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- Arizona State undergraduates transform childrens‘ lives with “magic”
There’s magic afoot at ASU with the help of a band of undergraduates with the unlikely monikers: Bubbles, Bam Bam, Tank, Bacon, Shazam, and Guppy. more...
- Shades Multicultural Mentoring Program encourages STEM students
Diverse approaches to education and mentoring may be needed to create the next workforce of scientists and engineers, according to the National Science Foundation. more...
- Chihuahuan desert lessons impact global water resource decisions
Southern Arizona´s Chihuahuan desert and the semi-arid riparian reaches of the San Pedro River serve as the laboratory for researchers, including ASU ecologist Juliet Stromberg. more...
- ASU–German–Austrian connections foster new research programs
ASU´s currency in social insect study is rising faster than the Euro against the dollar, on the world scene. more...
- ASU ecologist advance education, research in Eurasia, Latin American
Observing furry small mammals on the stark, windswept Tibetan plateau at 14,000 feet initially doesn´t seem to translate into transformational research, but the small animals in question are the plateau pika more...
- Researchers develop worldwide ecosystem model
Leah Gerber, an associate professor in the School of Life Sciences, pursues research extending from the shores and coastal islands of Mexico to the high seas in and around the Caribbean, Northwest Africa and tropical South Pacific. more...
- Bigger Bladder key to Sonoran Survival
Key insights about one of the Sonoran´s most elusive resident species, the Gila monster, Heloderma suspectum, trickling from Arizona, including opening eyes of supporters of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., thanks to research by Dale DeNardo more...
- Peers elect 5 from ASU to prestigious scientific society
Five ASU faculty members are among the 471 newly elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science more...
- At the root of nutrient limitation, ecosystems are not as different as they seem
Anyone who has thrown a backyard barbecue knows that hot dogs are inexplicably packaged in different numbers than buns, eight hot dogs per pack versus 10 hot dog buns. more...
- ASU partnership explores biofuel feasibility
ASU has announced a significant research partnership with energy company BP and Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz) to develop a renewable source of biofuel. more...
- Scientists find ‘skinny’ gene’s value
Scientists have learned the role of a key gene in the war on weight, a tiny bundle of DNA discovered in fruit flies 50 years ago by Winifred Doane, a professor emeritus at ASU. more...
- YouTube video ‘Planet Bob’ uses humor to magnify focus on biodiversity
“Planet Bob,” a joint video production from ASU’s International Institute for Species Exploration and Media Alchemy Inc., uses humor to draw attention to the serious subject of biodiversity and the science of taxonomy. more...
- Anti-Trash/Costume Bash
This Halloween, make a costume from recyclable materials and you could scare up a winning prize more...
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences honors four with awards
Jenny Norton...is this year´s recipient of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame award more...
- ASU conference promotes opportunities for physicists, materials scientists, and biologists around the topic of Iridescence
The Frontiers in Life Sciences Workshop: Iridescence: More than Meets the Eye is a School of Life Sciences’ graduate student initiated and organized international conference more...
- KAET/ASU Spotlight series on the Biodesign Institute starts this Sunday, 2 pm.
Come watch this series about the scientific innovations and cutting-edge research being conducted by many of School of Life Sciences faculty who are also leaders with the Biodesign Institute at ASU. more...
- Fourth Annual ASU School of Life Sciences Career, Internship and Graduate School Fair
Come connect with leaders in the sciences and in academia to learn about what it takes to get a job or into graduate school! more...
- The Aye–ayes have it
A quest to gain a more complete picture of color vision evolution has led to an up-close, genetic encounter with one of the world´s most rare and bizarre-looking primates. more...
- Space flight shown to alter ability of bacteria to cause disease
Space flight has been shown to have a profound impact on human physiology as the body adapts to zero gravity environments. more...
- Bacteria for biofuel
Some scientists are trying to develop more efficient solar cells to capture sunlight for human energy use. Other scientists are trying to produce fuel using artificial photosynthesis. more...
- Postdoctoral Poster Symposium
Melissa Herbst-Kralovetz, a postdoctoral fellow at the Biodesign Institute at ASU, was selected to participate in the Postdoc Leadership Mentoring Project more...
- National Science Foundation assistant director accelerates ASU science ties with China
The words “complexity” and “sustainability” haven’t commonly been partnered with one of the fastest growing economies in the world, China, but that is changing. more...
- More leg room favored by Paleozoic insect giants?
Global warming looms large in the news, however, one benefit seems to have arisen from the atmospheric changes on Earth since the Paleozoic Era, 300 million years ago. more...
