MISSION
Arizona State University has emerged as a leading national and international research and teaching institution with a primary focus on Maricopa County, Arizona’s dominant population center. This rapidly growing, multicampus public research university offers programs from the baccalaureate through the doctorate for approximately 49,000 full-time and part-time students through ASU Main in Tempe; ASU West in northwest Phoenix; a major educational center in downtown Phoenix; ASU East, located at the Williams Campus (formerly Williams Air Force Base) in southwest Mesa; and other instructional, research, and public service sites throughout Maricopa County. ASU is a modern university that applies its research capabilities to the rapidly evolving needs of Maricopa County and the state.
As a leading public university, Arizona State University’s goal is to become a world-class university in a multicampus setting, one of the very best public universities in the nation. The university’s mission is to provide outstanding programs in instruction, research, and creative activity, to promote and support economic development, and to provide service appropriate for the nation, the state of Arizona, and the state’s major metropolitan area. To fulfill its mission, ASU places special emphasis on the core disciplines and offers a full range of degree programs—baccalaureate through doctorate. To become competitive with the very best public universities, the institution recognizes that it must offer quality programs at all degree levels in a broad range of fundamental fields of inquiry. ASU will continue to dedicate itself to superior instruction, to excellent student performance, to original research, creative endeavor, and scholarly achievement, and to outstanding public service and economic development activities. As a result of this dedication, ASU was awarded the prestigious Research I university status in 1994, recognizing ASU as a premier research institution. - Back to Top
ORGANIZATION
Arizona State University is part of a university system governed by the Arizona Board of Regents, a body with perpetual succession under the constitution and laws of Arizona. The board consists of eight citizens appointed by the governor of the state for terms of eight years, and one student regent serving for one year with the elected governor and state superintendent of public instruction as members ex officio.
The regents select and appoint the president of the university, who is the liaison between the Arizona Board of Regents and the institution. The president is aided in the administrative work of the institution by the senior vice president and provost, other provosts, vice presidents, deans, directors, department chairs, faculty, and other officers. Refer to “ASU Main Academic Administration,” and “Administrative and Academic Personnel.”
The academic units develop and implement the teaching, research, and service programs of the university, aided by the university libraries, museums, and other services.
The faculty and students of the university play an important role in educational policy, with an Academic Senate, joint university committees and boards, and the Associated Students serving the needs of a large institution. - Back to Top
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
It is the policy of ASU to provide equal opportunity through affirmative action in employment and educational programs and activities. Discrimination is prohibited on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, special disabled veteran or Vietnam era veteran status. Equal employment opportunity includes but is not limited to recruitment, hiring, promotion, termination, compensation, benefits, transfers, university-sponsored training, education, tuition assistance, and social and recreational programs.
ASU is committed to taking affirmative action in increasing opportunities at all levels of employment and to increasing participation in programs and activities by all faculty, staff, and students. Affirmative action is directed toward minority persons, women, special disabled veterans, Vietnam era veterans, and persons with disabilities.
University Policy Prohibiting Discriminatory Harassment
Harassment Prohibited. Subject to the limiting provisions of “Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom” specified below, it is a violation of university policy for any university employee or student to subject any person to harassment on university property or at a university-sponsored activity.
Harassment Defined. Actions constitute harassment if (1) they substantially interfere with another’s educational or employment opportunities, peaceful enjoyment of residence, physical security, and (2) they are taken with a general intent to engage in the actions and with the knowledge that the actions are likely to substantially interfere with a protected interest identified above. Such intent and knowledge may be inferred from all the circumstances.
Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom. Neither this nor any other university policy is violated by actions that amount to expression protected by the state or federal constitutions or by related principles of academic freedom. This limitation is further described in the ASU First Amendment Guidelines, the current version of which supplements this policy and is available in the Office of the General Counsel.
Relationship to the Work of the Campus Environment Team. If harassment is discriminatory, it falls within the education, monitoring, reporting, and referral functions of the Campus Environment Team. Harassment is discriminatory if taken with the purpose or effect of differentiating on the basis of another person’s race, sex, color, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, or Vietnam era veteran status. - Back to Top
HISTORY OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
On February 26, 1885, House Bill 164, “An Act to Establish a Normal School in the Territory of Arizona,” was introduced in the 13th Legislative Assembly of Arizona Territory by John Samuel Armstrong. The bill, strongly supported by Charles Trumbull Hayden of Tempe, passed the House on March 6 and the Council on March 11 and was signed by Governor F.A. Tritle on March 12, 1885, thereby founding the institution known today as Arizona State University. Under the supervision of Principal Hiram Bradford Farmer, instruction was instituted on February 8, 1886, when 33 students met in a single room on land donated by George and Martha Wilson of Tempe.
The institution began with the broad obligation to provide “instruction of persons…in the art of teaching and in all the various branches that pertain to good common school education; also, to give instruction in the mechanical arts and in husbandry and agricultural chemistry, the fundamental law of the United States, and in what regards the rights and duties of citizens.”
With the growth of the state, especially the surrounding Phoenix metropolitan area, the school has carried forward this charter, accompanied by successive changes in scope, name, and governance.
The Early Years. For the first 14 years, the school was governed by six principals. At the turn of the century and with another new name, Normal School of Arizona, President Arthur John Matthews brought a 30-year tenure of progress to the school.
He assisted in changing the school to an all-college student status; the normal school had enlisted high school students who had no other secondary educational facilities in Arizona. He embarked on a building schedule that included the state’s first dormitories. Of the 18 buildings constructed while Matthews was president, six are still in use. His legacy of an “evergreen campus,” with the import of many shrubs and trees and the planting of Palm Walk, continues to this day: the main campus is a nationally recognized arboretum.
Matthews also saw to it that the Arizona Normal School was accredited outside the state. His service on national education organization boards was conducive to this recognition. The school remained a teacher’s college in fact and theory during Matthews’ tenure, although the struggle to attain status as a university was ongoing.
An extraordinary event occurred March 20, 1911, when former President Theodore Roosevelt visited the Tempe school and spoke from the steps of Old Main. He had dedicated the Roosevelt Dam the day before and was impressed with Arizona. He noted that construction of the dam would benefit central Arizona’s growth and that of the Normal School. It would be another year before the territory became a state.
During the Great Depression, Ralph W. Swetman was hired as president to “sweep clean,” firing those faculty who did not have master’s or doctoral degrees in order to follow North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools guidelines.
The Gammage Years. In 1933, Grady Gammage, then president of Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff, became president of Arizona State Teachers College at Tempe, a tenure that would last for nearly 28 years.
The Graduate Division was created in 1937 and the first master’s program was established the same year.
On March 8, 1945, the three state institutions of higher learning came under the authority of one Arizona Board of Regents, which oversees ASU today.
The phenomenal growth of the college began after the end of World War II. Dr. Gammage had foreseen that the G.I. Bill of Rights would flood campuses everywhere with returning veterans. Many of the veterans who had received military training in Arizona had fallen in love with the state and vowed to return after the war. The numbers within one year were staggering: in the fall semester of 1945, 553 students were enrolled; over the weekend semester break in January 1946, enrollment increased 110% to 1,163 students. Successive semesters saw continuing increased enrollment.
Like his predecessor, Dr. Gammage oversaw the construction of a number of buildings. His greatest dream, that of a great auditorium, came five years after his death. He laid the groundwork for it with Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed what is now the university’s hallmark building, Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, built in 1964.
Years of Growth and Stature. During the 1960s, with the presidency of Dr. G. Homer Durham, Arizona State University began its academic rise with the establishment of several new colleges (the College of Fine Arts, the College of Law, the College of Nursing, and the School of Social Work) and the reorganization of what became the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Perhaps most important, the university gained the authority to award the Doctor of Philosophy and other doctoral degrees.
