Scientists-Scholars

Students sitting around a table working on a project

ASU launches master of innovation degree program

A new entrepreneurship master’s degree combines design, business and engineering. The Master of Science in innovation and venture development is open to all degree backgrounds.

decorative

“Everything Change” climate fiction contest

Applications are open through April 15, 2020, for the third annual Everything Change global climate fiction contest. All genres of short fiction are welcome, and there is no entry fee to submit your story. The first place winner will be awarded $1,000.

AASHE Sustainability Curriculum Workshop flyer

Sustainability Across the Curriculum Training at SDSU

AASHE, The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, will present a Sustainability Across the Curriculum Leadership Workshop at San Diego State University on June 3 to 4,

Christiana Figueres Wrigley Lecture ASU

Christiana Figueres inspires action to cut carbon emissions in half this decade

At the Wrigley Lecture Jan. 30 at ASU, climate leader Christiana Figueres said extreme events like the Australian wildfires are foretelling of things to come if we continue to sleepwalk into the future. “That world is possible, but it is not inevitable,” she said.

View about people sharing a meal showing plates of food

The wisdom of indigenous foodways

To equitably transform our food systems and tackle climate change, we must include indigenous voices and decision-makers. That’s why the 2020 Food Tank Summit, co-sponsored by ASU’s Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, focused on the wisdom of traditional knowledge systems.

Smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa

Gates Ag One will assist small-yield farmers in rising from poverty and facing climate change

Affordable tools and innovations will help farmers improve crop productivity and adapt to upcoming environmental changes

Poster example

Call for abstracts: Urban climate poster competition

Poster abstracts are due February 10 for the third annual Urban Climate Research Center poster competition and showcase.

Gary Marchant

Marchant is named AAAS fellow

Marchant works at the intersections of law, science and biotechnology, and has led ASU’s Center for Law, Science and Innovation for more than 20 years.

Lindy Elkins-Tanton

National Academy of Sciences honors Elkins-Tanton

The Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship was awarded to Elkins-Tanton for her lasting contributions to the study of the physics of Earth and for illuminating the early evolution of rocky planets and planetesimals.

Airplane flying over Gao River in Hawii

ASU center makes global impact on ecology, conservation science

Established in January 2019, the Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science is directed by Greg Asner and builds on his lab work of coral reef mapping and measuring plant biodiversity in forests. The center is already making impressive impacts on global environmental decision-making.

AASHE Logo

Call for presenters: AASHE conference 2020

Proposals are due February 28 for the sustainability conference to be held in Milwaukee, October 4-7, 2020. The theme of the conference is “Mobilizing for a Just Transition.”

Large house in Costa Rica

Corruption and illicit activity affect land change

New research published in Nature Sustainability presents a conceptual framework of illicit land transactions and a new approach to spatially link illicit activities to land use.