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July 23, 2009
 
One-size-fits-all approaches to policies aimed at achieving sustainable social-ecological systems need to be updated with a diagnostic tool to help scholars from multiple disciplines better frame the question and think through the variables, asserts social scientist and political economist Elinor Ostrom.
May 14, 2009
 
An ASU initiative to leverage key university research strengths against complex global challenges is expanding its scope and leadership to more tightly integrate the natural sciences and technology with social sciences and the humanities.
April 10, 2009
 
A diverse team of researchers at ASU is looking at the effects of cultural environment on local health in a way team members say they hope directly benefits the local community.
October 31, 2008
 
There’s a new kind of math being taught at ASU, and it goes something like this: Take one globalized world, multiply by billions of people and add an influenza virus. Factor in extreme poverty and the fact that there are more people than vaccines.
October 29, 2008
 
Amber Wutich of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity and Mississippi State University's Katherine Ragsdale are pioneers in the field of urban water insecurity research.
September 29, 2008
 
Six faculty members who are “rising stars” in the ASU firmament have been named exemplars by President Michael Crow. These teacher-scholars are pioneers, some still early in their careers, producing such high quality teaching and research that they set an example for others to follow.
 
Three faculty in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change earn tenure, while associate professor J. Marty Anderies—also associated with the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, the Global Institute of Sustainability and the IGERT program in Urban Ecology, as well as being affiliated faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics—is chosen as one of the university's Promotion and Tenure Exemplars.
 
School of Human Evolution and Social Change research professor Elinor Ostrom has been selected to receive the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science. Ostrom, the founding director of the school's Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, has also been pegged to receive an honorary doctorate from McGill University.
 
Assistant professor Marco Janssen is recognized for Defining Edge Research, Social Science, as judged by regents' professors in the category.
 
Assistant professor Marco Janssen of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and associate director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, is one of the rising stars on ASU's research horizon. A recently awarded NSF CAREER Award is testament to his achievements and his potential.
 
ASU adds a new dimension of cross-disciplinary collaboration to its academic spectrum.
 
Backed by the Intellectual Fusion Investment Fund, the Late Lessons from Early History initiative will bring together interdisciplinary teams of researchers to explore the past, present and future of humanity.