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Tropical classroom inspires exhibit, Smithsonian field station d...

http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:00

(Arizona State University) The ASU Design School traveling studio introduced graduate students in architecture, biology and design to Panama's tropical forest and Smithsonian researchers.

Their biology-inspired designs will be showcased in an exhibit "Learning from Organisms" on Jan. 24, 2012 on ASU's Tempe campus.


 

Protein love triangle key to crowning bees queens?

http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Wed, 11/09/2011 - 23:00

(Arizona State University) Arizona State University scientists reconcile conflicts in studies of bee development and the role of insulin pathways and partner proteins in queen-making.


 

NSF-funded research fellowship program to focus on producing exp...

http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Mon, 10/31/2011 - 22:00

(Arizona State University) With support from a grant of approximately $3 million from the National Science Foundation, Arizona State University and California State University, Long Beach will provide fellowships to as many as 30 doctoral students for research training, education and practical experience in fields that contribute to assisting people with disabilities to enhance the quality of their lives.


 

ASU and China's Sun Yat-Sen University to develop early diagnost...

http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Mon, 09/05/2011 - 22:00

(Arizona State University) Arizona State University (ASU) and China's Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) have formalized a research collaboration aimed at developing early and predictive diagnostics to improve patient outcomes for colorectal cancer.


 

Arizona State University geographer calls for complexity in sust...

http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Sat, 02/19/2011 - 23:00

(Arizona State University) Tropical deforestation is intimately linked with urban dynamics and needs to be considered along with the role and effect of national and regional policies on land use decisions, and the dynamics of economic globalization in the next generation of sustainability science research, according to Arizona State University geographer B.L.

Turner II, speaking at the AAAS annual meeting.


 

Grants fund projects that will tackle 'Grand Challenges'

http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Tue, 12/21/2010 - 23:00

(Arizona State University) Arizona State University engineering faculty will lead projects to address some of the world's most critical problems with support from the Grand Challenges Research Seed Funding program.

The goals of each project align with the Grand Challenges for Engineering initiative of the National Academy of Engineering, which encourages engineers to pursue the technological progress needed to elevate the quality of life around the globe.


 

STEM workshop set to advance women, minorities

http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Tue, 12/07/2010 - 23:00

(Arizona State University) Seeking to combat the loss of diversity in science, technology, engineering and math, a team from Arizona State University led by Page Baluch, the manager of the W.M.

Keck Bioimaging Facility in ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has developed a "Forward to Professorship" workshop, to be held at ASU’s Memorial Union on the Tempe campus, Jan. 21-22, 2011.


 

ASU’s Ask A Biologist website wins prestigious SPORE prize

http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Wed, 11/24/2010 - 23:00

(Arizona State University) The American Association for the Advancement of Science has chosen Arizona State University's "Ask A Biologist," an online resource for children's science education, to receive the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education, or SPORE, award.


 

Nanotechnology and equity issues explored in new book

http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Wed, 11/17/2010 - 23:00

(Arizona State University) ASU faculty member co-edits the second volume in the series Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society that explores the significant impact new technologies can have on personal, national and global equity.


 

Consortium: Higher ed curricula not keeping pace with societal, ...

http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Sun, 10/17/2010 - 22:00

(Arizona State University) As universities are being restructured to best serve the society of tomorrow, are their curricula reflecting these changes and the development of new and possibly even unformulated new disciplines and areas of inquiry?

A consortium of educators that range from Arizona State University to University of New Delhi, India, and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, say "No," and have launched a website, to spur a radical transformation in international educational reform.