At first glance, gardening may seem like just a bunch of plants, but upon further inspection, it has enormous impacts on people and their well-being.

As a world-renowned microbiologist and biogeochemist, Ferran Garcia-Pichel has developed an understanding of the interconnectivity of the sciences.  He studies microbial communities, examining the way bacteria exist and interact within ecosystems —

School of Complex Adaptive Systems faculty, Enrico Borriello and Bryan Daniels, use the concepts in the childhood game of "Guess Who?" to identify controllers of cell behavior.

In a special plenary session of the “Sustainable Engineering Forum” of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), at the Annual Meeting of AIChE in Boston, researchers of The Global KAITEKI Center were invited to describe the results of their research on the need that the Chemicals and Materials Industry (CMI) companies must reinvent themselves, in order to accommodate the demands of the upcoming sustainable and circular economy.

Read on for an interview with Daniel Fischer Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory & Associate Professor for Consumer Communication and Sustainability, Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands.

As the scale and complexity of socio-environmental problems has grown, there is a renewed debate about the role that academic institutions should play in developing solutions. Further, the discussion asks

ASU computational modelers unleash the power of mathematics and data science to help Arizona conquer COVID From your smartphone’s weather app telling you it will rain on Friday to the

President Joe Biden has called for an all-of-government response to climate change that looks for solutions and opportunities in every sector of the U.S. economy. That includes agriculture, which emits over 600 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent every year – more than the total national emissions of the United Kingdom, Australia, France or Italy.

Global Drylands Center’s Osvaldo Sala and Celina Osuna collaborated with Ed Finn, Director of ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination (CSI), and co-authored a piece for Scientific American to celebrate the premiere of Dennis Villeneuve’s epic adaptation of Dune and take the opportunity to shed light on the beauty and biodiversity of the earth’s deserts in the face of common misrepresentations.

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In this series, we’re meeting with Swette Center team members to explore their background in food systems, what they are currently working on, and their vision of food systems transformation. 

SCN Info of Interest – October 28, 2021 October’s SCN Info of Interest was sent out via email. Includes info on: AZ Heat Resilience Workgroup Meeting, 2021 Arizona Energy Future