ASU Research Magazine - Summer 2003

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Vegetable Vaccines (PDF)
Plant biologists have visions of bananas, tomatoes, and other vegetables as sources of new edible vaccines that can prevent millions of childhood deaths.

Notebook (PDF)
Sneeze Maps; Stopping Sticky Infection; Helping Heart Surgeons; Claiming a Voice; Wireless Cure; Speedy Boarding; The Mayan Connection; Virtual Flight Test, Safer Construction

Aging Arizona (PDF)
A huge, fundamental change in the age structure of populations in the United States is now taking place. Where you grow old might make all the difference.

Writing the Book on Latino Pop Culture (PDF)
The Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Popular Culture in the United States is intended to help reduce misunderstanding of North America’s Hispanic population, even among Hispanics.

Out of the Darkness (PDF)
At the Center for Ubiquitous Computing, ASU computer scientists and engineers work on innovations that could brighten the darkness for the visually impaired.

Forecasting Mind Storms (PDF)
Biomedical engineers at the Brain Dynamics Laboratory are the first to accurately forecast epileptic seizures before they take place.

Stinky Water (PDF)
Plant biologists are working to make the drinking water in the Phoenix metropolitan area
more pleasant to the nose and palate.

Gnawed Bones Tell Tales (PDF)
Anthropologists can learn quite a bit about people from what and how they eat. Much of what we know about ancient ancestors is also tied to food.

The Alchemist’s Press (PDF)
Some artists describe 19th-century collotype printing technology as “half printmaking, half photography, and half alchemy.”

A Woman’s Place (PDF)
A writer studies how contemporary Native people maintain the strength of traditional matrilineal cultures in their daily lives, literature, and oral storytelling.

Exploring The Writing Life (PDF)
Being a writer is not quite what the movies would make it out to be. This English professor writes, in part, to better understand his students.

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