arrived at Arizona State University, and a century after Romania became a modern state, ASU Professor...
August 29, 2018
The International Union for Conservation of Nature World Commission on Protected Areas (IUCN-WCPA) recently issued new guidance to help...
August 28, 2018
Editor's note: Explicit verbal permission was given by Louise Wilson to publish photos depicting the Gitksan language.This summer, when...
August 28, 2018
Through hard work and dedication, 27 Arizona State University students have qualified for the President’s Volunteer Service Award.The...
August 27, 2018
World-class scholar. Accomplished leader. True innovator. A major force. These are just several of the accolades Ayanna Thompson’s...
August 27, 2018
Mary Romero, a professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, recently presented her research at the annual...
August 27, 2018
In 1999, when Americans watched as Michael J. Fox — beloved to many as the smooth, wisecracking Marty McFly — swayed and shifted...
August 24, 2018
Death as a punishment is an ancient concept. It is also controversial. Worldwide, over 140 countries have outlawed the death penalty, yet...
August 24, 2018
This April, the United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network launched the Millennium Fellowship. The selective fellowship...
August 24, 2018
Most natural disasters drop off the news after a few days. Producers and editors have a sixth sense for knowing when viewers and readers...
August 23, 2018
One of the fastest-growing techniques for producing oil and gas today involves widening cracks in hydrocarbon-bearing rock formations...
August 23, 2018
Career outlook can be an important factor when choosing a major out of high school. Those considering political science may look to pursue...
August 23, 2018
Imagine meeting a potential roommate for coffee but instead of questions that gauge how compatible you both would be living together, you...
August 23, 2018
Whatever happened to the Taliban? They, along with the Islamic State group and al-Qaida, seem to have slipped from the headlines.There have...
August 23, 2018
Students in general biology classes usually don’t get to take blood samples from people, but an online class at Arizona State University...
August 22, 2018
Ecosystems and natural resources are rapidly changing across our nation and around the world. Now, more than ever before, measuring the...
August 22, 2018
Last spring, Arizona State University's School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, in partnership with the W. P. Carey School of...
August 21, 2018
In 2017, Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies, with the Center on the Future of War, launched an online master’...
August 21, 2018
Researchers at Arizona State University and Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, have found that at least one type of blue clay may help...
August 21, 2018
Meteorites are totems of great power. Having traversed millions of miles, they command a space in our consciousness shared only by objects...
August 21, 2018
This school year, nearly 10,000 Arizona State University students heading to campus will receive scholarships funded by private support. ...
August 20, 2018
Arizona State University on Monday hosted the 2018 ASU Congressional Conference: Space Innovation at the Memorial Union on the Tempe campus...
August 17, 2018
The work of Abhishek Singharoy, assistant professor in Arizona State University's School of Molecular Sciences and member of the Biodesign...
August 17, 2018
Karina Benessaiah, a recent PhD in geography graduate from the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, has been named a 2018...
August 16, 2018
To say the town of Miami, Arizona, is small is an understatement — it covers less than a square mile with a population just under 2,000. It...
August 16, 2018
The first few years of a child’s life are crucial for learning language, and though scientists know the “when,” the “how” is still up for...
August 15, 2018
John Dreyfus is a father, motorcyclist, lobbyist and a student in Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University.Most students...
August 15, 2018
There’s nothing like a good laugh to lighten a mood, especially when the atmosphere is serious — like it can be in a science classroom....
August 15, 2018
Beginning this month, the Arizona State University-led NASA Psyche Mission is expanding its innovative “Psyche Inspired” arts program to...
August 14, 2018
Arizona State University attracts students from all over the world for varied reasons — degree program variety, accessibility,...
August 14, 2018
Adversity is part of life: Loved ones die. Soldiers deploy to war. Patients receive terminal diagnoses.Research on how adults deal with...
August 13, 2018
A gourmet meal led to a food-for-thought opportunity for a handful of Arizona State University students this summer.As a result of...
August 13, 2018
This summer, four Arizona State University students participated in a five-week teaching assignment in São Paulo, Brazil.The first of its...
August 9, 2018
Recent observations by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes of ultrahot Jupiter-like planets have perplexed theorists. The spectra of...
August 9, 2018
Recent and ongoing changes to U.S. immigration policies have many unsettled about the potential effects of certain tactics on the well-...
August 8, 2018
If synthetic biology can “catch fire,” few areas of science and engineering could match it for having as dramatic an impact across such a...
August 7, 2018
The war that changed the world has made the case for specialized graduate study.Arizona State University and the National WWII Museum have...
August 6, 2018
Amy Pennar, a former Arizona State University doctoral student in family and human development at the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and...
August 3, 2018
Born in Tucson, Arizona, but raised in the East Valley, Holly Celaya grew up a dedicated University of Arizona fan.“I spent most of my life...
August 3, 2018
A Hollywood director fired for comments tweeted a decade ago.Memorialized accounts on Facebook, where your entire history exists forever...
August 2, 2018
Scientists believe the solar system was formed some 4.6 billion years ago when a cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity, possibly...
August 2, 2018
The last few weeks of summer are a prime time to hit the road and enjoy the wilderness, whether it’s hiking, biking, rafting or camping....
August 2, 2018
The double meaning of the title of the movie “Hidden Figures” remains a go-to for what was, is and could be for women and girls in science....
August 2, 2018
Faculty in the Arizona State University Department of Psychology have recently been elected to leadership positions in several prominent...
August 1, 2018
A baby girl sits on the floor, crying. A man picks up the child and attempts to soothe her by patting her back and quietly singing in her...
August 1, 2018
The summer monsoon in the deserts of the southwestern U.S. is known for bringing torrents of water, often filling dry stream beds and...
August 1, 2018
In the Iron Age stone tower of Cairns Broch in Orkney, Scotland, archaeologists found a 2000-year-old wooden bowl, along with 20 perfectly...
August 1, 2018
In late April, citizens of Nicaragua began protests against President Daniel Ortega when the government announced a social security reform...
August 1, 2018
Since Darwin first laid out the basic principles of evolution by means of natural selection, the role of competition for food as a driving...
July
July 30, 2018
Every year the American Geophysical Union confers its Fred Whipple Award on a geoscientist who has made outstanding contributions to...
July 27, 2018
Parenting is challenging and important, and it doesn't come with an instruction manual.Sometimes, parents have to figure out situations...
July 26, 2018
Water is vital for life.But as our climate changes, the availability of water is also changing, leaving animals with limited or unreliable...
July 26, 2018
Arizona State University played a major role in the first-ever Summit on the Research and Teaching of Young Adult Literature, held at the...
July 26, 2018
Some civilizations build Gothic cathedrals, and some build huts.It’s the same with ants, at least from an evolutionary context, but having...
July 26, 2018
Jess Jordan started taking classes at Arizona State University when he was 15 years old. Although his family was hesitant about him...
July 26, 2018
Want to know more about the romantic lives of 18th century English women? Read a Jane Austen novel. Ever wondered about the exploits of the...
July 25, 2018
Editor's note: The archery team is one of more than 800 student organizations that will be represented at Passport to ASU on Aug. 15, where...
July 24, 2018
Challenges to our planet can overwhelmingly command the headlines: climate change, massive population increases, dwindling resources.
But...
July 20, 2018
The Critical Languages Institute at Arizona State University has added Ukrainian to its roster of languages taught to bolster national...
July 20, 2018
Capt. Moises A. Ochoa’s first experience at Arizona State University ended with him dropping out in 2003.“I was very happy (at ASU); I made...
July 19, 2018
The availability of water from underground aquifers is vital to the basic needs of more than 1.5 billion people worldwide, including those...
July 19, 2018
Nick Stephanopoulos, assistant professor in Arizona State University's School of Molecular Sciences and member of the Biodesign Institute’s...
July 18, 2018
Editor's note: This is part of a series investigating gun violence from many angles.Arizona State University English Professor James...
July 18, 2018
Each year, approximately 10–15 percent of postpartum women suffer from postpartum depression, which translates into almost 1 million women...
July 17, 2018
Using segments of DNA, researchers at ASU have constructed a pair of tweezers, measuring 100,000 times tinier than the width of a human...
July 16, 2018
How did small, isolated groups of ancient humans come to form complex societies?To gain some insight, said author Charles Stanish in...
July 16, 2018
Diatoms are tiny, unicellular creatures, inhabiting oceans, lakes, rivers and soils. Through their respiration, they produce close to a...
July 12, 2018
Editor's note: This is the final installment in a three-part series on energy research at ASU. The first story examined the need for...
July 12, 2018
Kimberly Scott, ASU professor of women and gender studies and founding director of Arizona State University's Center for Gender Equity in...
July 10, 2018
While the policies for separating children from their parents or guardians at the U.S.-Mexico border have recently changed, there are still...
July 9, 2018
As large swaths of the country grapple with drought, a new book looks to how to build resiliency in unsure times."Building Resilience for...
July 6, 2018
Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series on energy research at ASU. The second story examines at the challenges facing solar...
July 6, 2018
In late May, Professor Nina Berman of the School of International Letters and Cultures, Professor Beth Blue Swadener of the School of...
July 6, 2018
This is a story about timing.Specifically, how the Sonoran Desert’s most mysterious creatures delay leaving the nest until there’s a good...
July 5, 2018
Guns — few issues evoke as much passion and raw emotion from almost all corners of society. No matter what your opinion of them is, they...
July 5, 2018
Editor's note: This is part of a series investigating gun violence from many angles.Any news organization could tell you that guns are...
July 5, 2018
Editor's note: This is part of a series investigating gun violence from many angles.School safety has become an urgent topic among...
July 5, 2018
Craig Calhoun, the world-renowned social scientist and former director and president of the London School of Economics and Political...
July 3, 2018
It is noon on a Friday in the middle of June and most of the Barrett Honors College Complex is quiet. But inside the refectory, known to...
June
June 29, 2018
The Arizona monsoon technically starts June 15 each year, but every desert dweller knows that it's July when the fireworks usually get...
June 29, 2018
Researchers in Arizona State University’s Department of Psychology received a five-year grant for just under $2.5 million from the USDA to...
June 29, 2018
Arizona State University has been selected to receive the 2018 Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) University Award, an honor created to...
June 29, 2018
As the summer temperatures continue to heat up, the most vulnerable citizens in our communities are at risk of succumbing to the ill...
June 28, 2018
As Asteroid Day approaches on Saturday, don’t look up in fear — a dinosaur-killer only hits Earth once every 100 million years — but around...
June 28, 2018
Zika now has a cousin — the Keystone virus — and not everyone likes this new addition to the family.University of Florida researchers have...
June 28, 2018
Like our oceans, today’s continents are brimming with life. Yet billions of years ago, before the advent of plants, continents would have...
June 26, 2018
Fossil records tell us that the first macroscopic animals appeared on Earth about 575 million years ago. Twenty-four million years later,...
June 26, 2018
One day last April, Arizona State University biologist Matt Chew was leading his Novel Ecosystems class along the banks of the Gila River...
June 25, 2018
Nighttime in Phoenix is getting hotter, and it’s not just Old Town Scottsdale's nightlife scene.According to scientists, Phoenix has become...
June 25, 2018
More than 3,700 exoplanets (planets around other stars) have been discovered over the past 30 years. In response to this, NASA’s Nexus for...
June 22, 2018
The last known male northern white rhinoceros is dead.Sudan was a captive rhino that lived at a zoo in Czechia for 34 years before being...
June 21, 2018
The Arizona State University Department of Psychology has a history of research supporting children and adolescents experiencing crisis,...
June 21, 2018
With more than 2,000 children currently separated from their parents as a result of recent border policies, the U.S. is in the midst of a...
June 21, 2018
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced plans to end the policy of separating immigrant children from parents who cross illegally...
June 21, 2018
An international team of researchers, including Alejandra Ortiz, a postdoctoral researcher with Arizona State University's Institute of...
June 20, 2018
Arizona State University alumnus Ben Ellis’ Sun Devil story starts with getting rejected from the schools he applied to in his home state.“...
June 20, 2018
In college, science is often seen as an exclusive field — one reserved only for exceptionally bright students. And for decades, academic...
June 20, 2018
In a move that has stunned and disappointed many in the diplomatic world, the Trump administration announced Tuesday its withdrawal from...
June 19, 2018
American flag bunting, barbecues, Bomb Pops and John Philip Sousa: We all know the trappings of a great July Fourth celebration. But no...
June 19, 2018
Arizona State University political science PhD graduates are employed both in a range of professions and more traditionally as professors...
June 18, 2018
Juneteenth, a portmanteau of the words “June” and “nineteenth,” was born out of what was once referred to as the “peculiar institution” of...
June 18, 2018
Geologists have long thought that the central section of California's famed San Andreas Fault — from San Juan Bautista southward to...
June 18, 2018
It’s remarkable choreography: In each of our bodies, more than 37 trillion cells tightly coordinate with other cells to organize into the...
June 15, 2018
Just as the school year was ending for most Arizona State University students, the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership ...
June 14, 2018
Andres Munoz, a doctoral student in the Arizona State University Department of Psychology, studies cooperation from an evolutionary...
June 14, 2018
Government leaders in Greece and the Republic of Macedonia have agreed on a resolution to their long-standing dispute over naming rights,...
June 13, 2018
Bridging language instruction and community is a proven winner for Rosti Vana and Rosita Scerbo, PhD students at the School of...
June 12, 2018
Dubbed by some as "the strangest star in the universe," the star known as KIC 8462852, Boyajian's Star, or Tabby's Star, is a little hotter...
June 11, 2018
It’s a disclaimer that echoes passionately through the lecture halls of every beginning archaeology course: It’s not like the Indiana Jones...
June 11, 2018
Time seems to stand still during a cross-country flight, but then it flies while you're reading a good book. Carter Daniels, a graduate...
June 11, 2018
Could plants, fungi and animals provide information to scientists on preventing cancer in humans? It’s possible, according to researchers...
June 8, 2018
When Elyse Kats heads off to study sustainability in northern Arizona this summer, she’ll be among the first Arizona State University...
June 8, 2018
As Dorothy and the Scarecrow learned, sometimes nature talks back. In the land of Oz, that meant taking an apple in the face from a tree. ...
June 8, 2018
"Gonna be a hot one today," you think as you look out the kitchen window on a Saturday morning. The last thing you want to do is mow the...
June 8, 2018
Drug addiction is complex, and Arizona State University neuroscientist Foster Olive has spent his career working to unravel why and how the...
June 8, 2018
Arizona State University alumna Sarah Lords’ path to choosing global studies as a degree can be traced back to her parents.The communist...
June 7, 2018
Keith Kintigh has seen the future of archaeology — and it’s not what you might expect. His vision includes projects that examine multiple...
June 7, 2018
Take that, cancer.Arizona State University has been awarded more than $8.5 million over five years from the National Cancer Institute to...
June 7, 2018
Arizona State University has lost a luminary in the field of prevention science: Thomas Dishion died June 1.He earned his Bachelor of Art...
June 7, 2018
More than one-third of American adults and roughly 17 percent of children in the U.S. are obese, a condition behind some of the leading...
June 6, 2018
As technology changes, so does the need for a workforce that can rapidly adapt to new ways of mining important research data. In the life...
June 6, 2018
Political science senior Wesley Jefferies was advertising his English tutoring services when he fielded the request of an unusual patron....
June 5, 2018
Arizona State University now ranks No. 17 of all universities worldwide for U.S. patents awarded, according to a new report by the U.S....
June 5, 2018
The figure of Robert F. Kennedy casts a long shadow, equally split between what was and what could have been. That dichotomy doesn’t appear...
June 5, 2018
Half of the world’s stomachs, particularly in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, depend heavily on one staple food...
June 4, 2018
The human eye can only see a narrow range of visible light. Yet there’s an infinite number of possibilities for the perception of light,...
June 4, 2018
The promotion from assistant to associate professor is a trying endeavor during which researchers have to establish a reputation as a...
June 4, 2018
Each day in the United States, 116 people die from an opioid-related drug overdose. Opioid addiction has reach epidemic levels and is...
June 1, 2018
The story of water in Arizona is as long and complex as the multibiomed state itself, but as it snakes its way through the years — from the...
May
May 31, 2018
Ruben Gonzales is an alumni of Arizona State University's School of International Letters and Cultures (SILC), after graduating in May this...
May 31, 2018
Getting a bunch of high school students to show up for a poetry reading on a Friday afternoon in the summer is quite a feat. Actually...
May 31, 2018
The Latin American Academy of Sciences has announced the election of Arizona State University's Professor Fernando Ponce as a Foreign...
May 31, 2018
Satirical or sex-obsessed? Self-hating or self-commentary? Of the many ways late author Philip Roth has been described and discussed, the...
May 31, 2018
IBM has selected Arizona State University alumnus Harry Kolar as one of its 2018 IBM fellows.IBM awards this high distinction to...
May 31, 2018
Arizona State University abounds with academics who are also authors — often prolific ones — and their publications range from research-...
May 30, 2018
Starting college is exciting, but it also can be stressful, especially for minority students. Researchers in the Arizona State University...
May 30, 2018
Larissa Gaias recently received her PhD from Arizona State University's T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics. In addition...
May 30, 2018
Arizona State University Department of Psychology undergraduate Ashley Thompson's to-do list probably looks different than her peers'. In...
May 29, 2018
"Move it or lose it" is the old saying, but maybe it's time to flip that: Move it — because you have so much to gain.May is National...
May 29, 2018
Volcanic eruptions have a way of leaving people awestruck. And the recent eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea has been no different: the photos...
May 29, 2018
Mansur Mekan is a senior at Arizona State University majoring in political science. With the assistance of the SPGS Travel Support award...
May 25, 2018
Abigail Bardales is now an alumni of Arizona State University after graduating in early May from Barrett, The Honors College. With a...
May 25, 2018
Two Arizona State University students, Kinley Ragan and Karen Ibarra, have been awarded the 2018 Udall Undergraduate Scholarship.They are...
May 24, 2018
A lot can happen at 160 degrees Fahrenheit: Eggs fry, salmonella bacteria dies, and human skin will suffer third-degree burns. If a car is...
May 24, 2018
The largest college within Arizona State University has coalesced under one roof.This week, deans and administrative staff of the College...
May 24, 2018
Most of us hope that our confessional emails to friends won’t wind up on the internet.However, Arizona State University Assistant Professor...
May 22, 2018
Innovation at Arizona State University often comes in the form of research, business ideas and technology. In the case of ASU alumna Amanda...
May 22, 2018
Three Sun Devils, who are also alumni of the Arizona State University TRIO Veterans Upward Bound program, recently received scholarships...
May 22, 2018
Qunshan Zhao of Arizona State University and Bisola Falola of the University of Texas at Austin are the recipients of the 2018 J. Warren...
May 21, 2018
As humans, we know some of the factors that can cause cancer to develop in our bodies. Smoking, poor diets, pollution, chemicals used as...
May 21, 2018
Xia Zhang, Arizona State University principal lecturer of Chinese, brings her multicultural and linguistic knowledge into the classrooms of...
May 18, 2018
Arizona State University and Hiroshima University in Japan have entered into an agreement that will promote academic exchange and develop...
May 18, 2018
Phoenix Comic Fest will celebrate all things “geek” May 24–27, and while much of the science at the four-day event will be fiction, some...
May 18, 2018
Political science alumna Caroline Nielson Decker, who graduated in the class of 1992, felt that Arizona State University gave her a deep...
May 17, 2018
They interviewed an award-winning journalist who had just returned from Syria. They learned how religious conflict ushered in the modern...
May 17, 2018
The Dynamics of Perception, Action and Cognition Lab (DPAC) in the Arizona State University Department of Psychology recently hosted a...
May 17, 2018
Student speech is having a moment on the national stage.Since the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14,...
May 17, 2018
An Arizona State University philosophy student’s interest in the crossroads of education, childhood and political theory led him to writing...
May 16, 2018
Hawaii’s Big Island has been under siege for the last two weeks due to violent activity from the Kilauea volcano, which has produced...
May 16, 2018
The California clapper rail is a chicken-sized bird with slender legs, brown feathers and a long beak. It makes its home in the salt...
May 16, 2018
This summer, Arizona State University's School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership launches its inaugural Civic Leadership...
May 16, 2018
The Department of Psychology at Arizona State University promoted Virginia Kwan to full professor this year. Kwan joined ASU in 2009 and...
May 15, 2018
“ASU has the spirit of America in it,” says Khashayar “Shay” Khatiri, a recent graduate of the School of Politics and Global Studies and...
May 15, 2018
Psychology is the study of human behavior, but not all psychologists directly study people. Some psychologists like Daniel McNeish, a new...
May 15, 2018
Candidates running for political office have typically been expected to keep their noses clean and offer voters a crime-free reputation....
May 14, 2018
John Cava is a rare college student to complete not just a double major but a triple major in his studies at Arizona State University.Cava...
May 14, 2018
Math has been John Douglas (J.D.) House’s favorite subject since he was eight years old. Math felt structured and clear cut, and it made...
May 14, 2018
Paulette Zinzun, a political science student at Arizona State University's Tempe campus, splits her time between school and working at...
May 14, 2018
Katherine Nelson is an alumni of Arizona State University's School of International Letters and Cultures. Now she is studying law at ASU's...
May 11, 2018
Royal watchers have had plenty of reasons to rejoice lately: Queen Elizabeth’s 92nd birthday last month, the recent birth of Prince William...
May 11, 2018
Arizona State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is proud to announce K. Tsianina Lomawaima as this year’s Gary S....
May 10, 2018
Though it began only three years ago, the Master of Science in applied behavior analysis (MS ABA) program in the Department of Psychology...
May 10, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. As a graduating senior at Arizona State University, Ciera...
May 9, 2018
Most people go to college to enhance their education, bolster their professional status and increase their earning power. But a doctoral...
May 9, 2018
Carole Greenes has been honored with the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).VIDEO...
May 8, 2018
When it comes to matching simplicity with staggering creative potential, DNA may hold the prize. Built from an alphabet of just four...
May 8, 2018
In the 1950s, after the Indian Relocation Act was enacted, Priscilla Espinoza’s family moved from the Gila River Indian Community in the...
May 7, 2018
The popular meme proclaiming that all dogs are puppies assumes that humans’ adoration of canines is not conditional on their age. But a new...
May 7, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Samantha Hernandez’s interest in political science...
May 7, 2018
The ordeal is finally over for a Central American caravan seeking asylum, with the last of the members crossing the U.S. border on Friday...
May 7, 2018
Arizona State University's Human Rights Film Festival provided an opportunity for students to engage in conversations on a variety of...
May 7, 2018
Editor's note: Kenneth Chavez is the diplomat-in-residence for the Southwest region. Based at ASU, he hosts events introducing students to...
May 4, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. For Corina Tapscott of Phoenix, serving the community is...
May 4, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Gabriel Leon, who is graduating this semester from the...
May 4, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Graduating senior Kaitlyn Felix dreams of becoming a...
May 4, 2018
Can a fast food job, the Navy and Wikipedia lead to your ideal career?That’s what led Arizona State University graduate Christopher Cameron...
May 4, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. When Melanie Wood started taking classes at a community...
May 3, 2018
Arizona State University is a school of master learners — those capable of learning and thriving in anything they set out to accomplish....
May 3, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Zhihan Jennifer Zhang’s grandparents were schoolteachers...
May 3, 2018
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is celebrated at Arizona State University in April and nationally in May, but in the Asian Pacific...
May 3, 2018
To have Joni Adamson tell it, these are exciting times for the environmental humanities. And she should know: Adamson, a professor in the...
May 3, 2018
Vasthy Lamadrid, a student majoring in political science at Arizona State University, was recently awarded the Roberto L. Pastor Student...
May 2, 2018
“I try to let myself be inspired daily by treating each new thing I learn as a treasure and by expressing my gratitude that I am able to be...
May 2, 2018
The School of International Letters and Cultures is part of a new class being offered in the fall 2018 semester at Arizona State University...
May 2, 2018
As an Arizona State University graduate student, Rachel Yoho wanted to push the boundaries of renewable energy research. What she didn’t...
May 1, 2018
Fire. Equipment failure. Sensor malfunction. Punctures in space suits.The list of what can go (and has gone) wrong in space is a long one,...
May 1, 2018
May is National Bike Month. Established in 1956, the monthlong observance aims to showcase the benefits of cycling and encourage...
May 1, 2018
The Arizona State University Department of Psychology won big at the 2018 Pitchfork Awards, netting the ASU Changemaker Entrepreneurship...
May 1, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement.Christina Haswood (Tódich'ii'nii, Dibéłzhíní, Naasht'ézhi...
April
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Hannah Fowl not only received an ASU Alumni Association...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Sometimes, it just takes one experience to change the...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Shawn Courson stands out among his fellow history majors...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann once said, “A writer is...
April 30, 2018
Lindsey Conrow had hit an obstacle in her doctoral research at Arizona State University when the new PLuS Alliance initiative cleared the...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Judith Perera is ready to finish her 26th consecutive...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Ruben Gonzales is soon to graduate with a Jewish studies...
