An international team featuring researchers from ASU's School of Life Sciences has determined how bees immunize their offspring against specific diseases - a discovery that could play an important role in helping to combat colony collapse disorder and improve global food security.

CBO is please to congratulate Helen Rowe on her new position as Director for the McDowell Sonoran Field Institute (MSFI). MSFI is the research center of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy

School of Sustainability professor Sonja Klinsky recently returned from a United Nations meeting in Bonn, Germany, where she helped fine-tune a draft of a global climate pact. Klinsky discusses what occurred at that meeting and the goals of the pact in this interview on Arizona Horizon.

In response to the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, the National Science Foundation has awarded a transdisciplinary team of ASU scientists and their international sustainability research network $12 million to produce a suite of tools that support resilient, culturally appropriate and safe-to-fail urban infrastructure.

In this guest piece, Decision Center for a Desert City outreach coordinator Katie Peige shares the features of her sustainability-themed wedding to fellow School of Sustainability graduate Brad Baker, including second-hand dining ware, glasses crafted from old wine bottles and a zero waste goal that landed backyard chickens with the reception's leftovers.

For his lasting contribution to conservation through decades of research on the behavioral ecology of mammals, the effects of habitat fragmentation and the ecosystem services provided by small mammals, ASU professor Andrew Smith was presented the Aldo Leopold Award by the American Society of Mammalogists.

A recent article in Fortune magazine, titled "Phoenix's $13 million plan to turn trash into cash," highlighted the Resource Innovation and Solutions Network - established by the City of Phoenix's Reimagine Phoenix initiative and ASU's Walton Initiatives to create economic value while driving a sustainable circular economy.

EMSL graduate Tim Trefzer is recognized with an EBie Award from the US Green Building Council in NYC for his work in greening the Georgia World Congress Center - now the world's largest

ASU and Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany - institutions with a history of successful research partnership - are pioneering a path in international academic cooperation through the new Center for Global Sustainability and Cultural Transformation, founded in part by sustainability scientists.

In this month's Q&A, Bruce Rittmann - Director of the Biodesign Institute's Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology - provides a glimpse into the fascinating world of microorganisms and the numerous services they can provide to humans and our environment.

Two of our FSTI affiliates - Jennifer Hodbod and Hallie Eakin - have published a new paper in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 'Adapting a social-ecological resilience framework for food systems'  addresses the purpose of applying social-ecological resilience thinking to food systems before going on to distinguish between the resilience of food systems and broader conceptualizations of resilience in social-ecological systems.

When you think about light, what comes to mind? Do you think of a campfire in a dark forest, stars from a galaxy far away, or the neon sign across