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Ben Minteer Receives Faculty Achievement Award
Congratulations to Ben Minteer who has been named the recipient of the Faculty Achievement Award for Defining Edge Research in Natural Sciences and Mathematics! The Faculty Achievement Awards were…
AAAS 2013
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, or triple-A-S) yearly conference features a student poster competition. This year the annual conference was held in Boston,…
Ben Minteer is SOLS Maytag Chair Professor
Ben Minteer is the new Maytag Proessor of SOLS. The appointment runs through June 2015. This position stems from an endowment set up at ASU by the Maytag family at the same time the family made…
Bioethics in Film Spring 2013
The Spring 2013 Bioethics in Film Series will look at "The Brain" as it is depicted in film. Whether as an object of observation or intervention, the human brain is notoriously complex. In this…
Karin Ellison to speak at "The Jetsons" TV Dinner Event
Since 1962, The Jetsons has defined an iconic vision of the future, imagining a course of progress that blends high technology with familiar social and cultural values. Yinong Chen and Karin…
Ben Hurlbut Speaks at BMI Symposium Series
Ben Hurlbut, PhD, is the guest speaker for the BMI Symposium Series on November 8, 2012. Ben's topic is "Bank on Trust: Precision and the Problem of Participation"Science and Engineering Ethics Club is Established
The mission of the Science and Engineering Ethics Club is to bring together diverse perspectives and spread awareness about pressing ethical issues in the sciences. We are committed to providing an…
Apply Now! 2013 ASU-MBL History of Biology Seminar
The 2013 ASU-MBL History of Biology Seminar's theme is "History of Sustainability Science" The seminar will be held May 15-22, 2013, in Woods Hole, MA. Applications to attend are now available!
ISHPSSB 2012 off-year workshop
On the 16-17 of August, an international group of scientists and historians and philosophers of science gathered at the Institute for Systems Biology, in Seattle, Washington, for the 2012 off-year…
Arizona State University Visiting Graduate Training Program
Arizona State University visiting graduate student training program is now accepting applications for its January 2013 session. We will select a cohort of visiting graduate students to join our…
Announcing the Global Classroom, Spring 2013
The Global Classroom Experiment “Are ‘Sustainable Cities’ a Contradiction in Terms?” The Global Classroom is a partnership between Arizona State University and Leuphana University in Lüneburg (…
Live Chat: "Invasive Species: Threats or Just Misunderstood?"
Matt Chew joins two other panelists for a live chat on July 26, 2012 at 3 pm EDT to discuss whether invasive species are misunderstood. A full transcript of the discussion is available on the…
Julia Damerow Reflects on Digital Humanities Deutschland Conference
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…
Global Classroom Introduced to ASU - Cloned
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 '…
The Endothelium: Glimpses into the Past, Present and Future
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…
Michael White on Political Philosophy
Oxford University Press has just published the second edition of Michael White's book, Political Philosophy: A Historical Introduction.
Lydia and Stephen Pyne Author Book
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…