Global Futures Scientists and Scholars

Cheng, team win EPA award for green infrastructure project

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.

Ostrom documentary: Actual World, Possible Future

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.

New online magazine 'Transformations' explores role of change

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 elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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.

5/27: COVID-19 and the Mission of the U.S. Public University

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.

UREx partner calls for survey responses

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.

New videos available: CBIE webinar series

A webinar panel series reflecting on resilience and the commons as revealed by COVID-19 has been organized by sustainability scientists Marco Janssen, Marty Anderies, and Mike Schoon can be viewed on the IASC Youtube channel.

Vegetation shifts can outweigh climate change in desert rangelands

Grasslands across the globe, which support the majority of the world’s grazing animals, have been transitioning to shrub lands in a process that scientists call “woody plant encroachment.” Managed grazing

KE hosts Return to Campus conversation

A recording and slides of this May 18 presentation by Tamara Deuser are available to KE employees at asu.edu/keep. Resources for the broader research community will be made available soon.

ASU publishes COVID-19 data website

ASU researchers have published user-friendly graphs and visualizations of the spread of the virus, as well as a model projecting healthcare demand in Arizona.

Byck documentary series Carbon Cowboys hits the web

In his series, Byck details the farming technique known as regenerative grazing, which involves quickly rotating cattle from pasture to pasture, before they can damage the land.

How will Americans commute after this?

Deborah Salon's early results were shared, along with several other studies, in a May article published by CityLab entitled How Will Americans Commute After Lockdowns End?