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4 unusual facts about Arizona State University


Consortium for Strategic Communication

Steven Corman (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988) is a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Communication at Arizona State University where he directs the Consortium for Strategic Communication.

The Consortium for Strategic Communication (or CSC) is a think-tank at Arizona State University.

Domo Genesis

He briefly attended Arizona State University before leaving his studies to focus on a career in rapping.

Ron Chismar

Prior to accepting the position as head coach at Wichita State, Chismar was the offensive coordinator at Arizona State University.


2010 NCRHA Division I Collegiate Roller Hockey National Championships

Lindenwood University, coached by Ron Beilsten, won its eighth national title (and first since 2008) with a 5–1 victory in the national championship game over Arizona State University, coached by Nick Boyarsky.

Abert's Towhee

Though threatened by cowbird nest parasitism and habitat loss, it has successfully colonized suburban environments in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area and may be fairly easily seen on the campus of Arizona State University.

Arizona State University Research Park

Chuck Backus, formerly vice president and provost of ASU’s East Campus, was elected as the President of the ASU Research Park in spring 2005.

Art Edwards

He attended Black Hawk College in Moline in 1988 and 1989 before moving to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1990 to live with a high school friend, play original music in the Tempe scene, and complete his degree at Arizona State University.

Athletic scholarship

In February 2012, a member of the Arizona House of Representatives proposed a bill named HB 2675 which would have required students attending a public university in the state of Arizona (Arizona State University, University of Arizona, or Northern Arizona University) to pay an additional $2,000 fee in order to attend one of the 3 universities.

Bill Leen

Leen graduated from McClintock High School in Tempe, then studied English and philosophy at Arizona State University, leaving during his junior year to devote his energies to music.

Biodesign Institute

The Institute embodies the guiding principles of the New American University, as defined by Arizona State University President Michael Crow.

Brandon Goldman

Goldman played at Arizona State University from '99-'04, standing at 5'9" and 160 pounds; along with Nate Robinson, he was the shortest basketball player in the Pac-10.

Calixtlahuaca

This project was sponsored by Arizona State University and the National Science Foundation, and fieldwork began in 2006 with a full-coverage intensive survey of the site.

Colony High School

In the graduating class of 2007 there were several D-1 athletes, including Omar Bolden (Arizona State University), Chris Givens (Boise State University), Maurice Shaw (University of Idaho) Ryan Paez (University of San Diego).

Danny White

Frank Kush, then the football head coach at Arizona State University, helped convinced Bobby Winkles, the school's baseball coach, to sign White to a scholarship with the provision that he would also play punter for the football team.

Darrow Tully

Active in civic, charitable and arts activities, Tully served as a trustee, director or officer of the Arizona Ballet, Wichita Music Theater, Phoenix Zoo, Heard Museum, University of Kansas William Allen White Foundation and Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and was a frequent lecturer at The American Press Institute.

Dimitar Lukanov

Most recently, he was a guest lecturer and critic at the graduate program of Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University.

Dominick Basso

Basso's son,Jimmy Basso, was sentenced in 1999 to 1½ years in prison and fined $27,000 by United States District Judge Robert C. Broomfield for his role in a point-shaving scandal involving Arizona State University basketball.

Douglas L. Rayes

Rayes received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree, summa cum laude, in 1975 from Arizona State University.

Eduardo Obregón Pagán

Eduardo Obregón Pagán (born August 13, 1960) is the Bob Stump Endowed Professor of History at Arizona State University, and one of the hosts of the PBS popular series History Detectives since 2008.

Edward H. Shortliffe

He has served as president and chief executive officer of the American Medical Informatics Association from 2009-2012 and continues to hold adjunct faculty appointments in biomedical informatics at Columbia University and Arizona State University.

Eyvind Earle

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rahr West Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum and Arizona State University Art Museum have purchased Earle's works for their permanent collections.

Gianna Talone

She was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Italian American parents and as a child had a brief show business career in the 1970s, appearing in an episode of The Flying Nun television series, before attending the Arizona State University.

Google Mars

In collaboration with NASA scientists at the Mars Space Flight Facility located at Arizona State University, Google Mars provided the public with data collected from two NASA Mars missions, Mars Global Surveyor and 2001 Mars Odyssey.

Instituto Global para la Sostenibilidad

Instituto Global para la Sostenibilidad (Global Institute for Sustainability) is a globally and environmentally focused organization founded by María Isabel Studer Noguez at the Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus in collaboration with Arizona State University (ASU).

Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

Board members include prominent American legal scholars such as Professors Owen Fiss and John Simon (Yale University), Lawrence Douglas (Amherst College), and Laura Dickenson (Arizona State University), and prominent Iranian-American author Roya Hakakian.

Jerry Dumas

In 1954, after acquiring a degree in English from Arizona State University, where he contributed drawings to the State Press, he worked as a text editor on Mort Walker's comic strips (Hi and Lois and Beetle Bailey).

