ASU's Week in Pictures

Jeremy Staat, alumnus and veteran, arrives at ASU during a stop on his "Wall to Wall" bicycle ride across the country to raise awareness and support for veteran services and causes throughout the nation. The tour began at the Wall of Valor in Bakersfield, Calif., Feb. 19, and will stretch 4,623 miles over the course of 100 days to the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. Friend and veteran Wesley Barrientos is accompanying Staat on the Wall to Wall tour. Born in Guatemala, Barrientos enlisted in the U.S. Army upon turning 18 years old. It was during his third tour of Iraq in 2007 that his military convoy was struck by an explosive device, resulting in the amputation of both his legs.

Led by Chris Rauschenbach, Jeremy Staat, alumnus and veteran, visits the Tillman Veterans Center in the Memorial Union on ASU's Tempe Campus during a stop on his "Wall to Wall" bicycle ride. For more about the trip, visit http://www.walltowallbicycleride.com/.

Jacqueline A. Berrien, chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, delivered the 12th annual John P. Morris Memorial Lecture in the Great Hall of Armstrong Hall at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. The John P. Morris Lecture honors John Peyton Morris, a faculty member of the College of Law from 1968-1993. Professor Morris was committed to the principles of justice and equal opportunity and worked tirelessly throughout his life to foster diversity.

Ricardo Quintero helps Tierra Ellis prepare for a 400 level psychology test. Both seniors, Ellis is a psychology major and Quintero is studying kinesiology.

Students from the Downtown campus participated in a walking tour hosted by the USGD's Universal Committee. The committee took the students to three local restaurants and a frozen yogurt shop with the goal of introducing students with different majors to one another and introducing them to the downtown area. Two Phoenix Ambassadors helped guide the tour.

Workers are making progress on the new building for the W. P. Carey School of Business on the Tempe campus. The new facility is being built just east of the two existing Tempe business buildings, located near Lemon Street and College Avenue and will primarily serve the business school's graduate students and W. P. Carey honors undergraduates when it is completed in June 2013.

Nearly 700 volunteers participated in the 2012 Devils in Disguise Service Day, March 10. Emma Jones, a junior sociology major, joined others to clean up Tempe City Park along Curry Road.

While some volunteers worked outside, others packaged food for the needy. From left to right, Sergio Lopez, Luis Aguilera, Kevin Keleher and Gozie Ibeji were among the volunteers who worked at over 20 locations throughout the Valley.

Joshua Abbott, assistant professor in the School of Sustainability, examines a voluminous data set of observations of fishing practices in the Bering Sea during a Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity Brown Bag event.

Krystal Oblesby (left) is part of the TEAMS program and is a student teacher at Tempe High School, where she works with students like Cierra Romero (center) and is mentored by teacher Jessica Hauer (right). To learn more about the TEAMS program visit https://asunews.asu.edu/20120312_teamsprogram.

The Sun Devil football team began their spring drills at the Bill Kajikawa Practice Facility. The public is welcome to come out and watch practices. To see the spring schedule visit http://www.thesundevils.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/013112aaa.html.

Dwight and Melanie Gaines drive their Nissan Leaf up to the new electric vehicle charging station in the Fulton Center parking structure, following a launch ceremony for the charging system. The station is one of six new electric vehicle charging stations on the Tempe campus. Learn more at https://asunews.asu.edu/20100314_ParkingandTransitElectricVehicleStations.