Deep within the subterranean confines of Building C — the latest addition to the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University — a pathbreaking machine is quietly taking shape.
News Updates
2019
September
August
August 22, 2019
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the largest and most diverse academic unit at Arizona State University.
August 21, 2019
ASU faculty members are pretty smart — and we don't just mean being experts on carbon c
August 14, 2019
In high school chemistry, we all learned about chemical reactions. But what brings two reacting molecules together?
August 13, 2019
Some of the world’s most accomplished scientific minds will converge on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus Nov.
July
July 15, 2019
There are a few things in life upon which we can rely, and one of those things is that Phoenix is hot in the summer. But how hot? It’s a more complicated question than you might think.
May
May 9, 2019
Announced today in Washington, D.C., by Blue Origin, Arizona State University has signed a memorandum of understanding with Blue Origin to send payloads to
May 8, 2019
Arizona State University empowers students to find their places, like the newsroom, the trading floor or the design studio.
May 2, 2019
Arizona State University physics sophomore Chase Hanson has been awarded an $8,000 fellowship to participate in the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s annual Computations Physics Student Summer Works
April
April 24, 2019
A third of all Americans have difficulty sleeping, and many of them turn to melatonin supplements to catch some Zs.
April 18, 2019
Through their generous philanthropic investments, Leo and Annette Beus have already made a lasting ASU impact.
April 15, 2019
On Tuesday, May 7, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest achieving students fro
April 15, 2019
On Tuesday, May 7, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest achieving students fro
April 4, 2019
Angelica Berner is one of 2019's new class of Brooke Owens Fellows.
March
March 15, 2019
For the first time, a team of scientists has isolated and measured the weak force between protons and neutrons within the nucleus of an atom.
March 13, 2019
Most often when we think of glass, we think of the panes in our windows and the dishes on our tables.
March 5, 2019
The Force is strong not only in "Star Wars" lore but also as a fundamental property in physics.
March 4, 2019
Arizona State University graduate student Glenn Randall was recently awarded a research fellowship to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
March 4, 2019
Among the zoo of biomolecules essential to life, proteins are the most startlingly varied and versatile.
February
February 11, 2019
Scientists from Arizona State University’s School of Molecular Sciences, in collaboration with colleagues from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York Cit
February 11, 2019
Since 1988, Arizona State University has participated in the national NASA Space Grant Program that is designed to provide STEM undergraduate and graduate student
January
January 31, 2019
When we think of life on Earth, we might think of individual examples ranging from animals to bacteria.
January 22, 2019
Arizona State University’s Professor Giovanna Ghirlanda and Assistant Professor Matthias Heyden, both of the School of Molecular Sciences, and Associate Professor Sara Vaiana of the Department of P
January 2, 2019
Jane Jackson was the first woman to receive her PhD in physics at Arizona State University. This month she celebrates 25 years working with ASU.
2018
December
December 14, 2018
Ernst Bauer, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the Physics Department, has been recognized for his lifelong work and his invention of the low energy electron microscope, or LEEM.
December 13, 2018
December 6, 2018
Whether it’s the smartphone in your pocket or the Fitbit on your wrist, most of us don’t think twice about the working parts behind the products we use every day.
November
November 20, 2018
Joshua LaBaer, executive director of the Biodesign Institute, co-hosted a lively and innovative symposium Nov. 9, greeting the international guests in their native Chinese.
November 13, 2018
For Arizona State University’s Dmitry Matyushov, professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and the Department of Physics, years of studying how electrons make
October
October 11, 2018
Eight Arizona State University faculty resear
October 4, 2018
Biologists know a lot about how life works, but they are still figuring out the big questions of why life exists, why it takes various shapes and sizes and how life is able to amazingly adapt to fi
October 2, 2018
An international collaboration led by the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, or DESY, with participation from Arizona State University’s Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery, the
September
September 27, 2018
This summer, Arizona State University organized an interdisciplinary team for the AI commentator track of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science
September 26, 2018
Antia Sanchez Botana grew up in the northwest of Spain and was drawn to physics at an early age. The subject appealed to her natural curiosity.
September 25, 2018
Arunima Singh joins ASU as one of the Department of Physics' newest associate professors.
September 25, 2018
Siddarth Karkare is used to climbing great heights.
