ASU's Week in Pictures

Joel Aldridge (foreground) an architecture student in The Design School, completes one of the four holes of a mini-golf installation installed at the Waste Management Phoenix Open to showcase the sponsor's sustainability efforts featured on the pro-golf tournament's course. Waste Management worked with 30 students and faculty in The Design School at ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts to create this innovative, interactive display to demonstrate recycling, gray water and solar energy initiatives that the company used in this year's tournament as well as the Valley's four eco-systems. Waste Management will award scholarships to 25 students from The Design School in appreciation for their efforts. Learn more about the project.

Hayfa Aboukier, University Innovation Fellow, announces the finalists for the Innovation Challenge at the Student Startup Summit and Demo Day at SkySong. The teams chosen will deliver pitches to a panel of final judges, Feb. 11 and the winners will be announced on Feb 13. To see a full list of the finalist visit http://innovationchallenge.asu.edu/finalists/.

Holding a large replica of their check, members of the second place team in the Demo Day Pitch competition are interviewed by 12 News. The team members present were (from left to right) Wayde Gyllenhaal and Gordon Freirich, seniors in mechanical engineering, and JJ Tang, a senior business major. Their company, Vantage Realized, developed an improved motorized wheelchair control device. The first place team, Bright Evolutions, was not present at the awards ceremony. For more on the competition, visit http://asustudentstartupsummit.com/.

Katherine Marshall of Georgetown University spoke at West Hall on "Taking Women and Religion Seriously: Intersecting Paths." Marshall is senior fellow at Georgetown University Berkeley Center on Religion, Peace and World Affairs. The event was presented by ASU's Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict's as part of the Marshall Speaker Series.

During a pep rally on the Fletcher Lawn, Sparky greets participants in the first ever Sun Devil Sleepover event on the West campus. Around 50 high school students and their parents responded to invitations from ASU and took part in a two-day orientation. While on the West campus, they were given tours, a lecture from Eric Ramsey and lunch at Barrett, the Honors College. A trip to Tempe for the ASU-Washington basketball game was also part of the activities, as well as spending a night in the dorm, thus the “sleepover.”

Elizabeth Vaughn, a junior majoring in social work, shows her Sun Devil spirit by creating a sign showing team support for an upcoming ASU basketball game. When finished, all the signs decorated the dining area of Taylor Place on ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus.

A couple of blocks north of ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus, the Phoenix Public Market, a program of Community Food Connections, sponsors Food Truck Fridays. The event has become a popular stop for student lunch breaks. Samantha Davis (standing), a freshman journalism student, takes a photograph of her friend Elisa Fankhauser, also a freshman journalism student. Davis wanted to remember all of the different types of foods that her friends were eating in order to have a lot to talk about for a presentation in Spanish class the following week.

Kristin Williams (left), an agribusiness and pre-vet major, gets some advice from classmate Kelley Hazel, an applied business and pre-med major, on how to fill out a chemistry lab assignment, as the two worked on their homework in the Agribusiness Center on ASU's Polytechnic campus.

ASU alumnus Bryan Belanger walks up the skylight steps on Hayden Lawn as a crew for The Oprah Winfrey Network films him. The segment is slated for a new series called “Lost & Found,” which features stories of discoveries and reunions. Belanger lost his backpack last year, which was returned by Dave Tally.

A student rides down Cady Mall, past the Memorial Union, late in the afternoon.

Josh Cantrell and Hannah Winters get comfortable while working on their laptops in the lower level of the Memorial Union. Both students in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Winters is studying aerospace engineering and Cantrell is majoring in mechanical engineering.

Students study on the Dean’s Patio by the W.P. Carey School of Business.

At a Future Tense book launch, Steve Coll (left), president of the New America Foundation and author Rebecca MacKinnon encourage the audience to move closer to the stage at the standing room only event hosted by the Embassy of Sweden. Mackinnon, the Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, was to be interviewed about her newly released book, "Consent of the Networked." Future Tense is a partnership between ASU, the New America Foundation and Slate magazine to explore emerging technologies and their transformative effects on society and public policy.

To read an excerpt of MacKinnon's book visit http://slate.me/xTchX9.