The next three presidents—Harry K. Newburn, 1969–71, John W. Schwada, 1971–81, and J. Russell Nelson, 1981–89—and Interim President Richard Peck, 1989, led the university to increased academic stature, expansion of the campuses, and rising enrollment. With approximately 49,000 students, ASU is the fifth largest university in the nation.
On January 1, 1990, Dr. Lattie F. Coor, a native Arizonan, became 15th in the institution’s succession of principals and presidents. He has highlighted undergraduate education, research, cultural diversity, and economic development as the “four pillars” of the university’s agenda. He has taken steps in these areas by further defining the role of ASU West and by initiating the establishment of ASU East.
Research I Status. ASU was named a Research I university by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in early 1994. Nationally, 88 universities have been granted this status, indicating successful garnering of support for research projects and educating future scientists.
Athletics
The original nickname for the Normal School of Arizona athletic teams was the Owls. Athletics other than Sunday hikes and lawn tennis were not part of the early curriculum.
During President Matthews’ tenure, some team competition began. The Tempe Bulldogs saw some interesting and rough competition with the University of Arizona Wildcats.
In the 1940s, the college’s teams became the Sun Devils. In 1979, the university joined the Pacific–10 Conference. In 1987, ASU became the first Arizona football team to play in the Rose Bowl, defeating the University of Michigan Wolverines 22–15. ASU made its second appearance in 1997 versus Ohio State.
Graduate College
Graduate education at ASU began with the creation of the Graduate Division in 1937 and the establishment of the first master’s program the same year. For the first 20 years, graduate education focused exclusively on professional programs in education. During the 1950s as the campus grew and broadened its mission, a number of new degree programs appeared, significantly enhancing the role of graduate studies on the campus. By the early 1960s, graduate programs were established in many disciplines: humanities, social science, and science fields were well represented, as were professional programs in business, engineering, fine arts, and public administration. With this expansion of the mission of the campus came new facilities and the development of a wider range of research interests and activities.
Major changes in the nature and role of graduate education came in the early 1960s when the first Ph.D. programs were established in chemistry, education, engineering, English, physics, and psychology. The research focus of campus programs grew at a rapid pace. Master’s programs matured as doctoral programs were added. From the late 1960s to the present, campus facilities for instruction, research, and advanced study significantly expanded to support university programs with the construction of new laboratories, classroom structures, and two large libraries—including a new main library and a separate science and engineering library. - Back to Top
UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES AND SITES
Arizona State University is one university with three campuses that are accredited by the North Central Association, a regional accrediting body, and by the professional accrediting agencies. Courses for two ASU Main programs, the Master of Science in Agribusiness and the Master of Technology, are offered at ASU East.
Applications can be submitted for admission as a nondegree student or degree-seeking student at either office. Application for admission to a specific academic program must be reviewed by the desired campus and program.
For more information, call the Graduate College Admissions office at ASU Main (602/965–6113), at ASU East (602/727–3278), or at ASU West (602/543–4567).
Degree-seeking students who wish to apply for graduate programs at ASU Main or ASU West campuses (e.g., to maximize the probability of acceptance to a graduate program) must submit separate applications to the respective programs, but only a single set of transcripts and test scores is required. Academic units may require additional materials, such as letters of reference, portfolios, and written work.
Students admitted to graduate degree programs have been required to designate upon application both the program and the campus from which they will receive their degree. A student will submit a program of study to the specific campus from which the student will receive a degree. Nondegree students are not required to designate formal campus affiliation.
Students who wish to transfer from a graduate program on one ASU campus to a graduate program on another ASU campus must apply through the normal application procedures of the receiving campus.
Graduate students may register for courses on either campus; however, registration qualifications and restrictions for any specific course are determined by the respective campus faculties, are described in the ASU catalogs, and may be campus specific. Any academic unit on either campus has the authority to place restrictions on its courses.
ASU Main. ASU Main is located near the heart of metropolitan Phoenix in the city of Tempe (population 160,000). Nearby are the municipalities that make up the fast-growing Valley of the Sun: Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Mesa, Scottsdale, and other communities.
ASU Main comprises more than 700 acres and offers outstanding physical facilities to support the university’s educational programs. Buildings are modern, air-conditioned, and attractively designed.
Broad pedestrian malls laid out in an easy-to-follow grid plan, bicycle lanes connecting all parts of the university, and spacious lawns and subtropical landscaping characterize a campus serving the physical, aesthetic, and educational needs of students, faculty, and staff.
ASU East. The university’s third campus, ASU East, opened at the Williams Campus in the fall of 1996, serving more than 1,000 students in degree programs offered by the College of Technology and Applied Sciences and School of Agribusiness and Resource Management, programs offered at no other Arizona campus. In 1997, East College was created to provide support courses for existing programs and to generate new degree programs at ASU East.
ASU East has joined with Chandler-Gilbert Community College (CGCC) in the New Partnership in Baccalaureate Education that allows students to graduate in four years with an ASU baccalaureate degree earned entirely at the Williams Campus, at some savings in tuition.
The campus includes excellent educational facilities and unique residential opportunities, including a choice of traditional residence halls or two- to five-bedroom homes.
ASU East is a student centered campus that offers many of the features of a small college in a rural area while providing access to the resources of a major research university and the amenities of a large metropolitan area. A shuttle service provides transportation between ASU East and ASU Main. The 600-acre ASU East campus is easily accessible via major interstate routes. For more information, see “ASU East.”
ASU West. ASU West is a campus of Arizona State University that offers upper-division undergraduate and graduate programs. It is located in northwest Phoenix to serve the higher educational needs of residents of western Maricopa County. As a comprehensive campus, the institution is developing a broad spectrum of professional and academic programs that share a liberal arts foundation and an interdisciplinary emphasis.
The campus is located between 43rd and 51st Avenues on West Thunderbird Road in Phoenix. Immediately west of the campus is the city of Glendale. The core campus was completed in March 1991 and includes the Fletcher Library, the Sands Classroom Building, the Classroom Laboratory/Computer Building, the Faculty and Administration Building, Kiva Lecture Hall, and the University Center Building.
For more information, see “ASU West.” For complete information and course listings, see the ASU West 1997–98 Catalog.
ASU Extended Campus. The ASU Extended Campus goes beyond the boundary of the university’s three physical campuses to provide access to academic credit and degree programs for working adults through flexible schedules; a vast network of off-campus sites; classes scheduled days, evenings, and weekends; plus innovative delivery technologies including television, the Internet, CD-ROM, and independent learning. The Extended Campus offers programs in partnership with the campuses and colleges of ASU. The Extended Campus also offers a variety of professional continuing education programs and community outreach. The ASU Downtown Center is the anchor location of the Extended Campus. Through the Extended Campus, lifelong learning opportunities are offered to students of all ages via stimulating courses, lecture series, and educational travel. Programs in the Sun Cities area are geared toward the retirement communities and include a wide variety of courses from approximately 30 disciplines. These programs are in the process of expansion throughout Maricopa County.
ASU Downtown Center. Located in downtown Phoenix at the Mercado, 502 E. Monroe, the ASU Downtown Center offers a variety of daytime and evening courses of interest to employees in private businesses and government agencies and to individuals seeking personal growth and enrichment. These courses are offered either in a traditional classroom manner or via interactive television. In addition, microcomputer training classes are taught during daytime and evening hours. Professional continuing education and certificate programs are offered to working professionals. ASU mainframe and Internet access is available through the center’s computer lab and library services. For more information, see “ASU Downtown Center”of the General Catalog.
