ASU professor’s Mexico research garners local award for Latina/o achievement

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ASU professor’s Mexico research garners local award for Latina/o achievement

ASU Now Maria Cruz-Torres, a senior sustainability scientist and an associate professor in the School of Transborder Studies, has been documenting a lesser-seen side of Sinaloa’s prized seafood industry — its female

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Interview with food systems activist Raj Patel

After sustainable food activist Raj Patel delivered a Wrigley Lecture in November, we conducted a follow-up interview, which covered topics ranging from the need for collective action to what Patel wishes the media would report on in regards to our food system.

Sustainability scientist Nancy Grimm wins fellowship

Senior Sustainability Scientist Nancy Grimm, the Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Ecology in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, was named a 2019 Fellow of the Society

Conducting research: Exploring charge flow through proteins

In a new study, distinguished sustainability scientist Stuart Lindsay and his colleagues at Arizona State University explore a surprising property of proteins — one that has only recently come to

Sustainability scientists win solar cell research awards

Arizona State University recently earned six prestigious Department of Energy awards, totaling nearly $5.7 million, ranking it first among university recipients of Solar Energy Technologies Office awards to advance photovoltaic

Acoustic Ecology Lab highlighted by Arizona PBS

The Acoustic Ecology Lab at Arizona State University was recently featured in an episode of “Catalyst” by Arizona PBS. The episode focused on the work of Senior Sustainability Scholar Sabine

You will return home

A Thought Leader Series essay by Jack Kittinger of Conservation International reflects on the importance of home in taking action to persistently protect what we love. "When I think about the pressures we are ratcheting up on our blue planet, I think about my home," wrote Kittinger, a professor of practice in ASU’s Center for Biodiversity Outcomes.

100 years of Grand Canyon National Park

One hundred years ago, on February 26, 1919, the Grand Canyon was established as a U.S. national park. To celebrate the park's 100-year anniversary, ASU Now interviewed several Arizona State

ASU and Oakland A's launch sustainability partnership at Hohokam Stadium

The Oakland Athletics and Arizona State University's School of Sustainability announced a partnership to help Hohokam Stadium maximize sustainability efforts and move toward zero waste during the 2019 spring training

Changing the world through better phosphorus management

Greener fields and bluer waters are in the cards thanks to a new project in development by the Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance at Arizona State University. Slated to launch in April, the Phosphorus Sustainability Challenge will encourage organizations to publicly commit to reducing their phosphorus footprint.

ASU tackles range of issues at world’s largest annual science meeting

From the rise of artificial intelligence to the future of water, Arizona State University faculty and students discussed a slew of science topics at the annual meeting of the American

Confronting grand social challenges with humanities

Regents' Professor Sally Kitch launched the ASU Humanities Lab in 2017 to engage students of all disciplines with real-world problems. Kitch, a distinguished sustainability scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley