The Arizona Youth Identity Project, led by ASU Professor Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, aims to find out what’s driving young voters to the polls. According to their recently released report, more than one-third of young adults identified as independent.
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Arizona State University has launched a new program in California designed for students who are pursuing global leadership and management careers in some of the leading entertainment industries such as film, television, new media, virtual reality and gaming design, to name a few. The Master of Arts in Global Affairs and Management for the Creative Industries (MAGAM-CI),
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As an Asian American interested in conservation and environmental science, still largely white-dominated disciplines in the U.S., Arizona State University s School of Life Sciences Professor Sharon Hall always felt like a bit of an outsider.
Over the years, Hall has drawn on her experience and perspective to use her platform as a researcher and instructor to help change who is represented in biology, more specifically ecology and conservation biology, and inspire the next generation of conservationists. Sharon Hall teaches ecology and careers in environmental science, and she has helped to develop the online conservation biology and ecology major. In addition to teaching and mentoring, she has been serving a special adviser for diversity and inclusion to the director of the School of Life Sciences, and chair of the school s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee. Photo courtesy of Sharon Hall.
Meet the Sea Slugs That Chop Off Their Heads and Grow New Bodies
Their severed heads get around just fine until they regenerate perfectly functioning, parasite-free new bodies, scientists say.
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A sea slug’s head moves around three days after the invertebrate decapitated itself from its body. The body, still alive, reacts slightly when touched by the head. Video by Sayaka Mitoh.Credit
By Annie Roth
A few years ago, Sayaka Mitoh, a Ph.D. candidate at Nara Women’s University in Japan, was perusing her lab’s vast collection of sea slugs when she stumbled upon a gruesome sight. One of the lab’s captive-raised sea slugs, an Elysia marginata