ASU Research Magazine - Fall 2001
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The Color Of Art (PDF)
As a student, Bernard Young had a tough time finding information about artists of color, even at some of the nation’s largest metropolitan libraries. Today, the ASU art professor is writing the books to fill that void.
Notebook (PDF)
Teaming Up Against Stress; Automatic Biologist; warning: Labels Don’t Stop Teen Drinkers; Nature’s Smallest Shock; Remolding the Past; Add Mesquite
The Chore Of Chores (PDF)
Are there good reasons to assign household chores to children? You bet there are! ASU sociologist Sampson Lee Blair did the research to tell you why.
Cooking Up Primal Stew (PDF)
Volcanic vents known as “black smokers” on the sea floor may represent sites where primitive life first appeared on Earth, or on other planets. ASU geologist John Holloway has built his own.
Carbon Dioxide Questions (PDF)
A Dome Of Our Own (PDF)
Scientists predict CO2 concentrations in the Earth’s atmosphere will double in the next century. In Phoenix, it’s already happened. ASU researchers are using the city as a natural laboratory to study the impact of increasing CO2.
Beneath The Forest (PDF)
ASU plant biologist Jeff Klopatek studies a vital layer of the forest that may be slowing the rise of atmospheric greenhouse gases–the forest floor and what lies beneath.
To Make A Quake (PDF)
On February 28, 2001, the city of Seattle relocated itself in a magnitude 6.8 earthquake
that caused $2 billion in damages and injured 272 people. ASU geologist Simon Peacock studies the causes of such “intraslab” quakes.
Tracking Rattlers (PDF)
For ASU doctoral student Emily Taylor, studying Western diamondback rattlesnakes means she can interact with creatures she loves. She also gets a chance to contribute to biology’s expanding knowledge of how chemistry drives behavior.
King Of The Hill (PDF)
For more than 20 years, ASU biologist John Alcock has watched desert creatures large and small play the mating game. He says that for successful mating strategy among tarantula hawk wasps in the Sonoran Desert, size does make a difference.
Stop The Clock (PDF)
It’s been nearly 500 years since Juan Ponce de Leon scoured the Florida peninsula in search of the mythical fountain of youth. Now Jennifer Etnier and her ASU colleagues have found a way to slow some of the aging decline, and it doesn’t cost a dime.
A Case For C (PDF)
In the lineup of nutritional problems, ASU researcher Carol Johnston says that nobody worries about scurvy. Maybe we should.
Teaching Capitalism to Communist Hanoi (PDF)
Growing up in small town America in the 1970s, Vietnam always seemed a frightful place to Clifford Shultz. Today, the ASU business professor teaches free market principles and consumer research in Vietnam.
Vision Of A Culture (PDF)
J. Gray Sweeney is part detective, part historian, part teacher, and part cultural entrepreneur. He also has an ambitious goal. The ASU professor of art wants to change the direction of American art history.
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