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Ann Kinzig Receives Special Recognition

Ann Kinzig was given Special Recognition at the 2013 Professor of the Year Award ceremony. Congratulations, Ann!

Jane Maienschein Participates in "Lucy's Legacy" Panel

The Institute of Human Origins hosted a Panel Discussion at the grand opening exhibition showcasing Donald C. Johanson's (the Institutes Founding Director) collection of papers, photographs and…

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.