News & Events
- Human Uniqueness and Behavioral Modernity Workshop
The Origins Project, in cooperation with the Institute of Human Origins and the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, are bringing together a small group of key scientists spanning a broad range of disciplines to explore human uniqueness Feb. 19-22
- What is space?
Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek will give the 2010 Beyond Annual Lecture on January 21 at 7:30 pm in Neeb Hall
- Unsolved Problems of Gravity
The ASU Origins project and the Beyond Center are co-hosting a workshop to address unsolved problems of gravity
- Origins of Human Uniqeness Speaker Series
The speaker series is designed to explore the emergence of human characteristics that have led Homo sapiens to become a spectacular anomaly among living organisims
- Exchanges at the Frontier
The Wellcome Collection joins forces with the BBC World Service to host some of the biggest names in world science
- Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Press Release
- Nature article on The late Precambrian greening of the Earth
New Results on Cambrian Explosion and Oxygenation of the Earth
- Origins Initiative News Coverage
Coverage of the 2009 Origins Symposium
- Video Archive
The Origins Symposium
April 3-6, 2009
- More Video Archive
The Science Network: The Origins Symposium
April 3-6, 2009
- Origins Symposium Photo Gallery from the Edge
Edge.org is featuring images from the Origins Symposium
- Origins Symposium
April 3-6, 2009
The Origins Symposium inaugurates the new Origins Initiative at ASU. We will assemble in one place a group containing the most well known scientific public intellectuals in the world including Stephen Hawking, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Craig Venter, Lawrence Krauss, Brian Greene and Donald C. Johanson
- Origins Symposium Poster download
PDF format version of the Origins Symposium Poster (11in x 17in)
- 2009 Origins Symposium Main page
Detailed information regarding the 2009 Origins Symposium.
- Origins and Symposium Brochure
Welcome notes and Speaker Information.
- ASU cosmologist explores notion of ‘alien’ life on Earth
- 2009 Beyond Annual Lecture: Daniel Dennett
February 18, 2009
- ASU Darwinfest/Origins minisymposium
February 12, 2009
The discussion will focus on Paradigm Shifts in Science and the Origin and Evolution of Novel Approaches in Science and Medicine.
- ‘The Superorganism’ national book launch to feature authors and adventures
What makes these insect collectives tick? That question has held ASU Professor Bert Hölldobler and Harvard University Professor Emeritus E. O. Wilson entranced for nearly a half a century.
- Wired Science Reports Live From World’s Largest Popular Science Conference
Wired Science February 12, 2009
- Krauss lectures at Unesco Inaugural event for International Year of Astronomy
Jan 19, 2009
- Krauss encourages sensible nuclear strategy
January 13, 2009
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