ASU's Week in Pictures
The School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) hosted its annual fall event – Earth and Space Exploration Day, held outside the Bateman Physical Sciences F-wing on Tyler Mall on the Tempe campus. The SESE community offered special science-related activities for students ages five and up, families, educators and anyone interested in exploring Earth and space alongside real scientists.
Mason Grabo, 8, picks out a selection of rocks, minerals and fossils, to spark interest about earth sciences, sponsored by Arizona Leaverite Gem & Mineral Society.
People brought in their own unidentified rock samples to ASU professor Jack Farmer, also knows as “Dr. Rock,” to analyze and identify.
Avinash Thiruvayipati (center), a master’s student in electrical engineering, explains the workings of a robotic vehicle he is helping to develop.
Over at the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera in the Interdisciplinary A building, a lunar sample rock was on display.
The lunar sample, a golf ball sized rock, officially known as “Apollo Sample 15555,” is on display in the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera exhibition area.
Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth V. McGregor (ret.) and interim dean Douglas Sylvester, of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, cut the ribbon at the dedication of the Ruth V. McGregor Family Protection Clinic, Nov. 1. Housed in Law’s Diane Halle Center for Family Justice, the clinic provides representation or advice to victims of intimate abuse in protection order and family law cases, using faculty-supervised student attorneys who experience a challenging education in the art of trial advocacy, public relations, community organizing and victim empowerment.
Phoenix attorney Howard Cabot (foreground, left) talks with students of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law during the fourth annual Justice for All night, Nov. 3, at the Phoenix Hyatt Regency. Cabot received the 2011 Justice for All award for Outstanding Commitment to Pro Bono Service for his work on behalf of people who cannot obtain legal representation, including a Sudanese detainee who had been incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay and charged with aiding 9/11 terrorists. Justice for All night also raises money for Law’s Summer Public-Interest Fellowship Program.
Courbyne Bufford, freshman fine arts major from Mesa, Ariz., works on a perspective drawing for her Drawing 1 class, in one of the lounge areas of the Memorial Union, on the Tempe campus.
Students shadows were projected on a screen in Peralta Hall, on ASU’s Polytechnic campus, and photographed as part of an assignment on back lighting for a photography class.
Lily Reynolds (left) and Regina Fanty, both freshman journalism majors, take a break between classes in the Starbucks at Taylor Place, on ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus.
Adrianne Macapinlac (center), Laura Lichty (right) and Mason Christensen (left) study for an upcoming biology test in a study room at the University Center.
Michael Chow, an award winning photojournalist with the Arizona Republic, was a speaker at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s Must See Monday speaker series. For more on upcoming speakers, visit http://cronkite.asu.edu/events/speaker.
Morgan Erquiaga, a sophomore health sciences major, works on her organic chemistry assignment in the sunlit courtyard of the University Center Building on the West campus.
Professor Matthew Garcia speaks at the Public History Brown Bag Series' last event of the semester. Garcia recently came to ASU from Brown University to become director of the Comparative Border Studies Program in the School of Transborder Studies and History. His presentation was taken from his most recent book, “A Moveable Feast: The United Farm Workers in the Era of the Grape Boycott,” which explores the formation of the most successful consumer boycott in U.S. history and the grassroots activists and union leaders who created it. For more on the speaker series, visit http://shprs.clas.asu.edu/events.