Restaurants, Covid, and community

It isn’t quite the same to meet with Danielle Leoni and Dwayne Allen, owners of The Breadfruit and Rum Bar, over a Zoom screen. The Breadfruit and Rum Bar, opened in downtown Phoenix in 2008, is on such a small side street – you’ll miss it if you do not know what you are looking for – offers a vibrant, tropical, welcoming, warm feel.

Impacts of whale watching on humpback whales' behavior

Faculty and students from the ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes and the Conservation Innovation Lab co-authorized a paper published yesterday in Frontiers in Marine Science, presenting their pilot study conducted

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How and why microbes promote and protect against stress

More than half of the human body is not actually human: The body hosts approximately 100 trillion microbes. These bacteria, yeast and viruses, which make up the human microbiome, affect

Cutting-edge academic building tops out in Arizona

McCarthy Building Cos. has topped out Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 7. Located on the southwest corner of University Drive and Rural Road near the 350-acre Novus Innovation Corridor, ISTB

2020 closes out with a promising nod to future carbon markets

As the year 2020 nears its inevitable end it’s nice to reflect back and take note of things that worked, things that didn’t work and stuff to just plain, avoid.

Can we fix climate challenges without hurting the economy?

During a Dec. 2 Future Tense event, five climate and economy experts talked about what it will take to solve this wicked problem.

Applications open: Energy, environment, and climate policy fellowships

Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is accepting applications for fellowship positions in the following research areas: Energy Innovation and Decarbonization, Low-carbon Development in China and India, and Technological Systems and Innovation Policy.

ASU to begin construction on new sports complex in January

Arizona State University announced that it will begin construction on a new multi-purpose arena in January. "This venue will not only provide an elite student-athlete experience, but will be an

Australian Plague Locust Resurgence

By Douglas Lawton, PhD Candidate in ASU School of Life Sciences, December 14, 2020 After a record-breaking drought for the past two years, Australia is experiencing a resurgence in Australian

Researchers working to restore desert's vital 'biocrust'

Ferran Garcia-Pichel, a member of the Global Dryland Center's executive committee board, is one of many researchers volunteering to study and resore biocrust in the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy. This work

Hao Yan

Hao Yan receives 2020 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize

Hao Yan, director of the Biodesign Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics at Arizona State University has been awarded the 2020 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize. The coveted award, named in honor of