April 30, 2018
A peace treaty is potentially in the works for North and South Korea, and leaders say they plan to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula within...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Arizona State University student Ryan Lee graduates this...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Originally from Hartford, Connecticut, Arizona State...
April 30, 2018
Since arriving on the Arizona State University campus in 1971 as a new assistant professor, Robert Cialdini has been giving to the...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. A first-generation college student who grew up in Tempe,...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Balanding Manneh knows the value of recognizing and...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Hailing from Kirksville, Missouri — a small, tornado-...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. This May, Chad Kwiatkowski will be graduating from ASU...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Alexandria Layton, from Ahwatukee, Arizona, is a...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Graduating doctoral student Sarah Elizabeth Snyder earned...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. When she graduates in a few weeks, Catie Carson will have...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Charity Bhebhe is an international student graduating...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Born to teenage parents and raised by a single mother in...
April 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Getting a degree or being a parent is a lot of work for...
April 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Alexis Abboud knew from a young age that she wanted to...
April 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. With less than one week to go before defending her...
April 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Growing up in Phoenix, Daniela Rios always wanted to be a...
April 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Victoria Hernandez, a native of Plainsboro, New Jersey,...
April 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. For ASU student Maritsa Leyva Martinez, fiction writing...
April 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Hailing from Springfield, Virginia, Arizona State...
April 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. This May, Heather Meyer will be graduating from Arizona...
April 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Global studies majors focus on the globalized world and...
April 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. At the recent School of Molecular Sciences (SMS) Awards...
April 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Passion. Hard work. And courage.These are the things...
April 29, 2018
Forrest Schreick has long been a friendly face around Coor Hall. For the last six years, the graduating philosophy MA student made the...
April 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Seham Abdulhameed Tomihi wasn’t giving up. She first came...
April 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Arizona State University undergraduate Dimiana “Dimi”...
April 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Navneet Kaur was raised in India and moved to Phoenix...
April 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. For Lauren Pious, there’s no place quite like home. Still...
April 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Adam Pinkerton has a few titles: father, high school...
April 27, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement. Ashley Gagnon says she wasn't emotionally ready for...
April 26, 2018
These are good times to be a socialist. In the not-so-distant past, that moniker was wielded as a slur to decimate a left-leaning political...
April 26, 2018
Parkinson’s disease (PD) affects 7 million to 10 million people worldwide and is the leading movement-related disorder, causing progressive...
April 26, 2018
Arizona State University School of Social Transformation Professor K. Tsianina Lomawaima has been elected as a member of the American...
April 25, 2018
As another academic year winds down, Arizona State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is awarding faculty members who have...
April 25, 2018
When Robert Page walks through the 4 million honey bees housed at Arizona State University, he sees the potential to better understand how...
April 25, 2018
About 200 to 400 million years after the Big Bang created the universe, the first stars began to appear. Ordinarily stars lying at such a...
April 24, 2018
Around four billion years ago, the moon had a magnetic field that was about as strong as Earth’s magnetic field is today. How the moon,...
April 24, 2018
A team of scientists from Arizona State University’s School of Molecular Sciences has begun rethinking the evolutionary history of...
April 24, 2018
Nik Dave has worked in Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute since he was a sophomore in high school. So when offered the...
April 24, 2018
DNA — since the world first saw its iconic double helix structure in 1953, it has given scientists a treasure trove of insights into human...
April 24, 2018
Sophia Fasani was born prematurely, weighing in at 4 pounds and without a heartbeat.Her mother had received more than 100 units of O-...
ASU psychology grad student wins NSF fellowship to study impact of neighborhoods on at-risk students
April 23, 2018
Leena Bui, a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University, is a recipient of the National Science...
April 23, 2018
One by one during the class, strange crafts fall from the sky. They look like badminton shuttlecocks, restaurant roll baskets, or aluminum...
April 22, 2018
By all accounts, Israel del Toro should have died from the pressure-plate landmine that exploded under his military vehicle in eastern...
April 22, 2018
Folding towels. Peeling fruit. Scratching microphones. Hearing sweet nothings whispered in your ear.Those are the underpinnings of...
April 20, 2018
Online education and distance learning are seeing dramatic growth and play an increasingly important role at Arizona State University and...
April 20, 2018
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected three Arizona State University faculty members to its Class of 2018. The ASU researchers...
April 20, 2018
Arizona State University, in partnership with Valley of the Sun United Way, hosted Sun Devils UNITE, a week of philanthropy, education and...
April 19, 2018
Soccer fanatics got a treat April 17 when Bruce Arena, the former U.S. men's soccer national team coach, visited Arizona State University. ...
April 19, 2018
Charity Bhebhe had about a 1.5 percent probability of winning one of the world’s most prestigious scholarships.It was enough.This month,...
April 19, 2018
Blake Elliott, a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University, has received a Graduate Research Fellowship...
April 19, 2018
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is very proud of alumna Desiree Linden, who became the first American woman in 33 years to win the...
April 19, 2018
The Arizona State University-led NASA Psyche Mission is a journey to explore a unique metal world, and it is inspiring scores of artists...
April 18, 2018
Each year, the Arizona State University Alumni Association selects and honors leaders of organizations from around the world who...
April 18, 2018
Arizona State University Department of Psychology undergraduate students showed off their research findings to their peers, faculty and...
April 18, 2018
If you want to know something about scholarly activism and indigenous communities, the office of David Martinez would be a good place to...
April 18, 2018
In a famous social experiment a decade ago, a world-renowned violinist stood against a wall in a Washington, D.C., subway station and...
April 17, 2018
On Monday, April 16, Arizona State University's School of Molecular Sciences held its annual award and recognition ceremony for outstanding...
April 17, 2018
In March the New York Times introduced a project called “Overlooked,” in which influential women whose lives and achievements had been...
April 17, 2018
Editor's note: Read more of the highlights from the ASU + GSV Summit on our blog.Arizona State University has changed its role in preparing...
April 17, 2018
Two bike counters installed on the Tempe campus have been tracking bicyclists since the first week of January. And on Sunday, April 15, the...
April 16, 2018
Arizona State University online student Alexa Scholl was expecting to talk to a reporter last Tuesday about qualifying as a Truman Scholar...
April 16, 2018
Times sure have changed.Young adult novels used to be about dealing with rites of passage like parents getting divorced, or dating and...
April 16, 2018
About 252 million years ago, more than 90 percent of all animal life on Earth went extinct. This event, called the “Permian-Triassic mass...
April 16, 2018
Arizona State University students at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication were part of a groundbreaking USA...
April 12, 2018
ASU students can expand their interests by combining various fields within their education, reports The State Press in an article on April...
April 12, 2018
Adolescence is a time when biological changes in the body happen faster than psychological changes, a mismatch that creates challenges for...
April 12, 2018
For Gary Moore, the safety of the world outside his lab matters just as much as the people inside. An assistant professor in Arizona State...
April 12, 2018
Editor's note: You can listen to Tracy Fessenden's Billie Holiday Spotify playlist while reading this article.The distinctive, melancholy...
April 11, 2018
Dogs — they’re our best friends but there’s still a lot we don’t know about them: what they daydream about, if they’re really smiling, why...
April 11, 2018
Arizona State University juniors Humza Zubair and Meilin Zhu have won Goldwater Scholarships, the most prestigious national award for...
April 11, 2018
Across the world of mammals, teeth come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Their particular size and shape are the process of millions of...
April 11, 2018
Arizona State University has been designated a Military Friendly School for the ninth consecutive year, university officials confirmed...
April 10, 2018
Two recent fatalities related to autonomous vehicles are raising concerns about trade-offs between societal progress and human collateral...
April 10, 2018
The Science Hub (SciHub) is a new Arizona State University initiative, led by Nobel Prize winner Professor Frank Wilczek and Lamonte H....
April 10, 2018
Do reindeer have red noses?Of course they don’t. (Sorry, but they don’t fly, either.)However, if you posed the question to the website Ask...
April 9, 2018
The Korean department at Arizona State University's School of International Letters and Cultures (SILC) is one of the college’s fastest...
April 9, 2018
A promotion is taking School of Social Transformation Academic Success Coordinator Tanya Marun to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences...
April 9, 2018
Last semester, two Arizona State University students in Jewish studies courses used their final project assignments as opportunities for...
April 6, 2018
The world of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has a problem: Women are underrepresented. This year, Arizona State...
April 6, 2018
The sun is made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium. Earth, on the other hand, is made mostly of oxygen packed into various compounds....
April 6, 2018
Think of someone you trust. What is it about them that makes them trustworthy? In general, religious people are more trusted than people...
April 6, 2018
Author and Arizona State University alumna Adrienne Celt was once dubbed a liberal arts success story by her literary agent.“And it's true...
April 6, 2018
For a lot of students, spring break is a time to recharge and enjoy the benefits of a few carefree days before the storm surge of year-end...
April 5, 2018
Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration recently released new research on its flagship Smart Course, "Habitable...
April 5, 2018
We worry about a lot of dangers in the modern world, but what's actually most likely to hurt us?It's an actuary's job to know the answers...
April 4, 2018
The numbers are in: 46,000 square feet, 40 professional staff, three advising hubs and one career center.This is what Armstrong Hall, the...
April 4, 2018
Steven Pinker has a message for all those standing at the ready, poised to raise the doomsday alarm at a moment’s notice: Not so fast.In...
April 4, 2018
If you believe it, you can achieve it.You’ve probably heard this motivational phrase more than once. But what if your beliefs about your...
April 4, 2018
Making a difference is a shared goal among Arizona State University graduates. Many choose to pursue careers in the private sector and...
April 3, 2018
On April 3, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what has been called his most profoundly prophetic speech: “I’ve Been to the...
April 3, 2018
The School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University is a collaborating partner of the Race, Sex, Power 2018 conference — an...
April 2, 2018
For the second year, scientists from Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute and artists from the Herberger Institute for Design and...
April 2, 2018
Dating back to the mid-16th century, the term “tomboy” has undergone changes in both gender and definition. This fascinating topic has...
April 2, 2018
Arizona State University seniors Benjamin Harris and Brittany Diaz, both majors in Russian at the School of International Letters and...
April 2, 2018
A recent viral video showing two women vandalizing a local mosque while sharing their ideology with three young children brought the topics...
April 2, 2018
On Tuesday, May 8, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest achieving students from...
March
March 30, 2018
On one of the most memorable days of her life, Kaye Reed found herself holding the jawbone of an ancestor who lived 2.8 million years ago....
March 30, 2018
Incarceration. Migration. Refugees. Colonialism. Environmental destruction. Each of these themes open a window onto different forms of...
March 29, 2018
Arizona State University has become the 37th school to join the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Research Consortium. The...
March 29, 2018
Arizona State University junior Jonathon Barkl is no stranger to extracurricular activities. He’s made headlines in the past for his...
March 29, 2018
The global decline of amphibians over the past three decades is alarming, with as many as 200 amphibian species going extinct since the...
March 28, 2018
In front of a sold-out crowd, the 2018 Founders’ Day Awards program honored members of the ASU community for the impact and excellence of...
March 28, 2018
Students from the Pueblo graduate cohort program at Arizona State University’s School of Social Transformation recently placed first and...
March 28, 2018
Benjamin Blonder's frame of reference for heirloom foods goes far beyond Berkshire pork or San Marzano tomatoes.Custard apples. Sapodilla...
March 27, 2018
Phoenix was recently named as a finalist in Bloomberg Philanthropies’ 2018 Mayors Challenge on the strength of its proposal for a first-of-...
March 27, 2018
Advent Diamond has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for $225,000 to conduct...
March 26, 2018
The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication held its annual Welcome Weekend this month for 14 prospective doctoral students visiting from...
March 23, 2018
Christians all over the world are now facing the growing threat of persecution, according to Jason Bruner, an assistant professor of...
March 22, 2018
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tobacco use is still one of the top preventable causes of death in the United...
March 21, 2018
The legal drinking age in the United States might be 21 years, but teenagers and pre-teens drink over 10 percent of all alcohol consumed in...
March 21, 2018
A new pilot program is bringing Arizona State University pre-med students into an emergency department to learn the best ways to...
March 21, 2018
Mayo Clinic School of Medicine recently held a national summit on innovations in physician diversity sponsored by Arizona State University....
March 20, 2018
From 1915 to 1970, 6 million African-American people migrated out of the American South, forever changing the culture and politics of the...
March 20, 2018
TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool red dwarf star that is slightly larger, but much more massive, than the planet Jupiter, located about 40 light-...
March 20, 2018
The Juste family church tipi has been in service, helping heal the Salt River Gila community, for over 25 years.“This tipi has a real...
March 20, 2018
In early March, the Center for Global Health in ASU’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change hosted this year’s Society for Economic...
March 20, 2018
Four years after NASA was established, administrator James Webb was so inspired by a portrait of an astronaut, he ordered the creation of...
March 19, 2018
If academic units had patron saints, the Arizona State University English department’s would be Geoffrey Chaucer. In recognition of his...
March 18, 2018
Considering the innovative research, sustainability-designed campuses, and the sheer size of graduating classes that result from Arizona...
March 16, 2018
Today, there is a lot of focus on ensuring that industries and technologies are sustainable. The world’s agricultural system is no...
March 16, 2018
Arizona has a rich historical legacy, and there’s no better time to appreciate it than in March, when temperate weather combines with...
March 16, 2018
Eli Perez currently stands as the sole Fulbright scholar from Mexico at Arizona State University, but that is likely to change as ASU’s...
March 16, 2018
Osvaldo Sala, a professor at Arizona State University and a drylands expert, has been elected president of the Ecological Society of...
March 15, 2018
St. Patrick’s Day is a fun, hybrid celebration — a mixture of religion and Irish folklore, symbolism and food, plus lots and lots of green...
March 14, 2018
It’s 2218, and you’ve got some vacation time coming up. A hundred years ago this meant choices like the Bahamas, wine tasting in Napa or a...
March 14, 2018
Humanities studies and baseball? It’s not exactly an obvious pairing.“When I tell people English students are working for the [San Diego]...
March 14, 2018
In the 1960s, an archaeologist named René Millon began mapping the ancient city of Teotihuacan in Mexico. Combining air photos and mapping...
March 14, 2018
Anastasia Cossette has a busy schedule and a lot of interests. She studies both global health and economic justice, wanting to understand...
March 14, 2018
A set of two books by the ASU Bilingual Press has received tremendous praise and a 2018 Book of the Year Award for highlighting the work of...
March 13, 2018
On most nights, it might be possible to catch a glimpse of Arizona State University student Alexander Bernard somewhere in Hayden library...
March 13, 2018
Arizona State University's School of International Letters and Cultures draws diverse and sophisticated faculty to its classrooms, all able...
March 13, 2018
On March 8, Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies hosted Professors Takumi Takeda, associate dean for...
March 13, 2018
Editor's note: The first day of the opening week at the Ambassador Barbara Barrett & Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Washington Center at...
March 12, 2018
The Arizona State University Alumni Association will honor alumni, faculty and supporters at its annual Founders’ Day Awards Dinner, set...
March 12, 2018
Imagine a year in Africa when summer never arrives. The sky takes on a gray hue during the day and glows red at night. Flowers do not bloom...
March 9, 2018
Water — always important, always controversial, always fascinating — remains surprising. For a substance that covers three-quarters of the...
March 9, 2018
Editor's note: This story is a personal account from the mother of an ASU graduate, and it has been edited for length and clarity.My name...
March 8, 2018
In the wake of the flagship Women’s March in January 2017 and the bombshell #MeToo movement that followed in October, women’s issues have...
March 8, 2018
Daylight saving time is right around the corner, and it's time to set those alarm clocks and watches forward again … Er, wait. Arizona...
March 7, 2018
When you have free time in your schedule, what do you do? You might enjoy Arizona’s outdoor activities like hiking beautiful terrain, or...
March 7, 2018
If you were a divorced parent, wouldn't you wish for a pill that would ensure your kids were less likely to experience depression,...
March 7, 2018
Most of us enjoy meeting a friend for a cup of coffee and a chat, but few of us pause to think about how we learn to have a conversation....
March 7, 2018
The Social and Cultural Pedagogy master's degree program of the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University co-organized "...
March 7, 2018
New research shows that sections of the San Francisco Bay shoreline are sinking at rates of nearly half an inch (10 millimeters) a year.But...
March 6, 2018
How do students cope and find meaning when they begin to question the faith they’ve grown up with? In the article "Students who lose or...
March 6, 2018
From stately cruise ships to Olympic host cities, recent headline-grabbing outbreaks prove that norovirus — an incapacitating and vaccine-...
March 5, 2018
Many universities have a presence in Washington, D.C.: a lobbyist, an internship coordinator, or a few folks who hand out swag and try to...
March 5, 2018
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series showcasing alumni of the School of Molecular Sciences.Lyndsay Hess graduated from Arizona...
March 5, 2018
When Joe Casavecchia transferred to Arizona State University from a small liberal arts college in Iowa, he wasn't sure if the transition...
March 5, 2018
Immigration uncertainty is causing headaches — literally — for millions of Latino parents across the country, regardless of their legal...
March 5, 2018
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series showcasing alumni of the School of Molecular Sciences.Kaitlyn Mandigo graduated from...
March 4, 2018
For historian Yasmin Saikia, Women's History Month is an opportunity to recognize all women, in addition to trailblazing historical figures...
March 4, 2018
Harvey Weinstein. Kevin Spacey. Bill Cosby. Rob Porter.Sexual harrassment and assault are all over the news these days, and many men want...
March 2, 2018
Proteins are central players in life processes and are among the most versatile and essential biomolecules. Structural proteins help build...
March 1, 2018
This profile is part of a series showcasing alumni of the School of Molecular Sciences.Havell Markus received his Bachelor of Science...
March 1, 2018
For alumnus See Seng Tan, coming back to the Arizona State University campus was surreal.“I am thrilled to be able to come back here and...
March 1, 2018
Gemneo Bioscience, a genomics technology company seeking to revolutionize diagnosis and treatment for cancer and other diseases, was named...
March 1, 2018
The Earth and the life living on it must change together.“The landscape of our planet itself is dynamic and evolving, just like the species...
February
February 28, 2018
Long ago, about 400,000 years after the beginning of the universe —the Big Bang — the universe was dark. There were no stars or galaxies,...
February 28, 2018
In 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her Montgomery, Alabama, bus seat to a white passenger and was arrested.But you...
February 28, 2018
When you think of the phrase “employee of the year,” you may envision framed headshots of star employees in every office, coffee shop and...
February 27, 2018
“Gunfire Erupts at a School. Leaders Offer Prayers. Children Are Buried. Repeat.”The title of Dan Barry’s Feb. 15 New York Times column...
February 27, 2018
Last Saturday, Feb 24, Arizona State University’s Department of Psychology brought research from the laboratory to the sidewalk for the...
February 27, 2018
Arizona State University's School of International Letters and Cultures (SILC) not only draws people passionate about global life, but...
February 27, 2018
“A society is defined not only by what it creates, but what it refuses to destroy,” environmentalist John Sawhill said.More and more,...
February 26, 2018
Michelle Missler, a master's degree recipient in sociology, from Arizona State University's T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family...
February 25, 2018
Arizona State University's Open Door held its finale at the Tempe campus on Saturday, where visitors learned from ASU experts on a...
February 25, 2018
Arizona State University's School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership held its inaugural spring conference Friday and Saturday on...
February 23, 2018
Some of Arizona State University's best and brightest professors are headed back to the classroom. Kind of ...On the cutting edge of an...
February 23, 2018
The YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix recognized Elsie Moore, Arizona State University School of Social Transformation professor and director, by...
February 23, 2018
Lizards have special superpowers. While birds can regrow feathers and mammals can regrow skin, lizards can regenerate entire structures...
February 23, 2018
Can we stay young forever, or even recapture lost youth?
Research from the laboratory of Professor Julian Chen in the School of Molecular...
February 22, 2018
“Thank you for your service” is a wonderful sentiment, and it can be a nice thing for civilians to say to active military personnel and...
February 21, 2018
A new demographic of never-married women in their 40s who have children has emerged in recent years, in sharp contrast to traditional...
February 21, 2018
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has selected Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, President’s Professor of Indigenous...
February 21, 2018
Arizona State University’s Danielle McNamara was named an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Fellow for 2018. McNamara is a...
February 20, 2018
A 2,000-year-old handprint changed the course of Kelly Knudson’s life.As a young undergraduate student, an unexpected connection with an...
February 20, 2018
Ants, like humans, deal with disease. To deal with the bacteria that cause some of these diseases, some ants produce their own antibiotics...
February 20, 2018
How do you get 1,500 school supplies from Arizona to an island nearly 3,000 miles away?As faculty, staff and students at Arizona State...
February 19, 2018
The School of International Letters and Cultures is a place for leaders, and one of the people demonstrating that is Souad T. Ali. In 2004...
February 19, 2018
What makes humans special? It's a question mankind has puzzled over for centuries. According to anthropology pioneer Robert Boyd, there are...
February 19, 2018
The 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" has ushered in a new creation — but it’s something entirely different than the...
February 18, 2018
U.S. presidents have been political game-changers, prolific writers and social-policy pioneers. But did you know about the speeding and the...
February 15, 2018
Archaeologists are seeing the Maya culture in a whole new light thanks to an emerging technology that has identified countless new...
February 15, 2018
Students often graduate college and never look back. Micah Wimmer, however, who will soon be a triple Arizona State University alumnus,...
February 14, 2018
Researchers from across Arizona State University are coming together to analyze, preserve and revitalize historic materials found during...
February 13, 2018
Are you in need of some fitness alignment in your mateship? Do you see potential pair bonding in your future? Or are you just looking for...
February 13, 2018
In an international environment which some observers have argued is as dangerous as at any time during the Cold War, what do advances in...
February 13, 2018
For Taghreed Adnan, studying Arabic at the School for International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University wasn’t just a way to...
February 13, 2018
Arizona State University lecture Almira Poudrier was honored with the Juliana Yoder Friend of the Humanities Award, an annual recognition...
February 13, 2018
Valentine’s Day can bring visions of roses and flowery language — or at least the Hallmark-card version. But poetry did not always serve...
February 13, 2018
The importance of doctoral advisers can hardly be overstated, but when you talk to ARCS Foundation Scholars about the guidance they have...
February 13, 2018
The very rare animals that reproduce asexually — only about one in a thousand of all vertebrate species — are thought to be at an extreme...
February 12, 2018
As recently as January of this year, yet another college was in an uproar over a controversial speaker when University of Chicago students...
February 12, 2018
For many STEM students, working for NASA is a lifelong dream. For Arizona State University's NASA Space Grant Scholars, that dream is...
February 12, 2018
In a major advancement in nanomedicine, Arizona State University scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Center for...
February 11, 2018
It’s easy to watch the evening news and assume Homo sapiens is one of the most recalcitrant species on the planet. But humans are,...
February 9, 2018
Leaders in Greece and the Republic of Macedonia are close to striking a deal on the use of the name “Macedonia.”Past governments on both...
February 9, 2018
Valerie Mueller, a new assistant professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies, is settling right in to Arizona State University...
February 9, 2018
For many, studying religion at a public university may seem out of place. Studying historical cultures and ancient languages in order to...
February 8, 2018
Four minutes.Twenty-six bullets.Four dead.A manhunt spanning hundreds of miles.One of the longest prison sentences in Arizona history.And...
February 8, 2018
Arizona State University researcher Kevin Langergraber knows nearly 200 chimpanzees of the Ngogo community by sight and by name — Jackson,...
February 8, 2018
In a just-launched podcast series, listeners will hear that "one of the reasons Alexander Hamilton is so interesting for the 21st century...
February 7, 2018
When Thomas Dishion began his career in psychology in the 1980s, “intervention was a pipe dream.”“We didn’t really know if you could...
February 7, 2018
Cammy Bellis, from Arizona State University's T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics was recently cited in the article, "...
February 7, 2018
Screams of excitement and nervous laughter echo across a high school food court. A flock of students at Red Mountain High School in Mesa...
February 6, 2018
Arizona State University is part of a new coalition of 13 leading research universities that will help communities achieve their climate...
February 6, 2018
At 1:45 p.m. Arizona time on Tuesday, SpaceX successfully test launched its Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, seven...
February 6, 2018
One act of generosity can leave an indelible mark on the lives of students and the educational priorities of programs at Arizona State...
February 6, 2018
It might sound contrived, given her area of expertise, but to ASU Jewish studies Director Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, a career in academia is...
February 5, 2018
Civil rights advocate and law professor Anita Hill said Monday that while women are currently experiencing "a movement” and moving the...
February 2, 2018
On the first floor of the Children’s Museum of Phoenix, an Arizona State University scientist from the Department of Psychology sits across...
February 1, 2018
Krista Ratcliffe’s first semester at Arizona State University began in a cloud of dust.The new chair of one of the largest English...
