ASU's School of Technology for Public Health is a new kind of school, recognizing that public health will be deeply influenced by technology. The school is training its first cohort of students, who will leverage technology and data as central to transforming public health.

Lithium, manganese, gallium, nickel and aluminum — used in products that affect our daily lives — are some of the many materials known as “critical minerals." They are essential to U.S. economic, energy and national security applications, but have vulnerable supply chains. Researchers at ASU are innovating in areas that will help secure sustainable domestic supplies of these vital materials.