ASU researchers were part of a science team that found a simple soil-based method to keep locusts from eating crops. To their knowledge, it’s the first study to test this method in real-world farming…

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What does it mean to live an “artful life”? Former National Endowment for the Arts Chair Maria Rosario Jackson reflects on expanding access to creativity for all Americans — and what comes next as she returns to Arizona State University with a new vision for art, impact and inclusion.



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Laurie Leshin, once a young Tempe girl enamored with space who went on to become a world-class space scientist, is back home. She joined ASU on Jan. 1 as the University Professor for Space Futures. The former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Leshin now will advise ASU leadership on space, research and higher education.



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Arizona is not running out of water. We are running out of cheap water. This means not just higher water rates, but also difficult choices on economic trade-offs — for example, higher food prices due to less water for agriculture but lower housing prices with more water for residential growth.” Read the story.

Rhett Larson ASU Law and the Kyl Center for Water Policy

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