Joseph Wang

In 2004-2008, he served as the Director of the Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors at the newly established Biodesign Institute and as a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at Arizona State University (ASU).

Juracimbrophlebia

The insect was selected by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University as one of the Top 10 New Species discovered in 2012 out of more than 140 nominated species.

Keith Poole

Poole was a stand out receiver at Clovis High School in Clovis, California and played collegiately at Arizona State alongside quarterback Jake Plummer.

Marquis Flowers

Flowers attracted interest from several colleges, notably Notre Dame, USC, UCLA, as well as both Arizona State University and the University of Arizona, where he was recruited by Tim Kish.

Melanie Yazzie

A selection of major exhibitions from the 1990s to present include “Between Two Worlds” (2008) at Arizona State University, "Traveling" at the Heard West Museum (2006), "About Face: Self-Portraits by Native American, First Nations, and Inuit Artists" at the Wheelwright Museum (2005), "Making Connections" (2002) in Bulova, Russia, "Navajo in Gisborne" (1999) in Gisborne, New Zealand and "Watchful Eyes" (1994) at the Heard Museum.

Ochroconis anomala

The fungus was honoured as one of the "Top 10 New Species" discovered in 2012 selected by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University among more than 140 nominated species.

Ochroconis lascauxensis

Along with its sibling species, Ochroconis lascauxensis was selected on May 22, 2013 by the International Institute for Species Exploration, located at Arizona State University, as one of the "Top 10 New Species" that had been discovered in 2012.

Plan for Greater Baghdad

The Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium at Arizona State University's Tempe, Arizona campus is reputed to have been based on this opera house design.

Richard Cloward

Cloward became an assistant professor at Columbia's School of Social Work in 1954, and had visiting posts at the Hebrew University, the University of Amsterdam, the University of California, Santa Barbara and Arizona State University.

Stephen Geller

Eventually, in 1986, he returned to Hollywood, working there for a time, but leaving eventually to found screenwriting programs at Arizona State University, and at the Boston University College of Communication.

Terrence G. Wiley

Terrence G. Wiley is Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington, DC, and Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies and Applied Linguistics at Arizona State University.

The Flinn Scholarship

A majority of Flinn scholars in recent years have attended Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University in Tempe, followed by University of Arizona Honors College.

TJ Shope

He attended Coolidge High School where he graduated in 2003, and went on to attend Central Arizona College for two years, graduating in 2005, before transferring to Arizona State University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science in 2008.

Todd Kalis

After starting his final (36) with Arizona State University which included three Bowl Game appearances (Holiday, Rose and Freedom), Kalis was the 17th offensive lineman (the fifth guard) in the fourth-round (108th pick) of the Minnesota Vikings in the 1988 NFL Draft.

William C. Canby, Jr.

As both a professor at Arizona State University College of Law and a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Canby has become known as an expert in American Indian Law.


see also

Craig D. Idso

In addition, he has lectured in Meteorology at Arizona State University, and in Physical Geography at Mesa Community College and Chandler-Gilbert Community College.

Doug Ducey

He is a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and a Trustee for the Arizona State University Foundation.

Frederick Lindstrom

Frederick B. Lindstrom (1915–1998), American academic; longtime professor of sociology at Arizona State University

History of Arizona State University

Mrs. Kathryn Gammage, first year football coach Frank Kush and college administrators and faculty toured the state to promote Arizona State University, while C.W. Laing and Tom Lillico barnstormed the state in their Yes 200 Piper aircraft.

John Cowley

John M. Cowley (1923–2004), professor at Arizona State University

Michael Crow

Michael M. Crow (born 1956), 16th and current president of Arizona State University

Michael Saks

Michael J. Saks, professor of law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University

National Center on Disability and Journalism

Tim McGuire: McGuire is the Frank Russell Chair for the Business of Journalism at Arizona State University.

Steve Doig: Before joining Arizona State University as the Knight Chair in Journalism, Doig worked for 20 years as an investigative reporter and editor at The Miami Herald.

Pasqualetti

Martin J. Pasqualetti, professor of geography at Arizona State University.

Sharon J. Coleman

Judge Coleman is the presiding judge in Scottie Pippen's defamation lawsuit against Comcast, GE, CBS, Arizona State University, University of Tampa, and others for allegedly claiming that Pippen is bankrupt.

Virgin spinedace

As of 1995, the Virgin spinedace were last officially observed by Bureau of Land Management personnel in 1991, where the remaining fish were caught and deposited at the Arizona State University Museum.

Vonda Kay Van Dyke

Earlier in the year, she had taken a break as a 21-year-old junior at Arizona State University to become Miss Arizona.

Warren Township High School

Michael M. Crow, Class of 1973, Arizona State University, President