ASU Research Park. The mission of the ASU Research Park is to enhance Arizona’s high value research-based economic development and to build the university’s capacity to educate and advance knowledge. To this end, the Research Park serves to attract to Arizona new corporate and regional headquarters and research and development firms that broaden the base for potential research among ASU departments, interact with graduate students, consult with university faculty, cosponsor seminars on research topics, and provide employment opportunities for graduates at ASU.
Long-term excess revenues from ground leases within this 324-acre park flow back to the ASU Foundation to be used for scholarships. The Research Park has several major tenants—Iridium North America, Fiberite, VLSI, Walgreens Healthcare Plus, Motorola University, Motorola Flat Panel Display Division facility, and the National Association of Purchasing Management—who occupy a 50,000-square-foot multitenant building developed by Transamerica Corporation and the Lakeside Technology Center, and a 44,000-square-foot building developed by Price-Elliot Research Park, Inc. The Research Park is part of the ASU effort to become a major research university by attracting high-quality private and public research firms and institutions.
Camp Tontozona. Located in the famed Mogollon Rim country near Kohl’s Ranch, northeast of Payson, this continuing education facility of the university serves the needs of academic departments conducting teaching and research in mountain terrain. The camp is also available to faculty, staff, graduate students, and alumni for family use. For more information, call 602/965–6851.
The Arboretum. The Arboretum at Arizona State University is a flourishing oasis of plants from around the world. Dedicated on November 20, 1990, this virtual outdoor classroom includes 162 species/varieties of trees and 172 species/varieties of other woody ornamental and herbaceous plants from diverse geographic regions as well as the Sonoran Desert. It contains one of the best collections of palms and conifers in the desert Southwest and a growing collection of native Southwestern plants.
The Arboretum actually began with Arthur J. Matthews. By the time Matthews’ 30-year reign as president was finished, nearly 1,500 trees of 57 varieties and more than 5,700 feet of hedges were planted. One of his most enduring landscape projects was the planting of Palm Walk in 1916, which extends from University Drive south to Orange Mall.
Several Arboretum walking tours are designated on campus, including the historic north campus tour, the green trail tour, and the red trail tour. - Back to Top
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AND COLLECTIONS
The collections of the university’s libraries comprise more than 3 million volumes, approximately 6.6 million microform units, and more than 36,000 periodical and serial subscriptions. Computer access to commercially and locally produced databases and the ability to borrow research materials from other libraries enhance local resources. ASU is a member of the Association of Research Libraries and the Center for Research Libraries.
Charles Trumbull Hayden Library. The Charles Trumbull Hayden Library, designed by Weaver and Drover in 1966, houses the largest multidisciplinary collection. In addition to the open stack areas, separate collections and service areas include Current Periodicals and Microforms; Government Documents; Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services; Labriola National American Indian Data Center; Library Instruction, Systems, and Technology (L.I.S.T.); Reference; Reserve; Special Collections; and Archives and Manuscripts, which includes the Arizona Collection, the Chicano Research Collection, and the Visual Literacy Collection.
Specialized collections include comprehensive holdings of the Pre-Raphaelite period, a 14th-century manuscript on algebra, the child drama collection, the Thomas Mosher collection, the William S. Burroughs collection, and the papers of several major Arizona political figures.
Architecture and Environmental Design Library. The Architecture and Environmental Design Library, located in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design/North building, contains books and periodicals pertinent to areas of study within the college. See “College Facilities,” College of Architecture and Environmental Design, for more information.
Arizona Historical Foundation Library. Under a cooperative agreement with ASU, the Arizona Historical Foundation houses a library of several thousand volumes, manuscript collections, maps, and photographs, and a large collection of audio/visual materials. Housed in the Charles Trumbull Hayden Library, the collection’s focus is on the history of Arizona and the Southwest.
Fletcher Library. Located at the ASU West campus, Fletcher Library utilizes a range of electronic systems, from compact discs to telecommunications networks, to provide access to resources and delivery of materials. Its holdings include over 280,000 volumes, 3,600 serial subscriptions, and 1.4 million microfilms selected to complement ASU West course offerings.
Law Library. The John J. Ross-William C. Blakley Law Library is located on McAllister Avenue. See “Organization,” College of Law, for more information.
Music Library. A large collection of music scores, recordings, books, music reference materials, and listening facilities for individuals and groups are located on the third floor of the Music Building West Wing.
Daniel E. Noble Science and Engineering Library. The Daniel E. Noble Science and Engineering Library houses books, journals, and microforms in the sciences and engineering, the Map Collection, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository.
University Archives. The University Archives collection (1885–present) of university theses and dissertations, administrative records of the university, historical photographs and personal papers of faculty, staff, and alumni as well as student, faculty, and official university publications are available for use at the Luhrs Reading Room in Hayden Library. The historic University Archives building on Tyler Mall is the home of the 1907 Gallery, which hosts exhibits of historical photographs from the collections of the Department of Archives and Manuscripts. - Back to Top
PERFORMING AND FINE ARTS FACILITIES
Computing Commons Gallery. One of the unique features of the Computing Commons building is an art gallery, located off the main lobby in the northwest corner of the building. The gallery has design features that are unique for showcasing technology-based artwork and displays. The Computing Commons gallery can support display of national online computer art networks (e.g., via Internet) and holographic displays, as well as more traditional two-dimensional graphic presentations. This is an exciting decade for the arts as new technology-based tools and techniques open new avenues for creativity, as demonstrated by the exhibits in the Computing Commons Gallery.
Dance Studio Theatre. Located in the Physical Education Building East, the Dance Studio Theatre is a 6,000-square-foot dance studio that also serves as a proscenium-style performance space. The 300-seat theatre is devoted to informal and formal showcases of student and faculty choreographic work.
Drama City. Representing a synthesis of the creative energies of the Institute for Studies in the Arts and the Department of Theatre, Drama City is an 1,800-square-foot black-box theatre that serves as a laboratory for the development and presentation of experimental and innovative theatrical and interdisciplinary works.
Gallery of Design. Housed in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, the Gallery of Design features traveling exhibitions on design and urban issues.
Paul V. Galvin Playhouse. Built to stage the largest productions of the ASU Theatre, the Paul V. Galvin Playhouse is a 496-seat proscenium-stage theatre set at the east end of the Nelson Fine Arts Center. The Department of Theatre’s annual season of 12 to 15 plays also includes productions in the Lyceum and Prism theatres and the Fine Arts Center Studios.
Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium. A versatile center for the performing arts designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and named for the late President Grady Gammage, Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium seats 3,000 and has won wide acclaim for its design and acoustics. In addition to the great hall and related facilities—including the Aeolian-Skinner organ contributed by Hugh W. and Barbara V. Long—the building contains classrooms and workshops for the College of Fine Arts.
Katzin Concert Hall. Located in the new music building expansion, the Katzin Concert Hall seats 350 people. Primarily used for solo and chamber music recitals, the hall houses a nine-foot Hamburg concert Steinway piano. The acoustics are enhanced by the maple-paneled stage and the multifaceted walls and ceiling.
Louise Lincoln Kerr Cultural Center. Located in Scottsdale, the Louise Lincoln Kerr Cultural Center offers cultural events, especially in the performing arts, to the community.
Lyceum Theatre. A small but technically sophisticated 164-seat proscenium-theatre, the Lyceum Theatre is a theatre laboratory devoted to the work of student playwrights, directors, and actors.
Music Theatre. As part of the music complex, the Music Theatre, modeled after the Wagnerian Theatre in Bayreuth, Germany, rises five stories and seats an audience of 500. This theatre is the home of many opera and musical productions.
