State recognizes ASU Biodesign Institute’s response to COVID-19 with Innovator of the Year Award
Since the rise of COVID-19 in our state last spring, the Arizona State University Biodesign Institute has worked tirelessly to respond, in particular by providing rapid public testing for the virus and
William T. Grant Foundation issues 2021 application guidelines
New for 2021, the foundation’s updated application guidelines for research grants on reducing inequality and research grants on improving the use of research evidence provide details about eligibility, selection criteria, and application requirements, as well as tips from our program officers and summaries of recent awards.
KER data visualization: Temperatures in Maricopa County
A historic temperature visualization developed by Arizona State University's Knowledge Exchange for Resilience is a tool that shows shifts in temperatures using an interactive heat map and bar graph. It includes historical Arizona temperatures from the 1890s to the present.
MENA Women Speakers: Promoting equal opportunities for tomorrow
WE Empower UN SDG Challenge Finalist, Saana Azzam - Founder, MENA Women Speakers, United Arab Emirates 2020 WE Empower Finalist, Greater MENA Equality and equal opportunities for all are fundamental
UREx SRN Inspires Greylit Research into City and State Resilience Finance
The UREx SRN recently supported a pinnacle webinar that profiled two UREx-derived research projects focused on building practitioner resilience. 500 participants attended the day-of event and at least as many
Walton Sustainability Solutions Service delivers three new sustainability solutions
Projects addressed technologies to extract ocean plastics, efforts to increase the baseline recycling rate in the U.S., and solutions to divert island research station waste and ocean debris for recycling or repurposing.
NASA awards Planetary Systems Biochemistry project
Sustainability scientists Hilairy Hartnett, Everett Shock and Ariel Anbar, with their colleagues Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert and Michael Line are co-investigators on a new NASA astrobiology program research team, one of eight in the agency’s new Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research program.
Shape the future of learning in the digital age
Spend January 5-7, 2021 engaged in a breadth of activities designed to surface the best in emerging approaches for shaping the future of smart campuses, cities and education -- and life during and after the pandemic.
Infosys, ASU partner to accelerate learning experiences for engineering students
Arizona State University and Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, today announced a strategic partnership to enhance the learning experience for engineering graduate students in both on-campus and
Fri through Sun: Devils Invent: ASU / Devex Global Hackathon
The hackathon calls on students to create solutions to five real-world development challenges aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). One winning team in each challenge category will showcase its solution at Devex World and receive opportunities to further develop their idea.
Algae engineering: A stepping stone to sustainable solutions
Among ways being explored to combine biology and engineering to remedy a range of growing global environmental problems, algae-based solutions look especially promising. Some of the research findings have been the result of efforts based at ASU.
ASU Carbon Sink & Learning Forest is coming soon!
The ASU Carbon Sink & Learning Forest will be a 1,000-tree forest of Honey Mesquite, Screwbean Mesquite, and Foothills Palo Verde trees on 10.8 acres at the ASU West campus.