LASER Talks in Tempe: Exploring STEM Through Movement

Learn how movement-based approaches can expand how we teach, understand, and emotionally connect with STEM topics and environmental challenges. Speakers are Dr. Lekelia "Kiki" Jenkins and Jennifer Light, this talk is being moderated by Emily Davis. Join this Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) Talk on Oct. 8 through Zoom at 10 AM.

Designing Science Policy Futures: CSPO GFL Workshop

Designing Science Policy Futures: American Science@250 and CSPO's Vision for Science, Policy, and Public Engagement, this workshop will provide updates on CSPO’s science policy projects and insights on how science policy is changing in the United States as pathways are redesigned to connect research to societal outcomes. Join Oct. 15 at 3 PM. Register by Oct. 9.

Introducing ACES LIFT Challenge

Launching Investment for Future Transformation - LIFT - is a free global competition where students can propose blended finance and impact investing solutions to real-world sustainability challenges aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is hosted by the Ackerman Center for Excellence in Sustainability (ACES) at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. LIFT is also looking for coaches and judges.

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ASU Mining Innovation Seminar Series - September Seminar

Join School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Monthly Seminar Series: Mining Innovation, on Sept. 25, 11 AM - 12:45 PM, in-person or through zoom - lunch will be served. The Future in Mining Education with Dr. Brad Ross. Recovering Valuable Metals using Microbially Mediated Precipitation with Dr. Bruce Rittmann. RSVP required.

Event: SOLS Seminar

Please join us for the weekly School of Life Sciences Seminar Series. This week, Leah Gerber will discuss her work with ASU’s Center for Biodiversity Outcomes and the Conservation Innovation Lab.

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Call for Experts: Standing Committee on the Use of AI in Science

The National Academies is seeking suggestions for experts to serve on a new standing committee examining the use of AI in science. The committee will explore research integrity and reproducibility, transparency and trustworthiness, authorship and accountability, peer review, and governance mechanisms that support trustworthy scientific research. Submit by Sept. 30.

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Open Call for Grants: Humanity AI

Humanity AI is offering $10 million in grants for U.S.-based, community-led projects shaping how AI is governed, built or challenged. Grants range from $75,000 to $1 million for projects addressing education; labor and economy; or humanities, arts and culture. Lead applicants must be U.S.-based 501(c)(3) organizations; individuals may apply through a fiscal sponsor or collaboration. Projects may run up to three years. Apply by Oct. 21

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BioInnovation Institute and Science Prize for Innovation

The BioInnovation Institute and AAAS/Science are seeking early-career researchers who connect fundamental life-science research with commercialization. Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. within the last 10 years. The grand prize includes $25,000, a five-year Science subscription and publication of the winning essay in Science. Apply by Nov. 1.

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DOE Fellowship: Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks

The U.S. Department of Energy is seeking four fellows for a one-year appointment supporting research and program activities in fuel cells, production technologies, systems development and integration, or analysis, codes and standards. These fellows will support the Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office. Deadline not listed.

Artwork featured in Living with Injury exhibition. The work is drawn, with roots spread toward bent hands that are stretching towards the roots.

Artist and Scientist Collaboration Brings Environmental Research to Life

Denise Moreno Ramírez, Assistant Director of The Earth League Secretariat at ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, has brought her environmental justice research into a museum setting through Living with Injury, an exhibition at MOCA Tucson. Her oral histories of Tucson residents affected by TCE contamination are presented alongside artwork, video and community history, creating a different way to engage audiences with environmental research.

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McGowan and Gerber contribute to Nature Positive Oceans report

Jennifer McGowan and Leah Gerber are contributors on new publication in World Wildlife Fund. Their report: Monitoring, Measuring, and Tracking Progress Towards Nature Positive for the Ocean, offers guidance for companies on how those recommended nature-positive ocean pathways can be measured, monitored and adapted over time.

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Join Anthropocene public show before UNESCO in Paris

Tickets available now to see Anthropocene, a multiyear climate crisis performance project developed at ASU. Anthropocene has been invited to UNESCO Climate Summit in Paris. Watch on Sept. 15 & 16 in Tempe, before the show is taken to the summit.