CCG Catalyst Consulting, Arizona Bankers Association announce the Arizona Fintech Council
CCG Catalyst Consulting and the Arizona Bankers Association have partnered to create the Arizona Fintech Council to spur economic growth in the state and bring viable and promising fintech companies to Arizona's Fintech Sandbox.
Seeking ASU student applicants for TechCongress program
Informational call Jan. 27. Nominations are open for the TechCongress Congressional Innovation Scholars Program. The program pays an $60,000 annual-equivalent stipend and other benefits. Please nominate students and encourage them to apply by Feb. 5.
Jan 27: Ellis presents on Gender Equality and Governance Index
Sustainability scholar and GFL director of global partnerships Amanda Ellis will present about the Index and other tools for accelerating women’s empowerment and ensuring equal rights.

Feb 18: Black and Indigenous Relations of Doing and Being
Author Tiffany King will present the 2021 Environmental Humanities Initiative Distinguished Lecture, a keynote address of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) Conference.

ASU’s unsung heroes
Workers on one of the front lines of the pandemic keep ASU's campuses safe and running Everything the rest of us have tried to avoid for the past nine months

NASEM seeks experts to advise on US global change research program
The National Academies is seeking approximately 10 new members for a 20-person standing committee. Self-nominations are welcome. Members typically serve 3-year terms with an option to reappoint after the first term. Nominations are due by February 12, 2021.

Cyber-evolution: How computer science is harnessing the power of Darwinian transformation
From a pair of simple principles of evolution—chance mutation and natural selection—nature has constructed an almost unfathomable richness of life around us. Despite our scientific sophistication, human design and engineering
Jan 27: Learn effective methods to get published in Slate and others
Editors from two ASU-affiliated publications - Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, New America and ASU, and Issues in Science and Technology, published by ASU and the National Academies - will discuss what makes a good idea for their outlets and how to pitch them.
Feb 2: Accelerating decarbonization in the US
Join the National Academies February 2 at noon MST for a public briefing on a new report that outlines the key technological and socio-economic goals that must be achieved to put the United States on the path to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Message in a bottle: Info-rich bubbles respond to antibiotics
Once regarded as merely cast-off waste products of cellular life, bacterial membrane vesicles (MVs) have since become an exciting new avenue of research, due to the wealth of biological information
Align Technology establishes new global corporate headquarters in Tempe, Arizona
Align Technology, Inc. announced that it established its new global corporate headquarters in Tempe, Arizona, effective January 1, 2021.
SkySong economic impact projected at $58.2B over 30 years
SkySong, The ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center "is a job creator with outsized ripple effects" on economic development in the region, with an estimated impact of $58.2 billion over the next 30 years and with even more value as a brand representing innovation and entrepreneurship.