June
June 18, 2018
It’s remarkable choreography: In each of our bodies, more than 37 trillion cells tightly coordinate with other cells to organize into the numerous tissues and organs that make us tick.
June 4, 2018
The human eye can only see a narrow range of visible light. Yet there’s an infinite number of possibilities for the perception of light, from infrared to ultraviolet and beyond.
May
May 31, 2018
The Latin American Academy of Sciences has announced the election of Arizona State University's Professor Fernando Ponce as a Foreign Corresponding Fellow.
May 31, 2018
IBM has selected Arizona State University alumnus Harry Kolar as one of its 2018 IBM fellows.
April
April 10, 2018
The Science Hub (SciHub) is a new Arizona State University initiative, led by Nobel Prize winner Professor Frank Wilczek and Lamonte H. Lawrence Professor Nathan Newman.
April 2, 2018
On Tuesday, May 8, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest achieving students from the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities
March
March 29, 2018
Arizona State University junior Jonathon Barkl is no stranger to extracurricular activities.
2017
December
December 6, 2017
On Tuesday, Dec.12, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest achieving students from the social sciences, n
October
October 27, 2017
About four years ago, Arizona State University biophysicist Stuart Lindsay’s research team got a lab result that even he couldn’t quite believe.
September
September 25, 2017
Scialog – Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation have named Banu Ozkan
September 22, 2017
As an out-of-state, incoming first-year student to Arizona State University, Angelica Berner decided to attend an Early Start program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
September 13, 2017
August
August 10, 2017
Diamonds are among the most coveted objects in the world. As gemstones, they are brilliant, rare and symbolic. As a raw material, they are a physicist’s best friend.
July
July 24, 2017
Editor's note: This story is being highlighted in ASU Now's year in review.
June
June 21, 2017
The biophysics program at Arizona State University mirrors the field itself in both its interdisciplinary breadth and its youth.
June 6, 2017
When community college transfer students start taking courses at a larger, more complex university setting, they face a variety of challenges.
April
April 21, 2017
On Tuesday, May 9, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest achieving students from the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities at th
April 10, 2017
Imagine you’ve devoted years and years, even decades, gathering knowledge and insights in your given fields of study.
March
March 10, 2017
Unlocking humanity’s future as an interplanetary species is no simple feat.
February
February 16, 2017
ASU Physics Professor Robert Nemanich doesn’t have 99 bottles of beer on the wall; he has 75 bottles of champagne on the top of his desk.
February 15, 2017
Arizona State University’s Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery (BCASD) and an international team of scientists have used high-intensity X-ray pulses to determine the structure of the
February 14, 2017
Losing the truth is no less disconcerting than losing gravity. Suddenly, you’re down a rabbit hole where nothing makes sense and you don’t know what to believe.
February 2, 2017
Three Arizona State University faculty were honored by ASU President Michael Crow in a ceremony Wednesday as the university's 2016-2017 Regents' Professors.
January
January 24, 2017
Arizona State University’s Origins Project is hosting a lecture by Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek, where he will discuss the “Materiality of a Vacuum: Late Night Thoughts of a Physicist” at 7 p.m.
2016
December
December 20, 2016
Wally Stoelzel can’t recall Newton’s laws of motion, but he certainly does not regret studying physics at Arizona State University.
December 8, 2016
On Tuesday, Dec.
November
November 17, 2016
Three Arizona State University faculty have been named Regents’ Professors for the 2016-2017 academic year: Robert Nemanich, Anne Stone and Paul Westerhoff.
October
October 14, 2016
About three weeks ago, Toughie died.
He was the last Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frog on Earth. If you’re not familiar with the species, it may be because it was only discovered in 2005.
August
August 18, 2016
Admit it. It can be fun to be bad.
Blowing up a planet to test a weapon. Stealing candy from babies. Feeding your enemies alive to your dogs.
August 3, 2016
Abijith Krishnan just won a Gold Medal at the 2016 International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2016) held July 11-17 at the University of Zurich.
August 3, 2016
PhD Student Glenn Randall is interviewed by Popular Mechanics magazine to discuss Dark Matter and recent discoveries.
May
May 9, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement.
May 9, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement.
