ASU Research Magazine - Fall 2004

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Walking Wonders (PDF)
Jiping He and his team at Center for Neural Interface Engineering are helping paralyzed patients with severe spinal cord injuries to walk again, if only in a limited way.

Notebook (PDF)
Winning Design; The Dawn of Galaxies; The Power of Biodiversity; Preserving Nursing’s History; and more...

Strength in Numbers (PDF)
How do you weed through all the conflicting advice and find the best workout program to follow? ASU’s Matthew Rhea has done the work for you.

A Spoonful of Vinegar (PDF)
Carol Johnston says there may be a cheaper, easier way to control diabetes. The help you need may be waiting in the kitchen pantry.

Bullies at Work (PDF)
Unfortunately, schoolyard bullies do not vanish as we grow into adulthood. Now, they appear in one of our most important institutions – the workplace.

Influence (PDF)
Leaders need to be ruthless in rooting out dishonesty and deception in any business organization. Employees tend to ascend or tumble to the level of their leaders.

Humor. Seriously. (PDF)
Humor serves very real and important psychological and social functions. Humor can help us cope, save face, gain status, test limits, or bond with others.

Shaking the Tree (PDF)
Sudhir Kumar and his colleagues at ASU’s Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics use novel approaches and tools to uproot the conventional scientific wisdom of biology.

The Skinny on Thin Films (PDF)
New types of ceramic thin films may prove to be key elements in the development of smaller, faster, more powerful electronic devices.

Set in Stone (PDF)
Most carbon dioxide emissions come from the burning of fossil fuels. Imagine if we could take all that waste CO2 and catch it, imprison it in stone, and put it back in the ground from whence it came?

Everyday Robots (PDF)
Robots are here today. ASU mechanical engineering professor Tom Sugar and his students are working to develop robots with biomedical applications.

Cover (PDF)