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Four ASU Students Travel Back in Time Through Archives at a Chicago Library
Instead of spending their spring break on a beach, four ASU students dove deep into a sea of archives at the Newberry Library in Chicago to take their unique research to the next level. Seonaid Valiant, the curator for Latin American Studies at the ASU Library who was a former librarian at Newberry...
ASU at Teotihuacan: Exhibit Highlights Decades of University Research at the Ancient City
The exhibit, which is located in Noble Library until Jan. 30, is an exhibit aiming to honor decades of ASU's work at Teotihuacan, while raising awareness to students that they have access to an incredible amount of information through the University. The collection showcases the significant amount ...
Digging into ASU history at Teotihuacan
The work of ASU archaeologists has been in the spotlight thanks to the Phoenix Art Museum’s current exhibition "Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire" and its related programming. Arizona State University’s presence at Teotihuacan, one of the largest cities in the ancient world and the most visi...
ASU acquires rare book from golden age of Spanish literature
An extremely rare, first-edition copy of a 17th-century literary work by one of the world’s most fascinating female writers has found a home at Arizona State University. The writer is Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (circa 1651-1695), the premiere poet of the Americas, a celebrity in her day and now cons...