Predicting emerging infectious pathogens from animals: the 2025 Arntzen Grand Challenges lecture

Join November 20 as ASU's Biodesign Institute welcomes Dr. Barbara Han, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, as their featured speaker. Han will examine how researchers are integrating ecology, virology and artificial intelligence to help pinpoint where and when future threats might emerge.

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2025 Sustainable Cities Network Feedback Survey

Please submit your faculty input to SCN's 2025 Feedback Survey. Your input will inform strategic planning for the upcoming years.

A few highlights from PwC’s Innovation Exchange 2025

Dr. George Poste, ASU Regents Professor and Del E. Webb Chair in Health Innovation, session at the PwC’s Innovation Exchange 2025 on October 23, 2025. Inspiring dialogue with Dr. George

Defining Ultra-Processed Foods: A Collaborative Response to the USDA and FDA

The Swette Center joined forces last week with the Heartland Health Research Alliance and several food and nutrition experts. Together, we responded to a request for information from the USDA and FDA on how to identify ultra-processed foods (UPFs).

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Applicant Webinar: Climate Smart Communities Initiative Grants

Attend November 13 to learn more about the 2026 grants competition, which provides funding and technical assistance to advance community-based climate resilience in communities or regions that are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

A Guiding Framework for Biodiversity Indicator Selection

PhD student Alice Sansonetti presented at the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS-NY 2025), organized by the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (Center for Biodiversity & Conservation | AMNH) this

AI, Cooperation and the Future of Work: Research Ideation Lunch and Apocalypse Pop-Up Café

Will AI be an apocalypse—or an opportunity for unprecedented cooperation between humans and machines? Join November 17 for an interactive session led by Athena Aktipis.

Leading Futurist Discusses the Past, Present and Future of Futures

On October 23, Marina Gorbis of Institute for the Futures spent an hour in conversation with ASU students, staff and faculty discussing her views on how to do futures work, how to understand the relationship between emerging technologies and social change, and how we might prepare students and organizations for the future.

Presenting the 2025 ASU graduate cohort transforming food systems

We are thrilled to introduce Arizona State University’s 2025 cohort in the Food Policy & Sustainability Leadership graduate certificate program and Sustainable Food Systems MS program.

The Future of Collaborative Research at ASU: Insights and Strategies from The Science and Practice of Team Science

Watch the recording of this October 2025 event featuring ASU experts in Team Science Chiou and Cooke, and Principled Innovation Infrastructure fellow Feeney.

Highlights from Dr. Poste's lunch keynote the ASU National Diagnostics Summit (Oct 15, 2025)

Dr. George Poste joined top experts at Arizona State University’s College of Health Solutions for an in-depth discussion on the science, technology, and business of diagnostics. In his keynote, “Diagnostics

Living With Injury

Join November 14th for the 40th anniversary of journalist Jane Kay’s groundbreaking Arizona Daily Star investigation that exposed the pollution, Living With Injury commemorates both the harm caused by environmental racism and the community’s resilience.