Questions abound about whether the scientist who created the first gene edited human beings took shortcuts in the ethical oversight process. But pedantically focusing on protocol misses the point.
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Arizona State University (commonly referred to as ASU or Arizona State) is a national space-grant institution and public metropolitan research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the U.S. state of Arizona. It is the largest public university in the United States by enrollment.
Founded in 1885 as the Tempe Normal School for the Arizona Territory, the school came under control of the Arizona Board of Regents in 1945 and was renamed Arizona State College. A 1958 statewide ballot measure gave the university its present name.
In 1994 ASU was classified as a Research I institute; thus, making Arizona State one of the newest major research universities (public or private) in the nation. Arizona State’s mission is to create a model of the “New American University” whose efficacy is measured “by those it includes and how they succeed, not by those it excludes”.
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Rising seas and groundwater depletion, both driven by climate change, are making soils saltier in many parts of the world. Farmers will need help adapting, especially in developing countries.
Years of research into how humans work best together yield lessons useful for designing robots to interact with people.
Ninety percent of psychology studies come from countries representing less than 15 percent of the world's population. Researchers are realizing that universalizing those findings might not make sense.
As fictional inventors make terrible choices on the big screen, real-world tech innovators can learn from their example how not to make the same kinds of ethical mistakes.
Evangelist Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network has launched the first Christian 24-hour TV channel. History shows that missionary media has played a key role in providing information from around the world.
Two accomplished women are running against each other to replace Sen. Jeff Flake.
Bombs have long been a tool for devotees of the range of fringe American political thought. From anarchists to racists, their methods have wrought havoc – but also have created backlash.
Infrastructure systems – roads, water treatment systems, power grid – can't be built the same ways as in the past. What's a better roadmap for the future?
How should the US spend limited funds for conserving endangered species? A new data tool lets managers compare different strategies so they can allocate money to protect the most species.
Only a small fraction of the data from archaeological fieldwork is made accessible to the public or preserved for future research.
American spending on pets is more than the combined GDP of the 39 poorest countries in the world. What if even a small percentage of this spending was allocated to reducing suffering, asks a philosopher.
The testimony of Christine Blasey Ford in the Kavanaugh nomination hearings showed what happens when abuse survivors enter systems that are not designed to respond to their words or meet their needs.
Undergraduate statistics degrees have tripled in the past decade. Is 'statistician' really the sexy new job?
Searching a smartphone is different from searching luggage. Our smartphones carry our innermost thoughts, intimate pictures, sensitive workplace documents and private messages.
Progress has been made toward gender parity in science fields. But explicit and implicit barriers still hold women back from advancing in the same numbers as men to the upper reaches of STEM academia.
Whether the sins of our past stay with us forever has become a pertinent question of our time. A philosopher argues we don't need to carry our past burdens – although there are some moral conditions.
The Left’s Gift to Nixon.
1968 is often remembered as a time when protest galvanized the left. But it was also the year that Richard Nixon won the White House — which Republicans would control for most of the next two decades.
From Thomas Jefferson to Donald Trump, the idea of the little guy ignored by politicians has loomed large in American political rhetoric.
Contentious or politically driven Supreme Court nominations are not new. But US history shows that many of those contested nominees who were confirmed would go on to author controversial opinions.
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Director, Risk Innovation Lab, Arizona State University
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President's Professor and Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University
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Professor and Associate Director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change , Arizona State University
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Senior Lecturer at the School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
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Director of Undergraduate Studies & Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Arizona State University
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Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Arizona State University
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Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
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Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
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Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Sciences and Director, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, Arizona State University
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Professor of Human Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network, Arizona State University
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Faculty Affiliate, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Arizona State University
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Assistant Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
