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Faculty and students from ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will help give the gift of hearing to people in Malawi, Africa, this summer, with the help of the “AZ Walk to Silence Tinnitus” 5K sponsored by the American Tinnitus Association on March 24.

In a time when the film industry is rapidly evolving, the School of Theatre and Film in ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts seeks to provide future generations with the knowledge to create a better world via the arts by bringing Hollywood directly to the classroom.

While the Bible is available in many translations and special editions today – Bibles for teens, surfers, women, etc. – The King James Bible, which was first published 400 years ago, endures, and still impacts our culture today.

Poets such as Emily Dickinson alluded to the Bible in their verse:

Separating the world into “in” groups and “out” groups is a long held trait of humans and other species on Earth. It has evolved along with the life forms that harbor it.

Is the reason for xenophobia a competition for resources? Is it based on deep-seated survival instincts? Is it in our genes? Has the time come to change it?

All of these questions will be addressed by ASU’s Origins Project in two public events that will explore “Xenophobia, why do we fear others?” on March 30 and 31.

Achieving carbon neutrality on American college and university campuses is not a matter for science alone. It has to be taught. And, in dealing with budget reductions coupled with enrollment growth, college and university presidents have learned that sustainability is also a good business model.

Renowned NASA astronaut Catherine "Cady" Coleman spoke to students during the 2012 TEDx event at Barrett Honors College. Coleman shared her experiences onboard the International Space Station and explained how the research conducted in space has a number of impacts on Earth.

The legal and policy structures necessary to foster solar energy development in the Southwest and propel Arizona to national prominence in the field is the focus of a conference to be hosted March 26-27 by the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.

Kenneth H. Buetow, a human geneticist and former director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology at the National Cancer Institute, is joining Arizona State University as director of Computational Sciences and Informatics in the Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative.

An opportunity to view the rare alignment of Jupiter and Venus will be the main attraction as the annual Astronomy Open House returns to Arizona State University’s West campus, 4701 W. Thunderbird Road, on March 15.

ASU film students Ryan Steiner and Chris Meyers took the top two places in the Fan Favorite category in the national SeeFlik online short film competition.