ASU's Week in Pictures
Dymon Simon, returning to the hardwood after sitting out a season to recover from her second major knee injury, drives the lane en route to lead the Sun Devils to an 81-46 victory over the NAU Lumberjacks in Wells Fargo Arena.
The late afternoon sun lights up the student section of Sun Devil Stadium as fans await the start of the Stanford-ASU football game.
The Sun Devil Marching Band takes to field to start the pre-game festivities.
Quarterback Steven Threet celebrates the first ASU touchdown to even the score with Stanford, 7-7, in the first quarter.
Arizona State wide receiver Gerell Robinson (8) pushes ahead for extra yardage.
Derrick Rodgers (center), a teammate of Pat Tillman, accepted the Tillman’s National Football Foundation Hall of Fame plaque from officials during a halftime ceremony. Tillman will be formally inducted into the NFF Hall of Fame in a December ceremony in New York City. Tillman was a standout defensive player for ASU and the Arizona Cardinals who left the NFL to join the Army. He was killed in combat in Afganistan in 2004.
Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck fumbles the ball as he is tackled by ASU’s Oliver Aaron (18). Number 7 ranked Stanford managed to hold on and defeat the Sun Devils 17-13. ASU will host UCLA on Nov. 26 with a 1:30 MT kickoff.
Dance students rehearse a piece choreographed by graduate student Britta Joy Peterson, in collaboration with the dancers, in preparation for Grad Project Presentations, which will be performed Nov. 17-18. The presentations will take place at the Margaret Gisolo Dance Studio in Physical Education East building on the Tempe campus.
Britta Peterson watches the dancers rehearse her dance composition titled “(dis) Connected.”
Diane Sawyer prepares for the broadcast of ABC's "World News with Diane Sawyer" from atop the Cronkite Building on the Downtown Phoenix campus Nov. 11. Sawyer was in Phoenix to receive the 2010 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. .
Undergraduate Matthew Underhill uses a Kern Model 44 computer numerically controlled micromilling system. This system is used in the School of Earth and Space Exploration terahertz laboratory to fabricate radio astronomy detectors with dimensions accurate to 1micron, or about 1/100th the diameter of a human hair.
The world's first integrated multi-pixel receiver array for the terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum, designed by School of Earth and Space Exploration assistant professor Christopher Groppi and collaborators at Caltech and the University of Arizona. This receiver array operates from 300-400 GHzin frequency, (more than 3,000 times higher frequency than an FM radio), and combines 8 receiver pixels into a single, integrated unit.
The image on the left is an optical light picture of the famous Horsehead Nebula. The dark horse's head is a cloud of cold gas and dust silhouetted against hot, glowing gas. Newly forming stars and planets are being born inside this dark region, but are undetectable in visible light. The image on the right shows the same region in the terahertz light emitted by the carbon monoxide molecule. In the terahertz, the dark regions glow, allowing astronomers to peer inside. The detectors built in the SESE terahertz lab allow astronomers to study these dark, cold regions to learn about how new worlds are formed.
Images by: NASA (left), School of Earth and Space Exploration (right)
Evelyn Early begins her presentation during one a "Conversations at the Center" event, sponsored by ASU's Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict. Early served as counselor for Press and Cultural Affairs at the American Embassy in Morocco. Along with her career in the diplomatic service, Early is also an author of two books on the Middle East.
Students with the Center for Student Sustainability Initiatives sort recycling on Hayden Lawn, gathered from around the Tempe campus. They hope to supply data to the university about what is being thrown into the recycling containers and raise awareness about recycling. The event was part of an eight-day initiative to encourage students to live greener.
ASU scientist Jane Maienschein has been named the 2010 Arizona Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Read more.
Prize-winning poet, educator and translator Heather McHugh signed books and greeted fans following her poetry reading at ASU's Memorial Union. She also discussed her work in a Public Craft Q&A at the Piper Writers House, as part of the Distinguished Visiting Writing Series sponsored by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.