J. Russell and Bonita Nelson Fine Arts Center. Designed by Albuquerque architect Antoine Predock, the J. Russell and Bonita Nelson Fine Arts Center is a spectacular, 119,000-square-foot village-like aggregate of buildings that includes five galleries of the ASU Art Museum, the Paul V. Galvin Playhouse, the University Dance Laboratory, seven specialized theatre and dance studios, a video studio, and a variety of scenic outdoor features, including courtyards, fountains, pools, and a 50-by-100-foot projection wall designed for outdoor video.
Northlight Gallery. The Northlight Gallery is dedicated to museum-quality exhibitions of historical and contemporary photography. Located in Matthews Hall, it is open during the academic year.
Organ Hall. Located in the new music building expansion, the Organ Hall houses the Fritts Organ. This tracker-action pipe organ is designed to capture the qualities of baroque European organs. The hall is designed to complement the organ with a barrel-vaulted ceiling and wooden benches to seat 175 persons.
Prism Theatre. The Prism Theatre is an alternative black box space devoted to multiethnic, new, or experimental works.
Recital Hall. Located on the fifth floor of the music building, the Recital Hall is an intimate 125-seat facility that opens onto a rooftop courtyard.
Sundome Center for the Performing Arts. As America’s largest single-level theatre, the Sundome Center for the Performing Arts in Sun City West has 7,169 seats. The theatre is equipped with sophisticated and state-of-the-art lighting systems, and a single-span roof affords each seat a clear view. As one of Arizona’s premier entertainment venues, the Sundome provides a varied array of top entertainment from Las Vegas concerts to classical ballets to celebrity lectures.
Television Station KAET. KAET, Channel 8, is the university’s PBS station. Studios of the award-winning station are located in the Stauffer Communication Arts Building. To operate 24 hours a day, KAET employs more than 50 ASU students and interns. To learn more about KAET-TV, visit its Web site at www.kaet.asu.edu or call 602/965–3506.
University Art Museum. The University Art Museum collections are housed in a large complex of galleries and art study rooms in two locations: the Nelson Fine Arts Center and the second floor of the Matthews Center. The Oliver B. James Collection of American Art ranges from the early 18th century to the contemporary and includes major works by Stuart, Ryder, Homer, and the Ash Can School painters. Master works by great printmakers such as Durer, Rembrandt, Whistler, and Hogarth are often featured in special exhibitions selected from the university’s extensive print collection.
The gallery devoted to Latin American art features folk art as well as paintings by celebrated contemporary artists Rivera, Siquerios, and Tamayo. The museum also displays many fine examples of 19th- and 20th-century crafts, paintings, and sculpture.
The contemporary art holdings include works by Vernon Fisher, Leon Golub, Sue Coe, Luis Jimenez, and Robert Colescott. Exhibitions curated by the museum emphasize contemporary art and new media, crafts, and Mexican art.
University Dance Laboratory. A flexible performance space within the Nelson Fine Arts Center, the University Dance Laboratory is designed specifically for experimental dance productions. Along with the Dance Studio Theatre in the Physical Education Building East, the University Dance Laboratory is used by the Department of Dance for its season performances.
Harry Wood Gallery. Housed in the Art Building (ART 120), the Harry Wood Gallery provides temporary exhibitions of the visual arts during the academic year. - Back to Top
COMPUTING FACILITIES AND SERVICES
Computers are fundamental tools for research, instruction, and learning in every college and department at ASU. A variety of computing equipment and services are available for use by students, faculty, and staff.
Information Technology (IT) services provide programming, statistical, graphics, and other applications for microcomputers and mainframe computing systems. These services, including university-wide electronic mail and the library’s online catalog, are accessible through a communications network from many sites and offices on and off campus via telephone connection. Communication with other research facilities is possible through the Internet.
A wide range of information on campus activities and related topics is available online. Faculty, staff, and students can access the ASU Home Page on the Web at www.asu.edu. This Web site features a complete source of ASU information with text, photos, audio, and video. Via the Internet, ASU students, faculty, and staff also have access to the thousands of information systems around the world. The ASU server contains such information as a phone and electronic mail directory, the Schedule of Classes, the athletic calendar of events, weather forecasts from around the United States, and information from various colleges, departments, and organizations.
Educational services to assist faculty, students, and staff include online documentation, online consulting facilities, online tutorials, videotaped and written materials, and noncredit seminars.
IT provides the following service centers for the ASU academic community.
Computing Commons. The Computing Commons building was opened in 1993 to provide the university with an ideal setting to learn and experience the vast new frontier of high-performance computing. The Computing Commons draws together students, faculty, and staff from all disciplines, creating an environment designed to foster maximum interaction. The building and its facilities have drawn national recognition and acclaim as a model facility for the support of instruction and research in a technology-based environment. The Computing Commons houses a 200-workstation computing site open 24 hours a day, nine electronic classrooms, a Visualization Center, the Computing Assistance Center (COMPASS), a computer store, and a technology-based art gallery.
Computing Assistance Center. The Computing Assistance Center (COMPASS) has a library of reference manuals, computing periodicals, and other information concerning computing systems and software. Self-paced training is available for a variety of subjects on Windows, DOS, Macintosh, and mainframe computers. COMPASS also distributes communication, virus protection, and other site-licensed software.
Computer Training. ASU faculty and staff may register for hands-on, instructor-led classes on many PC applications, electronic mail, Internet applications, Web page development, statistical applications, and operating systems. Self-paced training is also available to faculty, staff, and students for a variety of subjects on Windows, DOS, Macintosh, and mainframe computers in COMPASS, CPCOM 202. To register for a class or to request a training schedule, access the training information online at www.asu.edu/it/fyi/help/training, or call 602/965–2700.
Computing Consulting. ASU faculty, staff, and currently enrolled students can obtain computing consulting by calling 602/965–6500 or on a walk-in basis at COMPASS, CPCOM 202. Consulting services are offered for ASU systems and software, including
Instructional Support. Instructional Support (is.asu.edu) serves as a development center for the design and delivery of instruction utilizing technology. The Instruction Support Group is composed of interrelated units under which a wide range of talent and expertise is centrally available. Instruction Support is staffed by students, faculty, and researchers skilled in the areas of system design, graphics, interactive software, networked delivery, and digital video. The group facilitates not only the development of instruction within the realm of currently available technology, but also extends the potential to drive innovation and development. From this perspective, Instruction Support takes on the flavor of a research and development unit, a production group, and a training facility, in addition to providing an incubator for technological innovation.
The Instruction Support Group works in collaboration with faculty in the coordination of cross-disciplinary research and production projects relating to the integration of technology with education. Through partnerships with faculty, and groups outside ASU, grant writing teams are able to leverage for support that may not otherwise be attainable by a single academic unit or faculty member. Central to effective support service is the establishment of a partnership among the various support units within the university. Instruction Support coordinates the efforts of groups, including the College of Extended Education, University Libraries, Disabled Student Resources, and the Office of Research and Creative Activities, providing faculty with a wide array of support services. Instruction Support offers courses tailored toward enhancing the instructional use of technology by the university teaching community. Courses range from an introduction to technology in education through advanced and customized approaches for instructors in specific programs.
Instruction Support (IS) Lab. The IS Lab provides an environment in which faculty may seek and receive one-on-one, guided or independent support for course development and delivery. Expert staff work closely with faculty to refine and develop their skills and confidence in the design and delivery of instruction through a variety of technology supported means, including synchronous and asynchronous learning. Located on the second floor of the Computing Commons, the IS Lab provides faculty, university professionals, and graduate students with a unique opportunity to integrate technology with instruction. The IS Lab sponsors workshops and demonstrations, and serves as a dynamic clearinghouse of information and referrals for effective integration of technology with education.
