ASU urban climatologist reveals hottest and coolest spots on Tempe campus
Urban climatologists Ariane Middel (senior sustainability scientist and assistant professor with two schools at Arizona State University) and Scott Krayenhoff did a three-year study of the Tempe campus, mapping out
Meet affiliated faculty Carola Grebitus
Read on for an interview with Carola Grebitus associate professor of food industry management at the Morrison School of Agribusiness in the W. P. Carey School of Business.
Changemakers for Sustainability Series: Gender, tech and transformation
On June 11, the WE Empower UN SDG Challenge group held the second Changemakers for Sustainability Event Series — a luncheon and panel with a gender and technology focus —
When roundworms lose, carbon emissions rise
Soil food webs play a key role in supporting grassland ecosystems, which cover about one-quarter of the land on Earth. Climate change poses a threat to these environments, partly because
Sustainability alumnus to receive Construction Management Association of America scholarship
Curt Truman, a 2016 alumnus of Arizona State University's Master of Sustainability Solutions, has been selected to receive the 2019 CMAA Graduate Student Scholarship Award from the Construction Management Association
Pervasive polymers of the deep blue sea
Researchers at Arizona State University are finding a particularly pervasive problem with the microplastics that originate from human everyday use. Senior Sustainability Scientist Rolf Halden, director of the Biodesign Center
Plastic, friend or foe?
ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Faculty Affiliate Rolf Halden’s work on microplastics pollution in oceans was recently featured in an ASU Now article titled “Pervasive polymers of the deep blue sea.”
NSF grant boosts student-driven ecological research
Arizona State University Professors Heather Throop and Osvaldo Sala have been awarded an International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) grant from The National Science Foundation of approximately $294,000. The grant,
Refugees in Uganda learn agribusiness online
A group of 30 people are the first to take the online Agribusiness 250 course through Education for Humanity, an ASU initiative that is offering higher education to refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Uganda and Rwanda.
Meet affiliated faculty Lauren Chenarides
Read on for an interview with Lauren Chenarides, assistant professor at the Morrison School of Agribusiness in the W. P. Carey School of Busines
Meet sustainability alumna Samantha Zah
With a growing number of sustainability programs out there, how do you choose? Samantha Zah, a spring 2019 graduate of the Master of Sustainability Solutions (MSUS) at Arizona State University,
WE Empower Challenge awardee visits Hawai'i to present and collaborate
Marine biologist and engineer Shimrit Perkol-Finkel was in Hawaii May 28-June 2 en route to the Women Deliver conference in Vancouver, where Amanda Ellis and Perkol-Finkel are both speaking on