Swette Center named by FoodTank as an organization transforming food systems in 2022

FoodTank’s mission is to build a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. They spotlight and support environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable ways of alleviating hunger, obesity, and poverty and create networks of people, organizations, and content to push for food system change.

Cool Pavement Pilot Project – Year 2!

In 2020 the City of Phoenix Street Transportation Department partnered with researchers at ASU to explore the performance of cool paving (lighter colored seal coats applied to existing residential streets).

Meet Swette Center staff member, Gina Nichols

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. 

ASU’s Biodesign Institute and Banner Health open summer opportunities for neuroscience scholars

If understanding the inner workings of the brain is on your mind, now is the time to explore the Banner-ASU Neuroscience Scholars program. Top-achieving college undergraduate and graduate science students

A biological paradox offers new insights into the mystery of cancer

The cells in the body can be thought of as tiny archery targets, each vulnerable to the deadly arrow of cancer.  The more cells a given animal has and the

Klaus Lackner joins Newsweek's America's Greatest Disruptors Hall of Fame

Klaus Lackner, director of the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions and a pioneer in the carbon capture research space, has been named to Newsweek's Hall of Fame for America's Greatest

Meet affiliated faculty Joshua MacFadyen

Read on for an interview with Joshua MacFadyen, Affiliate Global Futures Scholar in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory.

Microorganism sheds new light on cancer resistance

 A simple, marine-dwelling creature known as Trichoplax adhaerens has some remarkable properties. The organism can tolerate unusually high doses of radiation that would kill most other forms of life. T.

Klaus Lackner joins Newsweek's America's Greatest Disruptors Hall of Fame

Klaus Lackner, director of the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions and a pioneer in the carbon capture research space, has been named to Newsweek’s Hall of Fame for America’s Greatest

Computing scenarios for defusing polarized politics

Opposites may attract when it comes to personal relationships. In political affairs today, however, that claim is becoming more difficult to assert. New research shows that common ground is shrinking in politics, and people on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum are more entrenched in their divergent positions than at any time in recent history. Those conclusions are derived not only from results of traditional opinion polls — in this era of big data and

Increasing research impact: Inclusive digital development

From July 19 to 21, 2021, USAID and UKRI hosted a joint workshop that focused on identifying research gaps and questions to inform future research agendas and promote inclusive digital

Graduate Students from our PIRE project

Here is one of our graduate student Gerson Leonel performing Raman spectroscopy at Kansas State Univ. as part of our PIRE project.