Research Support. Research Support provides assistance to faculty, staff researchers, and students in both scientific and creative endeavors. Research Support encompasses both processing and operations. Processing involves consulting with software tools and program coding directly related to projects or specific research. Operational activities support overall workflow of university computing facilities. Activities include consulting for Computation, Statistics, Visualization, and Geographical Information System platforms in conjunction with software package installation/use, training, media conversion, product evaluation, etc.
A variety of computation facilities are provided in support of research and creative endeavors within the ASU community. Computing facilities range from individual workstations to SMP/MPP servers and mainframes. Extended computer capabilities are available through access to national computing centers.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Lab and Visualization Center. The GIS Lab and Visualization Center both seek to establish partnerships with faculty, staff, and students to acquire, create, and enhance research and creative endeavors through the effective use of Visualization and GIS technologies.
The Visualization Center is located in CPCOM 235. The Center offers faculty, staff, and graduate students hardware and application software resources and services for high-level graphics and visualization used in research. Researchers can receive assistance with interactive viewing of scientific data with topics from both the Liberal and the Performing Arts and other visually related endeavors. The Visualization Center serves as an incubator for developing technologies in software, hardware, and communications.
The GIS Lab staff assists researchers with hardware and software to facilitate the creation of geographic information systems for spatial analysis, query, and display. The Lab supports research from various disciplines and provides additional resources to students who are enrolled in classes for GIS instruction. The GIS Lab, also located in CPCOM 235, serves as a focal point for GIS users to meet and share information and technical expertise. - Back to Top
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Founded in 1894, the Alumni Association is a volunteer-led organization committed to serve and unite alumni for the purpose of advancing Arizona State University. The association provides a variety of services for ASU alumni as well as a series of events scheduled around the country.
With more than 200,000 alumni living in every state and throughout the world, the association plays an important role as the university’s primary support organization. Comprising more than 40 groups, the campus, college, club, and chapter organizations (4Cs) of the association provide opportunities for all alumni to stay involved with the part of ASU that interests them most.
Members of the ASU Alumni Association Board of Directors are elected each summer.
For information about the association or its board of directors, call 1–800–ALUMNUS or 602/965–ALUM (2586). - Back to Top
RESEARCH CENTERS, INSTITUTES, AND LABORATORIES
These units serve the university’s mission in research. They are overseen by eight of the colleges, the vice provost for Research, and ASU East.
College of Architecture and Environmental Design
Herberger Center for Design Excellence. The Herberger Center for Design Excellence serves the Phoenix area through research, publications, and symposia regarding urban design, design, and environmental planning issues. For more information, call 602/965–6693.
College of Business
Arizona Real Estate Center. The Arizona Real Estate Center, established in 1980, serves a multifunction research and educational role to foster better understanding of the real estate sector of the Arizona economy. Housing, commercial real estate, and construction activity data for Arizona and Maricopa County are collected by the center and are utilized for a variety of ongoing projects, including the calculation of affordability indexes and the computation of housing appreciation figures for the metropolitan Phoenix area. The center’s annual outlook series provides a public forum for prominent members of the real estate industry to present their perceptions of market conditions.
For more information, contact the director, Arizona Real Estate Center, BA 319, 602/965–5440. The center’s Web site is www.cob.asu.edu/seid/arec.
Bank One Economic Outlook Center. The Bank One Economic Outlook Center (EOC), established in 1985, specializes in economic forecasts of Arizona and the Western states. The center publishes the Bank One Arizona Blue Chip Economic Forecast (monthly), Greater Phoenix Blue Chip Economic Forecast (quarterly), Western Blue Chip Economic Forecast (10 issues per year), and Blue Chip Job Growth Update (monthly), an update of current job growth in the United States. The center also publishes Mexico Consensus Economic Forecast (quarterly), a forecast and historical data on the Mexican economy.
For more information, contact the director, Bank One Economic Outlook Center, BA 319, 602/965–5543. The center’s Web site is www.cob.asu.edu/seid/eoc.
Center for the Advancement of Small Business. The Center for the Advancement of Small Business (CASB) is the 21st century leader in business education, practice, and research that provides high-quality, relevant programs, and information services focused on small business since 1994. The center enables students and existing small and medium-sized businesses to participate, contribute, and compete in the global economy.
The center provides students from all disciplines with programs and resources that prepare them for positions of leadership in small and medium-size businesses, and aids small and medium-size businesses in the continuous improvement of their human resources and business practices. CASB also engages in applied research on entrepreneurship and the emerging changes and trends in small business.
For more information, contact the director, Center for the Advancement of Small Business, BAC 111, 602/965–3962. The center’s Web site is www.cob.asu.edu/seid/casb.
Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies (CAPS). The Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies was established in November 1986 by a national affiliation agreement between the ASU College of Business and the National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM). It is the first and only program of its kind in the nation and is located in the Arizona State University Research Park, about eight miles south of the main ASU campus. CAPS conducts in-depth research into the problems facing the purchasing profession today and, through its studies, seeks to improve purchasing effectiveness and efficiency, and the overall state of purchasing readiness.
For more information, call 602/752–2277, or contact
Center for Business Research. The Center for Business Research (CBR) has been a consistent source of information on the Arizona and metropolitan Phoenix economies since 1951. Both the business community and the public have had access to the economic indicators produced by the ongoing projects of the center, including quarterly net migration estimates for Arizona and Maricopa County, and the metropolitan Phoenix Consumer Price Index. The center also conducts projects under the sponsorship of private and public agencies. Recent examples include the economic impact of Super Bowl XXX, a study of seasonal migration to Arizona, and an analysis of the state’s hospital industry. A monthly publication of the center, AZB/Arizona Business, plays a major role in disseminating to the public the economic information compiled by the research centers of the College of Business.
For more information, contact the director, Center for Business Research, BA 319, 602/965–3961. The center’s Web site is www.cob.asu.edu/seid/cbr.
Center for Services Marketing and Management. The Center for Services Marketing and Management (SMM Center) is a leading university-based hub devoted to the study of services marketing and management since 1985. The SMM Center addresses how any company can improve internal service processes and use service and customer satisfaction as a competitive advantage. The center is cross-industry in nature, encouraging firms to share the best ideas and practices for adaptation across industries. Though grounded in marketing, the center’s work is also cross-functional, integrating concepts and techniques from marketing, operations, human resources, and management.
The center’s areas of expertise include customer retention and loyalty; service quality; service delivery; professional services (such as healthcare, accounting and consulting services); customer satisfaction; services strategy; service culture; and service recovery. A leader in the business and academic communities, the SMM Center’s work advances the knowledge base in the field and provides applicable frameworks, concepts, and tools.
The SMM Center partners with 26 charter member firms, a who’s who list of companies recognized for their service orientation—AT&T, Marriott, Federal Express, Harley-Davidson, Xerox, MicroAge, Lucent Technologies, Ford, and Prudential.
The center offers its partner firms top flight executive education in services through the annual “Activating Your Firm’s Service Culture” Symposium, the annual Services Marketing and Management Institute, the annual Information Technology Services Marketing Courses, and provides customized executive education programs and research projects which are tailored to and conducted for charter member firms.
The center also actively supports the College of Business’ M.B.A. program that offers a certification in Services Marketing and Management. The services track infuses strong company-based experience and encourages summer internships.
For more information, contact the director, Center for Services Marketing and Management, BAC 440, 602/965–6201.
Center for the Study of Finance. The Center for the Study of Finance (CSF), established in 1986, serves the national financial, policy-making, and academic communities through research, publications, conferences, and educational programs. The focus of such activities is on the changing nature of the domestic and international financial system with such specific areas as the interaction between financial markets, deposit insurance reform, the deregulation of financial institutions, the financing of mergers and acquisitions, and the effect of government policy on financial markets receiving recent attention.