February 1, 2018
It is not uncommon for students to crave a sense of place while attending college, especially when traveling away from their home to start...
February 1, 2018
Entrepreneurs see the world in a different light, capitalizing on opportunity and balancing incredible risk with the chance of a massive...
January
January 31, 2018
Women around the world have been excluded from many professions throughout history, including, until recently, city planning and management...
January 31, 2018
Social media can be extremely useful when you have something to shout from the rooftops — like, say, groundbreaking research — and indeed,...
January 31, 2018
For some first-generation students, walking into a college classroom is the end of a long and complicated journey, and for them, traveling...
January 31, 2018
Arizona State University’s Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics has surpassed Harvard in the Center for World University Rankings...
January 30, 2018
Arizona State University's School of International Letters and Cultures is packed with students and professors explaining the benefits of...
January 30, 2018
From the 2017 total solar eclipse to this week’s super blue blood moon, we’ve heard a lot recently about once-in-a-lifetime astronomical...
January 30, 2018
It almost sounds like the start of a joke: How do you get a staunch Republican and a left-leaning Democrat to have a civil conversation...
January 30, 2018
With the hope that someday scientists will advance regenerative therapy in humans, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Arizona...
January 30, 2018
At Arizona State University's School of International Letters and Cultures, students and staff demonstrate every day how useful and...
January 30, 2018
This May, Arizona State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean’s office will be leaving its headquarters in the Fulton...
January 30, 2018
How many bicycles pass through Arizona State University's Tempe campus on a daily basis? How about each year?The answers to these questions...
January 29, 2018
Psyche, NASA’s Discovery mission to a unique metal asteroid, has a new digital home at ASU as of this week.The ASU mission website, psyche....
January 29, 2018
Meet Carlos Valiente, PhD, an associate professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics.Question: Tell us about your...
January 29, 2018
Meet Tracy Spinrad, PhD, a professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics.Question: What research are you currently...
January 29, 2018
From an early-morning lunar eclipse “blood moon” to an evening blue “super” moon, Wednesday, Jan. 31, will be a day full of lunar...
January 29, 2018
Meet Rebecca White, PhD, an associate professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics.Question: What research are...
January 29, 2018
Jan. 20 marked one year since Donald Trump became president of the United States. Since then, politicians, pundits and citizens of all...
January 29, 2018
T. Denny Sanford’s name is associated with major philanthropic gifts throughout the U.S. With few exceptions, they are associated with the...
January 29, 2018
Meet Natalie Wilkens, PhD, an assistant professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics.Question: What research are...
January 28, 2018
Going to college should be an unsettling experience.University students should be challenging their closely held beliefs in the classroom...
January 26, 2018
Doing what's safe may be easy, but sometimes taking a chance can make all the difference.Arizona State University has students from all...
January 25, 2018
As the conversations surrounding borderlands continue to evolve, so too does Arizona State University's role as a thought leader in the...
January 25, 2018
Three Arizona State University student-led payload projects have been selected to launch into space on Blue Origin’s "New Shepard" space...
January 25, 2018
Prepare to exercise your brain: National Puzzle Day is Jan. 29.No stranger to puzzles is Professor Michael McBeath, who runs the Perception...
January 23, 2018
More than a decade ago, ASU declared its intent to become the world leader in sustainability research and education, taking the first steps...
January 23, 2018
There are big-picture jobs, and then there’s Peter Schlosser’s mission.He has the whole world in his hands.One of the world’s leading earth...
January 23, 2018
In a new study, a team of Arizona State University researchers have examined the effects of Alzheimer’s disease to rob brain cells of their...
January 22, 2018
In June 1967, The Beatles released a song that would go on to be covered more than 50 times, no doubt because it proclaimed a universally...
January 22, 2018
Silicon Valley: the place that invented the Juicero, PetChatz and countless apps to solve problems you never knew you had. And now comes...
January 22, 2018
This month, Arizona State University added two significant, historical texts to its archive.Under the guidance of Paul Carrese, director of...
January 19, 2018
In 2012, fresh off her first visit to the Sundance Film Festival through her internship with the film and media studies program at Arizona...
January 19, 2018
Have you ever felt a deep, instant bond with a city? A place where the people, culture and even the architecture all seem to whisper, “This...
January 18, 2018
Some people think that STEM and liberal arts don’t go together. Arizona State University student Jenna Robinson, however, is showing that...
January 18, 2018
When you meet Maryglory Moshi, a junior in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University, you first notice a giant smile and an...
January 18, 2018
Sophomore Mohamad Alkahlout studies civil engineering, with a special interest in public transportation and urban planning. Wanting more...
January 17, 2018
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series showcasing students in the School of Molecular Sciences.Logan Tegler is a senior majoring...
January 17, 2018
Most people who pursue a degree in liberal arts and humanities have probably been asked why or what they intend to do with such a degree....
January 17, 2018
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series of profiles showcasing students in the School of Molecular Sciences.Sidney Covarrubias is a...
January 17, 2018
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series showcasing students in the School of Molecular Sciences.Jacob Jordan is a senior majoring...
January 17, 2018
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series showcasing students in the School of Molecular Sciences.Shannon Sipes is a senior majoring...
January 17, 2018
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series showcasing students in the School of Molecular Sciences.Adam Samuel is a senior majoring in...
January 17, 2018
Editor's note: This profile is part of a series of profiles showcasing students in the School of Molecular Sciences.McKenna Renfro is a...
January 17, 2018
Bob Corker. Jeff Flake. Orrin Hatch. Darrell Issa. The list of political heavyweights who have decided to retire or opt out of bids for re-...
January 12, 2018
Twenty years, the threat of personal violence and two unexpected deaths have not quelled the fervor of Maria Cruz Torres to make visible...
January 12, 2018
The undergraduate degree in earth and space exploration at Arizona State University combines science, engineering and education to...
January 11, 2018
Of the 18,891 classes offered at Arizona State University, PHY 498: Workshop in Perception Technology stands out.It’s taught by theoretical...
January 10, 2018
Arizona State University lost one of its most generous supporters last week with the death of Bruce Halle, who built Discount Tire from one...
January 10, 2018
From a vacant plot in a blighted neighborhood spring neatly combed rows of plants put in by the neighbors. They meticulously care for this...
January 10, 2018
In 2021, a spacecraft the size of a Cheerios box will carry a small telescope into Earth orbit on an unusual mission. Its task is to...
January 9, 2018
Evolution is the creative force shaping all earthly life. It is also the reason why all multicellular life is susceptible to cancer. The...
January 8, 2018
Charlie Rolsky seems to be everywhere you look on campus. Tossing carne asada on a fire on a desert camping trip with biology students....
January 7, 2018
The 2018 Golden Globes went dark Sunday night, dressing to match the pall of sexual misconduct that has hung over Hollywood and beyond this...
January 5, 2018
Cameron G. Thies, professor and director of Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies, has been elected president of...
January 5, 2018
Alonzo Jones has one of the best jobs at Arizona State University: associate athletic director for inclusion and championship life.Who...
January 4, 2018
It is rare to find a career based on one’s passion, yet Arizona State University alumna Sambo ‘Bo’ Dul has found exactly that in her job as...
January 3, 2018
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Antonio Joan, a recent graduate...
January 3, 2018
The Open Philanthropy Project awarded a multi-year grant of $6,421,402 to Stephen Albert Johnston at Arizona State University to support...
January 2, 2018
As the calendar year drew to a close, two researchers with Arizona State University's School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning...
January 1, 2018
Humans may be the dominant cause of global temperature rise, but they also could be a crucial factor in helping to reduce it, according to...
2017
December
December 29, 2017
More than 1600 high school students from around the country will compete in Arizona State University's Hugh Downs School of Human...
December 28, 2017
Social networking sites have dominated our culture and the way people spend their time. We are constantly plugged in, checking the news,...
December 28, 2017
Last month, the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning hosted a special workshop to introduce students to Google Earth Engine...
December 27, 2017
Brad Allenby has collaborated on various endeavors to comprehend the broad societal impacts of our use of powerful new technologies as...
December 21, 2017
There was no shortage of changes for the nation and Arizona State University in 2017. In a year that celebrated the 15th anniversary of the...
December 21, 2017
All that remains in Retha Warnicke’s Coor Hall office are empty bookshelves, a whiteboard sprinkled with yellow Post-it notes, a dusty...
December 21, 2017
The growing discipline of geographical information sciences, or GIScience, is receiving renewed focus at Arizona State University’s School...
December 21, 2017
Why should we go to space?To learn more about the universe and our place in it? To extract resources and conduct commerce? To demonstrate...
December 20, 2017
The School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University, in partnership with the Municipal Credit Union in New York...
December 20, 2017
Thanks to his education at Arizona State University, alumnus Jack Erickson always knew he could learn from any experience. His drive to...
December 18, 2017
A research project, personal experience or academic course often drives students into a particular field of study. For Arizona State...
December 15, 2017
Every Thursday morning, Arizona State University mathematics lecturer Naala Brewer makes the one-hour plus drive to Florence prison.“...
December 15, 2017
It’s the kind of thing you might lose sleep over.How will humans survive serious infections in the future if we’re running out of tools...
December 15, 2017
Every year the National Science Foundation (NSF) conducts its Higher Education Research and Development Survey (HERD). HERD is the primary...
December 15, 2017
Biodesign C, the $120 million building expansion of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, continues to rise along Rural Road...
December 14, 2017
After 10 years, three changes of major and two children, Ashley Pitman graduated from college this week — the first in her family to earn a...
December 14, 2017
With hospitals more often reaching for antibiotics of last resort to fight infections and recent Ebola and Zika outbreaks crossing borders...
December 14, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Arizona State University graduate...
December 14, 2017
For the past few decades, some scientists have known the shape of things to come in nanotechnology is tied to the molecule of life, DNA....
December 12, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.When Jesús López graduated from...
December 12, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Economics led Brett Hansen to...
December 11, 2017
The night before Thanksgiving, while traveling with his family for the holiday, Jeffrey Cohen sat down in his hotel room for a Skype chat...
December 8, 2017
The American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State has killed tens of thousands of ISIS fighters since August 2014, but the military is...
December 7, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Before Emily Carney left her...
December 6, 2017
For the past month, the #metoo revelations — and the resulting national conversation about sexual harassment and sexual violence — have...
December 6, 2017
Sarah Lindstrom Johnson. assistant professor from Arizona State University’s T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, was...
December 6, 2017
Frank Smith III, an Arizona State University senior majoring in political science and public policy, is one of 43 students nationwide who...
December 6, 2017
How often do you think about water? You may be told to conserve water or drink more of it, but do you know where it all comes from?Water/...
December 6, 2017
On Tuesday, Dec.12, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest achieving students from...
December 5, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Sarah Harris grew up in Ahwatukee,...
December 5, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Scott Brazelton was born in...
December 5, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here. Aside from the time he spent in...
December 5, 2017
Last year, for the first time ever, the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University hosted three...
December 5, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Tiffany Spicer spent most of her...
December 5, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.For Sarah Knapp, it has taken six...
December 3, 2017
Every entrepreneur wants to make money, but essentially what they’re working to create is a better life for humanity.Student entrepreneurs...
December 1, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.When Kyle Mohr was growing up in...
December 1, 2017
While Thanksgiving has passed, the holiday season remains in full swing with many more family get-togethers approaching. In the recent...
December 1, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Arizona State University...
December 1, 2017
As the year draws to a close, Stewart Fotheringham, ASU Foundation Professor with the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning,...
December 1, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Army veteran Christopher Gisriel,...
December 1, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Constant discovery and innovation....
December 1, 2017
Rodney Hero, a political science professor and the Raul Yzaguirre chair in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State...
December 1, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Shaun Collins was sitting in an...
December 1, 2017
Prince Harry’s recent engagement to American actress Meghan Markle is a contemporary Grace Kelly/Prince Rainier love story. As expected,...
December 1, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.As a working Hollywood actress and...
December 1, 2017
Can you break the code? That's the question that more than 120 students set out to answer on Nov. 18, as they teamed up to compete in the...
December 1, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Close study of older, English...
December 1, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Arizona native Caite Buntin did not...
December 1, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Naji Obaid describes himself as an...
December 1, 2017
In celebration of Veterans Day, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University honored and appreciated veterans and...
November
November 30, 2017
Once sworn to secrecy about their cryptic contributions to U.S. military battle, some former hidden heroes are now decoding the details of...
November 30, 2017
Five graduate students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University received the National Science Foundation...
November 30, 2017
In the 1970s at the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Sandra Cisneros, Rita Dove and Joy Harjo were the only non-white students. Each went on...
November 29, 2017
Cameron G. Thies, director of Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies, has received the 2017 Quincy Wright...
November 29, 2017
Native Americans have distinct health-care needs.And now they have a new leader in health research who aspires to usher tribal nations...
November 29, 2017
For more than 400 years, humanity has been pointing telescopes skyward, peering into the depths of space to ask fundamental questions about...
November 29, 2017
Arizona State University has become a founding member of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization, which is working to build the world’s...
November 28, 2017
At this week’s Global Education Summit in Beijing, the mother of an Arizona State University international student excitedly approached...
November 28, 2017
Carol Martin from Arizona State University’s T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics was recently cited in the article, “...
November 28, 2017
It’s that time of year when college students everywhere prepare to head home for the holidays, where they can catch up with friends and...
November 27, 2017
On Nov. 17, 30 members of student government from Hamilton High School in Chandler visited Arizona State University's Tempe campus for a...
November 27, 2017
Out on the far northwestern edge of the Valley, where the pavement turns to sand, is a place people have been visiting for 5,000 years....
November 27, 2017
“Can I borrow a cup of sugar?” For many Americans, the question conjures a nostalgic image of friendly neighbors relying on each other for...
November 22, 2017
Teotihuacan was once the largest and most influential city in the ancient new world. Yet its social structure seems to be more egalitarian...
November 21, 2017
Thanksgiving brings us closer together, but our conversations across generations in a family can sometimes drive us farther apart.“We’re...
November 21, 2017
Thanksgiving time finds many of us thinking back to our fondest food memories. But what if the meal that sticks out most in your mind doesn...
November 21, 2017
Last year, pancreatic cancer overtook breast cancer as the third leading cause of cancer deaths. With a five-year survival rate of just 8...
November 20, 2017
Seven members of Arizona State University are among the 396 newly elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of...
November 20, 2017
For more than three decades, atmospheric scientists have been issuing warnings that carbon emissions and man-made pollution have punctured...
November 20, 2017
As a walk-on for the Sun Devils football team, an aspiring musician and lyricist, and a scrupulous student, political science major Kordell...
November 20, 2017
Arizona State University alumna Kara Goldin has been taking the corporate world by storm as founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., a lifestyle...
November 17, 2017
Paul Carrese, director of Arizona State University's School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, joined a roundtable discussion at...
November 17, 2017
It’s biology’s version of the whisper game. Inside a cell, every DNA phrase or sentence that makes a protein, known as a gene, first must...
November 17, 2017
In Silicon Valley, investors flock to back potentially disruptive new technology and apps — even if they are still in development. But the...
November 17, 2017
Professionals whose college days are behind them still need to learn new skills to stay at the top of their game, and Arizona State...
November 16, 2017
Regents’ Professors are the elite of the academic world. To be awarded the distinction, scholars must be full professors, with outstanding...
November 15, 2017
The green sulfur bacterium makes its home in the chilly waters of the Black Sea. To eek out its lonely existence, this life form scavenges...
November 15, 2017
The National Institute on Drug Abuse and Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research has awarded Kit Elam, an assistant professor at...
November 15, 2017
Students on the lower level of the Memorial Union on Wednesday afternoon seemed unfazed by the Korean language pop song blaring from the...
November 14, 2017
Although the majority of Americans would not be here if it weren’t for immigration, there are many today who might distance themselves from...
November 14, 2017
Arizona State University and the University of Arizona — infamous rivals on the playing field — joined forces for a special joint...
November 14, 2017
It started with a textbook.The required reading material ASU English instructor Elizabeth Ferszt had been using for her English 302:...
November 14, 2017
While stationed with the U.S. Army School of the Americas in the Panama Canal Zone during the 1970s, entomology expedition leader Albert...
November 13, 2017
Richard Fabes, from Arizona State University's T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, was recently cited in the article, “...
November 13, 2017
Even before Hurricane Maria descended on his home island of Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, ASU Assistant Professor Manuel G. Avilés-Santiago grew...
November 13, 2017
From his roots as a fair-haired Minnesota farm boy to climbing the ladder of success in big pharma, to blazing a translational academic...
November 9, 2017
Comparing higher education in America to the Titanic is a risky move when you’re speaking to a crowd of college students and professors,...
November 9, 2017
ASU political science instructor Charles G. Ripley recently traveled to Ecuador and Colombia to speak with nongovernmental organizations...
November 9, 2017
As a global business leader in the ever-changing technology industry, Arizona State University alumnus Jon Hunter has been mentoring the...
November 8, 2017
Last year the Center on the Future of War announced Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood as an ASU Future of War Senior Fellow at...
November 8, 2017
Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies (SPGS) hosted the annual meeting of the Peace Science Society (...
November 8, 2017
Growing up in Illinois, the Norman family would gather their chairs and sit with the garage door open, looking out over the neighborhood as...
November 8, 2017
Changing the way the nation generates and consumes energy is at the heart of a new NSF grant awarded to Arizona State University and Kevin...
November 7, 2017
Big questions about the nature of time and space and how they relate to mankind and the Earth have confounded some of the greatest minds...
November 7, 2017
Travel, language and culture can be rewarding as a tourist, but Arizona State University School of International Letters and Cultures (SILC...
November 7, 2017
Roswell. JFK. Moon Landings. Elvis faking his death. 9/11. Sandy Hook.It really happened. It didn't happen at all. A cabal of people made...
November 6, 2017
Not since the 1960s has the United States been so divided, largely split into two political camps.But what if a third major political party...
November 6, 2017
Scooby-Doo, the animated character and series launched by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1969, is one of the most successful brands in...
November 6, 2017
Brett Hunt sits in his seventh-story office on Arizona State University’s Downtown Phoenix campus, interviewing millennials a good portion...
November 3, 2017
Anti-racism activist Jane Elliott hates what’s happened to this country lately.“We are less civilized now than we were 500 years ago,”...
November 2, 2017
The digital age has revolutionized the way society intakes and produces knowledge. When it comes to contextualizing a religion in today’s...
November 2, 2017
Following a five-year National Science Foundation grant, the Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance continues to grow to take on the phosphorus...
November 1, 2017
In recognition of decades’ worth of service to teaching and research, Professor David Pijawka has been awarded the Distinguished...
November 1, 2017
Exploring Mars with the Curiosity rover means identifying rocks and minerals that can tell scientists more about the Red Planet and its...
October
October 31, 2017
According to the most recent U.S. Transgender Survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality, nearly three-quarters of Arizona...
October 31, 2017
The “talk” parents are having with their children about sex is undergoing a sea change. With the dramatic — and sometimes graphic —...
October 31, 2017
The 2016 election left many communities looking for better ways to communicate with one another, an issue that Arizona State University is...
October 30, 2017
Sugar skulls at craft stores and processions in James Bond movies — the imagery associated with Day of the Dead has spread through the...
October 30, 2017
Halloween is an occasion to let loose, have a little fun and get out of your comfort zone. That’s why this week millions will shriek...
October 27, 2017
About four years ago, Arizona State University biophysicist Stuart Lindsay’s research team got a lab result that even he couldn’t quite...
October 27, 2017
Myron Dewey (Newe-Numah/Paiute-Shoshone), an award-winning filmmaker, citizen journalist and educator, is the featured speaker in Arizona...
October 27, 2017
The reign of corrupt Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s and '80s was marked by a heavily controlled, strictly censored...
October 27, 2017
It’s First Friday at the Children’s Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. Amid the kids exploring giant bubbles, a kiddie car wash, and a paint maze...
October 27, 2017
The ride-sharing platform Uber burst onto the scene a few years ago, creating a “shared shock” in several countries at about the same time...
October 26, 2017
The saguaro cactus, a towering, charismatic icon of the Southwest, is one of the most recognized and beloved of all cacti. As a keystone...
October 25, 2017
It might be a difficult conversation to have, but a new study confirms that talking to your children about substances will help keep them...
October 25, 2017
When he was a child in the small Arizona border town of Nogales, ASU Regents’ Professor Alberto Rios saw a poem written on the wall...
October 25, 2017
“What does not kill me, makes me stronger.”The oft-repeated maxim (from Nietzsche’s "Twilight of the Idols") offers a model of human...
October 24, 2017
A college education can be like an all-you-can-eat buffet. With so many options, what is a diner to do? Likewise, for students at Arizona...
October 24, 2017
Sports are embedded in college tradition, and no other time reminds us of this quite like Homecoming. But what do sports look like in other...
October 23, 2017
A $7 million grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), of the National Institutes of Health,...
October 22, 2017
The Chronicle of Higher Education has named Ariel Anbar, a President’s Professor in Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space...
October 21, 2017
Arizona has the eighth-largest migrant student population in the U.S. but only about 20 percent make it further than high school. The...
October 20, 2017
Arizona State University student Andrea Smolsey went swimming with the frogs — or rather smelling with the frogs — this summer during a six...
October 20, 2017
A little sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. That is all it takes to keep cyanobacteria — the miniature versions of plants — happy.For this...
October 20, 2017
Growing up in the cold Northeast, Paul Padegimas did not think much about what the desert could offer until he was looking at graduate...
October 19, 2017
Last week the federal government awarded nearly $420,000 to the Navajo and Hopi tribes to prepare for the closure of a coal-fired power...
October 18, 2017
Arizona State University's School of International Letters and Cultures is offering students a chance to explore a range of international...
October 18, 2017
So unusual was the 1918 influenza, which killed an estimated 3 to 5 percent of the world’s population, that its symptoms were often...
October 18, 2017
What’s the best type of training for an academic professional who teaches in large classrooms and aspires to become a public intellectual?...
October 18, 2017
The unexpected success of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit “Hamilton” went a long way to rekindle Americans’ interest in the story of our...
October 18, 2017
Human populations feature a broad palette of skin tones. But until now, few genes have been shown to contribute to normal variation in skin...
October 18, 2017
The love of her hometown is what motivates political science major Alexa Scholl. The passion for her community inspired her to run for city...
October 17, 2017
With a new round of nuclear brinkmanship between Washington and Pyongyang and the fly-by of a near-Earth asteroid in the headlines the past...
October 17, 2017
When Mayo Clinic School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, readied a group of volunteers for its summer Medical Brigades Volunteer...
October 17, 2017
As the Harvey Weinstein scandal continues to dominate national headlines and new survivors come forward on a near daily basis, some believe...
October 17, 2017
Exploration. Creative observation. Removing the limits of conventional thinking.These are the words of Arizona State University art...
October 17, 2017
In 1980, the city of Tucson and the Arizona Department of Water Resources began an ambitious plan to replenish Tucson’s depleted aquifers....
October 16, 2017
It is hard to imagine that something that happened 500 years ago could still influence world events today, but that is exactly what many...
October 16, 2017
On Aug. 17 at 5:41:04 a.m. Mountain Standard Time, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected a burst of...
October 16, 2017
On Aug. 17 at 5:41:04 a.m. Mountain Standard Time, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected a burst of...
October 16, 2017
Student veterans, cadets and midshipmen will gear up for the second annual flag football tournament to honor America’s service members for...
October 16, 2017
North Korea. Iran. Trump’s tough talk on beefing up the U.S. nuclear arsenal.Not since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 has the world heard...
October 13, 2017
By any measure, the asteroid impact on the Yucatan Peninsula some 66 million years ago was huge. The asteroid was estimated to be 6 to 9...
October 13, 2017
Four esteemed individuals are being recognized for bringing honor to their alma mater at Arizona State University. They’ve overcome hurdles...
October 13, 2017
Fresh pasta, ideally ravioli with ricotta and spinach. Pizza and antipasto, made from organic ingredients sourced from local farms. These...
October 13, 2017
Since Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico three weeks ago, 83 percent of the island is without power and 36 percent has no running water....
October 13, 2017
A team of ASU scientists led by Professor Alexandra Ros in the School of Molecular Sciences and the Biodesign Center for Applied Structural...
October 13, 2017
A supernova of innovation, Silicon Valley has been drawing the brightest, most creative employees for decades. And increasingly, those...
October 12, 2017
Two former senators, a liberal Democrat and a conservative Republican, had a discussion at Arizona State University on Thursday about how...
October 12, 2017
For the past 30 years, Linda Costigan Lederman, Arizona State University professor of human communication and director of the Hugh Downs...
October 12, 2017
All of Arizona State University celebrates when its students win prestigious awards.The journey to those prominent scholarships and...
October 12, 2017
A new NASA study, with support from an Arizona State University atmospheric scientist, provides space-based evidence that Earth’s tropical...
October 10, 2017
Death is a part of life.For some people — 10-20 percent, according to the American Psychiatric Association — it’s much too big a part of...
October 10, 2017
Ever since his first visit to Arizona State University, alumnus Abraham Hamadeh knew it was the ideal place for him to study political...
October 9, 2017
With government leaders still undecided on the subject of national health care and the fate of millions of Americans hanging in the balance...
October 9, 2017
Two weeks ago Angela Merkel won a fourth term as Germany’s chancellor. At the same time, however, a far-right party, Alternative for...
October 9, 2017
F. G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry at M.I.T. Richard R. Schrock, a Nobel laureate with many internationally contested awards, will be the...
October 8, 2017
Infectious-disease researchers at Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University are working on a new test to detect valley fever more quickly...
October 5, 2017
Arizona State University’s water initiative announced a sweeping new strategic plan this week.Spurning the typical narrative of scarcity,...
October 5, 2017
Do you ever wonder about the origins of democracy? The CLASroom, a new video series from Arizona State University’s College of Liberal Arts...
October 5, 2017
Join ASU Gammage for a night that will explore the explosive relationship between Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the wider drama of...
October 4, 2017
In his in his award-winning book "Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change," Arizona State University Professor...
October 4, 2017
NASA's longest-lived mission to Mars has gained its first look at the Martian moon Phobos, pursuing a deeper understanding by examining it...
October 3, 2017
Hacking can imply something negative: your identity stolen, your bank account emptied. Can it go the other way?An Arizona State University...
October 3, 2017
Shock, sadness, fear, anger, confusion. Life as they know it just took a dramatic turn for hundreds of people in the aftermath of this...
October 3, 2017
Change isn’t always grand or sweeping. Sometimes something as simple as a blog, can open people’s eyes to a global issue that needs our...
October 2, 2017
The increasing globalization of U.S. colleges is inspiring professors and school administrators to find creative ways to compete with...
September
September 29, 2017
In the week marked by Angela Merkel’s historic re-election as chancellor of Germany, another woman of global political prominence called on...
September 29, 2017
Three Arizona State University professors were honored at the Victoria Foundation’s eighth annual Arizona Higher Education Awards ceremony...
September 29, 2017
In June 2017, three Arizona State University students received a very exciting email — they had been selected to attend the Clinton Global...
September 28, 2017
More than 30 years ago, a scholarship program was set up to coax promising young Arizonans into attending one of the state’s public...
September 28, 2017
Shortly after NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew past Earth at a distance of about 11,000 miles on Sept. 22, an ASU-built spectrometer...
September 27, 2017
Last week, Gannett Company’s USA Today network of 20 newspapers published a project about the U.S.-Mexico border and what kind of an impact...
September 27, 2017
What is it about dogs that make them so cool? Why are they so friendly with humans? How did they develop certain social skills that allow...
September 27, 2017
For 52 years at Arizona State University, David William Foster has studied a myriad of subjects related to Spanish, women and gender...
September 26, 2017
Two profound changes have shaped the Earth. One happened about 2 billion years ago when our atmosphere became flooded with oxygen and made...
September 26, 2017
It’s a spacecraft the size of a shoebox, and, if all goes well, it will launch on a voyage to the moon in about two years.NASA greenlit the...
September 25, 2017
Since graduating with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Arizona State University, Amanda Ventura has been developing her writing...
September 25, 2017
Scialog – Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation have named Banu Ozkan and Steve Presse,...
September 24, 2017
Elizabeth Capaldi Phillips, the energetic, purpose-driven and passionate educator who served as Arizona State University’s provost and...
September 22, 2017
As an out-of-state, incoming first-year student to Arizona State University, Angelica Berner decided to attend an Early Start program in...
September 22, 2017
John Holloway, emeritus professor of chemistry and geology in Arizona State University's School for Molecular Sciences and world-famous...
September 21, 2017
ASU Japanese Lecturer Bradley Wilson wishes his American students knew more about the cultural influences behind the anime comics they love...
September 21, 2017
Bouncing back.How do you recover from a setback?It’s an age-old question that the Arizona State University community is pondering in...
September 21, 2017
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma decimated Florida and the Houston area with destructive winds and torrential rains. These intense hurricanes...
September 21, 2017
The debut of the new Ken Burns 10-part documentary series “The Vietnam War” on PBS last weekend brought back a period in American history...
September 20, 2017
Alzheimer’s, a mysterious disease of cognitive decline, was first recognized a century ago. The unremitting illness continues to frustrate...
September 18, 2017
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will host the annual Jonathan and Maxine Marshall Distinguished...
September 18, 2017
Kevin J. McGraw, a professor with Arizona State University's School of Life Sciences, has been named the 2017 Elliott Coues Award winner by...
September 18, 2017
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in public relations and communication from the University of Southern California, Sarah Tracy did...
September 15, 2017
Russian war games or Trojan Horse? Many Western defense ministries and militaries have expressed concern that “Zapad 2017” is the latter —...
September 15, 2017
In August 2015, the ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Founding Director Leah Gerber and graduate student affiliate Beth Tellman from the...
September 14, 2017
The Cassini space probe will end its mission early Friday morning. After 13 years orbiting Saturn, traveling some 4.9 billion miles total,...
September 14, 2017
The Cassini space probe will end its mission early Friday morning. After 13 years orbiting Saturn, traveling some 4.9 billion miles total,...
September 14, 2017
Think Americans have a pretty firm grasp on the basics of U.S. government? Think again.The annual Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey...
September 13, 2017
Arizona's official climatologist says she thinks the recent trio of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Jose may simply be a terrible and...
September 13, 2017
At the beginning of the year, Arizona State University publicly launched Campaign ASU 2020, a comprehensive effort to raise the long-term...
September 13, 2017
Knowing the lay of the land is crucial for first responders during emergencies and for civic planners making decisions that direct a city's...
September 13, 2017
Mia Armstrong is a senior at ASU majoring in global studies and journalism. With the assistance of the Global Studies Travel Grant offered...
September 12, 2017
Since he was a young child, Steven Slugocki has been attending sporting events and cheering on the Sun Devils. He never considered pursuing...
September 12, 2017
It’s official: Anthropology has gone high tech. From online museum exhibits to digital repositories and even the use of satellites to...
September 11, 2017
Still packing powerful rains and winds, the remnants of Hurricane Irma continue to wreak havoc in cities along the Gulf Coast after a...
September 8, 2017
ASU senior Monet Niesluchowski gave Phileas Fogg, the protagonist of Jules Verne’s classic adventure novel “Around the World in Eighty Days...
September 8, 2017
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have displaced scores of humans, many of whom have equally frightened pets. Although pets experience life...
September 8, 2017
Arizona State University’s new School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership is establishing a new campus tradition with its...
September 7, 2017
The flooding in Houston was exacerbated by how the city was built. Like many cities, Houston basically paved over the existing landscape, a...
September 7, 2017
Polluted beach samples from Japan, whale poop stickers and bamboo cutlery. No, this isn’t something out of a marine biology trip; these are...
September 7, 2017
This June, Arizona State University political science major Suzette Warren traded in the 100-degree desert heat for the fast-paced 65 of...
September 6, 2017
Arizona State University is a key player in a new health research initiative designed to harness the expertise of scientists across the...
September 6, 2017
“Life likes to live,” Kevin Haight said after viewing a photo of reddish-brown swirls in a floodwater eddy in southeast Texas.Haight, a...
September 5, 2017
Literature is rife with interpretations of home: There’s no place like it in the “Wizard of Oz”; the land Scarlett O’Hara lives on in “Gone...
August
August 31, 2017
For nearly a dozen years, ASU’s Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture has prompted scholarly discussions on the role of cinema, media...
August 31, 2017
Grocery shopping while hungry is a bad idea, often leading to regrettable surrender to momentary cravings. Yet we fall victim to this...
August 30, 2017
Floyd Abrams, the prominent First Amendment attorney who represented The New York Times in the landmark Pentagon Papers Supreme Court case...
August 30, 2017
Arizona State University Associate Professor Professor Michael Tueller walks down the flight of 26 steps that serves as the entrance to...
August 29, 2017
During the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, ASU’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) captured an image of the moon’s shadow over a...
August 29, 2017
Rolling a ball to a baby can be adorable fun, but it’s also a way to build a crucial bond that can affect the child’s emotional growth.Play...
August 28, 2017
Hurricane Harvey, still stalled in the Gulf Coast region, has poured more than 20 inches of rain over the Houston area since Aug. 25.ASU...
August 28, 2017
Education is what’s left after you’ve forgotten what you learned in school, Albert Einstein said.Curiosity and learning how to learn — what...
August 28, 2017
Local NBC 12 News recently sought the expert advice of Arizona State University's Megan Pratt to address the controversy about delaying...
August 28, 2017
One of the greatest difficulties plaguing efforts to find effective treatments for Alzheimer’s is the enormous lag between the disease’s...
August 25, 2017
Arizona State University's reputation for innovation stems from many sources, especially faculty members. At the School of International...
August 25, 2017
A team of scientists from ASU’s School of Molecular Sciences and Pennsylvania State University has taken us a step closer to unlocking the...
August 23, 2017
After falling in love with the campus on a tour his junior year of high school, Logan Rhind decided to pursue an undergraduate degree and...
August 21, 2017
It is said that one of the best ways to learn a language is to immerse yourself in the culture. At Arizona State University’s SILC Café, a...
August 21, 2017
It didn't matter that Tempe wasn't in the path of totality of Monday's solar eclipse — thousands turned up on the Tempe campus for the...
August 18, 2017
Three undergraduate biochemistry students from Arizona State University's School of Molecular Sciences presented at the Helios Scholars...
August 18, 2017
Study abroad programs give participants — faculty and students alike — an opportunity to learn alongside others in order to understand...
August 18, 2017
We all know the type. The project co-worker who doesn’t really work on the project, but shows up for the group photo. The dinner companion...
August 17, 2017
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles of fall 2017 incoming ASU students.When he wasn’t voraciously reading during his...
August 16, 2017
A research collaboration led by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has for the first time created a three-dimensional movie showing a...
August 16, 2017
The nation’s first School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University has named professor Lisa Magaña as the new interim director of...
August 15, 2017
What if one day, we could teach our bodies to self-heal like a lizard’s tail, and make severe injury or disease no more threatening than a...
August 15, 2017
If, like Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, you want to see the sun blotted out from the sky and painted black, then you are in luck. Your...
August 14, 2017
Arizona State University’s Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing has appointed Regents’ Professor and Arizona’s inaugural poet...
August 14, 2017
Going to college is all about making connections — to professors, mentors and new friends. The Sun Devil Family Association has created a...
August 11, 2017
Six alumni, who graduated from the largest and most diverse college at Arizona State University, have joined forces to create a renewed...
August 10, 2017
Jason Bruner was inspired by his engaging professors in college and graduate school. He hoped to emulate the example set forth by pursuing...
August 10, 2017
Diamonds are among the most coveted objects in the world. As gemstones, they are brilliant, rare and symbolic. As a raw material, they are...
August 10, 2017
Ants genetically engineered to lack their “sense of smell” became unable to communicate, forage or compete to be a queen, as their antennae...
August 10, 2017
The college experience is vastly different to that of high school. To help prepare students for their transition to ASU, the School of...
August 10, 2017
The ideals of a presidential candidate, the histories of persecuted peoples and the motives behind terror attacks are all things that can...
August 9, 2017
The worldwide Zika threat first emerged in 2015, infecting millions as it swept across the Americas. It struck great fear in pregnant women...
August 9, 2017
A loss of oxygen in global ocean seawater 94 million years ago led to a mass extinction of marine life that lasted for roughly half a...
August 8, 2017
Scientists have for the first time edited genes in human embryos to fix a disease-causing mutation, according to a paper published (...
August 4, 2017
Air travel may be the quickest way to get to your vacation destination, but it’s also one of the speediest ways for infectious diseases to...
August 3, 2017
Alexander Avina grew up the son of undocumented Mexican migrants in California, constantly aware that at any moment his parents could be...
August 2, 2017
A team led by geoscientists from Arizona State University and Michigan State University has used computer modeling to explain how pockets...
August 1, 2017
The threads of history are often found in the daily life of people, and Matthew Delmont has been exploring that theme.The Arizona State...
August 1, 2017
To catch a serial killer, homicide detectives must quickly and accurately find clues. Trace evidence left at a crime scene may eventually...
July
July 31, 2017
In pursuit of a career that embodied her appreciation for language, Arizona State University alumna Elizabeth Meadows became a speech-...
July 28, 2017
One of the billions of small steps man needs to take to reach Mars was taken last week.Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin announced it is...
July 27, 2017
Arizona State University student Alicia Ellis’s trip to Ghana this summer was two-pronged.First, a co-director was needed to assist in...
July 27, 2017
Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell’s body was discovered by a bodyguard in a posh Detroit hotel room following a May 17 concert. Last week...
July 27, 2017
Nancy Grimm, a professor in Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union....
July 27, 2017
Every day, enough sunlight hits the Earth to power the planet many times over — if only we could more efficiently capture all the energy.So...
July 26, 2017
In June 2016, an international team of 31 astronomers, led by the University of Maryland's Eleanora Troja and including Arizona State...
July 26, 2017
The interdisciplinary nexus of biology and engineering, known as synthetic biology, is growing at a rapid pace, opening new vistas that...
July 25, 2017
ASU astronomers Sangeeta Malhotra and James Rhoads, working with international teams in Chile and China, have discovered 23 young galaxies...
July 24, 2017
Alzheimer’s disease tragically ravages the brains, memories and, ultimately, personalities of its victims. Now affecting 5 million...
July 24, 2017
With many major universities nationwide charging $500 or more a year for parking, two students at Arizona State University created a...
July 20, 2017
In the week marking the sixth anniversary of the end of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, scientists continue to make the case for space....
July 20, 2017
Imagine working for the harshest corporation in the world.Naturally, they want to maximize production and growth. This is done by investing...
July 18, 2017
One small step for man ... one giant reason to celebrate each year.Thursday's National Moon Day commemorates July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11...
July 17, 2017
Update: Professor Devoney Looser's new book, “The Making of Jane Austen,” was reviewed this month in the New York Times, and Looser's...
July 17, 2017
Richard FabesThe recent article, “How to Raise a Feminist Son”, published in the New York Times on June 1, 2017, takes a closer look at the...
July 17, 2017
Three graduate students from Arizona State University’s T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics have been selected as...
July 14, 2017
As human beings, what drives us to higher levels of existence? Once we have satisfied the basics — food, shelter, a mate, children — then...
July 13, 2017
The annual summer monsoon: torrential thunderstorms, heavy rain, damaged roofs, uprooted trees, dusty vehicles and repeated trips to the...
July 13, 2017
Mike Tueller has many talents. He completed an academic conference paper in high school, served in the U.S. Navy and studied at Harvard...
July 12, 2017
Brian H. Smith, an accomplished researcher in behavioral neuroscience and professor at the School of Life Sciences, has been named...
July 12, 2017
Sarah Tracy, professor in Arizona State University's Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, believes in the importance of discovering...
July 11, 2017
From Italy to Iceland to Indonesia, volcanoes have been worshipped and venerated for centuries, seen as the abode of angry and capricious...
July 10, 2017
An important contributor to the efficiency in Photosystem II is mediation of charge separation by a tyrosine residue (Tyrz). Oxidation of...
July 9, 2017
Sometimes Arizona State University’s mission is carried out far beyond the boundaries of campus.This summer two ASU faculty members — Lindy...
July 9, 2017
Update: The National Council of La Raza on Monday said it will change its name to UnidosUS ("UnitedUS").Young Latinos need to embrace the...
July 7, 2017
Editor's note: This is the first in our weeklong monsoon series. To read the second story, about social media's influence on storm coverage...
July 7, 2017
Arizona State University’s Master of Urban and Environmental Planning program, in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning,...
July 7, 2017
Imagine you’re on a 28-mile journey that takes you across icy rivers and up steep jungle trails. After a grueling two days, you and your...
July 3, 2017
Any writer will tell you their craft is a mostly solitary one, requiring hours of time spent alone on reflection, execution and revision...
July 3, 2017
Arizona State University alumnus Matt Shindell found a way to bring all his interests together in a career many would rank high on their...
July 3, 2017
As of July 1, 2017, manufacturers must phase out plastic microbeads from personal-care products sold in the United States.What are...
July 3, 2017
Arizona State University geoscientist Everett Shock has collaborated with a team of life scientists from Montana State University to...
June
June 30, 2017
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University welcomes five new administrators into leadership ranks. The professors...
June 30, 2017
Bioarchaeology is a young but quickly growing field that studies how people from the past lived and died, and is most often described as a...
June 30, 2017
Darien Keane will spend the month of July halfway across the world teaching communication to benefit students of another country.Keane,...
June 30, 2017
Whether or not society shakes its addiction to oil and gasoline will depend on a number of profound environmental, geopolitical and...
June 29, 2017
The term “global security” can be vague, encompassing any number of issues, from climate change to autonomous weapons systems to food...
June 29, 2017
Planets get all the attention — just look at the ruckus raised when Pluto was demoted or anytime NASA announces exoplanet discoveries.But...
June 29, 2017
Ray Henkel, a much-beloved professor of geography at Arizona State University for 29 years, passed away earlier this year on March 11 at...
June 28, 2017
The Arizona Debate Institute, hosted by Arizona State University, is the largest summer debate institute for college students in the nation...
June 27, 2017
“How to register to vote?”That was the second-most-searched “how to” question on Google in 2016. In the fast-paced age of information,...
June 27, 2017
When male chimpanzees of the world’s largest known troop patrol the boundaries of their territory in Ngogo, Uganda, they walk silently in...
June 26, 2017
Editor's note: Lluis Algue Sala is a doctoral student at the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University. In...
June 23, 2017
An essay contest for math people? Sounded like an intriguing idea to Arizona State University student Zhihan Jennifer Zhang.Zhang won this...
June 23, 2017
About 5 million people in the world speak Albanian, making it one of the less common languages. It’s not even in the top 100.But with the...
June 21, 2017
Many students have passions outside of their studies, but recent Arizona State University graduate Antonieta Carpenter-Cosand leveraged her...
June 21, 2017
The biophysics program at Arizona State University mirrors the field itself in both its interdisciplinary breadth and its youth.Biology,...
June 21, 2017
When Apollo astronauts on the moon spoke with Mission Control on Earth, there was a noticeable time gap between a statement from...
June 21, 2017
The center of a mother’s life tends to be her children and her family, but if Mom is unhappy about staying home with the kids or about...
June 20, 2017
Will this week’s high temperatures in Phoenix make it into the record book? Can we top 122 degrees Fahrenheit?We don’t know yet, but as we...
June 19, 2017
In a world transformed by globalization, many individuals find themselves working with others across national borders and cultural barriers...
June 15, 2017
Volcanos that erupt explosively are the most dangerous in the world. When they blow, they eject giant clouds of hot ash mixed with gases at...
June 14, 2017
“There’s an app for that!” has become a common saying that now applies to many aspects in the religious realm, according to Pauline Cheong...
June 13, 2017
One in five adults cannot read above a fifth-grade level, according to a study from the U.S. Department of Education and the National...
June 13, 2017
Evolution is a propulsive force, working incessantly to reshape life on earth, from the lowliest single-celled organisms to the planet’s...
June 12, 2017
Doctoral student Ashley Wheeler believes in the importance of protecting cultural world heritage.This summer Wheeler is part of an...
June 9, 2017
As Indonesia looks to become a bigger player on the world stage, Arizona State University is forging ties that recognize the country’s...
June 9, 2017
In the study of government, tracking corruption in political systems is important. Changing patterns in corruption allow for researchers to...
June 9, 2017
While millions of travelers will frolic on the beach during their summer vacations, most are blissfully unaware of the billions of...
June 9, 2017
Gina Woodall, a senior lecturer in the School of Politics and Global Studies, bleeds maroon and gold. She was an undergraduate student, a...
June 9, 2017
Biomimicry is an approach to problem-solving that looks at how nature has already done it. In this philosophy, people create a sustainable...
June 8, 2017
The “Great American Eclipse” is making a return engagement this summer.On Aug. 21, the sun, moon and Earth will realign for a spectacular...
June 7, 2017
Amy Rajnisz was that one student in high school who could never answer the question: "What do you want to be when you grow up?"So after...
June 6, 2017
Mike Tueller, a classics professor at Arizona State University’s School of International Letters and Cultures, has been praised by the New...
June 6, 2017
When community college transfer students start taking courses at a larger, more complex university setting, they face a variety of...
June 6, 2017
In her final weeks as a dancer with the New York City Ballet, Wendy Whelan famously said, “In ballet, if you’re over 40, you’re a dinosaur...
June 6, 2017
Arizona State University’s Department of English is feeling a little pride in the name of Alberto Rios: the Regents' Professor's work is...
June 5, 2017
In May, faculty of Arizona State University's School of International Letters and Cultures — including Professors Stephen West, Xiaoqiao...
June 5, 2017
For decades, researchers have studied the interior of the Earth using seismic waves from earthquakes. Now a recent study, led by Arizona...
June 4, 2017
Over the weekend, moviegoers everywhere flocked to theaters for the premiere of the latest DC-Warner Bros. vehicle “Wonder Woman”; the...
June 1, 2017
Cocaine trafficking in Central America, a long-known and often discussed topic, is having a surprising impact — shrinking tropical forests....
June 1, 2017
International funding has allowed Jonathan Pettigrew to travel to Cardiff University, DECIPHer unit, in Wales, United Kingdom to develop a...
June 1, 2017
Far out in the asteroid belt, more than 200 million miles from Earth, an asteroid the size of a Volkswagen Beetle lazily orbited the sun....
June 1, 2017
Arizona State University alumnus Thom Brooks has garnered international acclaim for his work on ethics, public policy, law and politics. As...
June 1, 2017
While newscasts and political discourse seem to highlight a divided word, an Arizona State University doctoral student student has found...
June 1, 2017
Elena Steiner has always wanted to travel beyond U.S. borders to see what intercultural educators, trainers, and researchers are doing and...
June 1, 2017
The word “justice” evokes thoughts of courtrooms, police officers, lawyers and judges for most people. But Arizona State University student...
May
May 31, 2017
They have what most would want — affluent upwardly mobile parents, living in comfortable homes in the suburbs, going to an elite high...
May 31, 2017
Slow and steady wins the race.While that may have been true in one of Aesop’s classic fables, the Mojave Desert tortoise may need to adapt...
May 30, 2017
After years of helping create educational content for younger audiences, Karla Moeller has published her first children’s book: “Joryn...
May 30, 2017
In an Arizona summer, the best parking spot is not the one by the door. It’s the one a quarter-mile away under a tree.Ariane Middel,...
May 26, 2017
On Oct. 13, 2014, something very strange happened to the camera aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The Lunar Reconnaissance...
May 24, 2017
Phoenix Comicon will celebrate all things geek this weekend, including science fiction, comic books, superheroes, cosplay and fantasy....
May 24, 2017
Psyche, NASA’s Discovery Mission to a unique metal asteroid, has been moved up one year with launch in the summer of 2022, and with a...
May 24, 2017
Arizona State University Professor of English Mark Lussier has been appointed Visiting Research Fellow in Medical Humanities at Worcester...
May 24, 2017
For Alex Carrillo, what started as a major requirement has evolved into a passion for French, and for building communities at Arizona State...
May 23, 2017
The way Alberto Rios tells it, it’s like it was fated to happen: He was going to lead a public art project to celebrate South Phoenix, but...
May 22, 2017
The U.S.-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCAS-E) held a workshop in Islamabad, Pakistan this spring with the hopes of...
May 22, 2017
Exclusively made up of indigenous professors, the American Indian Studies program at Arizona State University motivates the next generation...
May 18, 2017
It wasn’t until her second year as a doctoral candidate at ASU that Tracey Flores first read Chicana author Gloria Anzaldua, and it changed...
May 18, 2017
As an electrical engineer, Associate Professor Jennifer Blain Christen has spent a good portion of her career dabbling in different fields....
May 18, 2017
A new class of Arizona State University graduates are looking to join the workforce or continue school. Alisa Turkina, however, has two...
May 18, 2017
A recent missile launch has thrust North Korea back into the national defense conversation, sparking concerns that the test might be a...
May 18, 2017
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced today world records for the highest reported historical death tolls from tropical...
May 17, 2017
Editor's note: Milton Sommerfeld, a professor at Arizona State University's Department of Applied Biological Sciences at the Polytechnic...
May 17, 2017
A new Ebola outbreak in remote areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has some public health officials on guard for larger outbreaks...
May 17, 2017
Arizona State University students Samantha Sanders and Ryan Featherston are championship winners in the 16th Annual Chinese Bridge Chinese...
May 16, 2017
Ranging from diverse areas such as cancer research to energy storage, Arizona State University's School of Molecular Sciences graduate...
May 16, 2017
Understanding current and future security challenges requires a holistic, multi-faceted approach linking a variety of areas of expertise...
