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ASU Charter

Innovations in higher education expand access and empower learners

ASU’s new University Design Institute (UDI) is coordinating an initiative to accelerate the university’s efforts to redesign American higher education. They aim to advance the development of the UDI, accelerate the development of stackable and competency-based credential systems and scale ASU’s high school programs to enroll 30,000 additional students.

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Virtual ‘Summer Camp’ electrifies education changemaking conversations

ASU ShapingEDU hosted Learning(Hu)Man, a summer camp experience in which over 2,600 registered education changemakers pushed the creative envelope for how to serve students and advance learner success. Campers explored best practices in learning design, edtech tools, and emergent thinking around the art of the possible.

School of Sustainability Dean’s List Spring 2020

Each semester, the School of Sustainability recognizes its top academic achievers by publishing the Dean’s List. Undergraduate students who earn at least a 3.5 GPA in 12 or more semester

Training program for advocates of domestic-violence victims to receive ASU Presidential Medal

Survivor Link, a team of Arizona State University educators, students, faculty and community members who work to promote healthy relationships and provide domestic violence interventions, will receive the 2020 President’s Medal for Social Embeddedness.

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Virtual showcase recap, spring 2020

On April 29, 2020, ASU Project Cities hosted our first-ever entirely virtual Student Showcase for the Spring 2020 semester. Over one hundred attendees appeared on Zoom throughout the day to

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Empowering Women to Become Their Own Superhero

My name is Lina, and when I was a kid, I used to believe that I am a superhero, [this is] because I am meant to be one,” Lina Khalifeh

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New summary report released: Aboveground storage tank management

The City of Glendale manages approximately 135 Aboveground Storage Tanks (ASTs). ASTs are necessary components for storing valuable chemical agents for a variety of uses, from water treatment to backup

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Public Interest Technology University Network announces Year 2 Challenge

The PIT-UN Challenge will prioritize projects that further the positive social impact of technology for all communities. Centering community needs may be demonstrated by incorporating community partners in the design and execution of proposed projects. Apply by July 16.

Protected: Industrial Livestock Production System – Hot Topics mindmap

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Landscape Analysis of key organizations working in sustainable livestock systems

The map linked here illustrates a range of actors and instances of their multi-stakeholder collaborations on specific sub-themes within animal agriculture.  While this is already a complex web of players

Livestock Futures – reading a mindmap to develop insight into relationships

Please download this PDF for the map. The description of a complex mix of issues surrounding industrial animal agriculture is here presented visually in a mind map – a methodology

Melissa Wilson

Engendering equality in research

School of Life Sciences Professor Melissa Wilson researches sex chromosome evolution, sex-biased research and comparative genomics. Wilson states, “It seems really unfortunate that we are going to exclude half of the population. Even if you are understanding the research in one sex, you not understanding it in everyone.”