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Diving into downtown at Night of the Open Door

Downtown Phoenix campus

February 14, 2016

Night of the Open Door — five free events over the course of February — opens ASU's world to the public and shows off what each campus has to offer. On Friday, the Downtown Phoenix campus had its turn, welcoming visitors to step behind a news anchor desk, handle real body parts, learn about infant health, explore ASU's saltwater-aquarium lab and more.

Here's a glimpse of the fun in photo and video.

Visitors at the news anchor desk at Cronkite.

Cronkite anchor Troy Lynch explains the TV set and cameras to a tour group in the Cronkite School and Arizona PBS Tour at the Downtown Phoenix campus' Night of the Open Door on Feb. 12. The open house featured events and interactive activities in range of subject areas, including journalism, nursing and science.

Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now

People use a microscope in a biology lab.

Infynity Hill (right) explains to Charlotte Guyot, 14, and her uncle, John Beshears, about the cross-section of a worm at the Downtown Phoenix campus Feb. 12. Hill is a sophomore in exercise science and wellness.

Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now

A little boy and his mom throw a paper airplane.

Velia Quihuis helps son Guillermo, 3, with a paper airplane in the Arizona PBS Interactive Studio tour Feb. 12.

Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now

A man and a woman use a stethoscope on an infant medical dummy.

Jai Reddy (left), with Swapna Patlolla, tries to listen to the "baby" Josephina's heartbeat in the nursing simulation experience at the Downtown Phoenix campus' Night of the Open Door. Patlolla is a post-graduate Didactic Program in Dietetics student at ASU.

Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now

A little girl makes a paper bookmark.

Estella Gabow, 7, works on an owl bookmark in the library at the Downtown Phoenix campus on Night of the Open Door.

Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now

A little girl has a dolphin painted on her arm.

Chloe Bouton, 10, of Peoria, looks away as she gets an airbrushed tattoo of a dolphin from artist Jacque Medrano at Night of the Open Door on Feb. 12.

Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now

Women handle a set of intestines in a lab.

Sydney Files (left); her sister Reegan, 14; and anatomy instructional aide Molly Elkins investigate intestines in the CSI Phoenix tour at the Downtown Phoenix campus' Night of the Open Door. Sydney is a senior in nutrition and is hoping to get her younger sister interested in coming to ASU.

Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now

A boy plays with a set of giant Jenga pieces.

Stephen Semken, 9, of Queen Creek, carefully removes blocks from a tower at the TechShop display in Civic Space Park during Night of the Open Door downtown.

Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now

A woman looks at a saltwater aquarium.

If you look closely, you can find Nemo. Suhey Ortega checks out the saltwater coral tank in the general biology lab at the Downtown Phoenix campus Feb. 12. Ortega is a freshman in non-profit management and is also getting a minor in sustainability.

Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now

Children play with arts and crafts supplies.

Children draw their own houses at the Community Arts Exhibits in the University Center building, as their family members look at the artists' work nearby Feb. 12.

Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now

Adults talk in a classroom.

Katherine Kenny, associate dean of the College of Nursing and Health Innovation, talks about careers in nursing with visitors during the Downtown Phoenix campus' Night of the Open Door on Feb. 12.

Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now

Adults use arts and crafts supplies.

Michelle Enos (right), a senior in social work and criminal justice, takes a break to make a monster bookmark in the library on the Downtown Phoenix campus Feb. 12.

Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now

Check out the West campus' Night of the Open Door on Feb. 7 here — including a forensics crime scene, Rubik's Cube masters, and a dean who isn't afraid to flex some muscle.

If you missed the fun, don't worry: There are three more free Night of the Open Door events this month:

Polytechnic campus: 5-9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19
Thunderbird campus: 4-8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20
Tempe campus: 4-9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27

Read more about what's in store at each campus here and here.

Check ASU Now after each event for photo galleries and video, and follow along as our crew shows all the fun on Snapchat (search for username: ASUNow).

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Through its history, the Earth has been bombarded by extraterrestrial material ranging from dust-sized particles to objects large enough to destroy cities and cause mass extinctions. And we are still under attack.

Laurence Garvie, Research Professor and Curator for ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies at the School of Earth and Space Exploration at ASU, will provide an update on this extraterrestrial material in his talk, “Asteroids, meteorites, and dangers to life on Earth” at 7:30 pm Feb. 18, in the ISTB4 building on the Tempe Campus. Laurence Garvie, Curator for the Center for Meteorite Studies Download Full Image

The talk, which is free and open to the public, will discuss the history of meteorites, how often they impact on Earth and the local and global threat of asteroids.

The SESE New Discoveries Lecture Series brings exciting scientific work to the general public in a series of informative evening lectures, each given by a member of the SESE faculty once a month throughout the spring.

Additional lectures in this series will be presented on March 17, by Hilairy Hartnett, associate professor and biochemist; and on April 28 by Ariel Anbar, President’s Professor and astrobiologist.

Lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Marston Exploration Theater, located on the first floor of ASU's Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 4 (ISTB4) (map) on the Tempe Campus, RSVP to reserve a seat. Parking is available at the Rural Road parking structure just east of ISTB 4.

Karin Valentine

Karin Valentine

Media Relations & Marketing manager, School of Earth and Space Exploration

480-965-9345 Karin.Valentine@asu.edu