- Old developmental pathways spawn revolutionary evolutionary changes
When the larvae of the primitive social insect Polistes metricus, a paper wasp, slips into the quiet pupal stage, she doesn´t know if she´ll arise a worker or gyne (future queen) more...
- SOLS Magazine Fall 2007
September 05, 2007 – As you can tell from our cover, finding ways to communicate is essential in our ever-changing, fast-paced world. more...
- Science Foundation grants drive research
Science Foundation Arizona has made about $2 million in investments to help eight Arizona-based research programs further develop existing research to the point of technology commercialization as part of its 2007 Small Business Catalytic program. more...
- Norwegian council names ASU researcher ‘Outstanding Young Investigator’
Gro Amdam, an assistant professor in Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences who heads social insect studies in laboratories at both ASU and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences... more...
- Biodesign Institute Leads Innovative Project to Prevent Breast Cancer
Biodesign Institute researcher Stephen Albert Johnston, Ph.D., has received afive-year, $7.5 million grant to develop a preventive vaccine against breast cancer, the second leading cause of death in women. more...
- Curtiss named ‘Bioscience Researcher of the Year’
Roy Curtiss of ASU´s Biodesign Institute, was named “Bioscience Researcher of the Year” at the third annual Excellence in Bioscience Awards Dinner, held recently and sponsored by the Arizona BioIndustry Association. more...
- Paleobotany Student studying in Japan this summer in NSF EAPSI program
The National Science Foundation has selected School of Life Sciences´ graduate student John Benedict to attend the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI) more...
- ASU bee researcher wins Pew Scholar award for biomedical sciences
It’s hard to imagine, for most of us, that the bees we see buzzing between strands of orange flowers of the desert mallow could potentially usher in a medical breakthrough. more...
- Testosterone, Dietary Antioxidants and Coloration in Birds
Mom may have been right all along, especially when we were hormone-raging teenagers, eat your veggies and good things will happen. more...
- The bee that would be queen: Findings explain bee caste development
A team of researchers from Arizona State University, Purdue University and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences has discovered evidence that honeybees have adopted a phylogenetically old molecular cascade, TOR (target of rapamycin) more...
- Competition, loss of selfishness mark shift to supersociety
How social or altruistic behavior evolved has been a central and hotly debated question, particularly by those researchers engaged in the study of social insect societies: ants, bees and wasps. more...
- Software PASSaGE puts informatics technology onto maps
To answer some of the most challenging questions in biology, researchers have had to come to grips with an ever-increasing and unruly information onslaught. more...
- Getting to the core of an emergent public health threat
The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002 was a loud wake-up call for researchers studying infectious diseases. SARS infected over 8,000 people, killed 10 percent of those infected, and weakened most with pneumonia. more...
- All that glitters is not gold
Sex sells. The thrum and flash of an automobile, the whisper of designer silk, the tease of a tattoo, the ching ching of gold chains and rings are paired in media and on the streets with come-hither abdominal tautness and the flutter of eyelashes. more...
- Exceptional graduate students receive National Science Foundation fellowships
Graduate students from life sciences, anthropology and mechanical engineering at Arizona State University are among the select applicants chosen nationwide to receive National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research fellowships. more...
- Student essay garners film festival fellowship
Brenda Rascon, a graduate student with professor Jon Harrison in the School of Life Sciences, has won an essay contest and a short-term fellowship sponsored by Ithaca College. more...
- Student selected by NSF to study science overseas
The National Science Foundation has selected School of Life Sciences´ graduate student Jason Walker to attend the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI). more...
- Potential new tools for neurons
Many significant discoveries have enriched our exploration and understanding of the brain, including one of its most active cellular elements, neurons, since the brain was first described in 7,000 BC by Egyptian scholars. more...
- Science Comes to Life for Kids
Thirteen year old Eunice Duran gazes in amazement at the buzzing insect she just caught in her butterfly net. more...
- Ecological differences help unlock genomic mysteries
ASU ecologist James Elser is at the leading edge of a field of research that focuses on understanding of the processing of energy and multiple chemical elements in plants, animals, and microbes and how these sculpt ecosystems more...
- Laubichler, Chen receive NSF Career Awards
Two assistant professors in ASU´s School of Life Sciences have been chosen to receive National Science Foundation Career Awards. more...
- SOLS Takes a Hike: Come See the City of Phoenix Tres Rios Wetlands with ASU Experts
In April, under a wide, azure sky, heat is rising from desert expanses prickling with cactus - just what you´d expect in Phoenix. But just outside the city in Tres Rios Wetlands, the unexpected can be found. more...
