Arizona State University is planting seeds for new science on its Tempe campus that are expected to sprout economic growth and urban revitalization two miles away in Scottsdale.

August 22, 2004

WASHINGTON — An influential geneticist who wears his faith on his sleeve says that as the new director of the National Institutes of Health he won't inject his religious convictions into medical research while pushing cutting-edge science into better bedside care.

His 23 years of U.S. Army chaplaincy work, including helping to define faith’s place in Army values, has equipped R. Ryder Stevens with rich material as a Christian Science practitioner and lecturer.

His 23 years of U.S. Army chaplaincy work, including helping to define faith’s place in Army values, has equipped R. Ryder Stevens with rich material as a Christian Science practitioner and lecturer.

LOS ANGELES - Jodie Foster's "Flightplan" stayed aloft at the box office, as the airplane thriller took in $15 million to remain the No. 1 movie over a rush of new wide releases.

There are medical and scientific studies aplenty that point the way to new cures and better practices. And then there are those that make us cringe and think, "eww, gross."

Jeremy Pomeroy is onto something that, years from now, we may all be thankful for.

Hardly anyone in the past four years failed to ask when good times will return. One difficulty with finding an answer is that definitions vary. Is it when gas goes below $3 a gallon? $2.50?

Denis Wilson "Bill" Robinson soberly follows a 22-step program.

An instrument for spaceflight that will collect samples of organic material from an asteroid as part of a new NASA mission will be built at Arizona State University.

PITTSBURGH - The nationwide economic boom of the 1990s skipped over neighborhoods in this city, where steel mills stood as empty, hulking monuments to a crumbling civic identity.

"how you climb up the mountain is just as important as how you get down the mountain. and so it is with life, which for many of us becomes one big gigantic test followed by one big gigantic lesson. in the end, it all comes down to one word, grace. it’s how you accept winning and losing, good luck and bad luck, the darkness and the light."

Conservation, sustainable living and the science of the Sonoran Desert will be the topics of free lectures and presentations this summer.

Arizona State University will add at least $317 million in buildings and infrastructure by November 2005, under a plan approved Friday by the Board of Regents.

Arizona State University will add at least $317 million in buildings and infrastructure by November 2005, under a plan approved Friday by the Board of Regents.

WASHINGTON - President Bush cast the first veto of his 5 1/2-year presidency Wednesday, rejecting legislation to ease limits on federal funding for research on stem cells obtained from embryos. A few hours later, the House voted 235-193 to overturn the Bush's veto, 51 short of the required two-thirds majority.

Dennis Clark, 59, did a lot of research before he and his wife, Eve, opened their health food supplement store at 1804 E. Southern Ave. in Tempe six months ago. Nearly 30 years worth.

Less than two years ago, Arizona counted for little in the bioscience world. Today the state is starting to be noticed, say those who are working to make biotechnology a major economic factor.

Chandler and the University of Arizona announced Wednesday the two are teaming up to bring a university presence, along with master's and certificate programs, to the downtown area as soon as this May.

In the future, Thanassis Rikakis believes the walls at SkySong will be able to talk. The planned Arizona State University research center’s buildings don’t have cement foundations yet, let alone walls.

In the future, Thanassis Rikakis believes the walls at SkySong will be able to talk. The planned Arizona State University research center’s buildings don’t have cement foundations yet, let alone walls.

When students leave Andrew Smith’s office at ASU, they are carrying new reference materials — or maybe they have a copy of his mushroom risotto recipe.

July 12, 2004