United Nations Foundation CEO and President, Kathy Calvin, on the UN SDGs and the importance of gender equality from the UN perspective.

Changemakers for Sustainability Series: Gender, tech and transformation

On June 11, the WE Empower UN SDG Challenge group held the second Changemakers for Sustainability Event Series — a luncheon and panel with a gender and technology focus —

When roundworms lose, carbon emissions rise

Soil food webs play a key role in supporting grassland ecosystems, which cover about one-quarter of the land on Earth. Climate change poses a threat to these environments, partly because

Sustainability alumnus to receive Construction Management Association of America scholarship

Curt Truman, a 2016 alumnus of Arizona State University's Master of Sustainability Solutions, has been selected to receive the 2019 CMAA Graduate Student Scholarship Award from the Construction Management Association

Pervasive polymers of the deep blue sea

Researchers at Arizona State University are finding a particularly pervasive problem with the microplastics that originate from human everyday use. Senior Sustainability Scientist Rolf Halden, director of the Biodesign Center

Plastic, friend or foe?

ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Faculty Affiliate Rolf Halden’s work on microplastics pollution in oceans was recently featured in an ASU Now article titled “Pervasive polymers of the deep blue sea.”

NSF grant boosts student-driven ecological research

Arizona State University Professors Heather Throop and Osvaldo Sala have been awarded an International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) grant from The National Science Foundation of approximately $294,000. The grant,

Refugees in Uganda learn agribusiness online

A group of 30 people are the first to take the online Agribusiness 250 course through Education for Humanity, an ASU initiative that is offering higher education to refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Uganda and Rwanda.

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Meet affiliated faculty Lauren Chenarides

Read on for an interview with Lauren Chenarides, assistant professor at the Morrison School of Agribusiness in the W. P. Carey School of Busines

Meet sustainability alumna Samantha Zah

With a growing number of sustainability programs out there, how do you choose? Samantha Zah, a spring 2019 graduate of the Master of Sustainability Solutions (MSUS) at Arizona State University,

Perkol-Finkel was a guest presenter at the Ala Wai Watershed Collaboration meeting hosted by ‘Iolani School.

WE Empower Challenge awardee visits Hawai'i to present and collaborate

Marine biologist and engineer Shimrit Perkol-Finkel was in Hawaii May 28-June 2 en route to the Women Deliver conference in Vancouver, where Amanda Ellis and Perkol-Finkel are both speaking on

Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council presents SPRI with Outstanding Case Award

Members of Arizona State University’s Sustainable Purchasing Research Initiative team won the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council’s Outstanding Case Award for their case study “Environmental Purchasing in the City of Phoenix.”

Sustainability student elected president of GPSA

School of Sustainability doctoral student Leah Jones, the 2019-2020 president of ASU's Graduate and Professional Student Association, wants all students’ voices to be heard. She is the first black president of the GPSA.