Thanks to a grant from Digital Humanities Deutschland and the Volkswagen Foundation I was able to present a poster at the DHD Unconference that was held as part of the Digital Humanities 2012 (dh2012…
ASU undergraduates, and students from Leuphana Universtiy in Luneburg, Germany will participate in a collaborative learning experience beginning Spring 2013 to address the question: "Are '…
Bill Aird, MD, Professor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and his host, Manfred Laublichler, during Dr. Aird’s seminar to interested students and…
Steven Pyne, PhD, and his daughter, Lydia Pyne, (who earned her PhD at ASU in 2008) have written a book, "The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene" which…
Paleobotanists Kathleen Pigg, Melanie DeVore, and Karl Volkman created an extraordinary tool, “Fossil Plants from Republic: A Guidebook” which makes identifying plant fossils from a locality in…
Jason Robert led a bioethics roundtable at the annual conference of Arizona Bioethics Network on April 20, 2012. The conference was entitled “Ethics at The Bedside: Making the Hard Decisions”. Video…
Manfred Laubichler was honored with the title of 2011 President’s Professor at the April 17 Faculty Excellence Award Ceremony. This award is given to ASU faculty who have made substantial…
On April 12-15, 2012, approximately 20 participants attended the HPS workshop entitled “[Model] Organisms Meet Digital HPS” at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. The workshop was…
The Center for Biology and Society is very proud of Sean Cohmer, graduating senior in Biology and Society and student employee, for receiving the Dean’s Medal in recognition of his academic…
For the Center for Biology and Society's three visiting graduate students, spring break marked the end of their time here. After eight weeks in the Valley of the Sun, philosophy student Valérie…
Simon Stuart, chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, gives Andrew Smith a citation of excellence in February 2012 at the recent SSC Chairs’ meeting in Abu Dhabi, for his past, and continuing…
On March 1 - 3, 2012, the University of Utah Department of Philosophy hosted the annual Intermountain West Graduate Philosophy Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. This intimate conference brought…
The 2012 AAAS Conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada was a tremendously influential opportunity for me and the rest of the twelve Arizona State University undergraduates who were able to attend. With…
Director of the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science, discussed his work on the "Metaphysical Implications of Conceptual Practice in Genetics," on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 to the Biology…
The School of Life Sciences has awarded Guido Caniglia from the Center for Biology and Society with the GIFT scholarship. GIFT supports SOLS graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in obtaining…
We are sad to learn of the death of Lynn Margulis. Dr. Margulis had attended many History of Biology Seminars and was renowned for her seminal work on the evolution of nuceleated cells as a result of…