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.

Biodesign C shines in copper awards

Traveling down Rural Road next to Arizona State University’s Tempe campus, it’s impossible to ignore the shiny copper façade of the Biodesign Institute Building C.  The building earns accolades as

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.

Wednesdays from Washington: Talking science with Dr. Mike Stebbins

In early March, our Arizona State University (ASU) Food Policy cohort met in person for the second time. This time, we convened in Washington, DC to meet with members of various organizations active in the food policy sector. Our week in Washington, DC included visits to the United States Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, just to name a few. We also had individuals engaged in public policy meet with us at ASU’s Barrett & O’Connor Washington Center to share their insight and expertise. One of these individuals was Michael Stebbins, PhD.

Open research position in entomology and ecology at the USDA-ARS in Sidney, MT

The Global Locust Initiative would like to pass along this job opportunity with the United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service: The USDA-ARS is seeking a permanent, full-time

Athena Aktipis

Cancer gets a bad rap: Cell meets song when rap musician and cancer scientist connect to create new music video

When it comes to helping understand cancer, Athena Aktipis wants to get her point across – not just to other researchers, but to anyone who will listen. A cancer researcher

Two short films explore sustainable food and water harvesting

Two new short films Holding on to the Corn and Plant the Rain, produced by students in the School of Sustainability and Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Now emerging from a sustainable business incubator: “Together We Brew”

From his experiences in the beverage business, Master of Sustainability Solutions student Nicholas Shivka was painfully aware of how hard it is for local businesses to compete with the global

Virtual showcase recap, spring 2020

On April 29, 2020, ASU Project Cities hosted our first-ever entirely virtual Student Showcase for the Spring 2020 semester. Over one hundred attendees appeared on Zoom throughout the day to

Chickens in chicken house poking their heads out of their cages

Memories of home

Genes are more than blueprints for building organisms. They are also vessels of memory. In new research published in Science Advances, Wei Chin Ho, a researcher in the Biodesign Center for Mechanisms

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.