With more than 100 partners, 200 locations, and 300 student changemakers, LEAPS has secured $332M in public and private financing and enabled the deployment 161 MW of reliable energy, benefiting 100,000 people and their local economies.

The award will support Cease and collaborators as they build models to improve predictions of migratory locust swarms. These models will support faster and more targeted responses to locust plagues, reducing pesticide use and improving food security.

Osvaldo Sala is editor-in-chief of Cambridge Prisms: Drylands, which marked its first anniversary in October. The journal has brought together research from across disciplines to explore the world’s drylands, which are critical, complex, and increasingly under pressure.

Join November 20 as ASU's Biodesign Institute welcomes Dr. Barbara Han, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, as their featured speaker. Han will examine how researchers are integrating ecology, virology and artificial intelligence to help pinpoint where and when future threats might emerge.

Please submit your faculty input to SCN's 2025 Feedback Survey. Your input will inform strategic planning for the upcoming years.

Dr. George Poste, ASU Regents Professor and Del E. Webb Chair in Health Innovation, session at the PwC’s Innovation Exchange 2025 on October 23, 2025. Inspiring dialogue with Dr. George

The Swette Center joined forces last week with the Heartland Health Research Alliance and several food and nutrition experts. Together, we responded to a request for information from the USDA and FDA on how to identify ultra-processed foods (UPFs).

Attend November 13 to learn more about the 2026 grants competition, which provides funding and technical assistance to advance community-based climate resilience in communities or regions that are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

PhD student Alice Sansonetti presented at the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS-NY 2025), organized by the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (Center for Biodiversity & Conservation | AMNH) this

Will AI be an apocalypse—or an opportunity for unprecedented cooperation between humans and machines? Join November 17 for an interactive session led by Athena Aktipis.

On October 23, Marina Gorbis of Institute for the Futures spent an hour in conversation with ASU students, staff and faculty discussing her views on how to do futures work, how to understand the relationship between emerging technologies and social change, and how we might prepare students and organizations for the future.

We are thrilled to introduce Arizona State University’s 2025 cohort in the Food Policy & Sustainability Leadership graduate certificate program and Sustainable Food Systems MS program.