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Attacking Disease Through Plant Science NEWS BIOTERRORISM | LEARNING COMMUNITIES | NATURE COVERS | DEAN'S DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR | ALUMNI IN THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE | USA TODAY STUDENTS COLLEGECLAS OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES NEWS Attacking disease through plant science SPRING/SUMMER 2003 FROM THE DEAN CONTENTS COLLEGECLAS OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES NEWS oday, I shook the hands of 800 new Liberal Arts and Sciences’ graduates.As I write Inthisissue CLAS News is published by the this, it’s the end of the academic year and, for these new alumni, the end of their Arizona State University College Tundergraduate experience.The reward for them is the diploma they carry into new of Liberal Arts and Sciences Office careers and new lives.The reward for me, and for all the faculty and staff in the college, is of College Advancement for alumni knowing that our work helps students succeed; that we can make a real difference in their and friends of the college. lives; that we contribute something of value to them, their families, their communities. DEAN: As one of the largest metropolitan research universities in the country,ASU serves David A.Young 3 BATTLING INVISIBLE FOES many, many students every day, every year. One of the most important things we can do DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE Microbiology professor Bert Jacobs and chemistry alumna Michelle Hanna to help those students succeed is to make their experience here intimate and personally ADVANCEMENT: are collaborating on efforts to protect the world from biological terrorism. rewarding—to take all the richness offered by the multitude of opportunities at a big uni- Sandra McKenzie versity and make them individualized and human-sized. One of the most exciting new EDITOR: 5 AROUND THE COLLEGE programs developed this year—CLAS Learning Communities—will do just that.You can Barby Grant CLAS Learning Communities; Islamic studies certificate; Dean’s Advisory Council; read more about the program on Page 5. SUMS Institute Presidential Award; Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict The creation of Learning Communities marks an important new direction for the col- DESIGNER: lege. It serves as the centerpiece of our efforts to make general education at ASU more suited to the Michael Dambrowski 7 ON THE COVER OF NATURE varied learning styles and abilities of students. Learning Communities focus on examining ideas from vari- WRITERS: Recent discoveries by geologist Philip Christensen and astronomer Sumner ous disciplinary perspectives, enabling students to attain a rich, high level of intellectual development and Diane Boudreau Starrfield make the cover of a top science journal in the same month. to quickly grasp the complexity of real-world, modern day issues and events. Results from other schools Lisa Frawley that have created similar programs show that freshmen who participate in learning communities are more Barby Grant 9 RESEARCH BRIEFS likely to stay in college and graduate. DeEtte Person Maureen Roen Creating an artificial calcium pump; testing a promising new cancer drug; con- The college received a $50,000 grant from the Arizona Board of Regents to put the program in place ducting a social survey of Phoenix; discovering young star-forming galaxies; for a cohort of freshmen entering this coming fall. If the program is as successful as we expect it to be, CONTRIBUTORS: advancing knowledge about cochlear implants CLAS Learning Communities will transform the educational experience for many more students in years Sarah Auffret to come. Gary Campbell 11 ATTACKING DISEASE THROUGH PLANT SCIENCE More than anything, great teachers make great students.Another initiative started this year—the James Hathaway Plant biologist Charles Arntzen has launched a new enterprise that promises to Dean’s Distinguished Professors Program—will reward and honor faculty excellence. Keeping our very Keith Jennings make safe, affordable vaccines available to children all over the world. best professors at ASU is essential to student success and, indeed, to the success of the university as a Nancy Neff whole.You can read about Laurie Leshin, the first CLAS Dean’s Distinguished Professor, beginning on Manny Romero 15 A WOMAN ON A MISSION Page 15. Laurie is an ideal example of the extraordinary faculty talent we have at ASU.As you will read PHOTOGRAPHERS: Geologist Laurie Leshin is the college’s first Dean’s Distinguished Professor and is inside, Dee and John Whiteman provided the funding to make Laurie’s professorship possible.As this pub- Dave Tevis vying to become the first woman in the world to head a space mission. lication was going to press, we received a commitment from Dean’s Advisory Council member Franca Tim Trumble Oreffice to fund a second Dean’s Distinguished Professorship. 17 FACULTY NEWS The scholarship and fellowship initiative that I’ve written about before on this page also has begun to Direct comments or questions to: Research, Teaching and Service Awards; In memoriam take shape.This year, alumni and friends of the college have contributed more than $500,000 to support Barby Grant Communications Manager undergraduate scholarship and graduate fellowship awards.This fund-raising effort is perhaps our most College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 19 CLAS ALUMS IN THE INNER CIRCLE critical initiative, because no matter how great our academic programs and professors are, students will Arizona State University not be successful if they can’t afford to attend or stay in school, or if they need to work long hours. PO Box 871701 Among Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano’s top staff and agency heads are, count ‘em, four graduates of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Today, I was inspired and moved, knowing that ASU had made a difference to the hearts and minds of Tempe,AZ 85287-1701 480-965-1441 those 800 students reaching this important milestone. I’m hoping that they, like you, will value their ASU [email protected] experience. I’m hoping that they, like you, will pursue a lifetime of learning.And I’m hoping that they, 21 CLASS NOTES AND ALUMNI PROFILES like you, will want to continue to give back—to support the teachers who have led them and the students Visit the college Web site at Mike Berens, B.S. in zoology, 1976 www.asu.edu/clas Tom Richey, B.S in psychology, 1979 who will follow them.All of us together, and each of us as an involved and caring individual, will continue CLAS News is supported Randy Nelson, Ph.D. in chemistry, 1990 to make ASU great. by the resources of the ASU Alumni Association. 25 STELLAR STUDENTS Collin Raymond and Esther Ellsworth make USA Today’s academic “all-star” team David A.Young 29 CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS Dean Cover photo: Plant biologist Charles Arntzen harvests vaccine-containing tomatoes grown at a specially designed greenhouse at ASU East. TOPICAL FEATURE TOPICAL FEATURE BATTLING INVISIBLE FOES AMERICA MAY BOAST THE WORLD’S ne of the most frightening poten- host to produce antibodies technology for detecting DNA, RNA and tors when developing a field device,” says tial weapons in the bioterrorist’s against future infection. protein,” explains Hanna. “It’s a core tech- Hanna. GREATEST MILITARY STRENGTH, BUT Oarsenal is smallpox. It is the dead- So far, the vaccine has nology that can be applied to thousands of Hanna originally started her company liest contagious disease known.The main been shown to work in different things.” in 1999 to create early-cancer detection ITS GUNS, MISSILES AND TANKS ARE form of smallpox kills 30 percent of its mice.The next step will be For example, Ribomaker can be used systems, which the company still develops. victims, and some rarer forms are nearly testing in humans. to detect bacteria or viruses. Hanna’s com- She got involved with bioterrorism almost COMPLETELY POWERLESS AGAINST always fatal. “We’ve told NIH that pany has received a grant from the National by accident. Although widespread vaccination we will have material avail- Institute for Allergies and Infectious Dis- “I gave a talk at the Arizona Bioindus- ONE POTENTIAL THREAT—GERMS. efforts eradicated this disease from natural able for clinical trials in a eases to assess viral loads. Hanna will try Expo at Motorola and someone there existence, government officials worry that year and a half,” Jacobs collaborate with Jacobs in this study to heard me speak about what we were do- SINCE SEPT. 11, 2001, AND THE samples from laboratory stocks might have reports. “We did all of our assess his smallpox vaccine and to tweak ing,” Hanna recalls.“That person passed on fallen into the wrong hands. If released, old experiments with a the smallpox-detection process. the information to someone in the govern- ANTHRAX ATTACKS THAT OCTOBER, the disease could have devastating effects strain of virus adapted to Here is where Jacobs’ knowledge of ment who then contacted me for specifics. on an unprotected population. cause disease in mice.We’ve smallpox genetics comes in handy. He He immediately flew out and then found THE UNITED STATES HAS HAD TO The U.S. government has started got to take a strain that knows how to prevent terrorists from suc- seed money for my company.We didn’t vaccinating military personnel and some could be used in humans cessfully mutating the disease to escape compete with anybody—it was a really PREPARE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF medical professionals against smallpox in and engineer our mutant detection. unusual way of getting money.” case of such a threat. However, the vaccine strains for that.” “If you make a detector that targets a Hanna’s experience may reflect the FUTURE TERRORIST ACTS INVOLVING itself is risky, occasionally causing illness or Once fully developed, particular gene, a terrorist might try to urgency with which the federal govern- even death.
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