Feb 16: The Critical Role of Gender Equality in Leadership

In a YouTube livestream event hosted by Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland, Amanda Ellis will discuss the critical role of gender equality in leadership. The 40-minute session will take place Tuesday, February 16, from 12:05–12:45 p.m. MST.

CCG Catalyst Consulting, Arizona Bankers Association announce the Arizona Fintech Council

CCG Catalyst Consulting and the Arizona Bankers Association have partnered to create the Arizona Fintech Council to spur economic growth in the state and bring viable and promising fintech companies to Arizona's Fintech Sandbox.

Seeking ASU student applicants for TechCongress program

Informational call Jan. 27. Nominations are open for the TechCongress Congressional Innovation Scholars Program. The program pays an $60,000 annual-equivalent stipend and other benefits. Please nominate students and encourage them to apply by Feb. 5.

Jan 27: Ellis presents on Gender Equality and Governance Index

Sustainability scholar and GFL director of global partnerships Amanda Ellis will present about the Index and other tools for accelerating women’s empowerment and ensuring equal rights.

Feb 18: Black and Indigenous Relations of Doing and Being

Author Tiffany King will present the 2021 Environmental Humanities Initiative Distinguished Lecture, a keynote address of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) Conference.

ASU’s unsung heroes

Workers on one of the front lines of the pandemic keep ASU's campuses safe and running Everything the rest of us have tried to avoid for the past nine months

NASEM seeks experts to advise on US global change research program

The National Academies is seeking approximately 10 new members for a 20-person standing committee. Self-nominations are welcome. Members typically serve 3-year terms with an option to reappoint after the first term. Nominations are due by February 12, 2021.

Stephanie Forrest

Cyber-evolution: How computer science is harnessing the power of Darwinian transformation

From a pair of simple principles of evolution—chance mutation and natural selection—nature has constructed an almost unfathomable richness of life around us. Despite our scientific sophistication, human design and engineering

Jan 27: Learn effective methods to get published in Slate and others

Editors from two ASU-affiliated publications - Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, New America and ASU, and Issues in Science and Technology, published by ASU and the National Academies - will discuss what makes a good idea for their outlets and how to pitch them.

Feb 2: Accelerating decarbonization in the US

Join the National Academies February 2 at noon MST for a public briefing on a new report that outlines the key technological and socio-economic goals that must be achieved to put the United States on the path to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Luis Cisneros is a researcher in the Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society, and the BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, at Arizona state University. Download Photo Luis Cisneros

Message in a bottle: Info-rich bubbles respond to antibiotics

Once regarded as merely cast-off waste products of cellular life, bacterial membrane vesicles (MVs) have since become an exciting new avenue of research, due to the wealth of biological information

Align Technology establishes new global corporate headquarters in Tempe, Arizona

Align Technology, Inc. announced that it established its new global corporate headquarters in Tempe, Arizona, effective January 1, 2021.