Scholarly Impact on a Shoestring: Writing High-Value Review Papers

Barry Bozeman's review articles are among his most highly cited works. In this session, he shared hard-won insights from decades of experience.

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Futures Literacy and The Matrix: Envisioning Liberated Futures

This November 14 Storying Just Futures event was sponsored by Create the Change and led by Joni Adamson. Participants reflected on how the films’ core philosophical questions—about reality, choice, and resistance—can deepen our futures literacy and help us critically examine the rise of AI data centers shaping our world today.

Create the Change: A comprehensive approach to human sciences leadership in sustainability science

Sally Kitch is principal investigator on this project, which mobilizes the social sciences and humanities together with sustainability science to address the complexities of securing a healthy planet in which thriving, equitable human societies are aligned with Earth’s biosystems.

LEAPS lab celebrates 10 years

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.

Arianne Cease receives Mid-Career Advancement award from NSF

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.

Celebrating One Year of Publishing in Cambridge Prisms: Drylands

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.

Predicting emerging infectious pathogens from animals: the 2025 Arntzen Grand Challenges lecture

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.

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2025 Sustainable Cities Network Feedback Survey

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

A few highlights from PwC’s Innovation Exchange 2025

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

Defining Ultra-Processed Foods: A Collaborative Response to the USDA and FDA

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).

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Applicant Webinar: Climate Smart Communities Initiative Grants

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.

A Guiding Framework for Biodiversity Indicator Selection

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