May 15, 2017
Arizona State University researchers have contributed to a study that offers the first comprehensive assessment of what was going on in the...
May 15, 2017
Since he was a student at Arizona State University, Dominick Howard has understood the importance of networking and developing professional...
May 12, 2017
Hope you were nice to your mom on Mother’s Day, because it turns out she was right all along: Hanging out with the wrong crowd can lead you...
May 12, 2017
There are nearly 200 countries in the world today. In those countries there are various religions, age groups, social interests and...
May 12, 2017
Professor Devoney Looser in the Department of English at Arizona State University found her calling to encourage deep thinking and foster...
May 11, 2017
Let’s say you have a complex, scientific story to tell, like you want to point out the irony that while researchers have determined the...
May 9, 2017
Bees. Again.When they’re buzzing at Arizona State University’s four Phoenix-area campuses, your phone buzzes too. Even if you’re in another...
May 9, 2017
Jupiter's moon Europa is definitely an odd place. Discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, it was first seen in detail only in the late 1970s...
May 9, 2017
Summer means graduation, vacations and — perhaps, most of all — blockbuster films.This year Hollywood studios are banking on "Wonder Woman...
May 8, 2017
Arizona State University's outstanding graduates — both at the undergraduate and graduate level — have already started to change the world...
May 5, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Jacob Martin, a graduating...
May 5, 2017
As a way to highlight student achievement and inspire future outreach, Arizona State University's ASASU Council of Presidents sponsored the...
May 5, 2017
Over the years Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies has developed working groups that emphases on advancing...
May 5, 2017
The United States is home to more than 320 million people from dozens of countries and ancestries, in addition to Native American peoples....
May 4, 2017
So you think Cinco de Mayo is a made-up holiday contrived to sell stereotypically Mexican bar food and alcohol to gringos? Turns out, you’...
May 3, 2017
The School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences recently hosted its annual Scholarship and Awards Ceremony celebrating outstanding...
May 3, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Graduating Arizona State...
May 3, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Nearly 60 years old, Cindi Tanner...
May 2, 2017
Arizona State University alumna DeAnn Davies always wanted to be a pediatrician, but gaining more insight into the profession lead her down...
May 2, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Graduating Arizona State...
May 2, 2017
Zalabiyya is a dish of fried dough pieces served with sugar or honey. In Sudan, it’s a common offering at afternoon tea, and Brenda Baker...
May 2, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.It’s no secret that women are...
May 2, 2017
From cultural influence and global insight to interdisciplinary learning, the study of religion has an extraordinary impact on some of...
May 2, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Hailing from Salcha, Alaska, 40...
May 2, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Matthew Hernandez faced some...
May 1, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Raymond Ceo believes in Arizona....
May 1, 2017
Like many children growing up, Clive Wynne had a cherished, but not always so well-behaved dog. In fact, Benji was sometimes downright...
May 1, 2017
Growing up, Dyan Urias took it as a given that one day she’d go to college, but it wasn’t until high school that she began to understand...
May 1, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Megan Kelly is a graduating...
May 1, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.First-generation college student...
May 1, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.After dropping out of college,...
April
April 29, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Southern California native...
April 29, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Growing up in the suburbs of...
April 29, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Brigitte Nicoletti's interest in...
April 29, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.It’s often a course, research...
April 29, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.School of Molecular Sciences...
April 29, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.A former government contractor,...
April 29, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Growing up in the small town of...
April 29, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.As an aspiring ecologist, Eric...
April 29, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Amanda Bayham grew up with a...
April 29, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Ashton Grove knew early on what...
April 29, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.In her journey to graduation from...
April 29, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.A pivotal moment in Erin Schulte’...
April 28, 2017
Stars are the most commonly observed objects in the universe. Now, with a new $2.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF...
April 28, 2017
NASA has selected an instrument developed by Mark Robinson of ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) and Malin Space Science...
April 27, 2017
Kenneth L. Shropshire, an international expert in the intersection of sports, business, law and society and director of the Wharton Sports...
April 27, 2017
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2017 commencement. See more graduates here.Jennifer Kahn is graduating from...
April 27, 2017
The wood-burning fireplace is now a reading nook and the once-bare walls are covered with bright posters, but the Child Development Lab at...
April 26, 2017
As the academic year comes to a close, Arizona State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recognizes exceptional faculty...
April 25, 2017
At Arizona State University's School of International Letters and Cultures, teaching language helps prepare students for a globalized...
April 25, 2017
Celebrity chef Nephi Craig, who made a guest appearance at ASU last weekend, doesn’t run a swanky New York restaurant or yell insults on a...
April 25, 2017
Many students find studying abroad brings cultural awareness and helps their language skills. Edward Garcia, a College of Liberal Arts and...
April 24, 2017
In his first public comments since leaving the White House, former President Barack Obama on Monday called for an increase in civilian...
April 21, 2017
Arizona State University's School of Molecular Sciences recently held its annual Awards and Recognition Ceremony for outstanding students...
April 21, 2017
It was a strong weekend for Sun Devils at the National Forensics Association Nationals last weekend: Arizona State University senior...
April 21, 2017
Twenty years after he helped establish the Department of Chicano/a Studies at ASU, Associate Professor Edward Escobar listened as friends...
April 21, 2017
Native American communities across the U.S. face pressures most of mainstream society never considers, but a unique group of ASU students...
April 21, 2017
Sha Xin Wei, the director of the School of Arts, Media and Engineering, will give a keynote speech at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the...
April 21, 2017
On Tuesday, May 9, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest achieving students from...
April 20, 2017
The Origins Project at Arizona State University will screen two new climate-inspired films and then engage in conversations with leading...
April 19, 2017
Pierre Herckes, professor in the School of Molecular Sciences, recently presented a public lecture on water quality issues as part of the...
April 19, 2017
Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University Alliance for Health Care has chosen eight Alliance Fellows to be part of the inaugural Faculty in...
April 19, 2017
Thanks to an unlikely fusion of disciplines, it’s an interesting time to be dead — especially for the famous. Today, researchers at the...
April 19, 2017
Sometimes it's OK to get a little starry-eyed.That was the case Monday night in Tempe at the Discovery Mission Celebration of the Psyche...
April 18, 2017
Many churches are filled to capacity on religious holidays such as Christmas and Easter, but the pews are often empty the rest of the year....
April 18, 2017
A missing link lies in the chain of astronomers' understanding of how stars and planetary systems are born, but a team of scientists and...
April 17, 2017
Why do animals that live in caves become blind? This question has long intrigued scientists and been the subject of hot debate.Clearly,...
April 17, 2017
In an effort to get young kids excited about the field of archaeology, Arizona State University held its first-ever mock excavation...
April 17, 2017
Running an independent literary magazine and publishing house is a labor of love.So perhaps it’s no mistake that Four Chambers Press is...
April 14, 2017
Cities are slowing the pace of life for birds — and maybe humans.A visiting scientist at Arizona State University is investigating why some...
April 13, 2017
Lexie Vanderveen, a junior at the School of International Letters and Cultures, will participate in the prestigious Critical Language...
April 13, 2017
Arizona State University’s Center for Meteorite Studies looks for clues about the formation of the solar system by studying the...
April 13, 2017
Genocide has been a thread through humanity, stretching back centuries and into modern times.Several Arizona State University experts will...
April 12, 2017
Mothers who work as health care professionals — such as physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners — can reduce their stress...
April 12, 2017
An ASU-led project that makes it easier for humans and robots to communicate is among the contenders for a spot in an international...
April 11, 2017
Many countries like the United States have introduced citizenship tests that migrants must pass to become a citizen.Thom Brooks, Arizona...
April 11, 2017
Felina Rodriguez is a current student at Arizona State University studying political science, and Spanish literature and culture. With the...
April 10, 2017
Imagine you’ve devoted years and years, even decades, gathering knowledge and insights in your given fields of study. Now imagine you’re...
April 10, 2017
For the past 17 years, Roberto Gaxiola has been in an exclusive relationship. But it has nothing to do with his social life. Gaxiola is a...
April 7, 2017
Horseback riding instructor by day and an author by night, Arizona State University alumna Brooke S. Passey has followed her bliss to find...
April 7, 2017
Arizona State University archaeology student Claudine Gravel-Miguel went into her field of study 10 years ago simply for love of travel....
April 6, 2017
Arizona State University has long been a leader in conservation, offering the first comprehensive degree on the concept through its School...
April 5, 2017
For the first time, Arizona will be hosting the nationally recognized Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon), bringing together...
April 5, 2017
Heated rhetoric and finger-pointing dominate U.S. politics and headlines. But what happens to the people whose stories don’t make the news...
April 5, 2017
Neal Lester is quite aware of how music and social movements can bring people together in divisive times, but when rock guitarist Dick...
April 4, 2017
Charles Wexler did not believe in muddling classes with tests. Class time was for learning. Testing — a far lesser pursuit — was for...
April 4, 2017
Professor of religious studies Anne Feldhaus has begun her position as president-elect of the Association for Asian Studies and is looking...
April 3, 2017
Nearly 900 Arizona middle and high school students and parents were connected with college-readiness resources and the opportunity to learn...
April 1, 2017
There are 5 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s, 1 million with Parkinson’s and nearly half a million with multiple sclerosis. And...
March
March 31, 2017
From finding a movie to watch on Netflix, navigating traffic with Waze or Google Maps, fine-tuning your household budget with apps like...
March 31, 2017
Gerhard Wagner, Elkan Rogers Blout Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the Harvard Medical School, is the...
March 31, 2017
Fifth-grader Aditya Narayanan knew that a dinosaur tail with feathers was discovered in a mine in Myanmar and that the world’s largest...
March 30, 2017
More than 40 students filled the School of Politics and Global Studies conference room late Friday afternoon to hear from the U.S. Army War...
March 30, 2017
Women in recent generations have made remarkable progress in academia and the workforce — but there’s a lot left to do.As Women’s History...
March 30, 2017
Arizona State University announced today that Joshua LaBaer, a leading researcher in cancer and personalized medicine, has been appointed...
March 28, 2017
Update March 21: Governor praises geography bee contestants for dedication to STEM; find out who won.----Geography trivia: What building is...
March 28, 2017
“Who’s a good dog? You are, aren’t you? Yes, you’re the best dog that ever was.”But is he really a good dog? Can you really tell when you’...
March 27, 2017
School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) postdoctoral researcher Adam Beardsley has recently won the prestigious National Science...
March 27, 2017
Evolution and religion often evoke strong emotional responses that can seem undeniably incompatible. Yet, researchers at Arizona State...
March 23, 2017
By some estimates, there are about 10 million species of insects on the planet, but only about a tenth have been named. Key in that...
March 23, 2017
On the heels of Sun Devil Giving Day and quickly approaching graduation, Arizona State University senior Austin Marshall wanted to take the...
March 23, 2017
After Charlie and Lois O’Brien first met in an entomology class, she wanted to go collect insects with him but he turned her down.He was...
March 22, 2017
Researchers often look at how people experience water issues in their communities, but these studies are usually focused on a single region...
March 21, 2017
Linda Hogan (Chickasaw), a prominent poet, novelist, essayist and environmentalist, is the featured speaker in ASU’s Simon Ortiz and...
March 21, 2017
Less than a year ago, Arizona State University received a $10.18 million grant from NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Education Community...
March 20, 2017
Electricity, cellphones and the internet are just a few examples of tools we use every day that have become indispensable to modern life....
March 20, 2017
Environmental news can be all too depressing, with headlines punctuated by the drumbeat of extinction and destruction.There are occasional...
March 17, 2017
Researchers have discovered that despite meat-heavy diets, low levels of good cholesterol and high levels of inflammation, an indigenous...
March 17, 2017
Fulbright Day on Tuesday allows Arizona State University to bolster the reputation it’s earned as a top producer of such scholars, but it’s...
March 16, 2017
If you want to eradicate a deadly disease like cancer, you’ll certainly want to call on doctors, biologists and other health professionals...
March 15, 2017
Ryan Trovitch, assistant professor in Arizona State University's School of Molecular Sciences, has been named recipient of a National...
March 15, 2017
Four faculty members in the School of Molecular Sciences have recently received national recognition for their research and scholarship....
March 15, 2017
Most of modern physics was created in the past 100 years. It took thousands of people from different countries decades to finish what...
March 14, 2017
Update: Friday, March 17Even at the country’s most innovative university you can find innovation in places you might not expect.Take Sun...
March 14, 2017
Mike TuellerWhat does Twitter, one of today’s biggest social media sites, have to do with ancient Greek poetry that was written more than 2...
March 13, 2017
Sure, Google maps can get you where you’re going faster — but it can also help create a healthier, more sustainable city.The rise of low-...
March 10, 2017
A breakthrough is on the horizon for doctoral students and the dissertation process at Arizona State University.Digital portfolios,...
March 10, 2017
Unlocking humanity’s future as an interplanetary species is no simple feat.
But students at Arizona State University and the Central...
March 10, 2017
Arizona State University has been more of a tech hub than ever, with tricked-out cars cruising under the Tempe campus' University Bridge...
March 9, 2017
The stomach of a house finch might hold secrets to how humans absorb nutrients, age and deal with the omniprescence of nighttime light...
March 9, 2017
Rodney Hero, the former president — and first Latino to hold the position — of the American Political Science Association, will be joining...
March 9, 2017
Since its inception, ASU’s Center on the Future of War has led discussions on the emerging role of drones and autonomous weapons, the...
March 8, 2017
Thanks to generous support from two donors who advocate for legal reform in Ukraine, Arizona State University students can learn Ukrainian...
March 8, 2017
Controlled capture and release of carbon dioxide emitted from power plants represents a potential method for reducing the buildup of this...
March 7, 2017
At the intersection of two bachelor’s degrees in political science and journalism plus a Master of Public Policy, an Arizona State...
March 7, 2017
For International Women’s Day on March 8, a range of female professors at ASU shared names of women they consider to be influential and...
March 2, 2017
ASU alumnus Christopher Hale first grew an interest in the relationship between politics and religion from School of Politics and Global...
March 2, 2017
Editor’s note: ASU’s new School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership officially launched Friday. Here are highlights from the...
March 1, 2017
Arizona State University psychology professor and neuroscientist Heather Bimonte-Nelson recently found herself surrounded by hundreds of...
March 1, 2017
The World Meteorological Organization announced Wednesday new verified, record high temperatures in Antarctica, an area once described as “...
March 1, 2017
Arizona State University is a massive engine that runs at warp speed, and a new initiative is inviting a group of campus leaders to look...
March 1, 2017
Arizona State University has hit upon a new solution to help Native American men and boys overcome the host of obstacles that block the...
February
February 28, 2017
Alex Green, assistant professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and the Biodesign Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics, has been...
February 28, 2017
From visiting one of the most beautiful Nordic cities, to exploring interpersonal relationships on beaches in Fiji, to understanding the...
February 28, 2017
The license plate on Matt Chew’s Toyota Tacoma reads “Tamarix.”It’s the scientific name for tamarisk, also called the saltcedar, a shrub...
February 27, 2017
It’s 7 a.m. on a school day and little Susie’s got a stomach ache. Do you tell her to buck up, get dressed and send her to the bus stop, or...
February 27, 2017
It’s a silent, sunny day on the farthest corner of Arizona State University’s Polytechnic campus. There are only two people at the Honey...
February 26, 2017
For five evenings over the course of February, the public was invited onto Arizona State University's campuses for Night of the Open Door ...
February 23, 2017
Academic scholars from prestigious universities, a former senator and a political analyst, among others, will discuss leadership and...
February 23, 2017
We’ve all heard of Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Malcolm X.But what about Juanita Blocker, Bayard Rustin, Chrystal Tulli, Ralph Bunche...
February 22, 2017
Arizona State University is one of the top producers of prestigious Fulbright scholars among research institutions for 2016-17, coming in...
February 22, 2017
As the federal government wrangles over the rights of transgender students, an Arizona State University expert says that politics aside,...
February 22, 2017
It’s 9 a.m. on the second floor of Arizona State University’s Memorial Union building in Tempe, and the sound of mariachi music fills the...
February 22, 2017
The discovery of seven warm, rocky “Earth-like” planets orbiting a star 39 light-years away has created new opportunities for science,...
February 22, 2017
On Sept. 8, 2016, NASA and Arizona State University embarked on a new space mission, OSIRIS-REx. Now on its way to a rendezvous with the...
February 21, 2017
Gemneo Bioscience, the 100th company to spin out from the ideas of ASU faculty and staff, will provide physicians with more optimal cancer...
February 20, 2017
Arizona State University alumnus Daniel Kolk has merged his creative instincts with his education in molecular biology and virology to...
February 20, 2017
Gazing at the night sky conjures deep questions about the universe. Meenakshi Wadhwa, professor at the School of Earth and Space...
February 19, 2017
Microscopy. Big data. Seismology.These are just some of the tools faculty and students at ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts...
February 17, 2017
The grants are small, but the impact is big.A program that gives awards of $1,500 or less to Arizona State University student-led service...
February 16, 2017
In anticipation of National Poetry Month in April, Arizona Poet Laureate and Regents' Professor Alberto Ríos and ASU Now photographers...
February 16, 2017
In an effort to help educate everyday people on the basics of cybersecurity, Future Tense is running a February Futurography package of...
February 16, 2017
The guy at work who contributes squat to a team project. The one who develops alligator arms every time the check arrives. The people you’...
February 16, 2017
ASU Physics Professor Robert Nemanich doesn’t have 99 bottles of beer on the wall; he has 75 bottles of champagne on the top of his desk.It...
February 15, 2017
Arizona State University’s Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery (BCASD) and an international team of scientists have used high...
February 15, 2017
Stewart Fotheringham, University Foundation professor of computational spatial science in Arizona State University's School of Geographical...
February 15, 2017
Vera Coleman has a strong interest in environmental and social debates. Coleman also loves studying Spanish culture, literature and...
February 15, 2017
If you want to know the future, study the past. Confucius said it. Anne Stone embodies it.One part Indiana Jones; one part Charles Darwin;...
February 15, 2017
Arizona State University astronomer Adam Schneider and his colleagues are hunting for an elusive object lost in space between our sun and...
February 14, 2017
Losing the truth is no less disconcerting than losing gravity. Suddenly, you’re down a rabbit hole where nothing makes sense and you don’t...
February 14, 2017
Big cities with lots of people usually garner images of a fast-paced life, where the hustle and bustle of the city is met, and at least...
February 13, 2017
ASU is rapidly becoming known for its out-of-this-world endeavors. From Psyche to CubeSat. From Mars to the moon. Here, in honor of...
February 13, 2017
A newly published report in the journal Science suggests that more field research is needed to understand the fundamental aspects of...
February 13, 2017
Following the resignation of founding artistic director Jewell Parker Rhodes earlier this year, the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative...
February 10, 2017
These black students at Arizona State University want you to know one thing: There isn’t any one thing to know.“Get to know me,” said...
February 10, 2017
An award-winning professor in counseling and psychology, an international expert in linguistics, and a renowned authority in geographical...
February 10, 2017
A two-week workshop at Arizona State University's School of Sustainability brought students from China a new way of systems thinking to...
February 9, 2017
Sometimes during a trial a lawyer will get angry, a witness will speak out of turn or a defendant will have an outburst. The judge will...
February 8, 2017
A translucent drop of pond water clings to the surface of a lily pad, motionless and serene. When placed under high magnification, however...
February 8, 2017
Driven by a desire to embody the faculty at Arizona State University, alumna Lynn Vavreck seeks to inspire her students to chase...
February 8, 2017
For coastal residents of the east African country Mozambique, severe floods that endanger their health and lives are a frequent reality....
February 7, 2017
ASU researcher Gary F. Moore focuses on the future of science — and he hopes that we as a society do, as well.Moore, an assistant professor...
February 6, 2017
Leah Gerber, founding director of Arizona State University’s Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, has been named a Fellow of the Ecological...
February 6, 2017
Your car won’t start, so you take it to a mechanic. They check the ignition, starter, timing belt, spark plugs, anything that might give a...
February 3, 2017
Devoney Looser shows off her Jane Austen leggings.Sometimes artists receive critical acclaim during their lifetimes, but don’t achieve fame...
February 3, 2017
There’s an entire world of microbes invisible to the human eye. Countless microbial communities live everywhere from in the soil to human...
February 3, 2017
ASU alumnus Kaitlyn Fitzgerald is excited to be able to put her global studies degree from Arizona State University's School of Politics...
February 2, 2017
Stretching across the southernmost U.S. states, Interstate 10 is an east-west artery connecting people, cities and economies from sea to...
February 2, 2017
In the aftermath of a separation or divorce, there are real choices that need to be made about where the kids will spend the night.Some...
February 2, 2017
Growing up is hard enough, even under ideal circumstances. But when there is ongoing conflict or chaos in homes or communities, or when...
February 2, 2017
Three Arizona State University faculty were honored by ASU President Michael Crow in a ceremony Wednesday as the university's 2016-2017...
February 1, 2017
ASU and Tempe are offering up a taste of the Old West by hosting the Western POP Film Festival, which runs Wednesday through Friday at the...
February 1, 2017
An ASU researcher has used math in an effort to reduce dropout rates by plotting the exact point where negative peer influences overwhelm...
February 1, 2017
What if your smartphone could tell you that a potential disease or illness is lurking in your immune system? What if instead of contracting...
January
January 31, 2017
Shakespeare with a cast of black actors shouldn’t be a big deal, said actor Jonathan-David.A member of The Acting Company, a renowned New...
January 31, 2017
Searching for new ideas and unique experiences with the family in 2017? Does your New Year’s resolution include medieval knights and chain...
January 31, 2017
Arizona State University student Isabella Jaber shows that learning a language doesn’t just help get you a job, but can elevate your role...
January 30, 2017
A study published Monday by ASU psychology professor Gary Ladd found that contrary to popular assumptions, bullying is more severe and...
January 30, 2017
The sixth annual ASU Prison Education Conference will bring together a broad coalition of experts and community members to discuss criminal...
January 26, 2017
Meet the tiny, hair-lined ciliate, Tetrahymena thermophila. This nondescript pond-loving, pear-shaped protist, only visible through the...
January 24, 2017
Alissa Ruth, an associate academic professional at Arizona State University, knows firsthand that making your way through the many layers...
January 24, 2017
Arizona State University’s Origins Project is hosting a lecture by Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek, where he will discuss the “Materiality of...
January 23, 2017
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the confirmation process for high-court nominees is essentially useless because the public wants...
January 23, 2017
Arizona State University alumnus Nick Lambesis pursued a master degree with one goal in mind: to teach humanities at the college level. But...
January 23, 2017
In 1968, nine sailors set off to race each other around the world single-handedly. Some quit, their boats splintered by high seas. One sunk...
January 20, 2017
The green energy story tends to be rosy: Costa Rica runs entirely on renewables! Portugal runs on wind for four days! Germany comes within...
January 18, 2017
Water management and drought forecasting traditionally meant physically measuring surface water or groundwater, but Arizona State...
January 17, 2017
Arizona State University’s NASA mission to visit a metal asteroid is just beginning, but the first mission that marked the school as a...
January 12, 2017
“Writing, in particular, is a very strong conduit for compassion, empathy and human connection,” said Jake Friedman, coordinator for ASU’s...
January 12, 2017
Tomatoes, prized for their delicious taste and high nutritional content, are one of the most important crops grown around the world. In...
January 12, 2017
“Moral injury” is a term known mostly to the veteran and mental health communities, but military correspondent David Wood wants to...
January 11, 2017
This year the Justice and Social Inquiry faculty in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University is proud to host U.S....
January 11, 2017
Matei Georgescu uses a lot of data in his research, studying how a changing landscape can affect local climate and resources. He looks at...
January 11, 2017
This year the Justice and Social Inquiry faculty in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University is proud to host U.S....
January 11, 2017
Imagine New York without cabs or Beijing without bikes. Imagine city neighborhoods without roads or buses. Now imagine ordering a T-shirt...
January 10, 2017
Kaye Reed, an Arizona State University President’s Professor and a research associate with the Institute of Human Origins, has been named...
January 10, 2017
Hundreds of billions of molecules with odors exist. If you want to create a particular scent or flavor, say char-grilled beef, rose petals...
January 10, 2017
ASU professor Neal A. Lester has won several awards and recognitions throughout his academic career, and on Martin Luther King Jr. Day he’...
January 9, 2017
Director Damien Chazelle’s hit musical “La La Land” has been nominated for 14 Oscars, tying the mark for the most in Academy Award history...
January 8, 2017
Tensions over Russia have flared in the U.S. for weeks: An aide to President Vladimir Putin was among a handful of Russians added to a U.S...
January 6, 2017
The first week of the new year has come to a close and there have been no celebrity obituaries to dominate the news cycle — something that...
January 6, 2017
Throughout all the ages of man, there has been a particular type of person who asks the same question. Fur-clad early modern humans asked...
