Global Futures Scientists and Scholars

Leading with Empathy in Science Communication

How empathy can help STEMM professionals communicate complex ideas clearly and meaningfully in divided times. Gain tangible tools for connecting science to everyday experiences, communicating with compassion, and inspiring understanding in diverse audiences.

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It's All Connected: Ten Critical Issues. Ten Perspectives. One Valley

Vanos, Reiter, Porter and other distinguished local thought leaders will address key questions, examine the interrelationships among these issues, and identify priorities essential to guiding regional decision-making.

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.

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Futures Literacy and The Matrix: Envisioning Liberated Futures

This November 14 Storying Just Futures event was sponsored by Create the Change and led by Joni Adamson. Participants reflected on how the films’ core philosophical questions—about reality, choice, and resistance—can deepen our futures literacy and help us critically examine the rise of AI data centers shaping our world today.

Create the Change: A comprehensive approach to human sciences leadership in sustainability science

Sally Kitch is principal investigator on this project, which mobilizes the social sciences and humanities together with sustainability science to address the complexities of securing a healthy planet in which thriving, equitable human societies are aligned with Earth’s biosystems.

LEAPS lab celebrates 10 years

With more than 100 partners, 200 locations, and 300 student changemakers, LEAPS has secured $332M in public and private financing and enabled the deployment 161 MW of reliable energy, benefiting 100,000 people and their local economies.

Arianne Cease receives Mid-Career Advancement award from NSF

The award will support Cease and collaborators as they build models to improve predictions of migratory locust swarms. These models will support faster and more targeted responses to locust plagues, reducing pesticide use and improving food security.

Celebrating One Year of Publishing in Cambridge Prisms: Drylands

Osvaldo Sala is editor-in-chief of Cambridge Prisms: Drylands, which marked its first anniversary in October. The journal has brought together research from across disciplines to explore the world’s drylands, which are critical, complex, and increasingly under pressure.