International innovation through partnership with Beijing Normal University

Strengthening Arizona State University’s commitment to innovation, ASU and Beijing Normal University have agreed to establish the Joint International Research Laboratory of Disaster Risk and Sustainability Sciences. The mission of

Partnership drives international sustainability education

A joint education program between Arizona State and Beijing Normal universities allows qualified undergraduates who complete three years at BNU to transfer to ASU for their final year, with the option of pursuing a Master of Sustainability Solutions at the School of Sustainability after graduation.

Ringing in the Next 10 in the social media sphere

Thanks to the ASU Wrigley Institute's social media team, the School of Sustainability's 10th Anniversary was a popular topic both on campus and in the Twitter-verse, where a global audience of nearly 25,000 followers could watch the festivities of April 14 unfold. Click below for the highlights.

Partnership to increase educational success of Native Hawaiians

With a shared mission to improve the communities around them through education, Arizona State University and Hawai‘i’s Kamehameha Schools have partnered to promote cooperation in key areas like sustainability, research and innovation.

Zebulon Pearce Teaching Awards recognize exceptional faculty at ASU

Andrew Smith, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Pauline Cheong, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences They received the "Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award" for their excellence in going above and beyond

ASU mends the trails of iconic mountain on Earth Day

The largest turnout in the event's seven-year history, roughly 150 volunteers from the ASU Wrigley Institute and other organizations hit the trails of "A" Mountain – Tempe's only nature preserve – collecting up to 150 bags of trash in commemoration of Earth Day.

Faculty Highlight: Klaus Lackner

Arizona State University’s President Michael Crow has hired Center for Negative Carbon Emissions Director Klaus Lackner twice. The first time was when Crow was vice provost at Columbia University. He

A promising path to negative carbon emissions

Carbon dioxide is a potent greenhouse gas and its steady accumulation poses ever-increasing risks of harmful climate change. The need for collection of carbon waste and its permanent and safe

Joint decision-support analysis of water and energy systems

The increasing global demand for energy will stress water resources because energy production requires water for refining and cooling processes. Additionally, deployment of new clean-energy technologies must be well established

WaterSim debuts at largest science festival in US

ASU's Decision Center for a Desert City was one of only 30 NSF-funded projects invited to represent the organization at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., where the DCDC team introduced attendees to its water supply and demand simulation tool – WaterSim.

Best-selling author takes a look at your next meal

Part of the School of Sustainability's 10th anniversary celebration, author and food activist Michael Pollan – named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine – described in his April 2016 Wrigley Lecture how we can fix our broken food system.

Anniversary celebration propels school into its next decade

From a Wrigley Lecture by Michael Pollan to a Festival of Sustainability at ASU, the events of April 14 not only celebrated the evolution and accomplishments of the nation's first School of Sustainability, they spotlighted the foresight and collaborative spirit of the university as a whole.