January 5, 2017
Across STEM fields, women of color share a similar story — just ask Sharon Torres.“I was born and raised in the Philippines, but all my...
January 5, 2017
As Phoenix continues to sprawl toward Tucson, urban planners are working to prevent the entire 100-mile corridor between Arizona’s largest...
January 5, 2017
Arizona State University researchers are poised to help boost innovation in the planning and design of future enhancements to the nation’s...
January 5, 2017
From being a first-generation college student to catching a notorious bank robber featured on "America’s Most Wanted," Arizona State...
January 4, 2017
Arizona State University’s Psyche Mission, a journey to a metal asteroid, has been selected for flight, marking the first time the school...
January 4, 2017
NASA has approved a mission to explore asteroids that scientists — including Arizona State University researchers behind a key component —...
January 3, 2017
You’ve likely heard about being in the right place at the wrong time, but what about having the right genes in the wrong environment? In...
January 3, 2017
Paektu volcano, on the border between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and China, had its most recent eruption circa 946. Dubbed “...
2016
December
December 24, 2016
Whether it’s family tradition, the smell of fresh pine or the convenience of buying a reusable tree at a big-box store, each person has a...
December 22, 2016
The idea started after a depressing climate conference in 2012: ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) professor Steve Desch...
December 22, 2016
The Confucius Institute at Arizona State University was honored as “2016 Confucius Institute of the Year” at the 11th Global Confucius...
December 22, 2016
Archaeologists’ discovery of a brutal, 10,000-year-old massacre at Nataruk grabbed headlines around the globe this year. Their evidence...
December 22, 2016
The old adage “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” has become a sort of cultural trope we rely on when things don’t go our way, but...
December 20, 2016
Wally Stoelzel can’t recall Newton’s laws of motion, but he certainly does not regret studying physics at Arizona State University.“My...
December 20, 2016
Getting a space mission selected by NASA is like running a high-tech obstacle race as hard as you can for years on end — and there’s no...
December 19, 2016
Indigenous arts collective Postcommodity — whose members include two Arizona State University alumni — has been selected to participate in...
December 16, 2016
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2016 commencement. See more graduates here.Many students at ASU are involved...
December 16, 2016
HIV ... SARS ... Ebola ... H1N1 ... Zika.The list of communicable global health threats seems ever growing, and frequently the limited...
December 16, 2016
In 1826, the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt gave Charles X a young female giraffe as a gift. The animal walked 560 miles from Marseilles to Paris...
December 16, 2016
Researchers have known for some time that certain environmental factors in a neighborhood — adequate lighting, access to green space, safe...
December 15, 2016
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2016 commencement. See more graduates here.Battling a chronic illness while...
December 14, 2016
President Barack Obama is urging his successor, Donald Trump, to maintain the newly established U.S. working relationship with Cuba, ...
December 13, 2016
Every year the National Science Foundation (NSF) conducts its Higher Education Research and Development Survey (HERD). HERD is the primary...
December 13, 2016
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2016 commencement. See more graduates here.Justin Wolter started his doctoral...
December 13, 2016
It might seem hard to believe, but there recently was an ocean wave as tall as a six-story building in the north Atlantic. The World...
December 13, 2016
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2016 commencement. See more graduates here.Some students may expect to coast...
December 13, 2016
When archaeologist Charles Perreault traveled to Mongolia for some investigative fieldwork, he didn’t bring the typical tool set of shovels...
December 13, 2016
The growth of private space-exploration companies, such as SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, has changed the way scientists do business. ASU is...
December 13, 2016
It might seem hard to believe, but there recently was an ocean wave as tall as a six-story building in the north Atlantic. The World...
December 13, 2016
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2016 commencement. See more graduates here.When Mary Drago participated in her...
December 12, 2016
Should all drugs be legalized? Should doctors aid terminally ill patients who no longer wish to live? Should companies breach users’...
December 12, 2016
We can all rest easier knowing what keeps Carolyn Forbes up at night.The assistant director of ASU’s Center for the Study of Religion and...
December 8, 2016
On Tuesday, Dec. 13, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize their highest achieving students...
December 8, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2016 commencement. See more graduates here.Extreme athlete Paulette Stevenson...
December 8, 2016
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2016 commencement. See more graduates here.For Ryan Burke, it all began with a...
December 8, 2016
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2016 commencement. See more graduates here.Kenneth Brown was always interested...
December 8, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2016 commencement. See more graduates here.Full-time graduate study in English...
December 8, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2016 commencement. See more graduates here.An English as a Second Language (...
December 8, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2016 commencement. See more graduates here.As a returning college student in...
December 7, 2016
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2016 commencement. See more graduates here.The last award Glenn Maur received...
December 7, 2016
Arizona State University student Erin Schulte is preparing herself to tackle some of the world’s most complicated problems. She’s already...
December 5, 2016
The Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) has announced Arizona State University as its partner...
December 5, 2016
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2016 commencement. See more graduates here.“Transdisciplinary” means applying...
December 2, 2016
Marcos Gold’s passion for giving back not only shows up in his work, but also in what he does with his free time.Gold, who graduated from...
December 1, 2016
From seeking answers to heart failure in the gut to digital storytelling for caregivers, pushing the frontiers of medical research can have...
November
November 29, 2016
An ancient history professor with an upcoming lecture at ASU says it’s important to remember the past as we deal with mental health care in...
November 28, 2016
ASU astronomer Evgenya Shkolnik, of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, is leading an effort to use the Hubble Space Telescope to...
November 28, 2016
Suniya Luthar, ASU Foundation Professor of psychologyNew research from ASU suggests parents shouldn’t obsess over grades and...
November 22, 2016
As digital media use has exploded in Western nations, transforming communications, news sharing and business practices, it has done the...
November 21, 2016
Gary Schwartz, who has devoted his career to unlocking the mysteries of human's unique life history through examining how our teeth grow,...
November 21, 2016
Mia Armstrong is a sophomore at ASU majoring in global studies and journalism. With the assistance of the Global Studies Travel Grant...
November 21, 2016
A cheap and radical tool that enables geneticists and researchers to edit genomes easily by removing, adding or altering sections of the...
November 21, 2016
Arizona State University alumna Najla Arekat had dreamed about attending law school since childhood, but her natural talent for finance and...
November 21, 2016
An ASU-led proposed mission to the asteroid Psyche was featured in Sunday’s London Times. Lindy Elkins-Tanton, School of Earth and Space...
November 17, 2016
Two geoscientists at Arizona State University have made a discovery among hot springs in Chile that may spur scientists to revisit a...
November 17, 2016
Having grown up watching U.S. astronauts land on the surface of the Moon, Jim Bell knew he wanted to be a planetary scientist. Today a...
November 17, 2016
Erik Bumgardner, a graduate student in the School of Politics and Global Studies, is currently working full-time in Washington D.C., but he...
November 17, 2016
Three Arizona State University faculty have been named Regents’ Professors for the 2016-2017 academic year: Robert Nemanich, Anne Stone and...
November 16, 2016
When people look at a landmark like a peak, they may see a few things. A mountain, first of all. Maybe some history to go with it, like a...
November 16, 2016
As the debate continues to wage over the relationship between race and sports today, ASU graduate student Terry Shoemaker is asking...
November 16, 2016
Leonard Cohen was never supposed to be a huge star. He was a failed poet and novelist before he tried his hand at songrwiting. He didn’t...
November 15, 2016
With a shrinking job market in tenure-track faculty positions, doctoral students in the humanities often must compete for alternative...
November 14, 2016
An ASU researcher has helped hit on a new reason to fight infectious diseases: Reducing their prevalence can be linked to an increase in...
November 14, 2016
Chefs, professors and everyday foodies were busy using their taste buds to delineate the finer notes of hibiscus, passion fruit and orange...
November 10, 2016
You’ve got 10 seconds: Who was the first female vice presidential candidate of a major national party who ran alongside Walter Mondale in...
November 7, 2016
To explain why our planet is habitable, various different types of geoscientists studying Earth’s surface and its interior must work with...
November 4, 2016
Update: The Salute to Service flag-football tournament featured fierce competition with the ASU’s Air Force ROTC taking home the coveted...
November 4, 2016
If there were two messages ASU alumnus Corey Harris wanted to leave political science students with Thursday morning, they were to...
November 3, 2016
In a joint acquisition, ASU has just scored what scholars believe is one of the most comprehensive collections of Western film memorabilia...
November 3, 2016
Sometimes a life pivots on a single decision, small and unintentional. In the case of Sheikha Hussah, change came in the form of a...
November 1, 2016
Pura vida!In Costa Rica, that national expression has many interpretations, including “Enjoy life,” “Take it easy,” and even “Hello” and “...
October
October 28, 2016
About two years ago, when the full force of California’s drought came to bear, green lawns turned faces red as “drought shaming” became a...
October 28, 2016
Six new members will be joining Arizona State University’s Trustees of ASU today. The new group, drawing on their distinguished careers in...
October 28, 2016
How do religion and violence factor into sporting events?Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht will explore these themes by considering the live...
October 28, 2016
Editor's note: In the spirit of Halloween, we offer a roundup of the engrossing research happening around ASU with creatures that are often...
October 27, 2016
Arizona State University and the School of Politics and Global Studies welcomed two former members of Congress to campus this fall: Barry...
October 27, 2016
A newly implemented policy requiring passengers to weigh in before boarding flights on Hawaiian Airlines has triggered a national...
October 26, 2016
On a recent evening in Phoenix, four scholars gathered at the downtown Orpheum Theatre for an ASU Origins forum devoted to climate change,...
October 26, 2016
The scientist was deep into his lecture. He spoke quickly, using a stream of long words. He disparaged people he didn't agree with. He had...
October 24, 2016
Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s winning the Nobel Prize in Literature has many in the literary community up in arms, and the genre-defying...
October 21, 2016
For Trisalyn Nelson, inspiration hit when the oncoming car almost did.One day in 2014, Nelson was cycling on her way back from work at the...
October 21, 2016
About two years from now, the most powerful rocket ever built will roar off from the Florida coast. Carrying a new spacecraft built for...
October 21, 2016
Mih-tutta-hang-kusch, a Mandan village on the upper Missouri River in the 1830s.Leicester, a large town in medieval England, 1300.Manhattan...
October 20, 2016
Melissa Wilson Sayres thinks that people need to interact with scientists more often in their daily lives.“We’re exposed to teachers and we...
October 20, 2016
Is the United States a post-white Christian nation?That’s the question Robert P. Jones asks in his new book, The End of White Christian...
October 19, 2016
How do stars form deep inside clouds of molecular gas? What's the history of star formation throughout cosmic time? When did the first...
October 19, 2016
Chelsea Clinton urged young people at Arizona State University to not only vote this election, but also to consider running for office in...
October 19, 2016
Popular Science named a low-cost Zika virus test developed by researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at...
October 19, 2016
Recent virus outbreaks, such as Ebola and Zika, have helped to highlight a growing global need: public access to scientific data.Just last...
October 18, 2016
Steve Schramm started out at Arizona State University as a chemistry major and wanted to go to law school. After struggling with some of...
October 18, 2016
Renewable energy alternatives to fossil fuels are being tested around the world, but their acceptance has hardly been seamless. Many...
October 18, 2016
Bobby Taylor closes his eyes and remembers the night he discovered Michael Jackson.It was at Chicago’s Regal Theater, July 1968. The...
October 17, 2016
Faculty and students in higher education might be surprised to see the words "humanities" and "lab" in the same sentence. However, that...
October 17, 2016
Arizona State University’s newest research building will be packed with the most advanced construction and technological gear of today. The...
October 17, 2016
The old close-your-eyes-and-point gambit might be effective for picking your next vacation spot on a map, but it’s less than advisable when...
October 14, 2016
Shaun Casey, special representative for Religion and Global Affairs at the U.S. State Department, offered ways to “be prepared if the...
October 14, 2016
About three weeks ago, Toughie died.He was the last Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frog on Earth. If you’re not familiar with the species, it...
October 14, 2016
ASU political science professors Patrick Kenney and Kim Fridkin have been named Foundation Professors. These distinctions are conferred by...
October 13, 2016
After a tropical hurricane, what plants recover, and in what locations? How do cities and neighborhoods vary in their use of energy? Are...
October 13, 2016
How do you break down cultural stereotypes? For two groups in the U.S. and Pakistan, it was through storytelling.An Arizona State...
October 13, 2016
Marketplace solutions work for many needs, but not all of them — particularly some of the most basic ones. That’s what Rimjhim Aggarwal...
October 12, 2016
The moon's surface is being "gardened" — churned by small impacts — more than 100 times faster than scientists previously thought. This...
October 12, 2016
Paul Carrese thinks there’s an important concept missing from our current political lexicon: statesmanship.It’s kind of an old-fashioned...
October 12, 2016
For Debbie Reese, cutting classes in high school was an opportunity to indulge her passions. Rather than finding trouble, however, she used...
October 12, 2016
In many ways, the intersection of 48th Street and Thomas Road in Phoenix is unremarkable. Like a lot of busy cross streets in the city,...
October 12, 2016
Modern critiques of capitalism accuse it of being a relentlessly rational structure that disrupts social bonds through its imposed...
October 11, 2016
Driven by a desire to succeed and make a difference in the lives of others, three distinguished alumni from Arizona State University have...
October 10, 2016
The influential book "Bowling Alone," by Robert Putnam, argues that suburbanization has eroded the close bonds within communities, causing...
October 7, 2016
Before the entrance to Hayden Library was underground, it was flanked by a growth of shrubs. During the 1970s and '80s, Latino students...
October 7, 2016
About 50,000 years ago, an asteroid collided with the Earth, leaving a mile-across impact crater in what is now northern Arizona.And every...
October 7, 2016
Students are the key.The message is clear when you visit the All Walks Project website. Not only are students an at-risk population for sex...
October 7, 2016
When Spenser Babb-Biernacki began her undergraduate degree at Arizona State University, she thought she wanted to get lost in a world of...
October 7, 2016
Arizona State Univeristy's Institute for Humanities Research has appointed Jacque Wernimont as interim director of the institute's Nexus...
October 6, 2016
Everyone’s got a morning routine; certain steps we take to get cleaned, dressed, fed and out the door on time. The order of those steps is...
October 6, 2016
Editor’s note: This is the third in a three-part series examining the work that ASU is doing in the realm of water as a resource in the...
October 5, 2016
Scientists are increasingly concerned about the impact of climate change on the world’s biodiversity, and much effort has been placed into...
October 5, 2016
Universities play a crucial role in the global acceptance of religious diversity and the bolstering of global literacy, according to the U....
October 5, 2016
Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series examining the work that ASU is doing in the realm of water as a resource in the...
October 4, 2016
From mastering a mental edge on the wrestling mat to traveling around the world on combat tours, Arizona State University alumnus Martin...
October 4, 2016
The word “mutation” conjures many images, virtually all of them negative. For example, mutations in the human genome cause crippling birth...
October 4, 2016
Most teens load up their smartphones with apps. Fifteen-year-old Ariana Sokolov doesn’t just use apps; she has already created five.She got...
October 4, 2016
With an estimated 600,000 cancer deaths in the U.S. this year alone and a looming crisis in antibiotic resistance, there is an urgent...
October 4, 2016
Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series examining the work that ASU is doing in the realm of water as a resource in the...
October 3, 2016
From Bob Dylan’s 1964 folk rock anthem “The Times They Are a-Changin’” to Shepard Fairey’s iconic Obama “hope” poster to Lin-Manuel Miranda...
October 3, 2016
Stories about species becoming extinct are all too common in the news.This isn’t one of those stories.What’s different this time is that...
September
September 30, 2016
Quick — without thinking about it, name an endangered animal. Name two, three or even four. Easy?Now, name an endangered plant. Two? Three...
September 29, 2016
The striking landscapes that make up our national parks can inspire profound exclamations in even the most ineloquent of visitors. But for...
September 28, 2016
Big data is everywhere, including in research. Rather than writing data into a lab notebook, many researchers today use large amounts of...
September 27, 2016
ASU professor Martin Matustik discovered at the age of 40 that he was the child of a Holocaust survivor. It opened his eyes to a world of...
September 27, 2016
On a Monday evening in June 2015, 12 individuals gathered in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina....
September 26, 2016
For six centuries, Geoffrey Chaucer’s work has stirred continued re-examination, modern adaptations and fresh insight into English society...
September 26, 2016
The School of Earth and Space Exploration continues its fall semester New Discoveries Lecture Series with "Dry, drier, driest: How will...
September 25, 2016
Sex, profanity and violence: Two of the foremost experts on censorship in young adult literature say that no other topics are more likely...
September 22, 2016
Hannah Woner is an Arizona State University senior majoring in global studies and economics. With the assistance of the Global Studies...
September 22, 2016
Injecting wastewater deep underground as a byproduct of oil and gas extraction techniques that include fracking causes man-made earthquakes...
September 22, 2016
Dry forests in Latin America are among the world’s most threatened tropical forests. Less than 10 percent of their original extent remains...
September 20, 2016
It turns out lightning isn’t always a flash, and an ASU researcher says a pair of newly classified records for distance and duration...
September 20, 2016
As autumn looms and temperatures drop (at least for for most of the world), Arizona State University’s Frankenstein Bicentennial Project...
September 19, 2016
Rainstorms are a welcome visitor in the Phoenix metro area. Not only do they offer a respite from the brutal summer heat, they also help to...
September 19, 2016
During last week’s Origins Project Great Debate, a stellar group of panelists explored a range of issues in the context of the scientific...
September 15, 2016
In sunny Arizona, shade is a precious element of the landscape. Pedestrians follow circuitous routes under trees, awnings and shade...
September 15, 2016
The challenges that usually come with being a first-generation college student are just the beginning for 60 ASU students who will attempt...
September 14, 2016
Thirteen billion years ago, nearly every particle in the universe was affected by a new phenomenon: the emergence of starlight from the...
September 14, 2016
A key player in the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life will speak at Arizona State University. Simon “Pete” Worden, who is the...
September 13, 2016
ASU’s Space and Terrestrial Robotic Exploration (SpaceTREx) SunCube FemtoSat and the SpaceTREx team, headed by Jekan Thanga, assistant...
September 13, 2016
When ASU professor Rashad Shabazz hears Prince classics like “1999” and “Little Red Corvette,” he hears musical artistry and creative...
September 12, 2016
To better understand conflict and peace around the world, Arizona State University students spent their summers underneath the stars of the...
September 12, 2016
Summer is often a time to take a break from academic studies. But many scholars at Arizona State University would rather trade their summer...
September 9, 2016
Arizona is the one of the best places in the U.S. to study ants.Some consider it the mecca for variety: There are army ants, leaf cutters,...
September 9, 2016
A large lecture hall on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus filled with anxious chatter as dozens of first-year students filed into row...
September 9, 2016
A minor hiccup in the sequence of a human gene can have devastating impacts on health. Such flaws cause cystic fibrosis, a disease...
September 8, 2016
The Arizona Bioindustry Association has selected ASU scientists George Poste and Stephen Albert Johnston for significant contributions to...
September 8, 2016
Messy politics, a lack of understanding of religious differences and over-heated political rhetoric all combine to create confusion and an...
September 6, 2016
Emir Estrada understands the hardships that come with immigration from personal experience.
A sociocultural anthropologist in Arizona...
September 6, 2016
Arizona State University professor Lance Gharavi is an experimental artist and scholar who has a knack for linking with interdisciplinary...
September 5, 2016
Current models used to predict the survival of species in a warming world might be off target, according to new research that enlisted the...
September 2, 2016
Arizona State University furthers commitment to translate knowledge into action on sustainability challenges through three new...
September 2, 2016
What did you do with your middle and high school years?Whatever it was, it probably wasn't as cool as what Aidan Macias, Porter Aller and...
September 2, 2016
There’s a number of ways to serve one’s country, from military service to volunteerism. For Arizona State University alumnus Steven Gillen...
September 1, 2016
Ahuna Mons is a volcano that rises 13,000 feet high and spreads 11 miles wide at its base. This would be impressive for a volcano on Earth...
September 1, 2016
Some of the mysterious grooves on the surface of Mars' moon Phobos are the result of debris ejected by impacts eventually falling back onto...
August
August 31, 2016
Vada Manager wants to show why the university experience is important. Earning his political science degree in 1983 wasn’t the first step...
August 30, 2016
Eating your vegetables can make you healthy. Growing them can make you happy.That's one of the things Arizona State University assistant...
August 30, 2016
Editor’s note: This is the third in a three-part series on ASU’s archaeology lab in San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico. Click for the first and...
August 29, 2016
Read this as a cautionary tale, and not about the danger of falling out of trees.A study published Monday in Nature Communications claimed...
August 29, 2016
Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series about ASU’s Teotihuacan lab. Click for the first and third installments. Lab...
August 26, 2016
In movies like “Apollo 13” and “The Martian,” there are scenes where there’s a mechanical problem in space and engineers turn to a copy on...
August 26, 2016
Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series on ASU’s archaeology lab in San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico. Click for the second and...
August 26, 2016
Today’s gender issues can take many forms. In some countries, girls are given limited opportunity or are “discouraged” from going to school...
August 26, 2016
Starting out as a college freshman can be hard.
Students are leaving home for the first time, meeting the demands of a rigorous college...
August 25, 2016
It's uncanny. Dark finger-like streaks form on dozens of Martian crater rims and hillsides as local spring warms into summer. The streaks...
August 25, 2016
Weeks ahead of Women’s Equality Day, President Barack Obama amplified the national conversation around gender rights with an essay in...
August 25, 2016
Sports mascots, music lyrics, Halloween costumes, hairstyles, face paint: Arizona State University professor Neal A. Lester says cultural...
August 25, 2016
Traveling to Washington, D.C., gave A.J. Simmons, a doctoral candidate at the School of Politics and Global Studies, the opportunity to...
August 22, 2016
This September marks 15 years since the events of 9/11. Has the passage of time changed how we remember the attacks and what they mean to...
August 22, 2016
The School of Earth and Space Exploration will kick off the fall semester New Discoveries Lecture Series with "Asteroids, Ion Propulsion...
August 22, 2016
The April 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal killed more than 8,000 people and injured more than 21,000. With a magnitude of 7.8, it was the...
August 22, 2016
We can hear them now. A new ground tracking station featuring a 10-foot diameter dish at Arizona State University’s Tempe campus will allow...
August 18, 2016
Stewart Fotheringham, Foundation Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University and leader...
August 18, 2016
Admit it. It can be fun to be bad.Blowing up a planet to test a weapon. Stealing candy from babies. Feeding your enemies alive to your dogs...
August 16, 2016
There is a lot of scientific knowledge in the world, but very little of that knowledge is readily available to people who make decisions...
August 15, 2016
Three remarkable undergraduates at Arizona State University have persevered in the face of adversity – breaking cultural barriers,...
August 9, 2016
David Abbott, associate professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, received not one, but two distinguishing awards this...
August 9, 2016
By now, the wearying trope of internet outrage is a global touchstone, especially when it comes to "angry young men."Everyone is familiar...
August 9, 2016
As an Arizona native with nostalgic ties to Arizona State University, alumna Jovanna Anzaldua has a long family history at the university....
August 8, 2016
Your first semester earning a degree can be a daunting task. It is something U.S. Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema knows all too well as she...
August 5, 2016
For more than 20 years, microbiologist Shelley Haydel has been interested in antibacterial and antibiotic discovery. While preventing...
August 4, 2016
One institute, two academic units and four schools within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University are...
August 3, 2016
PhD Student Glenn Randall is interviewed by Popular Mechanics magazine to discuss Dark Matter and recent discoveries.There are four...
August 3, 2016
Looking for another Earth? ASU is part of an international team that has pinpointed which of the more than 4,000 exoplanets discovered by...
August 3, 2016
Professor Aaron Baker, whose scholarship focuses on representations of social identity in American cinema and who was the former head of...
July
July 29, 2016
As students let slip their grasp on lazy summer days and head back to the classroom, there’s one thing they’re not likely to hand over:...
July 29, 2016
A year after a devastating magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit Nepal, the country still faces a lengthy path to recovery — both structurally and...
July 29, 2016
Recent Arizona State University graduate and member of the Sun Devil golf team Jon Rahm won the prestigious Jack Nicklaus National Player...
July 27, 2016
You wouldn’t think four students interested in four different fields — sustainability, geology, psychology and mathematics — would have...
July 26, 2016
When NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived to orbit the dwarf planet Ceres in March 2015, mission scientists expected to find a heavily cratered...
July 22, 2016
Podcasts have exploded in popularity. The digital broadcasts are known for specialized subject matter and hosts who communicate complex...
July 20, 2016
From technology and talent recruitment to public relations, three Arizona State University alumni have discovered how entrepreneurship is...
July 19, 2016
Brainstorm a list of societal challenges — from extreme heat to social equity to transportation — and they all share two characteristics:...
July 19, 2016
Kosovo, one of the world's youngest countries, relies on two aging coal-fueled power plants to generate electricity for its population of...
