What is the GFL Research Development Office?

The GFL RDO offers a range of services to advance sustainability research competitiveness by increasing faculty readiness, catalyzing people and ideas, and developing faculty research skills.

Ashok Mishra

Meet affiliated faculty Ashok Mishra

Read on for an interview with Ashok Mishra, Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation Chair in Food Management at the Morrison School of Agribusiness in the W. P. Carey School of Business.

Sustainability alumnus authors report on impacts of proposed new fuel economy standard

An Arizona State University School of Sustainability alumnus was one of three experts to author a report on the potential consequences of the current administration’s plan to rollback Obama-era vehicle

ASU scientists respond to new IPCC report

In their response, scientists associated with ASU's Global Futures Laboratory stressed the importance of acting with urgency, removing CO2 from the air and point sources, and engaging people who are most vulnerable to climate change.

ASU scientists respond to new IPCC report

Medium After the United Nations IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land was released in August 2019, several Arizona State University scientists associated with Global Futures Laboratory wrote a response: “Recognizing

Changes to the ESA puts species at-risk

ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Founding Director Leah Gerber was quoted this week in a Time article addressing the recent changes made by the U.S. federal government to the Endangered

Sala elected president of the Ecological Society of America

The director of ASU's Global Drylands Center was elected to serve a one-year term that ends in 2020. He is the first Hispanic person to serve as president in the organization's century-long history.

Meet affiliated faculty Bruce Rittmann

Read on for an interview with Bruce Rittman, director of Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology.

ASU professor predicts future shortages in state rivers

Extreme weather changes and a boom in population growth will result in a declining of the rivers in Arizona, according to an Arizona State University professor. Heather Bateman, a field

Here’s the catch on urban fishing

Beth Polidoro, ASU New College professor and Center for Biodiversity Outcomes associate director of biodiversity valuation and assessments, was recently featured in an ASU Now article about her recent discovery

Members of UREx SRN receive ecology award

Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network (UREx SRN) were recipients of an award from the Ecological Society of America. Winners of the award are recognized for their “outstanding contributions

Meet sustainability junior Sakshi Hegde

School of Sustainability junior Sakshi Hegde has always cared about the environment. So when it was time to make a decision about what to dedicate her life to, the answer