News and Updates

Date Posted: 2008-05-20
Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist whose research is so broad that it covers science from the beginning of the universe to the end of the universe, will join Arizona State University in August to assume a leadership role in an e...
Date Posted: 2008-05-02
A new model of inner Earth constructed by Arizona State University researchers pulls past information and hypotheses into a coherent story to clarify mantle motion. "The past maybe two or three years there have been a lot of papers in Science and ...
Date Posted: 2008-04-27
The bones of a pre-historic camel were dsicovered Friday at the site of a future Mesa Wal-Mart. Arizona State University geology museum curator Brad Archer hurried out to the site near Lindsay and McKellips roads Friday when he got the news that Jo...
Date Posted: 2008-04-25
The next astronauts to go to the moon will know where to land, thanks to a powerful camera run by one of ASU's own....
Date Posted: 2008-04-17
Ralph Alger Bagnold (UK, 1896-1990) was a soldier, explorer and scientist. Although many people may not be familiar with his name, Bagnold's fundamental work on the physics of sediment transport in air and water and the dynamics of bedforms continues...
Date Posted: 2008-04-15
Three ASU juniors who already are performing sophisticated research that may have worldwide benefit have won Goldwater Scholarships, the nation's premier awards for undergraduates studying science, math and engineering....
Date Posted: 2008-04-15
Melissa Bunte, a second year graduate student working toward her Master of Science degree in Geological Science in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, was recently honored for her presentation at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPS...
Date Posted: 2008-04-12
Dr. J Ramon Arrowsmith, associate professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, was recently appointed by the United States Department of the Interior to serve on the U.S Geological Survey's (USGS) National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation ...
Date Posted: 2008-04-11
"No small part of being human is having the urge to explore beyond the boundaries of the known and into the unknown," says Kip Hodges, founding director of ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration. A reception and ceremony April 10, marked the o...
Date Posted: 2008-04-06
Mud may be coming to a medicine cabinet or pharmacy near you. Scientists from Arizona State University report that minerals from clay promise could provide inexpensive, highly-effective antimicrobials to fight methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aur...