- Genetic links illuminate bee social life
How social life evolved from solitary ancestral lifestyles has been an enduring mystery for years, and now scientists are one step closer to unraveling its genetic underpinnings. more...
- Cardineau named to federal panel
Guy Cardineau, a professor at the Sandra Day O´Connor College of Law, has been appointed to a federal panel charged with making recommendations about the development and use of genetically-engineered agricultural products. more...
- Frontiers in Life Sciences Conference Winner Announced
School of Life Sciences (SOLS) graduate students, Mike Butler, Nathan Morehouse, Jonathon Douglas, Lisa Taylor, Melissa Meadows and Matthew Toomey were awarded $29,000 to develop the first SOLS Frontiers in Science Conference to be held at ASU. more...
- Faeth highly cited
Professor Stan Faeth co-authored work on "Search for Hsp90 Inhibitors with Potential Anticancer Activity: Isolation and SAR Studies of Radicicol and Monocillin I from Two Plant-Associated Fungi of the Sonoran Desert" in the Journal of Natural Products. more...
- Plankton bring tide of change to scientific meeting with ‘Water Rocks’
When Victorian scientist and illustrator Ernst Haeckel picked up his artist´s pen to draw, he had no idea that his illustrations of plankton would change perceptions of form, function and art forever. more...
- President´s Professor: Jane Maienschein
Not all of us are destined to be scientists. However growing up near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and having a nuclear physicist as a parent certainly influenced Jane Maienschein´s choices. more...
- Multiple pathways to drug abuse: Novelty seeking, psychosocial stress and their impact on brain and behavior
On Tuesday, March 13, 2007 a talk will be given by Dr. Huda Akil, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program more...
- Undergraduate research reveals long-lived lichen´s secrets
With summer just around the corner, undergraduate life sciences students can look forward to a unique work experience through the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program in the School of Life Sciences. more...
- 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium March 2, 2007
Undergraduates conducting research in the life sciences are invited to attend and present a poster. Mark Jacobs, dean of Barrett Honors College and professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, will give the keynote speech. more...
- Arizona Imaging and Microanalysis Society Conference March 8th
The Arizona Imaging and Microanalysis Society (AIMS) Conference well be held at the Arizona State University campus on March 8th. The day-long conference will be held in Old Main. more...
- Pre-Health Professions Fair
The Pre-Health Professions Program is the central location for pre-health advising for all ASU students. more...
- MacArthur Foundation grant will allow ASU professor to advance a balance of conservation, development
Researchers in the Amazon Basin are excited by the possibility of finding new drugs that can be extracted from standing forests. more...
- CAP LTER project closes in on 10-year anniversary
Fall 2007 will mark the 10th Anniversary of the Central Arizona/Phoenix LongTerm Ecological Research (CAP LTER) project. more...
- 198th Birthday of Charles Darwin
The 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin´s birth is February 12, 2009, but the celebration begins this year. This February 12th at noon, the School of Life Sciences and the Natural History Collections will sponsor a birthday tea. more...
- Quentin Wheeler, new VP and dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences, to lead ‘cyber’ species exploration institute
As far back as he can remember, Quentin Wheeler, the recently appointed ASU vice president and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been on a quest to discover unknown species. more...
- SOLS´ student teachers garner GPSA teaching awards
Four students from School of Life Sciences were among 23 from ASU honored March 21 by the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) for their excellence as teachers. more...
- Gene E. Robinson Talk
Gene E. Robinson joined the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1989 and is the director of the University of Illinois Bee Research Facility. more...
- SOLS Newsletter Spring 2007
We invite you to ring in spring with our newest issue about new research that is blooming in School of Life Sciences and how our students and alumni have contributed to their communities, locally and worldwide. more...
- Grad students win ornithological contest
With the correct answer to that question, the team of Melissa Meadows, Matthew Toomey, and Bobby (Haralambos) Fokidis, all graduate students in the School of Life Sciences, won the inaugural quiz bowl at the fourth North American Ornithological Conference, more...
- Public Lecture: Dr. Geoffrey West
Universal Scaling Laws in Biology from Genomes to Ecosystems: Towards a Quantitative Theory of Biological Structure and Organization. more...
- CAP LTER Ninth Annual Poster Symposium
January 10, 2007: 8 am- 3:30 pm, Carson Ballroom, Old Main; 8 am, Continental Breakfast; 8:30 am, Welcome and Introduction Charles Redman, Co-Director, CAP LTER; Director, Global Institute of Sustainability more...