Composer Tom Peterson is not very interested in music that balances consonance and dissonance. He likes conflict in his compositions, and in one piece even asked his musicians to "play what makes you angry." (part 3 of 3) --by Sheilah Britton

Megan McGinnity has has studied child slavery in Ghana. She has examined how former child soldiers are being reintegrated into society in Rwanda. And she has studied the sex trade in Thailand, Singapore and Cambodia. The ASU honors student says that seeing these problems through the lens of economics helps explain peoples' incentives. She hopes that changing the incentive structure can help solve these and other daunting problems of human trafficking. (part 2 of 3) --by Sheilah Britton

Meet Sharon Cini, an ASU student who has worked with the Senate committee on Indian affairs studying health care, law enforcement and sexual assault in Indian country. Cini is one of a rapidly growing group of undergraduates getting hands-on research experience in their fields. Read about Cini and other student researchers in this three-part series. --by Sheilah Britton

Most people assume that landscape photographs are about rocks or trees or space. For Mark Klett, the real meaning of landscape photography concerns our essential connection to place, to each other, and, most important, to time. --by Adelheid Fischer