July 18, 2016
Elsie Moore has taken a new leadership position as the director of the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Prior...
July 15, 2016
Loris Taylor knows firsthand how tough it can be to run a radio station in Indian Country. When she first took over KUYI 88.1 FM on the...
July 14, 2016
ASU professor Neal A. Lester says one of the worst things about becoming homeless can be the loss of one’s humanity. His long-running...
July 12, 2016
For Joan it’s all about the dinosaurs. Ana, however, prefers the asteroids. Around the corner, Humberto is mesmerized by an Apollo space...
July 12, 2016
After he arrives in the desert with his students, everyone pitches camp. The students yell and falter at setting up their tents. They’re...
July 8, 2016
Jewell Parker Rhodes writes children’s novels about tough subjects. The best-selling author had tackled slavery, the BP oil spill and...
July 7, 2016
Curly Hopkins, Texas Pickles Franklin and Fat Bad Boy King sit contemplating their next verse in a classroom on Arizona State University’s...
July 6, 2016
Samantha Winter grew up with Arizona State University in her backyard. As a Tempe native, she spent her childhood around campus, watching...
July 6, 2016
Apache Junction is a city of about 38,000 residents with a natural setting that rivals any in the state for scenic views and outdoor...
July 5, 2016
The path from roundworm genes to curing cancer isn’t an easy one. But a handful of students and faculty at Arizona State University are...
July 5, 2016
Arizona State University's Institute for Humanities Research has announced the appointment of Cora Fox as interim director, following the...
June
June 29, 2016
A record high of 65.3 million people were asylum seekers, internally displaced people or refugees in 2015, according to a recent report by...
June 29, 2016
Kamra Sadia Hakim is up for the challenge. She is up for the challenge of thinking globally, committing her life to service and being an...
June 28, 2016
On June 2, a chunk of rock the size of a Volkswagen Beetle hurtled into the atmosphere over the desert Southwest at 40,000 miles per hour...
June 24, 2016
Federal data on power-plant carbon dioxide emissions is significantly flawed, according to a study by Arizona State University scientists...
June 24, 2016
On June 23, 52 percent of British citizens voted to leave the European Union, a move dubbed "Brexit." Though many did not believe such a...
June 21, 2016
Speculative fiction stories have the power to take abstract, contentious policy debates about humans and their changing environment and...
June 20, 2016
Two massive blob-like structures lie deep within the Earth, roughly on opposite sides of the planet. The two structures, each the size of a...
June 17, 2016
Some of the most significant turning points in history began with a compelling argument. Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species.”...
June 16, 2016
Two hundred years ago, in the early morning hours of June 16, Mary Shelley found herself possessed by a waking dream in which she “saw the...
June 15, 2016
Kids might not love to study rocks, but they gravitate to gadgets and that’s one way to engage them in learning science. A group of K-12...
June 15, 2016
Brainstorming solutions to global problems, spending afternoons on Capitol Hill and touring national monuments like Gettysburg — that’s all...
June 14, 2016
Carbon, one of the most common elements and the basis for all life, is considered to be the most important and versatile of all elements....
June 13, 2016
Graduate students Emilie Dunham, Sam Gordon, Chuhong Mai and Megan Miller, of ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, have received...
June 10, 2016
In January 2000, the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia, signed a deal to privatize its water supply. Protests erupted with such intensity they...
June 9, 2016
For Norman Dubie, poetry has been a lifelong pursuit. The Regents’ Professor of English, who came to Arizona State University in 1975 to...
June 8, 2016
Kent Johnson is a graduate student at ASU’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change (SHESC). His wife, Theresa Johnson, teaches life...
June 8, 2016
Once inside the human body, infectious microbes like Salmonella face a fluid situation. They live in a watery world, surrounded by liquid...
June 8, 2016
Imagine eradicating a disease-transmitting mosquito or removing an invasive plant species with a precise, relatively easy-to-apply...
June 8, 2016
The potential of a gene drive to do good is great. For example, it could be used to eliminate infectious diseases such as malaria or the...
June 7, 2016
From manufacturing in the aerospace industry to managing environmental services for the Navy, Arizona State University alumnus Paul...
June 7, 2016
On Feb. 17, Mayor John Giles announced a plan to bring a satellite ASU campus to downtown Mesa. At that point, nine ASU students had...
June 6, 2016
Human well being often flourishes under conditions of cooperation with others and flounders during periods of external conflict and strife...
June 6, 2016
Arizona State University has no shortage of high-achieving Sun Devils making their mark on the world — and being recognized for it. During...
June 5, 2016
By Elizabeth Deatrick, American Geophysical Union After years of drought, desert communities like Phoenix are promoting low-water...
June 3, 2016
In a nondescript building in an industrial area of Tempe, one room crackles with treasures of the ancient Southwest. Here sit pots of...
June 3, 2016
Norman Dubie, Arizona State University Regents’ Professor of English, was awarded the 2016 international Griffin Poetry Prize for his...
June 2, 2016
Male students in undergraduate introductory biology courses are outperforming females at test time, but it may be due to how exams are...
June 1, 2016
As states increasingly legalize the use of marijuana, the debate surrounding its benefits vs. risks wages on. There is still much unknown...
May
May 31, 2016
Most pre-dental undergrads don’t conduct research on Malcolm X. But most pre-dental undergrads aren’t Sarah Syed. Each year, about 10...
May 31, 2016
Last week the Department of Defense issued a report detailing the case of a 49-year-old Pennsylvania woman who had a rare E. coli infection...
May 26, 2016
Forty years ago, dozens of young black people lay shackled inside a film set that was made to look like the hold of a slave ship. They had...
May 26, 2016
Among the valuable holdings in London’s Wellcome Library is a rough pencil sketch made in 1953 by Francis Crick. The drawing is one of the...
May 25, 2016
Arizona State University alumnus Andrew F. Ortiz is a recipient of the prestigious 2016 Ellis Island Medal of Honor . The Ellis Island...
May 25, 2016
As scientists explore the potential applications of biotechnology, some are focusing on cyanobacteria — an easy-to-grow bacterium that...
May 24, 2016
Anni Leaman has a respectable-sized to-do list when she returns home to Massachusetts later this week. She’s going to create a couple of...
May 24, 2016
How do religion and gender intersect with domestic violence in Greece and Fiji? What can we learn about peace building from the Emerging...
May 23, 2016
The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict hosted its annual student awards on May 3, recognizing those students who completed its...
May 20, 2016
Driven by a passion to educate people about alcoholism and recovery, Arizona State University professor Linda Lederman aims to make a...
May 20, 2016
It could be ripped from a comic book, but it’s not. A Russian billionaire drops $100 million on a decades-long mission to send a fleet of...
May 19, 2016
Every two years Earth and Mars reach a point in their orbits where the distance between them is shortest. That's a time when telescopes big...
May 19, 2016
Evolution can be an emotionally charged topic in education, given a wide range of perspectives on it. Two researchers from Arizona State...
May 17, 2016
Guido G. Weigend, who served as dean and professor at Arizona State University from 1976 to 1989, passed away on April 1 at the age of 96....
May 17, 2016
This Memorial Day, a remake of “Roots” hits the little screen in a revival of the most popular miniseries of all time. Based on the late...
May 16, 2016
Two Arizona State University biofuel projects are among six nationwide receiving $10 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to explore...
May 13, 2016
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced today a new National Microbiome Initiative to foster the integrated...
May 13, 2016
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced today a new National Microbiome Initiative to encourage scientists to...
May 13, 2016
Nobel laureate Edward Prescott got The Phone Call at 4 a.m., an hour typically not a harbinger of good tidings. His house in Paradise...
May 13, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Breanne McCarthy’s undergraduate...
May 13, 2016
“I too am not a bit tamed — I too am untranslatable; I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” — Walt Whitman , from “Leaves...
May 13, 2016
Six students from Barrett Honors College will participate in the Fulbright Summer Institute in the United Kingdom, one of the most...
May 11, 2016
Three of Arizona State University’s top professors have been recognized for combining their passion for teaching with engagement with the...
May 10, 2016
When rookie astronauts go on their first spacewalk, it’s common to hear them oohing and aahing when they go out the hatch. Being awestruck...
May 10, 2016
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . It’s rare for an entry-level job...
May 10, 2016
An international group of mathematicians at Arizona State University and other institutions have released a new kind of online resource to...
May 10, 2016
Quanah Parker was a Comanche leader and fierce warrior who sought and obtained peace for his people at a crucial point in their history....
May 9, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Tin Phan, a dual major in...
May 9, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Aditya Dhumuntarao, a Barrett,...
May 9, 2016
Frank Wilczek, a theoretical physicist and mathematician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004, is joining Arizona State University...
May 9, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Michael Ashley had no idea what he...
May 9, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . In 2013, Francesca de Martini was...
May 9, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Palden Choying spent his childhood...
May 6, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . For political science major and...
May 6, 2016
Fear of the Zika virus is spreading as images of afflicted infants fill the news. Hoping to foil Zika’s rapid advance, researchers from...
May 6, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Andrew Rogge moved to Arizona to...
May 6, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . When Bridget Harding began looking...
May 6, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Nathan Williams, who will be...
May 6, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . It’s common to hear people say the...
May 6, 2016
NASA has selected an Arizona State University undergraduate student team for a $200,000 grant to conduct hands-on flight research, through...
May 6, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . What do brains and bassoons have...
May 6, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Aaron Bia is a global health major...
May 6, 2016
Researchers today, including two from Arizona State University, announced a new test for the Zika virus that costs $1 per test, shows...
May 5, 2016
Any kid who pulls on a lizard tail knows it can drop off to avoid capture, but how they regrow a new tail remains a mystery. Now,...
May 5, 2016
High-speed photography can capture a horse’s gallop, a falling star or even a speeding bullet. But such methods would be far too slow to...
May 5, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Chad Ostrander, who will be...
May 4, 2016
Sidney Altman, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989, is joining the faculty of Arizona State University. “It is with great...
May 4, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . What do volcanoes, Lord Byron and...
May 4, 2016
Anne C. Stone is something of a renaissance woman when it comes to anthropology. Using her specialty of anthropological genetics, she...
May 3, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Upon earning her ASU diploma,...
May 3, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Zachariah Tolliver knows firsthand...
May 3, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . The kind of toughness Cassidy “...
May 3, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Team USA swimmer and 2012 Olympic...
May 3, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . “Chokma, chinchoma, saholhchifoat...
May 3, 2016
Coral reefs and hard-shelled sea creatures such as oysters and mussels are constantly being threatened, not only by the detrimental effects...
May 3, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Michael Busch, who will be...
May 2, 2016
What do a powerlifting champion, an inspirational thought leader, a legendary football coach and two professional football hall of famers...
May 2, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Carl Fields, who will graduate...
May 2, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . If the Marx brothers were alive...
May 2, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . When Beth Bockes takes the stage...
May 2, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Sarah Moser is a Barrett, the...
May 2, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Nathan Shelley likes to imagine...
May 2, 2016
Jaime Lara, research professor at Arizona State University’s Hispanic Research Center and the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies...
May 2, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Growing up in Buckeye, Arizona,...
May 2, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Nine years ago, Christine Besaw...
April
April 29, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Alexi Choueiri starts the twins’...
April 28, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement. See the rest here . Miranda Herman, a graduating...
April 28, 2016
Arizonans will vote May 17 on Proposition 123, a measure that, if passed, would affect K-12 education funding and the state trust land...
April 27, 2016
Janet Franklin has had quite a year: After having been elected to the National Academy of Sciences two years ago, in June 2015 she was...
April 27, 2016
Applied learning translates classroom knowledge to real-world situations. Being in an applied learning course could impact a student’s...
April 26, 2016
As the academic year comes to a close, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recognizes exceptional faculty members who have gone above...
April 26, 2016
On Tuesday, May 10, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest-achieving students from...
April 26, 2016
Sometime between 2,800 and 2,500 years ago, just before the city-state of Athens was born, about 150 people in shackles were thrown into a...
April 25, 2016
Lynn Vavreck, a full professor of political science and communication studies at University of California, Los Angeles, was the inaugural...
April 25, 2016
The largest-ever study of global genetic variation in the human Y chromosome has uncovered the hidden genetic history of men. Research...
April 25, 2016
Kenny Dyer-Redner is somewhere in the wilds of Nevada’s Indian country, and he’s spinning his wheels. No, he’s not taking a break from his...
April 22, 2016
The final tallies are in and once again the ASU Forensics (Speech) Team can report outstanding success at this year’s American Forensics...
April 22, 2016
Monday is National DNA Day, and researchers from Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences have invited the public to come learn...
April 22, 2016
When the editor of Scientific American — the oldest publication in the United States at 170 years — goes to work, she hears complaints from...
April 22, 2016
Is a group like Black Lives Matter hurt when a “lone wolf” shoots and kills police officers in New York? Are peaceful advocates of Pro Life...
April 21, 2016
Maggie Zheng performed her first surgical procedure when she was just a preschooler. Granted, it was on one of her stuffed animals. But...
April 21, 2016
Ever since Bela Lugosi appeared in 1930s horror film “White Zombie,” members of the living dead have fascinated audiences. Zombies have...
April 21, 2016
In many animal species, physical battles and other aggressive acts determine a certain “pecking order.” In the world of ants, fights that...
April 21, 2016
Daniel Shipley is a senior at ASU majoring in global studies. With the assistance of the Global Studies Travel Grant offered by the School...
April 20, 2016
Although Arizona State University student Jenny Ung is pursuing three majors — political science, journalism and mass communications, and...
April 20, 2016
Lindsay Dusard has a heart of gold. Get the 20-year-old Arizona State University student to open up about the subject of refugees, and...
April 19, 2016
The horror that was the Holocaust exists now in our collective consciousness as one of the darkest periods in human history. However, as...
April 19, 2016
Land grabs by Russia. Escalating Chinese military dominance in Asia. Superpowers fighting in outer space. The launch of World War III. It...
April 18, 2016
Clyde Bellecourt hasn’t mellowed much with age — just ask Bernie Sanders. In February, the 79-year-old activist put the Democratic...
April 15, 2016
In ASU’s teaching kitchens in downtown Phoenix, the din of cooking activity is peppered with the sounds of friendly conversation. Just an...
April 13, 2016
Having a hard time recalling where you put those tax forms? Blame it on stress. Using animal models, ASU professor and researcher Cheryl...
April 13, 2016
Today, Cynthia Bejarano holds the prestigious title of Regents' Professor in New Mexico State University’s (NMSU) Department of...
April 12, 2016
It was her very first encounter with a strangely beautiful orange and black beaded Arizona native, the Gila monster — one of only two...
April 11, 2016
The world’s total human population has jumped to more than 7.4 billion just this year. Feeding the human species takes a tremendous toll on...
April 11, 2016
When she was a child, Nicole Lemme’s father would take her to see an old mining town in northern Arizona that he used to visit when he was...
April 11, 2016
Matthew Desmond is an ASU alum and a sociologist at Harvard. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” and has received many...
April 8, 2016
Monique Greco and Garnett Johnson might go hungry sometimes, but they make sure their dog Codi never does. The homeless couple was...
April 8, 2016
The ability to understand and implement these new technologies in the classroom is no longer a desired qualification — it’s a requirement...
April 8, 2016
When a super cyclone slammed into the northeast coast of India in October 1999, winds with top speeds of 160 miles per hour and tidal...
April 7, 2016
The United States is facing many global problems that demand diplomacy, but America must always be wary of unintended consequences,...
April 7, 2016
The search for life beyond Earth is one of the major drivers of space exploration. From the sands of Mars and the oceans of Europa to the...
April 7, 2016
Have you ever wondered where the bell chimes on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus come from? They are not ringing from some...
April 7, 2016
Recent advances in biotechnologies, such as the completion of the human genome project and genetic editing, have not only raised ethical...
April 6, 2016
Going into space is now within your grasp. A tiny spacecraft being developed at Arizona State University is breaking the barrier of launch...
April 6, 2016
ASU alum Luis Fernandez was recently elected president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). While continuing his work in...
April 5, 2016
This week 15 years ago, NASA launched a spacecraft with the name 2001 Mars Odyssey, and onboard was the Thermal Emission Imaging System (...
April 5, 2016
Three students from Arizona State University have been named Goldwater Scholars, a prestigious national scholarship awarded to students...
April 4, 2016
Mexico’s emerging energy reforms and the rise of natural gas signal a paradigm shift where new opportunities will arise in North America,...
April 4, 2016
After paying rent, Lamar, a disabled single father of two boys, had $78 left for the rest of the month. That’s less than $2.50 a day for...
April 4, 2016
Stop what you’re doing and listen. What do you hear? Cellphones buzzing with incoming texts. The roar of a bus accelerating past your...
April 3, 2016
“Welcome to the Big Horn Mountains!” says conservation biologist Andrew Smith. About 60 miles west of Phoenix in a rugged desert range...
April 1, 2016
Having more than 100 high school students excited about math sounds like an April Fool's hoax, but thanks to some creative workshops that...
April 1, 2016
Thanks to a recent award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering have...
April 1, 2016
Written in plain block letters on a whiteboard is a menu that includes such items as tacos, enchiladas and quesadillas. Above it is a sign...
March
March 31, 2016
You’ve come a long way, ASU. Arizona State University has long had female teachers, but some of the biggest gender-equality strides came...
March 31, 2016
Barber Marvin Davis takes pride in knowing his clients’ likes and dislikes. He knows how high to cut their hair, knows when they’re due for...
March 31, 2016
The universe is a dangerous place. Join Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, April 8...
March 30, 2016
The International Studies Association (ISA) has awarded Cameron Thies, director of Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global...
March 30, 2016
The Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation board of directors has awarded Robert E. Page Jr., university provost emeritus and Regents’...
March 30, 2016
At a large, state-run medical facility, a young woman’s reproductive fate has been determined. The medical director presiding over her case...
March 30, 2016
Keeping honeybees healthy is critical to the world’s food supply. A lack of adequate nutrition for bees is blamed as one of many possible...
March 30, 2016
Rhoda Hassan, an alumnus of Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies, was recently accepted into the Harvard Law...
March 29, 2016
No bones about it: Pit bulls get a bad rap. The breed’s unfortunate history — which includes their use in bull-baiting and dog fighting —...
March 29, 2016
Michael Smith begins his new book, “At Home With the Aztecs: An Archaeologist Uncovers Their Daily Life,” by discussing what the Aztecs...
March 29, 2016
Ken Levine, formerly from New York, now calls Arizona home and Arizona State his adopted alma mater. For the past 20 years, he has worked...
March 29, 2016
As a global business leader in the technology industry, Arizona State University alumnus Jon Hunter has been building organizational...
March 29, 2016
It’s a great big world of science out there. And picking your own path is just part of the fun, a group of middle school girls learned...
March 29, 2016
Over the past 20 years, the idea of human rights has become central in discussions about humanitarianism. But this was not always the case...
March 28, 2016
His was the loneliest and most unlikely voice in rock and roll, with a posthumous career to die for. That impassioned tenor voice combined...
March 28, 2016
Inspecting the teeth of a drugged Siberian tiger. Darting a tracking device in a whale from the deck of a pitching boat. Waking up in a...
March 28, 2016
Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration is about to take the whole nation on a school tour. Rock stars in their...
March 25, 2016
The March 22 attacks in Brussels served as yet another grisly reminder that we live in a world where the threat of terrorist attacks has...
March 25, 2016
An Arizona State University researcher has figured out a way to modify crops that causes them to use less water and fertilizer but grow...
3-D tissue model of placenta as a predictive platform to study microbial infections during pregnancy
March 25, 2016
During pregnancy, the rapidly developing fetus is enshrouded by a remarkable structure: the placenta. Researchers hope to better understand...
March 24, 2016
It turns out that the rigid “line in the sand” between the human sex chromosomes — the Y and X — is a bit blurrier than previously thought...
March 23, 2016
Downtown Phoenix’s newest high-rise residents don’t take the elevator when they come home. A pair of peregrine falcons has made a home in...
March 23, 2016
Filling a new leadership position tailored to advance research and educational innovation, Kenro Kusumi has been named as the associate...
March 22, 2016
Arizona State University today announced a five-year initiative, FutureH2O, to flip the global conversation about water on its head and...
March 22, 2016
Andrew Ross, head of Learning Support Services in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University, won a...
March 22, 2016
The best thing about the Fulbright grant won by Matt Ykema is that it allows him to be immersed in his research. “I do not have any...
March 22, 2016
Living abroad can be fraught with awkward situations, but the experience also nurtures the confidence it takes to laugh instead of cry when...
March 22, 2016
Maureen Goggin is spending her Fulbright year in Austria, researching a little-known source of needlework done by women. Goggin, a...
March 22, 2016
The Navajo language is dying, and Manuelito Wheeler wants to change that. Armed only with his heritage and the love of his people, Wheeler...
March 22, 2016
People in the Arizona State University community who won Fulbright awards this year are living abroad and studying subjects ranging from...
March 22, 2016
For Eva Jeffers, one of the best things about instructing children in India is the teaching. The hardest thing? The teaching. “Shoutout...
March 22, 2016
Nearly every Fulbright grant winner who spends time abroad faces challenges with a new language. Those who work in developing countries...
March 22, 2016
It may be hard to believe, but already the better half of a century has passed since World War II broke out. Despite the distance time has...
March 22, 2016
Arizona doesn’t usually get this much of a voice. In a typical presidential election year, voters in the Grand Canyon State go to the...
March 22, 2016
Claire Cambron wanted a way to open her mind and her heart before she learns to heal. Cambron, who is from Phoenix, won a Fulbright...
March 22, 2016
Wei Li is has spent the past several months working on a prestigious Fulbright project — for the second time. Li recently returned from...
March 21, 2016
Derek Townsend, an Arizona State University graduate who is teaching English this year, has gained a new perspective far beyond his...
March 21, 2016
Alexis Wagner is a senior at ASU majoring in political science in the 4+1 Program . With the assistance of the Global Studies Travel Grant...
March 21, 2016
Chase Fitzgerald wanted to do something meaningful before he started medical school and he knew that a Fulbright grant would be one of the...
March 21, 2016
Arizona PBS investigates the biology, genetics and social and learned behaviors behind why people experience foods and eating differently,...
March 21, 2016
The personal growth and insights that come with living abroad for a year are huge. Fulbright award winners must overcome language barriers...
March 21, 2016
People who win Fulbright awards to teach English abroad learn a tremendous amount about other cultures. But it goes both ways. Young...
March 21, 2016
Ashley Hagaman has lived through one of the most devastating disasters of the decade while doing research in Nepal. Hagaman, who is...
March 21, 2016
Immersion in another culture can change a person. For writer Allegra Hyde, the year she is spending in Bulgaria will also likely affect...
March 20, 2016
The U.S. prison system is retreating from an era of force and punishment and is starting to think once again about education and...
March 18, 2016
When someone goes through a rough period, say a divorce or losing a job, the common thought has been that this is a test of the person’s...
March 18, 2016
Who was Nick Salerno? Many would say: a generous soul who changed the Valley of the Sun and ASU for the better. In the 1960s, he defused a...
March 18, 2016
Editor’s note: HealthTell recently completed a $40 million capital campaign . The company, a spinout of ASU's Biodesign Institute with a...
March 17, 2016
ASU postdoctoral scholar Kohei Kamada, of the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Department of Physics, has been selected to...
March 17, 2016
Patience is a virtue. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Time and tide wait for no man. What these clever idioms have in common isn’t just...
March 16, 2016
On Jan. 11, Arizona State University doctoral candidate Angie Abdelmonem was headed to a flight to Cairo to participate in a collaborative...
March 16, 2016
As the 2016 presidential election approaches in November, more than three dozen academic scholars in political science will gather to...
March 15, 2016
Upon first thought, the idea of math combating violent crime seems unlikely, at best. Can an algorithm be more effective than a SWAT team...
March 14, 2016
Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE) recently celebrated a record-breaking year for the number of inventions, patents and start-up...
March 14, 2016
Life as an insect can be tough. Everyone wants to squash you, you're blamed for the spread of diseases, and then to top it off, someone...
March 14, 2016
Like endangered species themselves, funding to save them is scarce. Humans — who because of our indelible impact on the Earth have an...
March 14, 2016
Water is crucial for life as we know it, especially in the Arizona desert. For centuries our rivers were the key to making this region...
March 13, 2016
Socrates once said, “The greatest blessings granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.” Sometimes, cautioned actor...
March 13, 2016
As subtly as the shift in a gravitational wave, the universe changed Saturday night. Lawrence Krauss’ Erdos-Bacon-Sabbath number became...
March 11, 2016
The Arizona State University Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture and Arizona Humanities have announced a free film screening and...
March 11, 2016
The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) recently announced the initial inductees into “The 5+ Club,” a group of institutions that...
March 11, 2016
Some of the world's largest earthquakes occur on subduction zones, where a cold dense oceanic plate moves under a warmer continental plate...
