ADHS, ASU announce partnership to increase COVID-19 testing in Arizona

ADHS, ASU announce partnership to increase COVID-19 testing in Arizona ASU will launch program to provide free saliva-based diagnostic testing for up to 100,000 Arizonans The Arizona Department of Health

Shaopeng Wang

Bacteria visualized with remarkable clarity thanks to new technique

An escalating arms race between disease-causing bacteria and the antibiotic weapons humans have designed to fight them, continues. Disturbingly, pathogenic microbes are often outwitting our best efforts, developing resistance to

Lemurs and North Atlantic Right Whales, on the brink of extinction

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, an ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes partner, reported that almost a third of lemurs and North Atlantic

SCN Weekly Emailer – Info of Interest 7/9/2020

View the latest newsletter from the Sustainable Cities Network: SCN INFO OF INTEREST: 7/9/2020 (PDF)

Wednesdays from Washington: Steering the future with captains of industry

This blog post was written by Arizona State University graduate student Annalise VanVranken. In addition to studying Food Policy and Sustainability Leadership at ASU, Annalise is a Strategy and Partnerships project manager

Opportunities in Controlled Environment Agriculture

  By Ariel Kagan and Jenna Riemenschneider   Achieving food security and sustainable agriculture remains one of the grand challenges of the 21st century. Since we published this report in 2018

Nocholas Dunne

Biodesign Institute appoints director for new Biodesign Europe

In 2013, Arizona State University and Dublin City University signed a Transatlantic Higher Education Partnership, building on this history of collaboration and leveraging our complementary skills and cultural differences. The

HUE grantees talk heat on Vitalyst Spark podcast

As temperatures rise this summer in Arizona, three heat experts — including two Healthy Urban Environments grantees — talked heat in the latest Vitalyst Health Foundation podcast, Vitalyst Spark. Catch

More than words: Acknowledging Indigenous land

ASU Library has released a five-sentence acknowledgement about the Indigenous land that the library and university have inhabited for more than a century.

Li, Salon, Kedron investigate COVID-19 societal impacts

From racial discrimination, to digital privacy, to the future of transport, three SGSUP researchers – including two sustainability scientists – have been awarded COVID-19-related research grants.

Global Futures Laboratory, Foreign Policy bring together global experts to discuss links between COVID-19 and climate

Recording now available. Speakers at the Global Lessons for a More Resilient Future virtual dialogue held June 30th presented a diverse range of perspectives and insights on the urgent challenges we face, as well as key steps to address them.

Global Futures Laboratory, Foreign Policy bring together global experts to discuss links between COVID-19 and climate

On Tuesday, Arizona State University’s Global Futures Laboratory, in partnership with Foreign Policy, convened a panel of leading global thinkers to discuss the surprising but powerful links among the coronavirus, climate change