ASU's Week in Pictures

Spring has reached ASU with pretty purple blossoms outside of the Nursing and Health Innovation buildings at the Downtown Phoenix campus.

ASU honored 10 faculty members with 2012 Faculty Achievement Award at a ceremony, April 17. From left to right: R. Bruce Doak, Petra Fromme, T.R. Hummer, Daniel J. Hruscha, ASU President Michael Crow, Sherry Rankins-Robertson, Duane Roen, Tiffany Bourelle, Andrew Bourelle and Ajay S. Vinze. Also honored was Anne Feldhaus (not present). To learn more about these outstanding faculty members and their achievements visit https://asunews.asu.edu/20120418_faculty_excellence_awards.

Six faculty members were also named as 2012 President’s Professors, during the Faculty Excellence Awards ceremony, April 17. From left to right: Glen H. Hurlbert, Jennifer Fewell, Manfred Laubichler, Ileana Orlich, Eric Kostelich and Brad Allenby. To learn more about these outstanding faculty members and their contributions visit https://asunews.asu.edu/20120418_presidents_professors.

Ian Gould, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, chats with Shelly Carson of the ASU Parents Association. Gould was named as the 2012 Professor of the Year by the Parents Association for his lifelong commitment to science and his ability to inspire students to become innovative in often-difficult chemistry classes. Read more at https://asunews.asu.edu/20120418_gould_professoroftheyear.

Nancy Dallett, academic associate from ASU's School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, received the Dan Shilling Public Humanities Scholar Award from Thomas Wilson of the Arizona Humanities Council. The award recognizes a humanities scholar who has enhanced public awareness and understanding of the role that the humanities play in transforming lives and strengthening communities. Dallett has been practicing public history methodology for over 30 years across the United States on projects including museum exhibits, radio documentaries, historic preservation, interpretive signage, oral histories, cultural heritage tourism, and including public history to create more nuanced and collaborative public art. She has served as principal investigator for over 20 National Park Service projects including administrative histories, historic resource studies, cultural landscape interpretive signage, and museum planning and design.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Arizona Humanities Council, in partnership with ASU Project Humanities, presented Rita Dove as the keynote speaker for "Sharing Words, Changing Worlds." The Pulitzer Prize winning author and poet laurete shared poems from her most recent book, "Sonata Mulattica," about a young mulatto violinist's encounters with Beethoven.

A groundbreaking ceremony for the Student Recreation Center on ASU’s Polytechnic campus took place on April 16 with all the traditions observed. From left to right: John Lewis, mayor of Gilbert, Ariz.; Kylie Powell, student and Campus Recreation Board chairperson; Aaron Krasnow, dean of students on the Polytechnic campus; Mitzi Montoya, vice provost and dean of the College of Technology and Innovation; and Michael Crow, ASU President. The recreation center along with new dining and residence facilities will be completed in the fall of 2012.

The student recreation fields on the Tempe campus were used as a landing zone as Army ROTC cadets boarded National Guard Black Hawk helicopters the morning of April 12.

The cadets were flown to Camp Navajo, east of Flagstaff, Ariz., to participate in four days of training. The ASU students will be joining their counterparts from the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, Grand Canyon University and Embry-Riddle who are also taking part in the operation.

Jack Goldsmith, the Harry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School speaks on the subject, "The Accountable Presidency after 9/11," for the 2012 Edward T. Shoen Leading Scholars Lecture at the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law.

Prior to presenting the 2012 A. Wade Smith Memorial Lecture on Race Relations at Neeb Hall, author Tim Wise delivered remarks and answered questions from students in a session at the Memorial Union. The event was sponsored by ASU's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. To learn more visit http://csrd.asu.edu/.

ASU alumnus and Raytheon engineer James Villarreal (left) talks with students during Field Trip Day at the 2012 Engineering Open House. The first-ever event brought about 1,300 K-8 students to campus to take part in hands-on activities and tour labs to learn about engineering. Raytheon provided significant support for the event.

Clay Javurek, laboratory manager, provides a tour of the electrical engineering lab in the Goldwater Center for Science and Engineering during the Engineering Open House. The lab is one of the largest laboratory teaching areas for Fulton Engineering students.

Michael NiCastro, a senior sustainability major, explains the research on his poster to David McNeil, an environmental service manager with the City of Tempe. NiCastro, who did his internship under McNeil, researched the relationship between restaurants and sustainability and helped launch a sustainable grease, oil and fats cooperative. The poster session was the culminating event of SOS 484, the capstone internship class, required of all graduating undergrads majoring in sustainability.

Jack Amato, 6, gets into the Sun Devil spirit by sporting one of the new ASU baseball caps. The new uniforms were debuted at a blackout game, April 13, which kicked off a three-game series against Pac-12 rival Southern California that Sun Devils swept.

Players stand during the singing of the national anthem prior to the game, April 13. The Sun Devils also defeated the University of Arizona, April 17, for a win in the five-game Territorial Cup.

Sparky gets in the spirit and shows off the new baseball uniform. The Sun Devils travel to Palo Alto, Calif., for a three-game Pac-12 series with Stanford, April 20-22, while the softball team hosts Stanford in Tempe.

The ASU Staff Council celebrated the service and achievements of all the ASU staff with a BBQ on the Alumni Lawn in front of Old Main. The West campus event will take place on April 24 and the Downtown Phoenix campus event is scheduled for May 1.

Coach Todd Graham visits with the attendees during the ASU Staff Council BBQ.

Evgeny Morozov (speaking right), author of The Net Delusion, deliberates with Josh Levin (left), executive editor at Slate magazine, who is in charge of the magazine's technology and sports section, on whether the Internet has gotten better or worse. The talk was held at the ASU Washington Center and was part of the Future Tense initiative, a collaboration among ASU, Slate magazine and the New America Foundation. Read Morozov's Future Tense article.

Marie Johns, deputy secretary of the U.S. Small Business Administration, discusses the importance of supporting small and medium sized businesses to create sustained economic growth with Greg Stanton (right), Phoenix mayor. The discussion, moderated by John Hook (left), was part of the White House's Urban Economic Forum that was held at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication on ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus.