ASU's Week in Pictures
Team members participating in the ASU Innovation Challenge rehearse their elevator pitch for the last time prior to the competition, in a stairwell at the Memorial Union. Danny Worger, Josh Steele, Maxwell Wheeler and Brittany Duong of Engineers Without Borders-ASU are seeking funding to improve living conditions for community members of Bondo Rarieda, Kenya. They hope to provide the tools and resources necessary to implement water technology that will renovate a local surface dam that services the majority of the community. They were one of 30 teams competing in the Innovation Challenge.
Applyforall – a for-profit website that brings those looking for a new credit card together with the credit card issuers – was the grand prize winner of this year's ASU Innovation Challenge. From left to right: Howard Cabot, prize sponsor; Ammon Wolfley (holding Wess Wolfley); Vern Wolfley; Dennis Wolfley; and Jacqueline Smith, director of Social Embededness in the Office of University Initiatives. The team received a fully funded grant of $10,000, provided by Perkins Coie Law Firm – the sponsor of this year's grand prize.
Team members from G3Box call their teammate Billy Waters, who could not be at the Innovation Challenge awards, to tell him they picked up the second-place check for $5,000. The other team members consisted of Susanna Young (center) Gabrielle Palermo (right) and Clay Tyler (left). The team’s mission is to provide engineering design and manufacturing towards the conversion of steel shipping containers into low-cost, modular, and mobile medical clinics. To learn more about the Innovation Challenge, visit http://innovationchallenge.asu.edu.
More than 400 people attended the 2012 Ashoka U Exchange: Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education at Arizona State University. The Feb. 11 event included 28 workshops, a panel of university presidents from Ashoka’s Changemaker Campus network and an Innovation Awards Ceremony. Chris Meierling (right), human factors specialist with IDEO and Kimberly de los Santos (left), associate vice president and executive director of University Initiatives at ASU, facilitated the Embedding Institutional Innovators group workshop. The event follows the TEDxAshokaU event the night before. Learn more about the TEDxAshokaU event by viewing a video or checking out the gallery.
Author William DeBuys discusses climate change as part of the Public History Brown Bag Series. Drawn from his most recent book, "A Great Aridness," DeBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. The series is sponsored by ASU's School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. For more on the school and its upcoming events, visit: http://shprs.clas.asu.edu/.
Noam Chomsky lectured to a packed house in the Great Hall of the College of Law. Sponsored by the Muslim Law Students' Association and the ASU Students for Justice in Palestine, Chomsky discussed the history of the Palestine-Israel conflict, as well as his views of the roots of the conflict.
The Carson Ballroom in Old Main was filled with School of Life Sciences students, Feb. 9, who attended the Career and Internship Fair. At the Lab Support table, Julie Anderson (left) visited with Christine Orser, a post-baccalaureate student, while Shannon Shelby (right) interviewed Krystal Joshi, a junior biochemistry major. Lab Support, a staffing company for scientists, was one of 20 organizations taking part in the 8th annual event.
Junior mechanical engineering student Andrew Fowler (right) and sophomore aerospace engineering majors Favian Guzman and Sarah Easterbrook find the Engineering Student Center a comfortable place to prepare for an upcoming exam.
Isabel Carreno, a junior transfer student from Yuma, Ariz., who is studying at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, takes time between classes to make a sign supporting the ASU basketball team, at a table sponsored by the Sun Devil Spirit Club.
Psychology major Ana Zubia works on her laptop and enjoys fresh fry bread purchased from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.
The Taylor Place Residence Hall Association put on a Chocoholics event for their weekly Thursday activity to get students in the mood for Valentine's Day. With the slogan "Get Chocolate Wasted," students were invited to enjoy an assortment of fruit dipped in a chocolate fountain, along with other sweets.
Taylor Williams, freshman nutrition major from Memphis, Tenn., studies for her Biology 201 Practical using a whiteboard on her floor's lounge in Taylor Place.
ASU’s Graphic Information Technology (GIT) program participated as an exhibitor at the 26th “ASU Day at the Capitol,” Feb. 9. ASU hosted 47 Arizona House of Representatives, 21 Arizona senators, more than 200 legislative staff members and more than 100 community leaders and ASU advocates. Jessie Nichols and Brittney O'Rouke staffed the GIT booth for the event.
Sharon Burke, assistant secretary of defense for Operational Energy Plans and Programs delivers the keynote address at the “NET Zero at the Tactical Edge” workshop on ASU's Polytechnic campus. The two-day workshop brought together entities that are interested in issues relating to the development and testing of solutions for U.S. government partners related to green energy and sustainability, for small forward operating bases.
Lindsay Grant (left) talks to Larry Aguilar, of Glendale, Ariz., about robots during the Arizona Best Fest. ASU set up a tent at the event, which featured a variety of university organizations. To learn more about ASU’s presence at the centennial celebration visit https://asunews.asu.edu/20120214_gallery_bestfest.
Author and public speaker bell hooks delivered the keynote address for the Project Humanities spring kickoff, in a talk titled, “Race and Gender: Reimaging the Past,” Feb. 13. The following evening, hooks led a conversation about the book and movie “The Help.”
Regents’ Professor David Foster (left) and 2011 Professor of the Year Ileana Orlich (right) chat with Corin Braga before his lecture as part of the Project Humanities spring kickoff. ASU hosted the world and comparative literature conference, “Literary Imaginary and the Poetics of Truth.” The weeklong event explored different approaches to the specific competences of comparatism today. Braga, who is dean of the Faculty of Letters and professor of world and comparative literature at Babes Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania, led the conference with a discussion about Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato’s “The Blindness Complex.”