SOLS Professor Wins International Science Cooperation Award
December 27, 2006 — Arizona State University professor and ecologist Jianguo Wu is the winner of the 2006 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Award for International Scientific Cooperation.
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Quentin Wheeler Appointed Vice President and Dean of CLAS
December 21, 2006 — A reorganization of ASU’s academic administration, announced Dec. 21, has resulted in new leadership for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences...
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Distinguished scientific society names Nelson, Sarewitz Fellows
Two professors in ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are being honored with the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society...
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Professor finds key to ecosystems through genomes
It doesn’t take much to recognize that plants and animals are different sorts of living creatures, so perhaps it doesn’t come as a surprise that their relationships with surrounding environments might be different, including how they obtain, process and allocate their nutrients...
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School of Life Sciences Learning Resource Center: Taking Student Success to the Next Level
December 15, 2006 — The Learning Resource Center (SOLS – LRC) opened fall semester of 2005 offering two new spaces for students to gather to use computers and study. Over the past year, word-of-mouth has led to a significant jump in student use...
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ASU scientist featured on cable’s Science Channel and Animal Planet
Ants: Nature’s Secret Power, an award winning film about these ubiquitous and awe inspiring social insects, will be shown at 9 p.m. December 10, 2006 on the Science Channel and January 13, 2007 on Animal Planet...
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Virus research earns Jacobs top honors
Biodesign Institute virologist Bert Jacobs was named the recipient of the Innovator of the Year Award for Academia at the Governor’s Celebration of Innovation Awards, which took place before a packed house Dec. 5 at the Point South Mountain Resort...
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SOLS Newsletter Fall 2006
We have a new look! We hope that you like where we are headed with our graphics and our stories. In these next two issues of the SOLS Newsletter, we introduce a section that highlights faculty whose creative lives extend from and are partnered with their artistic endeavors...
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3rd Annual SOLS Undergraduate Senior Reception
Thursday, November 2, 2006, 4 pm. Agenda. Welcome. Robert Page, Founding Director, School of Life Sciences. Andrew T. Smith Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs and
Parents Association Professor, School of Life Sciences. Undergraduate Academic and Student Services...
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Andra Williams: ASU Employee of the Year
Tempe, Arizona—Student Support Specialist Sr. Andra Williams is dog’s best friend. An agility trainer in her free time, her three shelties, Jazz, Zoom, and Flash can leap, twirl, twist, and navigate around challenging obstacle courses. They draw their strength from the positive attitude, guidance, and practical good humor of their owner...
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Kudos to Kumar: Biodesign Researcher Promoted as one of President Crow’s 2006 Faculty Exemplars
November 1, 2006—ASU President Michael Crow has appointed Sudhir Kumar, PhD, director of the Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics at the Biodesign Institute, as one of six “2006 Promotion and Tenure Exemplars” among the university’s entire faculty...
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ASU researchers test antibacterial effects of healing clays
November 1, 2006—Clay is most commonly associated with the sublime experience of the European spa where visitors have been masked, soaked and basted with this touted curative since the Romans ruled...
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Biology & Society: Where Dr. Frankenstein meets Dr. Maienschein
When Mary Shelley wrote her novel, Frankenstein, present day research on topics like cloning, stem cells, the human genome, and nanotechnology would have seemed as fictional as her protagonist Frankenstein’s creation of his monster...
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Coffee Talk!
Central Arizona Chapter of the Association for Women in Science presents: An evening with Drs. Susanne Neuer, Associate Professor, and Elizabeth Davidson, Research Faculty, in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University...
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Rebuilding program ties Life Sciences to local community
Mesa, AZ—On October 28th, twenty-two School of Life Science volunteers could be found with paintbrushes, rollers and masking tape in hand in Mesa, AZ as part of the Rebuilding Together Rock and Roll Paint-a-thon. While there was more rolling than rocking...
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‘Embryo Project’ studies societal impacts on science
An ambitious group of historians, philosophers, bioethicists, scientists, lawyers and policy experts from ASU will be taking a detailed look at the history of embryo research to understand how society, culture and technology have affected the course of science....
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Hive mentality: Researchers create buzz over social behavior genetics
Though you may not be able to teach an old dog new tricks, ASU researchers have found that evolution may have taught old genes new tricks in the development of social behavior in honeybees...
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Undergraduate Learning Resource Center Workshops
Is DARS that mysterious flu-like disease that might be the next pandemic?? No! It is a Degree Audit Report – it's what undergrads use to monitor their progress through a program. Can I choose my own classes each semester and pre-plan what I need to take each year...
