Global Futures Scientists and Scholars

Career Exploration Day

ASU students are invited to join the Rob Walton College of Global Futures on November 19 for the third annual Career Exploration Day: Discover Careers with Purpose and Impact.

28th Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium

Registration and poster abstract submissions are now open. This year’s keynote speaker will be Dr. Rodrigo Vargas, Professor, School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University.

Coffee Chat with the Office of Research Development and Strategy

Come spill the tea on your most pressing research and funding questions or ideas... or just stop by to say Hi!

Principled Innovation and NAM AI Code of Conduct Share Moral Architecture

SFIS assistant professor Beza Merid hosted NAM's Laura Adams to discuss what Principled Innovation and NAM's new Code of Conduct have in common.

Scholarly Impact on a Shoestring: Writing High-Value Review Papers

Barry Bozeman's review articles are among his most highly cited works. In this session, he shared hard-won insights from decades of experience.

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.

A wide aerial view of downtown Phoenix, Arizona, with tall office buildings clustered at the center, surrounded by sprawling neighborhoods and streets. In the background, layers of desert mountains rise against a hazy sky.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.