For more information, contact the director, Center for the Study of Finance, BAC 519, 602/965–5229.
Joan and David Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics. The Joan and David Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics (LCAE) provides training and sponsors research in applied ethics for organizations since 1980. The center’s research focuses on the connection between valued-based businesses and their financial performance. Its study of companies with 100 years of consistent dividend payments has been reported in The Wall Street Journal and numerous academic and professional journals.
The center sponsors an annual conference on organizational ethics as well as on ethics for lawyers beyond the profession’s code and model rules. Examples of topics covered in the center’s published research reports include lawyers and ethics, ethics and international labor practices, the rogue employee and ethics in organizations, and ethics and cultural variances in international business.
Each year the center recognizes an outstanding business leader for exemplary ethical standards. Recipients of the Lincoln Center award have been Lewis W. Lehr of 3M, the center’s first recipient; Sir Adrian Cadbury of Cadbury Schweppes; Robert W. Galvin of Motorola; James Houghton of Corning Glass Works; R. William Taylor of the American Society of Association Executives; Jerry Junkins of Texas Instruments; Bowen McCoy of Buzz McCoy Associates, Inc.; and Aaron Feuerstein of Malden Mills Industries, Inc.
For more information, contact the director, Joan and David Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, BA 352B, 602/965–2710.
Manufacturing Institute. See “Manufacturing Institute” for information about this joint venture of the College of Business and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
College of Education
Center for Bilingual Education and Research. Bilingual education is an internationally significant field that crosses many disciplines. In 1980, the College of Education formally instituted a Center for Bilingual Education with a multidisciplinary perspective addressing local, national, and international concerns. The center initiates and coordinates research ventures in bilingual/bicultural education and is responsible for assembling faculty and staff expertise and outside resources to accomplish research goals.
The center also supports instructional activity in bilingual curricula and related program efforts within the college. Because of the cross-disciplinary nature of bilingual education programs, a collegewide effort is necessary to develop, evaluate, and strengthen such programs.
The center is committed to
For more information, contact the director, Center for Bilingual Education and Research, ED 414, 602/965–7134.
Center for Indian Education. The Center for Indian Education is an interdisciplinary research and service center established in 1959. It promotes studies in American Indian policy and administration that contribute to scholarship and effective practices in education, professional training, and tribal capacity building. It is structured to foster relations between the university and sovereign tribes, and to provide training and technical assistance for community programs. The center publishes the Journal of American Indian Education and sponsors workshops and colloquia that bring together scholars and tribal community leaders.
The center provides leadership through a group of American Indian faculty and is organized on the basis of scholarly expertise of the faculty. In addition to College of Education faculty, responsibilities are shared by faculty from the School of Social Work, the School of Justice Studies, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the College of Law. Areas currently studied include administrative leadership, policy analysis, bilingual education, health and welfare policy, justice studies, and program development in professional studies.
For more information, contact the director, Center for Indian Education, ED 415, 602/965–6292.
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE). This center, established in September 1994, promotes and encourages visionary approaches to educating engineering students. The center seeks support for the research, development, and assessment of new educational paradigms, unique curricula, improved courses, and new delivery systems that embrace a range of learning models, alternative classroom management strategies, improved pedagogies, and advanced educational technologies. The center also develops and offers workshops and seminars to encourage wide-scale implementation of those approaches that are shown to be effective in developing the attributes that will be needed by graduates.
The vision of the center is that its programs will (1) create and continuously improve educational systems that will develop in graduates the skills, knowledge, and attitudes required for them to quickly and effectively become world-class engineers; and (2) develop an expanding team of scholars that desires to actively explore new and improved educational theories, methods, and technologies to improve teaching and learning.
For more information, contact the CIEE director, EC G205, 602/965–5350.
Center for Research in Engineering and Applied Sciences. The Center for Research in Engineering and Applied Sciences supports the faculty and students in the knowledge creation and discovery mission of the university. The center area also supports the contribution of the college to the state’s economic development through collaborative research partnerships with and technology transfer to industry. The center provides research support services for all research in the college as well as interfacing with the research offices of the university and other colleges. Specialized and interdisciplinary efforts are currently in place in such areas as acoustics, air pollution, alternative energy, applied mechanics, artificial intelligence, automated manufacturing, bioengineering, communications, computational microelectronics, computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM), computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), computer science, control systems, data and information systems, electrical characterization, environmental resources and control, expert systems, fluid mechanics, fuels and combustion, materials, mass transfer, metallurgy, nuclear radiation, photovoltaics, plasma, plastics, power systems, analyses, robotics, semiconductor materials and fabrication, semiconductor processing, signal processing, soil mechanics, solar thermal energy, sold-state electronics and systems design and analysis, telecommunications, thermodynamics, transportation systems, turbines, very-large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI), waste management, and water resources.
For more information, contact the director, Center for Research in Engineering and Applied Sciences, EC G136, 602/965–1725.
Center for Low Power Electronics. The technical areas of focus include
For more information, contact the director, Center for Low Power Electronics, ERC 115, 602/965–3708.
Center for Solid-State Electronics Research. CSSER focuses on research in the areas of semiconductors crystal growth, both by bulk and epitaxial techniques, device characterization and modeling, defect behavior in semiconductors material characterization, processing, fine line lithography, surface analysis, and transport. Major programs address semiconductor device modeling, transport theory, optoelectronics, feroelectrics, semiconductor processing, microwave devices, and ultra-submicron devices. New programs address synthetic neural systems and their impact on VLSI design. Research in the specially designed facilities includes various aspects of submicron dimension devices.
For more information, contact the director, Center for Solid-State Electronics Research, ENGRC 115, 602/965–3708.
Manufacturing Institute. The Manufacturing Institute is a joint venture of the College of Business and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, established to enhance manufacturing research and industrial collaboration at the interface between the two colleges. The mission of the institute involves integrating aspects of manufacturing in both the business and engineering areas, helping to fulfill the university’s goal of becoming one of the leading educational and research institutions in both manufacturing enterprise and manufacturing process technology issues. The institute has two academic codirectors, one each from the College of Business and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and has active industry involvement.
For more information, contact one of the directors in GWC 402, 602/965–3709.
Center for System Science and Engineering Research. The Center for System Science and Engineering Research has established four focus areas: nonlinear dynamical systems, control theory and its applications, mathematical neuroscience, and scientific computing and interdisciplinary systems engineering. The center is jointly sponsored by the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Its main goals are the creation and enhancement of interdisciplinary and cooperative research, graduate education, and public service programs in the area of systems science, applied mathematics and computation.
For more information, contact the SSREC director in GWC 606 at 602/965–8382.
Telecommunications Research Center. Telecommunications play a vital role in home, commercial, entertainment, educational, scientific, and military systems. The Telecommunications Research Center focuses its interests and activities in research and educational programs. The approach is to conduct basic and applied research, develop technologies, and provide education programs in all major areas of telecommunications, from signal generation to reception. The targeted areas of excellence are antennas, propagation, and scattering; microwave circuits, devices, and measurements; optical communications; signal processing; broadband switching; and communication systems. Ultra-modern laboratories and computational facilities are associated with the center.
For more information, contact the director, Telecommunications Research Center, GWC 411, 602/965–5311.
College of Fine Arts
Institute for Studies in the Arts. As the research center for the College of Fine Arts, the Institute for Studies in the Arts (ISA) serves as a laboratory for the research and development of new art forms, new ideas and concepts, and innovative technologies for artistic expression; a network for communication among creative scholars both within and outside the arts; and a resource base for the documentation, evaluation, and dissemination of research in the arts. ISA addresses the needs of a variety of populations through technical and monetary support and sponsorship of research projects, performances, exhibitions, and symposia.
ISA facilities include an experimental performance studio at Drama City and a state-of-the-art video production and postproduction laboratory in Matthews Center. ISA maintains a database of interdisciplinary scholarship in the arts and actively seeks to communicate with researchers from diverse backgrounds in the ASU community and worldwide.
ISA is open to a wide range of research proposals from both faculty and graduate students, provided such proposals address the ISA mission of experimentation and innovation in the arts.
For information, visit ISA’s Web site at researchnet.vprc.asu.edu/isa, or contact the director, Institute for Studies in the Arts, MCENT 252, 602/965–9438.
College of Law
Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology. Located in the College of Law, the center conducts research, edits the Jurimetrics Journal of Law, Science and Technology in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section on Science and Technology, and sponsors seminars, workshops, and conferences. Through these activities, the center seeks to contribute to the formulation and improvement of law and public policy affecting science and technology and to the wise application of science and technology in the legal system. Current areas of research include communications and telecommunications law, computer-related law, forensic science and statistics, legal issues and biotechnology, law and medicine, and law and social science.
For more information, contact the director, Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology, LAW 102, 602/965–2124.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). The Arizona Center is a research unit serving affiliate scholars from ASU, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Arizona. It represents a variety of disciplines including history, literature, philosophy, religion, language, music, art, and science. ACMRS enriches academic offerings in medieval and renaissance studies by sponsoring one or two visiting professors each year. Graduate research assistantships are also available through the center.
Significant opportunities for the study of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance exist at ASU. Hayden Library has an extensive microfilm collection and many rare books in medieval and renaissance studies. ACMRS also sponsors a lecture series each semester covering a variety of topics.
Other programs include an annual conference, a public symposium, a summer study abroad program at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), and student exchange programs with the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and the University of Kalmar (Sweden).
Since 1996, ACMRS has published Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (MRTS), a major series of editions, translations, and reference works. In collaboration with the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and the medieval and renaissance committee of the University of Michigan, ACMRS sponsors and co-edits the Mediterranean Studies, an annual interdisciplinary journal publishing articles on all aspects of the Mediterranean region. ACMRS also sponsors a book series titled “Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,” published by Brepols (Belgium).
ACMRS also partners with the Renaissance Society of America and the University of Toronto in “Iter,” a massive, retrospective, online medieval and renaissance bibliography covering all languages and disciplines, and is the official site of the Medieval Academy of America’s online data project offering information on medieval centers, programs, committees, and regional associations in North America.
For more information, contact the director, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SS 224, 602/965–5900.
Cancer Research Institute. Significant advances in the treatment of human cancer and other serious medical problems depend upon scientists well trained in organic chemistry, biochemistry, and biology. The Cancer Research Institute provides graduate students with the specialized training necessary for research in the discovery and development of effective anticancer drugs. Among various activities, laboratory personnel are pursuing a unique program concerned with isolation, structural identification, and synthesis of naturally occurring anticancer agents from marine animals, plants, and marine microorganisms.
For more information, contact the director, Cancer Research Institute, CRI 209, 602/965–3351.
Center for Asian Studies. Through its East Asian and Southeast Asian studies programs, the center serves as research coordinator for Asian studies’ faculty and graduate students in a variety of disciplines. The center sponsors colloquia and research conferences. It also publishes two scholarly Monograph Series and a newsletter on Southeast Asian studies, Suvannabhumi, which have an international readership. Graduate students may apply for research assistantships in the center and its program.
The center administers student exchange programs with a number of universities in Asia. The center also sponsors a graduate student colloquium and film series on Asian topics. A reading room is located in the center office suite offering a variety of Asian and English language publications and newspapers from and about Asia.
For more information, contact the director, Center for Asian Studies, WHALL 105, 602/965–7184.
Center for Latin American Studies. Arizona maintains an ever-growing interest in Latin America that draws upon an extensive experience of historical and geographical ties. The Center for Latin American Studies is the focal point for these interests at ASU. Through its program, the center serves the university community and maintains strong ties with various Latin American organizations in the state and the nation. Principal activities are coordinating Latin American studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels; sponsoring student exchange programs, events featuring Latin American arts and culture, numerous seminars, and research conferences; publishing a wide range of professional materials; and undertaking and facilitating research about the region.
The center administers student exchange programs with the Catholic University of Bolivia and three Mexican universities—the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, and the University of Sonora. Each spring several ASU students are selected to attend courses at the Latin American universities while Bolivian and Mexican students attend ASU.
Each year the center publishes several scholarly books as well as shorter monographs in its Special Studies Series.
The center is a member of the American Modern Language Association, the Consortium of U.S. Research Programs for Mexico, the Consortium for Latin American Studies Association, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs, and Conference on Latin American History.
The center directly encourages research, not only through its publications program and research conferences, but also through close coordination with the Latin American collection of Hayden Library and networking with Latin American universities.
For more information, contact the director, Center for Latin American Studies, SS 213, 602/965–5127.
Center for Meteorite Studies. One of the nation’s largest collections of extraterrestrial materials is available for research in the Center for Meteorite Studies. Teaching and research on meteorites, meteorite craters, and related areas of space and planetary science are accomplished through the regular academic units in cooperation with the center.
For more information, contact the director, Center for Meteorite Studies, PS C151, 602/965–6511.
Center for Solid-State Science. The Center for Solid-State Science is a research unit within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The membership comprises faculty and academic professional researchers and research support personnel, most of whom hold simultaneous appointments in affiliated academic units. The Center for Solid-State Science is the ASU focal point for interdisciplinary research on the properties and structures of condensed phases of matter. Current research topics include, among others, electronic materials, ceramics, composites, rare earth oxides, intercalation compounds, and ionic conductors.
Members of the center operate modern and sophisticated research facilities, organize regular research colloquia and symposia, and collaborate extensively with other researchers on projects of mutual interest. The principal topical research area in the center is the science and engineering of materials, with emphasis on the structure and reactivity of interfaces and surfaces; synthesis and processing of new materials; high resolution microstructural and chemical analysis; and research computing, consultation, and analysis with high-speed computer graphics for physical modeling and visualization.
The Goldwater Materials Science Laboratories of the center include
The Goldwater Materials Science Laboratories of the Center for Solid-State Science are the primary teaching and research resources used by students in the Science and Engineering of Materials interdisciplinary Ph.D. program and the undergraduate option for Materials Synthesis and Processing. They are used for the same purposes by students from affiliated departments.
Special laboratories for other relevant research are available in affiliate departments. These include nuclear and electron resonance spectroscopy laboratories, X-ray diffraction and fluorescence laboratories, mechanical properties measurements capability over a wide range of temperatures, optical (laser) spectroscopy laboratories, and scanning tunneling and atomic force microscope laboratories. Additional laboratories for related research are available in affiliate departments.
For more information, contact the director, Center for Solid-State Science, PS B234, 602/965–4544 or cssr@www.eas.asu.edu.
Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis. This center, located in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was established at ASU in 1988 as part of the USDA/DOE/NSF Plant Science Centers Program. The center serves as an infrastructure supporting ASU scientists who study photosynthesis using a variety of methods and approaches, ranging from molecular biology and biochemistry to organic chemistry, ultrafast laser spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, and theoretical chemistry. It is designed to enhance undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral education through multidisciplinary cooperative research projects.
