Zero greenhouse gas emissions earns ASU the AASHE Platinum rating
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Zero greenhouse gas emissions earns ASU the AASHE Platinum rating
Thirteen years ago, Arizona State University made the pioneering promise to completely eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from its campus operations by the year 2025. But on June 30, 2019, the
Middel receives CAREER for work in heat mitigation
Sustainability scientist Ariane Middel has been awarded an NSF CAREER to look at heat from a human perspective, using an innovative mobile sensor called "MaRTy," pictured.
The new normal: Salon, Kuby call for survey responses
To help government agencies and communities recover faster from COVID-19 and become more resilient to the next adverse event, results of this study will be shared widely.
Public Interest Technology University Network announces Year 2 Challenge
The PIT-UN Challenge will prioritize projects that further the positive social impact of technology for all communities. Centering community needs may be demonstrated by incorporating community partners in the design and execution of proposed projects. Apply by July 16.
Wutich to be panelist on NYAS COVID-19 and Anthropology webinar
Sustainability scientist Amber Wutich will join the New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology Section as a panelist for a webinar focused on our current pandemic (COVID-19), contextualizing the global comparative,
ASU's CBIE launches new webinar series
A new webinar panel series entitled Don’t Waste the COVID-19 Crisis: Reflections on Resilience and the Commons Revealed by COVID-19, kicks off on April 20 with an event featuring sustainability
Envisioning the Future story contest
ASU’s Narrative Storytelling Initiative, in collaboration with the Global Futures Laboratory, has extended the deadline to May 19 for the “Envisioning the Future” story contest. Winning entries earn cash prizes.
Free on-demand grantsmanship training for ASU researchers
Learn from Meg Bouvier, whose courses have provided foundational NIH grantsmanship training to ASU researchers, faculty, post-docs, graduate students, and administrators for over four years.
Fulbright Scholar Information Sessions April 15 and 23
If you are considering applying this year or in the future, you can learn more about the Fulbright Scholars program, important strategies for applying and ASU resources available to support your Fulbright goals.
Watch Live: 2020 National Academy of Sciences Awards Ceremony
The 2020 NAS Awards will be webcast live on Sunday, April 26, beginning at 1:30 p.m. Arizona time. Among the winners is sustainability scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton, recipient of the Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship.
Celebrate ASU Earth Month while social distancing
The coronavirus pandemic may have upended life as we know it, but there are a few things that haven’t changed, like the fact that it’s currently Earth Month at Arizona
COVID-19 linked to environmental degradation
Leah Gerber recommends solutions to combat future infectious diseases and predicts that if we do not enforce action to alleviate environmental degradation, pandemics will occur more frequently around the globe.