Project Humanities launches new podcast club

Next discussion: June 18. “Talking, Listening and Podcasting with ASU Project Humanities” is a new series that invites individuals to experience a podcast independently, then come together to talk about and learn from it.

Sustainability scientist Craig Calhoun draws parallels between recent racial justice protests in the United States and 1989 protests for democratic freedoms in Tiananmen Square, China.

Medium In the latest thought leader piece from the Global Futures Laboratory, "Societies in Conflict," Craig Calhoun — University Professor of Social Sciences in the School of Sustainability — draws

President Crow called on the university's academic communities to outline new efforts, new concepts, and new strategies to devise new models for protecting and defending the rights of individuals.

A new paper from Center for Biodiversity Outcomes and The Nature Conservancy finds that FEMA flood hazard maps underpredicted the extent of hurricane-induced floods; findings could improve community planning for greater resiliency.

Scientists at ASU's Biodesign Institute have developed Arizona’s first saliva-based test for COVID-19 to make testing easier and more accessible.

The team won the Campus Rainworks Challenge for their work with the K-8 Paideia Academy in south Phoenix to address environmental justice and equity in health and education through green infrastructure interventions.

Actual World, Possible Future explores the lives and work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, who sought to address the enormous problems that plague human societies: climate change, endangered species, ocean pollution, deforestation.

ASU's Narrative Storytelling Initiative launched its latest venture to explore the power of transformative experiences in an online magazine called Transformations, which features powerful, personal essays.

Collins, an evolutionary ecologist, was chosen for his studies of the role of host-pathogen interactions in species decline and extinction. The American Academy of Arts and Scienceswas formed in 1780 by John Adams, John Hancock and other leaders of the time.

Join President Michael Crow and the presidents of Purdue and University of Washington for a virtual town hall discussion hosted by the National Academies and Issues in Science and Technology.

Scientists from the Urban Systems Lab, part of The New School located in New York City, is calling for survey responses in their study of public parks, open spaces and COVID-19.