March 10, 2016
A high school principal, a judge and a former prisoner walk onto a college campus … No, this is not the beginning of a joke. It’s Arizona...
March 10, 2016
The U.S. Air Force has selected Arizona State University to build a spacecraft to monitor threats from outer space. The satellite’s...
March 10, 2016
ASU graduate student Sean Seyler was selected to attend the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany. Seyler received his...
March 10, 2016
Methane and nitrous oxide gas emissions, caused by human activities like farming, overwhelm earthly carbon dioxide absorption and should be...
March 10, 2016
Those who've paid any attention to presidential politics lately have heard Donald Trump talk about his plan to build a big, successful wall...
March 9, 2016
The hallway on the sixth floor of the G. Homer Durham Language and Literature building looks more like a movie theater than a place of...
March 8, 2016
Sometimes getting even the most exciting news can be anticlimactic. (Curse you, caller ID!) That was the case for ASU’s Patricia Colleen...
March 8, 2016
Shelby Lawson says the ability to travel abroad while continuing her degree was a factor when she chose Arizona State University over other...
March 8, 2016
Editor's note: Due to family reasons professor Sohail Hashmi is unable to come to Tempe at this time. His visit has been postponed to a...
March 7, 2016
A joint proposal from a team of institutions including Arizona State University, has been selected for NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for...
March 3, 2016
Stories about your parent’s childhood are usually life lessons hidden as clever anecdotes providing a glimpse into a time past. However,...
March 2, 2016
The general consensus is that more information is better for everyone. And in this ultra-connected digital age, that belief is tested...
March 2, 2016
Language is complicated. Anyone who has tried to use high school French to navigate the Champs-Élysées can tell you that. It’s also...
March 2, 2016
Terrestrial plant communities include forests, woodlands, shrublands and grasslands. The health of all these vegetation communities is...
March 1, 2016
When it’s time to give back to Arizona State University, Brian Martin doesn’t let more than 5,000 miles and the Atlantic Ocean stand in his...
March 1, 2016
Ever have one of those (usually late-night) conversations about whether a grizzly bear could beat a great white shark in a fight? Or a lion...
March 1, 2016
The physics community was elated by the recent announcement that gravity waves have been detected after decades of searching, and fully 100...
March 1, 2016
Arizona State University recently launched Ethics @ ASU to highlight ethics as a cross-cutting initiative throughout the curriculum and...
February
February 26, 2016
Natalie Hochhaus is a sophomore at ASU majoring in global studies with a minor in anthropology. With the assistance of the Global Studies...
February 25, 2016
Researchers hope to develop vaccines, therapeutics and new diagnostic tests for a broad range of diseases. To accomplish this, they will...
February 25, 2016
Mark Lussier, chair of the Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University since June 2013,...
February 24, 2016
On first glance, the odds would seem long that Donald Trump would gain a lot of support from voters of Latino heritage. He kicked off his...
February 24, 2016
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will open its newest exhibition, “ A New Moon Rises: New Views from the Lunar...
February 24, 2016
On Monday, February 29, 2016, ASU’s new Council for Arabic and Islamic Studies is bringing Georgetown University leading world scholar,...
February 24, 2016
Sometimes you get the party started by accidentally crashing someone else’s. Mark Robinson, a professor in Arizona State University’s...
February 24, 2016
The Origins Project is pleased to announce Aomawa Shields of the University of California-Los Angeles is the recipient of the 2016 Origins...
February 24, 2016
What regulates the size of an organism’s teeth? The reduced size of our back teeth, or molars, is one of the defining attributes separating...
February 23, 2016
The Navajo Nation has one of the most valuable mineral resources among any Native American reservation in the United States, according to...
February 23, 2016
Students in China are eager to learn about American culture, and Arizona State University is part of a project designed to meet that need...
February 23, 2016
Have you ever Wikipedia’d a topic to settle an argument? Ever made a donation to help victims of a disaster? Or sipped “fair trade” coffee...
February 22, 2016
The benefits of letting students conduct real research in the classroom have been examined multiple times during the past decade, but a new...
February 21, 2016
Craig Hardgrove was fascinated with dinosaurs. When he found out they were killed off by an asteroid, he became fascinated with space. Now...
February 21, 2016
Gaming the system and ending up on a white sand beach, watching clouds drift by. It’s the stuff of dreams and movies, but an Arizona State...
February 19, 2016
The Zika virus has brought us endless footage of masked men spraying insecticide in Brazilian slums and reports of babies with tiny heads...
February 19, 2016
How do we die with dignity? An Arizona State University professor is bringing together voices from science and religion to explore this...
February 18, 2016
Before we begin reporting on his talk, let’s get something out of the way that Laurence Garvie, research professor and curator for Arizona...
February 18, 2016
Arizona State University is a training ground for many new forms of expression in fiction, including in the popular Young Adult (YA) genre...
February 18, 2016
From effective team science to drones on the range, Arizona State University faculty and students played a big role in the annual meeting...
February 18, 2016
Acclaimed actor and Golden Globe winner Johnny Depp will sit down for a dialogue with Origins Project Director Lawrence Krauss at 7 p.m.,...
February 18, 2016
Coinciding with Charles Darwin’s birthday weekend, ASU’s evolutionary medicine leadership was prominently showcased at the world’s largest...
February 17, 2016
In the arid Southwest, roughly 90 percent of the region’s rainfall evaporates, leaving relatively little water to fill streams and...
February 17, 2016
Abby York grew up in Wisconsin, on land where her family has operated a dairy farm since the 1800s. As a kid, community was synonymous...
February 16, 2016
The Pathologist, a magazine that covers stories on the forefront of health care, has named Arizona State University’s Carolyn Compton to...
February 16, 2016
The ASU Ethics Bowl Team competed this past fall in both the Seattle and San Jose Regional Ethics Bowl competitions held by the Association...
February 16, 2016
A theoretical physicist and a television host sit down and talk about sex, religion, news, science, Pope Francis, Donald Trump, and Ike’s...
February 16, 2016
“The age of humanitarian intervention to protect civilians is not over, because civilians keep dying,” Michael Ignatieff wrote in 2014....
February 16, 2016
Arizona State University has received a $1.5 million award from the W.M. Keck Foundation’s Science and Engineering Research Grant Program...
February 15, 2016
Through its history, the Earth has been bombarded by extraterrestrial material ranging from dust-sized particles to objects large enough to...
February 15, 2016
A scientific breakthrough gives researchers access to the blueprint of thousands of molecules of great relevance to medicine, energy and...
February 15, 2016
To err is human, even for one of the most number-crunching, rigorous and truth-seeking of all activities: science. The issue of errors in...
February 15, 2016
Despite studying English every year since kindergarten, Chang Liu realized upon arriving in Arizona last August that she could not properly...
February 12, 2016
The United States is a young country, but it still has its fair share of history.
Anyone who has ever taken a road trip has seen the scores...
February 11, 2016
Everything shifted this morning.
In the 100th-anniversary year of Einstein’s theory of relativity, scientists announced they have proved it...
February 11, 2016
Declarations of love will be everywhere this Valentine’s Day weekend, from sappy cards to bombastic displays of affection. But if you’re...
February 11, 2016
Thomas E. Mann, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution and Resident Scholar at the University of California,...
February 10, 2016
Living systems rely on a dizzying variety of chemical reactions essential to development and survival. Most of these involve a specialized...
February 10, 2016
Television legend and Emmy Award winner Hugh Downs will sit down with Arizona State University’s Lawrence Krauss for an intimate discussion...
February 10, 2016
The Marston Exploration Theater, at Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration, will be featuring a special screening...
February 10, 2016
Some of our most vital biological functions rely on the body’s natural ability to gather up specific types of molecules, and then move and...
February 10, 2016
Kevin Langergraber has been studying chimpanzees in the wild for 15 years.
Before he became a professor and had to teach eight months out...
February 9, 2016
Democrats and Republicans in a snowy New Hampshire have cast their ballots and, as is so often the case, have picked different winners than...
February 7, 2016
When helmets clacked together during Sunday’s Super Bowl 50, the echoes might have been heard differently than in years past. Call it the...
February 5, 2016
Arizona State University has been named the most innovative college in the country, and now select Sun Devil students are taking part in...
February 5, 2016
It’s 2040, and the human base on Mars is bustling.
Robots are moving about, carrying out exploratory missions operated from the base. At a...
February 5, 2016
When the June 2015 issue of Vanity Fair hit the stands last summer featuring Caitlyn Jenner wearing an ivory bodysuit on its cover, the...
February 4, 2016
While growing up in Gambia, Africa, Balanding Manneh experienced hunger intimately — losing childhood friends to starvation and...
February 4, 2016
The hottest technology in bioscience will soon bring a new coolness factor to world-class Arizona State University research.
The coolest...
February 3, 2016
There are many bright stars in Arizona State University's universe, and a handful of the brightest will be honored Thursday, Feb. 4, at the...
February 3, 2016
The faculty at ASU are dedicated to helping students achieve their goals, sometimes you just have to ask to get their help.
This is true...
February 3, 2016
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016. Their first act of the year was to award creative writing...
February 2, 2016
The first flight of NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will carry 13 low-cost CubeSats, including one from Arizona State...
February 2, 2016
B.L. Turner II looks the part of a college professor.
His gray blazer, light blue button-down shirt and neatly manicured mustache and beard...
February 2, 2016
David Berger believes in service.
It’s easy to see his conviction by spending just a few minutes on his personal blog, highlighting his...
February 2, 2016
When Kostalena Michelaki came to Arizona State University, she wondered about the history of this sprawling campus in central Tempe.
“When...
February 1, 2016
Himalayan geoscience and Antarctic astronomy are both on the program at the next Earth and Space Open House at Arizona State University,...
February 1, 2016
On Jan. 14-15, six Arizona State University Forensics (speech) Team students competed on the University of Texas-Austin campus at the 17th...
February 1, 2016
When Petra Fromme was called into Arizona State University President Michael Crow’s office last year, the caller wouldn’t tell her...
February 1, 2016
The first contest of the 2016 presidential election is in the books as the Iowa caucuses closed late Monday night. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)...
January
January 29, 2016
In our rapidly urbanizing world, more than a billion people living in slums lack access to essential services, such as water and sanitation...
January 29, 2016
“Big data” sounds like it could be a pretty boring topic, maybe not something you want to bring up during a dinner party.
But the intrigue...
January 29, 2016
In the age of the 24-hour news cycle, where quick soundbytes and images out of context dominate the online realm, rhetoric rules.
In an...
January 29, 2016
How do we classify texts produced by undocumented authors who no longer identify as Mexican, yet have no officially recognized status in...
January 28, 2016
The evening began with a bold assertion:
“ISIS’ defeat in Iraq is all but certain, probably within the next 12 months.”
Douglas Ollivant,...
January 28, 2016
The World Health Organization warned Thursday that the Zika virus is “spreading explosively” in the Americas, and countries and health...
January 28, 2016
Humans have been working the land for millennia, cultivating plants or herding animals.
Now researchers from Arizona State University are...
January 28, 2016
Three Arizona State University psychology professors have been named as “Rising Stars” by the largest international psychological...
January 27, 2016
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has left the “Doomsday Clock” at three minutes to midnight, the time it set it at last year.
“This is...
January 27, 2016
Why help someone when you’ll receive nothing in return? How have groups of people cooperating together ensured group survival?
These...
January 27, 2016
If you haven’t already noticed, Arizona is a popular hangout for hummingbirds.
In an interview with KJZZ radio in Phoenix, Arizona State...
January 26, 2016
Arizona State University has been chosen as a Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) site joining a multi-university consortium dedicated to...
January 26, 2016
ASU physics professor Richard Kirian has been awarded the Fonda-Fasella prize, which is given to a young researcher who has obtained...
January 26, 2016
Yeah, there’s the Nobel Prize. That’s great. Eight hundred and seventy people have one. Olympic gold medals? Thousands out there. Oscars?...
January 25, 2016
Arizona State University’s innovation winning streak has continued among its next generation of talented faculty. Three ASU researchers —...
January 25, 2016
“For the last four decades, Harvey Cox has been the leading trend spotter in American religion."
This is how Stephen Prothero, author of "...
January 25, 2016
Have you made it up before dawn to see the alignment of five planets in the skyline? If not, don’t worry — the best is yet to come,...
January 25, 2016
Students and faculty at ASU have been digging out their hats, scarves and boots this year as Arizona experienced a colder-than-usual winter...
January 22, 2016
Sustainability looks good for corporations these days.
Starbucks, Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola all tout their contributions to...
January 22, 2016
Arizona State University's global studies major, within the School of Politics and Global Studies (SPGS), aims to address real-world...
January 22, 2016
What would happen if the vacant land around Phoenix were converted to urban farms? Could it bring sustainable, locally grown food closer to...
January 21, 2016
News broke this week that a planet 10 times the size of Earth may be lurking at the edge of our solar system.
Researchers at Caltech...
January 21, 2016
Arizona State University anthropologist Katie Hinde sees milk as more than food. For her, it is also personalized medicine and a carrier of...
January 21, 2016
Ask 10 people what the most taxing years of motherhood are and there’s a good chance the consensus will be “children’s infancies,” when...
January 20, 2016
Scientists reported Wednesday that 2015 was by far the warmest year on record, breaking a record that was set the year before, which has...
January 20, 2016
Deserts are often thought of as barren places that are left exposed to the extremes of heat and cold and where not much is afoot. But that...
January 19, 2016
The Family Check-Up, a highly successful family-counseling program, is currently being offered at a reduced cost to families with children...
January 19, 2016
Scott Swagerty, who recently graduated ASU with a PhD in Comparative Politics, Methodology, has taken a position with the office of the...
January 19, 2016
A new 3-D astronomy show, "The Secret Life of Stars," is premiering at Arizona State University's Marston Exploration Theater at the School...
January 15, 2016
Alexander Bernard, a political science major in Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies has recently been selected...
January 15, 2016
It's the middle of January. How are those New Year's resolutions going?
If you're like most people, they're swiftly receding from memory....
January 15, 2016
Like hundreds of other teachers, Krystal Yeager is returning to her high school math classroom after winter break.
Last fall while still...
January 15, 2016
It’s a fight to the finish for most graduate students at the end of their programs, their defenses looming on the horizon. But most...
January 14, 2016
“Frequent travel may be required,” the job description understates.
NASA announced in early December that it’s hiring another round of...
January 14, 2016
Late Monday night it was announced that Tonya Couch, mother of the infamous “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch, had posted bail after her bond...
January 14, 2016
Monday marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a time to reflect on the struggles for equality and freedom in America. It's also a day to recall...
January 13, 2016
Mayo Clinic-ASU Obesity Solutions has announced the 2016 winners of its seed funding competition. The seed funding program supports obesity...
January 8, 2016
On Monday, Jan. 11, ASU will launch the Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology, led by Dr. Kimberly Scott of the School of...
January 8, 2016
Courtney Besaw is a natural when it comes to numbers and experimentation. She’s also a girl. And as such, she took notice of a certain...
January 8, 2016
Since prehistoric times, clays have been used by people for medicinal purposes. Whether by eating it, soaking in a mud bath, or using it to...
January 7, 2016
Affluenza became a popular term when it was used in defense of Ethan Couch, a 16-year-old Texas boy who killed four pedestrians while...
January 6, 2016
“Sherd!”
That’s the sound 16 volunteers had their ears out for as they surveyed an area in Perry Mesa, 77 miles north of Phoenix,...
2015
December
December 31, 2015
Hands go up in a crowded ASU lecture hall when a social justice course instructor asks who has ever experienced prejudice. The instructor...
December 31, 2015
Discovering the rich tapestry of history can open our eyes to the connections between past and present, and how people and circumstances...
December 30, 2015
With weather updates important to traffic flow and the safety of motorists, an innovative partnership between the Arizona Department of...
December 29, 2015
Read the headlines on any given day and it’s easy to become discouraged about tragic events happening all around the world. But despite the...
December 29, 2015
Arizona State University’s Department of English has no shortage of talented alumni and faculty, as is evidenced by the latest crop of...
December 28, 2015
Teams of researchers in the American Southwest (including a group from Arizona State University) and North Atlantic islands have found that...
December 28, 2015
Recent race-related events — in Ferguson, Missouri; St. Louis; Baltimore; Chicago; Charleston, South Carolina; and New York City — all...
December 24, 2015
On the eve of both Christmas and a full moon, ASU Now spoke with Mark Robinson, a professor in ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration...
December 23, 2015
Arizona State University Regents’ Professor and research scientist Charles Arntzen, Ph.D., has been named a Fellow of the National Academy...
December 23, 2015
One of the best things in science fiction is bizarre alien planets. Ice planets, lava planets, water planets, planets with two suns,...
December 23, 2015
NASA has announced the selection of Science Investigation Teams for its Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). ASU will be the lead...
December 22, 2015
The sun is just beginning to rise, but it’s still dark enough that the street lights on South 12th Avenue in downtown Phoenix remain lit...
December 22, 2015
International trade and travel has literally opened up new vistas for humans, ranging from travel to exotic places to enjoying the products...
December 22, 2015
Arizona State University researchers have made an unexpected discovery by studying the atomic structure of nanodiamonds.
The new results...
December 21, 2015
A joint master's degree program in sustainability science between Arizona State University and Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany,...
December 18, 2015
NASA has released a richly textured image of the Earth taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter using cameras operated by Arizona State...
December 18, 2015
Editor's note: This story is part of a series of student profiles that are part of our December 2015 commencement coverage.
No matter where...
December 17, 2015
Scientists have drawn up molecular blueprints of a tiny cellular “nanomachine,” whose evolution is an extraordinary feat of nature, by...
December 17, 2015
Editor's note: This story is part of a series of student profiles that are part of our December 2015 commencement coverage.
Brianna Wang...
December 16, 2015
Carlos Velez-Ibanez desires to know two things: 1) How are people able to excel when they shouldn’t be able to? and 2) How are people able...
December 15, 2015
Editor's note: This story is part of a series of student profiles that are part of our December 2015 commencement coverage.
Curtis Gokcen...
December 15, 2015
When NASA's Dawn spacecraft approached the dwarf planet Ceres in March this year, scientists and the public alike were intrigued to see...
December 14, 2015
Editor's note: This story is part of a series of student profiles that are part of our December 2015 commencement coverage.
When the Earth’...
December 11, 2015
Editor's note: This story is part of a series of student profiles that are part of our December 2015 commencement coverage.
When Ron Dorn,...
December 9, 2015
The world remains abuzz this morning about Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States.
The current frontrunner for...
December 9, 2015
Editor's note: This story is part of a series of student profiles that are part of our December 2015 commencement coverage.
As he settled...
December 8, 2015
For five years, the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program at Arizona State University has been turning midshipmen into successful...
December 8, 2015
Editor's note: This story is part of a series of student profiles that are part of our December 2015 commencement coverage.
During the fall...
December 7, 2015
Editor's note: This story is part of a series of student profiles that are part of our December 2015 commencement coverage.
Samuel...
December 4, 2015
Arizona State University biochemistry junior Aurora DuBois and her younger sister Sophia attended the recent rivalry game against the...
December 2, 2015
Does the holiday season put you in a reflective mood? Will winter break give you some unstructured time to jot your ideas and stories down...
December 2, 2015
It took patience and practice, but Azamat Mamadaliev was able to master the skateboard as a mode of transportation in about a week. Now he...
December 1, 2015
Tucked away on the far western end of Haiti’s southern peninsula lies the remote Massif de la Hotte mountain range. It's where you’ll find...
December 1, 2015
A planet discovered last year sitting at an unusually large distance from its star — 16 times farther than Pluto is from the sun — may have...
November
November 30, 2015
Arizona State University, in partnership with Mayo Clinic in Arizona, has announced the recipients of the 2016 ASU-Mayo Seed Grant Program...
November 29, 2015
Decades ago the word “bootleg” carried an outlaw connotation.
The contraband was usually kept beneath store counters and discreetly sold to...
November 25, 2015
Every year, students from Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies have the opportunity to study under the school’s...
November 24, 2015
The rocks found on many islands have settled after a journey that began deep within the Earth.
Brought to the Earth's surface in eruptions...
November 24, 2015
On paper, Candance Lewis seems to have it all — including a Bisgrove fellowship and a Fulbright scholarship. And having successfully...
November 24, 2015
Talk to 10 doctors or academics and you’ll get 10 different definitions of what the word “resilience” means.
One might say it is the...
November 23, 2015
Building a spacecraft can be surprisingly simple. You can buy a kit off the Internet for about the cost of a used car and make something...
November 23, 2015
Janet Franklin, a professor in Arizona State University’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, has been elected to the...
November 20, 2015
Associate professor Steven Semken of Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) is a co-editor of a geology...
November 20, 2015
Since 1991, the Critical Languages Institute at Arizona State University has been providing students with the opportunity to expand their...
November 20, 2015
Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere emerged as transient “whiffs” in shallow oceans around 2.5 billion years ago, according to new research from...
November 19, 2015
Arizona is one of the most picturesque states to film a movie.
Good luck trying to get one made.
Although Arizona has been the backdrop for...
November 19, 2015
British biographer and scholar Sir Jonathan Bate comes to ASU on Nov. 23 to talk about “Ted Hughes: Eco-Warrior, or Eco-Worrier?”
Bate is a...
November 18, 2015
Episode I: The origin of ASU’s 'Star Wars' universe
Nick Salerno tells people that he grew up in the dark.
As a child, Salerno would...
November 17, 2015
We all want to be on top.
And in the online realm of search-engine optimization (SEO), that means crowning a topic field on the world’s...
November 17, 2015
The actor Charlie Sheen announced Tuesday that he is HIV positive. He said in an interiew on NBC News that he was diagnosed four years ago...
November 17, 2015
Christopher Morehart, an assistant professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, is studying how changes in climate and in...
November 16, 2015
From Wayne Enterprises to Stark Industries, the comic-book world is all about science and technology that wows. Bionic limbs. Flying suits...
November 16, 2015
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there’s no knowing where...
November 16, 2015
Apart from hydrogen, as many have heard from the Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson "Cosmos" series, every ingredient in the human body is...
November 15, 2015
Late Friday, terrorists associated with the Islamic State, or ISIS, carried out multiple, simultaneous attacks around Paris, killing 129...
November 13, 2015
Man's best friend might prove an unexpected ally in the fight against Alzheimer's.
The disease affects more than 5 million Americans — and...
November 12, 2015
This year, tens of thousands of people around the globe — including about 12,000 in the U.S. and 35,000 in China alone — will be diagnosed...
May
May 4, 2015
Arizona State University Regents' Professor John C.H. Spence has been elected as a Fellow of the UK Royal Society, as a foreign member...
May 1, 2015
Each time the ruins of Teotihuacan divulge a secret, a new mystery seems to arise.
Liquid mercury has been found in an excavated tunnel...
May 1, 2015
With just a sniff, our noses can detect smells that trigger specific memories, tell us food has gone bad, or even connect us to a potential...
May 1, 2015
Eric Sheptock never thought anyone cared about his take on biodiversity. After all, he wasn’t a scientist – he was a...
May 1, 2015
Saturn’s tiny moon Enceladus may offer the next best hope for finding life elsewhere in our solar system, astrobiologists now say. An...
April
April 30, 2015
What could you do with some scavenged supplies from the local convenience store? Create an autonomous time-lapse camera, of course.
At...
April 29, 2015
How do humans obtain and transmit information in their social environments? What are the evolutionary foundations of human deception? How...
April 28, 2015
Despite having research experience, Katherine Sheppard, an earth and space exploration student with a focus in geological sciences, said...
April 28, 2015
Imagine a world devoid of animal life except for humans. Or a future where medical advances enable people to live for hundreds upon...
April 28, 2015
The Daily Beast has published a review of “The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860,” (Yale...
April 27, 2015
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ graduating class of 2015 has benefited from the breadth and depth of its professors and...
April 27, 2015
A new Arizona State University research study has revealed the fine details of how an experimental drug works to regulate blood pressure,...
April 24, 2015
The Arizona State University Forensics (speech) team continued a remarkable awards season, repeating their National Championship in...
April 24, 2015
Non-human primates can teach us a lot about ourselves, such as providing insight into how we evolved as a social species.
For Arizona State...
April 24, 2015
In the search for life elsewhere in the universe, Arizona State University researchers report that we can cross one potential off the list...
April 23, 2015
What do emotions in early modern England, revolutionary France, 17th-century China, 19th-century Russia and post-war Germany have in common...
April 22, 2015
While many view warfare as a breakdown between societies, Arizona State University anthropologist Sarah Mathew views it as an outgrowth of...
April 21, 2015
For centuries, humans have sought to learn whether life exists beyond Earth. That answer is closer than ever to fulfillment, and an ASU...
April 21, 2015
One of the most iconic images ever taken by the Hubble Space Telescope – dubbed "The Pillars of Creation" – is the centerpiece...
April 20, 2015
ASU student Will Novak has a plan to beautify the 181 miles of canals that run through Phoenix.
The project recently received an ASU...
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