ASU's Week in Pictures
Students in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications covered the midterm elections from all angles on Nov. 2. On the right, Dan Nettles does his last live shot of the night from outside the Cronkite School building, while Ekta Poudel operates the camera.
Collin Fleming runs the camera as Siera Lambrecht prepares for her live broadcast cut, from the Cronkite School’s First Amendment Forum.
Meanwhile, in the Cronkite News Service newsroom, Elvina Nawaguna-Clemente follows the progress of Arizona's Proposition 19.
Grad student Nick Newman (left) advises Whitney Phillips on her story about Proposition 111.
Cronkite student Mallory Kidd interviews Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett at the Phoenix Civic Plaza. At right, Desmond Miller handles the camera.
Alyssa Adams, a freelance producer and associate faculty member of the Cronkite School, briefs Aldo Vazquez for his live segment from the democrats’ event at the Wyndham Hotel in downtown Phoenix.
The Cronkite News Watch control room coordinated six live shots, plus activities in the studio, to broadcast all the election night coverage.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ psychology department congratulates these outstanding students who joined the ranks of U.S. Presidents, Supreme Court Justices, and Nobel Laureates by joining The Phi Beta Kappa Society in October. (From left to right: Chelsea Larmore plans to graduate in May 2012 with a B.A. in psychology and will focus her career on behavioral therapy or law; senior Lauren Busch will graduate May 2011 with a B.A. in psychology; Melanie Rue, also a senior who will graduate with a B.A. in psychology in May 2011, plans to earn a master’s in counseling work with adolescents and teens; Kellie Neilson plans to graduate in December with concurrent B.A. degrees in psychology and sociology.
The "Lost SOLS" play at the anniversary celebration of the School of Life Sciences becoming a division of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Staff members Rick Olson, left, and Elizabeth Makings, on keyboard, provided most of the vocals. Professor Robert Robertson, center, played lead guitar and professor Ron Rutowski played fiddle.
Senior Kristin Kiernan examines the dragonfly she just caught, as teaching assistant Joshua Gibson looks for more insects during the General Entomology Field Trip to the Tres Rios site south of Tolleson, AZ. The students have to collect 50 different insects as part of the class. For more info on entomology, biology and the study of the life sciences at ASU, visit http://sols.asu.edu/.
Senior nursing student Alexandra Orletsky works on her homework under the artwork of Laura Ingraham, one of seven artists participating a group show in the Vault Gallery in the University Center’s Information Commons at the Downtown Phoenix campus.
Kimber Lanning, executive director of Local First Arizona, spoke at the Memorial Union as part of the Seeking Justice in Arizona Lecture Series, sponsored by ASU's School of Social Transformation. The series features topics of broad concern, but with a local focus.
Ronald Rutowski speaks at a training workshop, held to help advance mentoring skills for undergraduate researchers. The workshop brought together faculty, staff and graduate students from ASU’s School of Life Sciences, the Biodesign Institute, the Department of Applied Sciences & Mathematics, the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences, the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, and USDA’s Agricultural Research Service.
Lori Alvord, the first Navajo woman to be a board certified surgeon, associate dean for Student Affairs and professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Central Michigan University, School of Medicine, chats with well-wishers during a reception and book signing at the College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation. Later that evening, in an event that was part of The Diversity Scholar Series, Alvord discussed her life and the career path that led to her work as a surgeon, author and a faculty member at an academic medical center.