Items Tagged ‘Arizona State University’
February 6, 2012
Phoenix growth in health and education jobs among fastest in nation
The Phoenix metro area has posted the nation’s second-highest rate of job growth in the private education and health services sector since the end of the recession, according to a new report…As for the growth in Phoenix’s health services, jobs have increased in recent years as the sector played catch-up to the area’s population growth, […]
Tags: Arizona State University, job growth, Lee MePheters, Phoenix, University of Arizona, W. P. Carey School of Business
January 25, 2012
ASU’s Downtown Treadmill Desks Help Students and Staff Take Healthy Steps
With the treadmill stopped, Rick Hall straddled the platform and increased the speed on the control panel. As the belt started moving, Hall, a senior lecturer at Arizona State University’s School of Nutrition and Health Promotion, placed his leather slip-on shoes onto the slow-paced treadmill … The treadmill desk was created by Dr. James Levine, […]
Tags: Arizona State University, Dr. James Levine, Rick Hall, treadmill desk
March 25, 2010
Research helping improve cancer treatment
The University and doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale are joining forces to develop new technologies to help combat cancer… The Biodesign Institute on the Tempe campus began collaborating with the Mayo Clinic in February 2007 to create a vaccine that would stop the development of breast cancer at a cellular level. […]