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Nikon’s Small World Contest Winners include ASU Faculty
Among the top twenty award winning photomicrographs from Nikon’s international "Small World" contest now touring museums throughout the U.S., will be Charles Kazilek’s image of Lomandra longifolia (Spiny-headed mat rush). The Small World contest is considered to be...
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Third Annual ASU School of Life Sciences Career, Internship and Graduate Fair
October 5, 2006—Come meet with local and national employers, mentors, educators and career development experts at the ASU School of Life Sciences Career, Internship and Graduate Fair. This year’s attendees include 33 participants from across the nation, including...
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Do Big Fleas have Little Fleas?
Have you ever wondered if those little pests that hop, bite, and generally parasitize humans and animals have in turn their own personal pests? Elizabeth Davidson, research professor with the School of Life Sciences is the person to ask...
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The World Within: Art Opening and Lecture - October 2, 2006
The World Within: Visualizing the Biology of Cells" will debut on October 6 at the Tilt Gallery in downtown Phoenix for the First Friday Art Walk. Robby Roberson, associate professor in the School of Life Sciences, will guide viewers into an unseen world, with his original images of cellular order from light and electron microscopy....
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ASU Professor Bert Hölldobler awarded Treviranus Medal
September 29, 2006—The Society of German Biologists (Verband deutscher Biologen) will award ASU Foundation Professor of Life Sciences Bert Hölldobler the Treviranus Medal - the highest honor given by this Society.
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ASU-Tec de Monterrey award boosts research projects
September 11, 2006—ASU and the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Tec) have jointly awarded $200,000 for two collaborative research projects in biotechnology.
The award, driven by a recent international research fund established by ASU President Michael Crow and Tec System President Rafael Rangel, is the first of its kind between the partner universities or with a Mexican institution...
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Handle with care: ASU’s Living Collection
September 11 , 2006—The petite woman carrying a long metal hook and a bucket while snaking up and down the hallways in the A-wing of Arizona State University’s Life Sciences Center is Sandra Schenone – a snake handler and a supervisor in the Department of Animal Care and Technologies....
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Former Presidential Bioethics Advisor Dr. Leon Kass to speak at ASU
Biomedical technology seeks not only to cure disease and relieve suffering. It also holds the promise of perfecting human beings, overcoming our natural limitations of body and mind and, indeed, improving on human nature itself...
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Undergraduate summer research pays bills while advancing careers
Shondra Seils could have worked in retail this summer, like many of her undergraduate classmates, but this creative undergraduate took a walk on the wild side instead. Seils, a senior majoring in ecology and evolutionary sciences...
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Sun Devil 101 - Fiesta Del SOLS - August 18th
New students and their parents can top off a week of Sun Devil 101 festivities with a welcoming morning visit to the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Foundation building followed by an afternoon of events at the School of Life Science’s Fiesta Del SOLS!...
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Popular bioethics film series back at ASU
TEMPE, Ariz. – What can films such as “Blade Runner,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Super Size Me” teach us about the ethical, social and legal implications of bioethics? Arizona State University’s Bioethics, Policy and Law Program will explore those questions during its fall film series...
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Leading the way in Undergraduate Programs: Ronald Rutowski and Andrew T. Smith
This fall will bring more fair winds of change to School of Life Sciences as professor Ronald Rutowski passes the reins of leadership of Undergraduate Programs to Parents’ Association Professor Andrew T. Smith....
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Blogging over Hill and Dale
This summer you can drop in on the field adventures of the intrepid N. Deposition Study Team from School of Life Sciences, as members of Professor James Elser’s lab conduct research in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.....
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Research in Chihuahuan Desert shapes thinking about evolution
A unique habitat of aquatic islands in the belly of a vast desert cupped by the Sierra Madre Mountains, Cuatro Cienegas was officially declared a “Federal Area for the Protection of Flora and Fauna,” by the Mexican government in 1994...
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ASU takes the mask off science for young students
One of ASU’s newest community outreach programs, Graduate Partners in Science Education created by graduate students Nathan (Nate) Morehouse and Jon Davis in the School of Life Sciences is changing the face of science education in urban public schools...
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ASU to build Arizona Biosciences Network — AzBioNet
Networking and collaboration — hallmarks of modern scientific enterprise — are at the core of undergraduate research initiatives at Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences. This week’s announcement of a $1.8 million award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) will propel the university’s plan to build the Arizona Biosciences Network — AzBioNet....
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Aristotle, Darwin, Mendel…Edward.O.Wilson?
If greatness is a man who walks in the guise of a Harvard scientist, with forelock of white, with his eyes on the ground and his vision on the future, then he might be E.O. Wilson, scientist, philosopher and activist.
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National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award winners
School of Life Sciences graduate students, Melissa Meadows and Lisa Taylor from assistant professor Kevin McGraw’s lab; and Aimee Kessler, with Parents Association professor, Andrew T. Smith; were among the 907 fellowship winners from across the nation.
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Andrew T. Smith’s graduate students Boyle, Kessler and Hogan win awards
It’s been a good month for Andrew T. Smith's laboratory. Not only is Smith the newly appointed associate director of Undergraduate Programs and recipient of the Parents Association Professor of the Year award, but his graduate students Sarah Boyle, Brigitte Hogan and Aimee Kessler's fortunes have also been high.
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Twelve School of Life Sciences staff members receive STATUS Awards:
Student Affairs Tribute to University Staff (STATUS) awards were presented to more than 50 members of administrative, classified and service professional staff campus-wide by ASU Student Affairs in recognition of their support of ASU students.
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School of Life Sciences Director, Robert Page, elected American Academy Arts & Sciences Fellow
Robert Page, director of School of Life Sciences was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences today. He joins the ranks of an elite cadre of artists, scientists, scholars and leading civic, philanthropic, and corporate luminaries extending back to the founding of the Academy in 1780.
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Andrew T. Smith –Parents Association Professor of the Year Award Winner
Arizona State University Parents Association selected School of Life Sciences professor Andrew T. Smith from a field of 25 distinguished nominees – including fellow SOLS professors Dave Capco and Bert Jacobs.
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Ants – Nature's Secret Power
This award winning film about these ubiquitous and awe inspiring social insects will be shown with an introduction by Professor Bert Hölldobler, a Pulitzer Prize author in the School of Life Sciences. Hölldobler and his research are the focus for this marvelous portrayal of ants and ant nations, their complexity, social dynamics, versatility and majesty.
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SOLS Takes A Hike: something more than natural history stamp collecting
April 1, 2006—Under a brilliant April sky, more than 50 members of the public, friends and family attended the first annual SoLS takes a hike event held at Coon Bluff in Tonto National Forest.
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SOLS Undergraduate Students Shine
...ASU School of Life Sciences undergraduate research programs like SOLUR pair up mentors affiliated with School of Life Sciences and undergraduate students from a variety of majors and colleges.
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SOLS Graduate Students Nathan Morehouse and Jon Davis Honored for Mentoring Program
Nathan Morehouse and Jon Davis, graduate students in the School of Life Sciences, received the Mentoring Award from the ASU Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) Teaching Excellence Program at a ceremony held March 22.
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SOLS Takes A Hike: Come See the Desert with the Experts
Red Admiral, Sleepy Sulphur and Checkered White bring to mind some audacious rock bands. However, they are more likely found sipping nectar in the riparian areas near the Salt River, than on a stage, explains Ron Rutowski, a professor of biology in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University.
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Putting Faces on the Future of Biological Sciences
Faculty members from across the university mentored young scientists – undergraduate students – to present their research projects in the 13th annual Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium hosted by the School of Life Sciences last month.
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Under one roof: ISTB additions foster life science and engineering partnerships
On March 2, under clear, sunny skies, a celebration of addition of Interdisciplinary Science and Technology buildings 1 and 2 started with the push of a button, a flash of “lightening” and clap of “thunder.”
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7th Annual GELSS Symposium
The student organization Graduates in Earth, Life, and Social Sciences is hosting its 7th annual research symposium on Friday February 17th, 2006.
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13th Annual Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium
The School of Life Sciences and Arizona State University will present the Thirteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium on Friday, February 24, 2006.
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7th Annual Health Professions Fair - Wednesday, February 22, 2006
The SoLS Undergraduate Student Services will host the 7th Annual Health Professions Fair on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 in the Memorial Union – Arizona Ballroom 207, from 10am to 2pm.
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Felicity Snyder Awarded 2006 Outstanding University Staff Member
Felicity Snyder, Program Coordinator, School of Life Sciences Undergraduate Programs will be presented the Outstanding University Staff Member Award as part of the 2006 Founders' Day celebration.
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Natural History Display Exhibits Vitality of ASU Collections
On January, 20th, 2006, Dr. Jon Harrison of School of Life Sciences inaugurated the new public display and celebration in the ASU Life Sciences A-wing - along with Dr. Robert Page, Director of SoLS and Dr. Thomas Nash, Director of the Lichen Herbarium.
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Paper by SOLS Professors Gro Amdam and Robert Page Featured in the Journal Nature
Paper by SOLS Professors Gro Amdam and Robert Page is featured on the cover of the Journal Nature. The paper describing Amdam’s experiments, “Complex social behavior derived from maternal reproductive traits"
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