SOLS Professors Charles Arntzen and Tsafrir Mor Receive Innovator of the Year Award
SOLS Professor Charles Arntzen and Assistant Professor Tsafrir Mor were recently presented with the Innovator of the Year Award for Academia.
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SOLS Professor Jeanne Wilson-Rawls' Research Featured in GermOnline
SOLS Assistant Professor Jeanne Wilson-Rawls research is featured in GermOnline as Gene of the Month.
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Dr. Jeffery M. Trent Joins the School of Life Sciences as Newest Faculty Member
Dr. Jeffrey Trent is President and Scientific Director of the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), a non- profit bio-medical research institute in Phoenix, Arizona.
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SOLS Professor Jon Harrison Elected AAAS Fellow
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Members elected School of Life Sciences professor Jon Harrison as one of its newest Fellows in September.
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Film Based on SoLS Professor Bert Hoelldobler's Research Wins Prize
A documentary film based on Bert Hoelldobler's research, "Ants - Nature's Secret Power", has won several major awards including the most recent 2005 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival's Special Jury Prize.
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SoLS Professor Nancy Grimm Ecological Society of America's New President
Dr. Nancy B. Grimm, a professor of Ecology, Evolution & Environmental Sciences at Arizona State University School of Life Sciences and Co-Director of the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Project (CAP LTER), is the Ecological Society of America’s President for 2005-2006.
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SoLS Professor, James Collins, to Become NSF Head of Biological Sciences
National Science Foundation Director Arden L. Bement, Jr., has named James Collins of Arizona State University to head the Foundation's Directorate for Biological Sciences. (From NSF Website)
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SOLS Professor, Roy Curtiss, awarded $14.8 million to develop new pneumonia vaccine of newborns
The Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, a major effort to achieve scientific breakthroughs against diseases that kill millions of people each year in the world’s poorest countries, is offering 43 grants totaling $436.6 million for a broad range of innovative research projects involving scientists in 33 countries.
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SOLS professor finds that looks play factor in bird mating game
If the activity of the North American barn swallow is a clue, then those that are in the market for love need to maintain their appearances.
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Kevin McGraw Awarded the Ned K. Johnson Young Investigator Award by the American Ornithologists' Union
August 2005. ASU School of Life Sciences researcher, Kevin McGraw, has been awarded the 2005 Outstanding New Investigator Award by the American Ornithologists' Union. Dr. McGraw’s contributions come in the field of avian visual communication and coloration, and he is credited with pioneering a new approach to the study of ornamental traits.
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Maxine Proctor Awarded 2005 Outstanding Advising Administrator Certificate of Merit
Maxine Proctor has been awarded the 2005 Outstanding Advising Administrator Certificate of Merit by the National Academic Advising Association.
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Andrew Webber takes on new role as Associate Dean of Graduate Student Programs
Professor Andrew Webber has been appointed associate dean of graduate student programs in the Division of Graduate Studies (DGS).
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SOLS Professor Kevin McGraw Awarded the 2005 Outstanding New Investigator Award
August 2005. ASU School of Life Sciences researcher, Kevin McGraw, has been awarded the 2005 Outstanding New Investigator Award by the Animal Behavior Society.
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Integrative Science and Technology Building (ISTB) 1 Nears Completion
August 2005. The new Integrative Science and Technology Building (ISTB) 1 is nearing completion. The new building will be home to three SOLS groups. The Center for Metabolic Biology, the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity, and the Social Insect Group will be located on the third and fourth floors.
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SOLS Honey Bee Research Laboratory Nears Completion
Construction is underway on the School of Life Sciences' Honey Bee Research Laboratory located at the ASU Polytechnic campus. The new laboratory will be home to more than one million European honey bees.
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SOLS Recognition & ASU, UA, ABOR plan for the advancement of medical education & research in Phoenix
Arizona State University (ASU) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Arizona (UA) and the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) to plan the creation of the Phoenix Biomedical Campus of the Arizona University System.
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SOLS Recognition & SOLS Students Sarah Boyle and Benjamin Savitch win prestigious Fulbright award
Nine ASU students have been selected to receive Fulbright awards for graduate study and research abroad.
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SOLS Recognition & SOLS student Taylor Jackson Claims Udall Award
ASU continues to cut a wide swath in the world of prestigious national scholarships, with the news that two students have won a Goldwater Scholarship and a Udall Scholarship.
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SOLS Recognition & Retirement Luncheon - 2005 - Photo Gallery
Various snapshots of the SOLS faculty and staff for the Recognition & Retirement Luncheon, taken place on May 4, 2005.
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CAP LTER Grant (CAP2) Renewed
When ASU’s Central Arizona-Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research Project (CAP LTER) was funded by the National Science Foundation in 1997, more than 50 scientists signed on to do the multidisciplinary research, knowing they were embarking on something unusual: the first long-term ecological study of “a human-dominated ecosystem” – in other words, a city.
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