May 9, 2016
Frank Wilczek, a theoretical physicist and mathematician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004, is joining Arizona State University as a professor in the physics department.
May 5, 2016
High-speed photography can capture a horse’s gallop, a falling star or even a speeding bullet.
May 3, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement.
May 2, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement.
April
April 28, 2016
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2016 commencement.
April 26, 2016
On Tuesday, May 10, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest-achieving students from the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities at t
March
March 17, 2016
ASU postdoctoral scholar Kohei Kamada, of the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Department of Physics, has been selected to attend the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germ
March 11, 2016
The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) recently announced the initial inductees into “The 5+ Club,” a group of institutions that has graduated five or more physics teachers in a given ye
March 10, 2016
ASU graduate student Sean Seyler was selected to attend the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany.
March 1, 2016
The physics community was elated by the recent announcement that gravity waves have been detected after decades of searching, and fully 100 years after Einstein’s prediction in his famous Theory of
March 1, 2016
When it’s time to give back to Arizona State University, Brian Martin doesn’t let more than 5,000 miles and the Atlantic Ocean stand in his way.
February
February 15, 2016
A scientific breakthrough gives researchers access to the blueprint of thousands of molecules of great relevance to medicine, energy and biology.
February 10, 2016
Television legend and Emmy Award winner Hugh Downs will sit down with Arizona State University’s Lawrence Krauss for an intimate discussion on politics, religion, sex and science.
January
January 27, 2016
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has left the “Doomsday Clock” at three minutes to midnight, the time it set it at last year.
January 26, 2016
ASU physics professor Richard Kirian has been awarded the Fonda-Fasella prize, which is given to a young researcher who has obtained important results while working at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste,
2015
December
December 17, 2015
Scientists have drawn up molecular blueprints of a tiny cellular “nanomachine,” whose evolution is an extraordinary feat of nature, by using one of the brightest X-ray sources on Earth.
December 1, 2015
We now have four Accelerated BS-PSM programs: These programs are taking off, with 3 Alumni and 5 Current Students featured on this web site.
November
November 6, 2015
Seventy high school physics and chemistry teachers from around the world took seven graduate-level courses at Arizona State University over the summer to enhance their teaching capabilities.
November 4, 2015
Arizona State University professor Lawrence Krauss is featured on the cover of the November/December Humanist magazine, with an
October
October 20, 2015
How can we be better people in the 21st century?
October 14, 2015
Free electron lasers — powerful devices that can peer deep into molecular structure and the ultrafast timescales of chemistry — cost billions to build and are miles long, but an Arizona State Universi
May
May 4, 2015
Arizona State University Regents' Professor John C.H. Spence has been elected as a Fellow of the UK Royal Society, as a foreign member.
March
March 24, 2015
On March 22, intellectual giant Noam Chomsky took the stage at Arizona State University's Gammage Auditorium to thunderous applause from the sold-out audience.
March 18, 2015
Gailyn Monroe was intrigued by the idea of attending a large university – even if that meant leaving her friends who were staying back in Colorado.
March 17, 2015
The Origins Project at Arizona State University awarded its first Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship to Adrian Liu of the University of California, Berkeley.
February
February 18, 2015
Scientists know more about the entire universe and galaxy than they do the brain, which is why the National Science Foundation (NSF) wants to sink $144 million into understanding the most complex o
February 3, 2015
Extinction is one of the most powerful forces on Earth.
January
January 21, 2015
A primary challenge in the biosciences is to understand the way major evolutionary changes in nature are accomplished. Sometimes the route turns out to be very simple.
January 2, 2015
Five Arizona State University undergraduates have been awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad.
2014
December
December 17, 2014
Five of Arizona State University’s faculty members were appointed University Professors in a ceremony hosted by ASU President Michael M. Crow and Provost Robert E.
December 5, 2014
An international team, including scientists from Arizona State University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and Germany’s Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), have caught a light sen
December 4, 2014
Arizona State University professor Lawrence Krauss has been named the 2015 Humanist of the Year by the American Humanists Association.
November
November 24, 2014
If one person’s steps to a better life can be measured by new things experienced, international travel opportunities, the chance to learn from leaders in research, and having a positive impact on y
November 24, 2014
A team of scientists from Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute and IBM’s T.J.