The ultimate objective of the research is the elucidation of the basic principles governing the biochemical and biophysical processes of photosynthetic energy storage. This goal is being realized via investigation of the early events of photosynthesis, including: light absorption and excitation transfer in photosynthetic antennas; the mechanism of primary photochemistry in plant and bacterial systems; secondary electron transfer processes; structure and assembly of photosynthetic antennas, reaction centers, and electron transfer proteins; pigment-protein interactions; artificial and biomimetic photosynthetic solar energy conversion systems; and mechanisms of biological electron transfer reactions.
The center is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation which allows students to do frontier research in a broad range of disciplines. Equipment includes a variety of pulsed lasers for measurements with time resolution ranging from sub-picoseconds to seconds; a 500 MHz NMR instrument; an EPR spectrometer; a protein X-ray facility; spectrophotometers; fluorometers; a protein sequencer; and an amino acid analyzer.
The center sponsors a weekly Photosynthesis Seminar Series and brings in visiting scientists from around the world to carry out collaborative research. Undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral training programs in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Department of Plant Biology are central components of the activities of the center.
For more information, contact the director, Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, PS D207, 602/965–1963 or photosyn@asuchm.la.asu.edu.
Deer Valley Rock Art Center. Deer Valley Rock Art Center, located two miles west of the Black Canyon Freeway on Deer Valley Road, is operated by the ASU Department of Anthropology in consultation with the Hopi, Yavapai, and Gila River Indian tribes. It includes more than 1,500 petroglyphs that cover the eastern slope of Hedgpeth Hills. For more information, call 602/582–8007.
Exercise and Sport Research Institute. The Exercise and Sport Research Institute (ESRI) is an interdisciplinary research unit located in the Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education and serves, in part, as a research facility for the interdisciplinary doctoral program in exercise science.
The major research areas can be described as follows. Biomechanics applies the laws of physics to the study of human movement. It examines internal and external forces applied to the human body and the effects these forces have on the body. Exercise physiology studies the acute responses of the body to exercise and its chronic adaptations to training. It also studies the interrelationships among physical activity, performance, and health. Exercise biochemistry focuses on the study of subcellular systems involved in the provision and regulation of energy transfer during exercise. Exercise endocrinology studies interrelationships of exercise and training with stress, hormones, neurotransmitters, and the immune system. Motor behavior and sport psychology study human behavior in fundamental motor activity and sport. Motor behavior includes the subdomains of motor learning, control, and development. Motor learning focuses on skill acquisition, motor control studies how movement is regulated and controlled via the nervous system in normal and pathological populations, and motor development studies how growth and maturation affect performance and learning across the lifespan. Within the context of sport and exercise, sport psychology examines the influence of psychological variables on performance or health and the influence of participation on psychological phenomena.
The ESRI is affiliated with a number of medical institutions in the Phoenix area.
Faculty and graduate students at the ESRI are investigating a wide range of topics concerning human physical activity, including different ages, levels of health, levels of ability and fitness, and environments; and levels and types of training, body composition, nutrition, and physical and emotional stresses. Where applicable, these aspects are studied using an interdisciplinary approach.
For more information, contact the director, Exercise and Sport Research Institute, PEBE 159, 602/965–7473.
Hispanic Research Center. The Hispanic Research Center (HRC) at ASU is an interdisciplinary unit dedicated to research and creative activities that is university-wide but administered through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The HRC performs basic and applied research on a broad range of topics related to Hispanic populations, disseminates research findings to the academic community and the public, engages in creative activities and makes them available generally, and provides public service in areas of importance to Hispanics.
Faculty, staff, and advanced graduate students organize into working groups to develop a broad range of specific projects and lines of inquiry within the general categories of Hispanic entrepreneurship, science and technology, information and data compilation and dissemination, the Hispanic polity, and the arts. Ongoing activities of the HRC, primarily funded by external grants, include the Arizona Hispanic Business Survey, the Bilingual Review Press, the Coalition to Increase Minority Degrees, the Community Art and Research Outreach (CARO), Compañeros en la Salud, Project 1000, and the Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities.
CARO sponsors creative activities and action research in collaboration with community-based organizations and ASU faculty.
For more information, contact the director, Hispanic Research Center, CFS 104, 602/965–3990.
Institute of Human Origins. The Institute of Human Origins (IHO), founded in 1981 by Donald Johanson, became part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1997. IHO is a multidisciplinary research organization dedicated to the recovery and analysis of the fossil evidence for human evolution and the establishment of a chronological framework for human evolutionary events. IHO’s scientists carry out field research at sites in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. IHO houses the largest collection of australopithecus afarensis casts (including “Lucy,” a 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor) in the world as well as an extensive collection of other fossil hominid casts. IHO’s library contains more than 3,000 volumes, numerous journals, videotapes, audiotapes, and slides related to human evolution and fossil sites. IHO produces periodic newsletters, offers lecture series, conducts tours and workshops, and supports numerous informal science education outreach projects.
For more information, visit the Institute of Human Origins, SS 103, or call 602/727–6580.
College of Public Programs
Morrison Institute for Public Policy. Established in 1981 by the Morrison family of Gilbert, Arizona, the Institute conducts research on public policy matters, informs policy makers and the public about issues of importance, and advises leaders on choices and actions. Morrison Institute offers a variety of services to public and private sector clients and pursues its own research agenda. Services include policy research, program evaluation, and public outreach. The institute’s interests, research, and publications span such areas as education, urban growth, human services, workforce development, economic development, and arts and culture.
For more information, visit the Web site at www.asu.edu/copp/morrison, call 602/965–4525, or write
Vice Provost for Research
Center for Environmental Studies. Established in 1974, the center encourages and coordinates interdisciplinary environment-related activities in the natural and social sciences within the university.
Research programs within the center emphasize ecosystem and human impact studies; riparian and aquatic studies; wildlife biology; environmental regulation and policy issues; covering environmental risk assessment; hazardous materials; waste management; and studies relating to environmental problems on the U.S.-Mexico border. The center also organizes a variety of training programs for practitioners on current federal environmental regulations.
The center encourages communication among academic, government, and private sectors through research, workshops, seminars, and working papers. It manages the Sierra Ancha Research Station for the university. The station is located at an elevation of 5,000 feet in the desert-pine forest transition. It offers research potential in biology, geology, anthropology, resource management, and nuclear engineering. Research space and living accommodations are also available for academic and research organizations.
For more information, contact the director, Center for Environmental Studies, Tempe Center (University and Mill), 602/965–2975.
ASU East
Center for Agribusiness Policy Studies. The Center for Agribusiness Policy Studies (CAPS) carries out research and development relating to agribusiness, rural development, multiple use of scarce resources, and public policy. The center addresses regional, national, and international development in the context of global and competitive markets for agricultural products and inputs. For more information, contact the director of the Center for Agribusiness Policy Studies at 602/727–1583. - Back to Top
CONSORTIUM FOR INSTRUCTIONAL INNOVATION
The Consortium for Instructional Innovation (CII) is a multidisciplinary unit committed to developing and supporting new pedagogical and technological approaches to teaching. CII uses a vast system of university resources to provide members of the university teaching community the opportunity to combine their talents and expertise with the latest technologies in producing beneficial new teaching methods.
CII combines existing teaching methods with technological options such as the use of computers, videotape, computer animation, and laser disks to create the best possible instructional methods.
CII offers assistance and financial aid to members of the teaching community who seek to develop projects in improving the quality of education at ASU. In evaluating proposals for curricular innovation, CII considers the applicability of projects to other areas and settings, the impact of projects on both students and faculty, and the commitment from the college or department in support of proposed programs.
In addition to developing teaching methods, CII periodically sponsors workshops and serves as a clearing house for information and referrals.
The units that make up CII are Computer and Network Consulting Services, University Libraries, University Media Systems, the University Program for Faculty Development, and the Writing Across the Curriculum program.
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