Westerhoff, Herckes combine for COVID decontamination solution

Westerhoff leads research on using ultraviolet light to decontaminate water. Herckes investigates aspects of PPE use in semiconductor fabrication clean rooms. With an NSF RAPID grant, they had a fully developed device ready for deployment by the beginning of April.

With his 1997 publication, agribusiness professor Ashok Mishra changed agricultural policy around the world and initiated several government-wide projects for the well-being of self-employed farm family businesses

The online, cross-disciplinary program will train leaders who will imagine, design and use technology for social good. Applications open mid-June.

President Crow called on the university’s academic communities to outline new efforts, new concepts, and new strategies to devise new models for protecting and defending the rights of individuals.

Scientists at ASU’s Biodesign Institute have developed Arizona’s first saliva-based test for COVID-19 to make testing easier and more accessible.

The team won the Campus Rainworks Challenge for their work with the K-8 Paideia Academy in south Phoenix to address environmental justice and equity in health and education through green infrastructure interventions.

Grasslands across the globe, which support the majority of the world’s grazing animals, have been transitioning to shrub lands in a process that scientists call “woody plant encroachment.” Managed grazing

In his series, Byck details the farming technique known as regenerative grazing, which involves quickly rotating cattle from pasture to pasture, before they can damage the land.

Sustainability scientist Elham H. (Ellie) Fini, co-founder of Bio-Adhesive Alliance Inc. and associate professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.

Senior Sustainability Scientist Amber Wutich has received the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from the Faculty Women’s Association. Wutich was nominated for the award by her students and colleagues.

Arizona State University ranks top in the U.S. and fifth in the world out of 766 institutions in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The global ranking is

ASU reached its carbon neutrality goal six years early — on June 30, 2019. Increased energy efficiency in both new buildings and campus retrofits; on-site solar generation; renewable energy purchases from large-scale, off-site generation facilities; and purchase of carbon offsets and renewable energy were all deployed while growing the student population and undertaking a physical expansion of all ASU’s campuses.