ASU's Week in Pictures

Members of the Air Force ROTC unit pass in review during their Change of Command Ceremony.

Taylor Johnson salutes Lt. Col. Terence Plumb. Johnson will be the ROTC unit’s Wing Commander for the next academic year.

Following the Air Force ROTC Change of Command Ceremony, Major General Walter Givhan spoke to the cadets. Later in the day, the general discussed the importance of graduate education and research to U.S. military forces, and the related critical need for education of the nation’s students in science, engineering, technology and mathematics fields at a speech in the Memorial Union.

Senior Chief Joel Martinez pipes the dignitaries aboard at the beginning of the Plankholders Ceremony April 28 on the Tempe campus.

Gilbert towncouncilman John Sentz, Captain, US Navy Reserve, listens to Midshipman Jake Tyra's remarks during the ASU Naval ROTC Plankholder Ceremony. The event was celebrated the first Naval ROTC class at ASU. Plankholder is a term used by the Navy to imply that the crewmember had been around since the ship was being built and put into commission.

Captain Steven Borden's shadow is superimposed over an artist's rendering of the front of the Plankholder's coin, that was minted for the ASU Naval ROTC Plankholder Ceremony. More information.

Doctoral students present their work and discuss their action research at the Ed.D. in Leadership and Innovation Doctoral Research Day, April 28 at ASU’s West campus. Jim Mostofo, ASU clinical instructor and graduate student in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College answers questions about his research, titled “Mentoring Certified Math Teachers: Closing the Content-Pedagogy Gap.” Mostofo teaches “Teach For America” corps members, who are students working toward their master’s degree in education at ASU.

Faculty and sculpture students from ASU and Scottsdale Community College gathered April 30 to cast this semester's work in iron, during the Desert Iron Symposium at the ASU Art Building.

Diane Humetewa, ASU’s Special Advisor to the President for American Indian Affairs, opened a conference on the economic future for Indian Lands, presented by the Indian Legal Program at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. More information.

Students Fernando Talavera and Luz Hinojosa prepare for finals in the quiet confines of the architecture library on the Tempe campus.

Students occupy the group study rooms in the Nobel Science Library as finals approach.

At the Downtown Phoenix campus, Jesus Olivares (left) and Dillon Mills work on a paper for English 101 in the Information Center.

Life science majors Olivia Dawood, Betsy Martinez and Chelsey Tellez (left to right) prepare for their final in genetics in the Fletcher Library on ASU's West campus. Behind them hangs the portrait of Guy D. McGrath, the founding dean of ASU's College of Education.

Mechanical engineering major Michael Brown does class work for his “Mechanics of Materials” class while preparing for finals at ASU's Polytechnic campus.

Graphic Information Technology students Jason James, Kyle Smith and Lara Ibraham, prepare for their final exam in Graphic Communications.

Development team members Chris Weilenmann (left) and Brian Jackson (right) explain the gas-electric hybrid power plant they helped develop for a pontoon boat to Bill Rose at the 2011 Innovation Showcase at ASU's Polytechnic campus.

Graphic Information Technology student Eduardo Rivas explains his program of study to an Innovation Showcase attendee.

Michael Majercak of Majer Precision (left) gets an under-the-hood look at a touch screen testing prototype device, developed as part of a capstone project by a team that included Eric Burgoyne (center) and Luis Gutierrez (right), during the College of Technology and Innovation expo at ASU’s Polytechnic campus.

The “A” on Tempe Butte shows off its patriotic side, courtesy of a recent color-scheme change.

Research professor Lee McPheters, director of the JPMorgan Chase Economic Outlook Center at the W. P. Carey School of Business, predicted slow growth throughout the rest of this year and next in Arizona, at the popular annual Economic Outlook Luncheon sponsored by the Economic Club of Phoenix.

To view the presentations, visit http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu.

Angela Davis spoke to a standing room only crowd at ASU's Neeb Hall, May 5. Davis addressed issues of education and incarceration in her remarks. The event was sponsored by Project Humanities and the ASU Art Museum. Following her lecture, Davis signed copies of her book and viewed the exhibit, “It’s not just black and white” by Gregory Sale at the ASU Art Museum.

ASU’s Center for Indian Education (CIE), now in its 52nd year, held a re-launch event May 6 to honor the work and people that have come before and to engage the future. Michael Begaye, director of American Indian Student Support Services, conducted a blessing ceremony in the center’s new spaces in Payne Hall. A formal program followed, keynoted by Monty Roessel, son of CIE founder Robert A. Roessel, Jr. and superintendent of Rough Rock Community School. The school was co-founded by his father, Robert, as part of the center’s early work.