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Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is a Canadian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who taught at Arizona State University (ASU), Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University. He founded ASU's Origins Project in 2008 to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director.
Evolution of a University [permanent dead link ], a series on ASU's history and future plans printed in The State Press from Nov. 4–6, 2008 50 years ago, voters endorse name change for Arizona State; Longtime employees look back at past 50 years’ ASU presidents; Crow’s vision attracts both praise, criticism
The Institute of Human Origins (IHO) is a non-profit, multidisciplinary research organization dedicated to the recovery and analysis of the fossil evidence for human evolution. It was founded by the team of paleoanthropologists that discovered Lucy , and became affiliated with Arizona State University in 1997. [ 4 ]
Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university [8] in Tempe, Arizona, United States. [9] Founded in 1885 as Territorial Normal School by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature , the university is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the United States. [ 10 ]
Havasupai Tribe of Havasupai Reservation v. Arizona Board of Regents was brought to court on April 20, 2010. It was discovered that the DNA samples extracted from the Havasupai tribe members that were initially intended to go towards research regarding the genetic linkage to type 2 diabetes in the 1990s, were being used for additional studies. [2]
In 2010, Arizona State University appointed Hawking writer-in-residence of its 2011 Origins Project. [17] In 2013, Hawking spoke at the BrainSTEM: Your Future is Now festival at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. [18] In March 2017, Hawking was invited to speak at the Emirates Airline Festival in Dubai ...
Kaye Reed (born April 1951) is a biological anthropologist focused on discovering evidence of early hominins and interpreting their paleoenvironment. She is presently concentrating her research on the lower Awash Valley in Ethiopia, as well as the South African Pleistocene, in order to study behavioral ecology.
William "Bill" Kimbel (April 15, 1954 – April 17, 2022) [2] was a paleoanthropologist specializing in Plio-Pleistocene hominid evolution in Africa. [3] He had a multi-decade career at Arizona State University, first as a professor in the Anthropology Department and then as the Director of the Institute of Human Origins and Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment ...