ASU's Week in Pictures

Boys compete in the Northern Fancy Feather Dance event during the 25th Annual PowWow at ASU, April 22.

Kim Pearson, junior sustainability and Spanish major (left), and Kathy Ruiz, a senior finishing her degree in Spanish linguistics, participate in the A Mountain restoration and clean-up project for Earth Day.

Freshman psychology major Max Pakalski, from Wisconsin, tries the climbing wall during ASU’s Earth Day activities.

A capella group Priority Male kicked of a day-long succession of musical acts as part of Earth Day activities sponsored by Hassayampa and Barrett, The Honors College.

Student Kenny Cooke blends up his own smoothie as ASU student “Green Team” member JR Rowe holds the blender in place at the Polytechnic eARTh day event, April 21.

Construction continues on the Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 4 on the Tempe campus, which is scheduled for completion in May 2012. The building will provide flexible laboratories with adjoining workspace for the School of Earth and Space Exploration, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Fulton School of Engineering research programs including Environmental Engineering and Energy Research Initiatives. On the ground floor, a 250-seat auditorium and gallery area will serve as university classrooms as well as an outreach function for both K-12 educational programs and public events.

Hosted by ASU’s Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, professor Cora Fox kicks off Shakespeare’s Places: A Celebration of The Bard’s 447th Birthday.

Thao Ngo, a chemical engineering major, chats with Ira A. Fulton during the Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI) Symposium.Ngo was explaining her project, which involved the recycling of printed circuit boards.

Blackboards in the breezeways of the math building are filled with calculations as students gather to work on problems. Ph.D. students Louis DeBiasio, Luke Nelson and Scott Zinner discuss the proof of Turan's Theorem as Nelson and Zinner prepare for their qualifier exam in graph theory.

Marco A. Janssen, director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity and associate professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, speaks at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law as part of the Spring Colloquium Series.

Alli Coritz, a global studies, cultural geography and religious studies major, reads "The Bear is There" by Shel Silverstein as part of the “Humanities through the Senses” event April 26, in front of the Memorial Union. For more information on the humanities visit humanities.asu.edu.

ASU President Michael Crow, and professor Arthur Ellis, acting President of the City University of Hong Kong, shake hands following a signing ceremony to celebrate a new partnership between ASU and the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), which promises to open up opportunities for students, scientists and entrepreneurs alike. The two universities signed a Memorandum of Understanding during a ceremony April 21 at CityU. Through this partnership, the universities will develop collaborations that could lead to establishment of joint research centers around topics of mutual interest including flexible systems, digital media and sustainability. More information.

Milt Glick’s trademark hat was a visual reminder of the man at a memorial service at the University of Nevada, Reno. Glick, who was the executive vice president and provost at Arizona State University, prior to becoming President of the University of Nevada, Reno on Sept. 29, 2009, passed away April 16 at age 73. For more on memorial services and tributes to Glick, visit http://www.unr.edu/in-memoriam.

Three colleagues at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, who together accumulated more than 100 years of service to the law school, were feted at a retirement party in Armstrong Hall on April 26. From left: professor Milt Schroeder, who joined the faculty in 1969; Alison Ewing, a reference librarian in the Ross-Blakley Law Library, who arrived in 1993; and professor Michael Berch, who also came to the law school in 1969.