ASU's Week in Pictures
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton speaks at the press conference to officially announce a partnership between ASU and the City of Phoenix for the ASU baseball team to play in Phoenix Municipal Stadium, starting in the 2015 season. To learn more, visit: asunews.asu.edu/20130423_baseball_phoenixmuni
Students relax in the quad at the West campus between classes.
S. James Anaya, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, delivered a conference keynote address at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law on April 19. The conference, titled "Can International Law Support Changes to Federal Indian Policy? Implementing the United National Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" reflected on the declaration's development and how it can be used to develop more just federal Indian policy.
Professor Robert J. Miller of Lewis & Clark Law School addressed the audience at the April 19 conference. Miller will join the ASU law faculty in August. He is joined by professor Patty Ferguson-Bohnee, faculty director of the College of Law's Indian Legal Program, and associate professor G. William Rice, University of Tulsa College of Law, and co-director of the Native American Law Center.
Liz Limberg directs a group of fifth-graders in a game of "cut the cake" at the Junior Coach Leadership Conference for Playworks Arizona. Playworks is a national nonprofit organization that transforms schools by providing play and physical activity at recess and throughout the school day. Limberg is an ASU alumnus who graduated in 2009.
Joseph Little, a freshman electrical engineering major, completes some homework in the Coor Computing Commons on the Tempe campus.
Carl Schneider (class of 1964) helps with the cord ceremony during the Veterans Graduation Reception in the Secret Garden on the Tempe campus. Veteran graduates are given a red, white and blue honor cord to wear at graduation ceremonies.
Jeremy Staat, ASU alumnus, former NFL player and ex-marine, speaks at the garden reception. Staat is the founder and president of the Jeremey Staat Foundation.
Laurence Garvie (right), collection manager of ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies, stands with meteorite collector Fredric Stephan as he showcases the rare sample he has donated to the center's collection. The meteorite may be the first known visitor from planet Mercury. To learn more, visit: asunews.asu.edu/20130503_mercury-meteorite.
The rare meteorite piece donated to the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies is believed to be one of the rarest meteorites ever found - the first known visitor from planet Mercury. The piece was donated by Tucson collector Fredric Stephan.
Nick Jarvis (left), a senior management major with an entrepreneurship emphasis; Tyler Story (center) and Phil Kockerbeck, a senior in communications, work on a bike in their garage. The three started a company called Down2Mob last year, restoring and selling used dirt bikes and bike parts. Learn more about how their startup has taken off at asunews.asu.edu/20130501_startup_down2mob.
Vicente Solis (left) and Rigo Polanco place used coffee grounds in the flower beds by the Memorial Union fountain on the Tempe campus. Solis came up with the idea to take used grounds from Starbucks on campus and reuse them as fertilizer. To learn more, visit: asunews.asu.edu/20130430_grounds_for_grounds.
Engineering undergraduates Ian Kubik (standing) and Tyler Lemonds confer over CAD drawings for an ASU instrument that will launch in 2016 on a NASA mission to an asteroid. They and two other engineering students are working on the instrument, which is being built at ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration. To learn more, visit: asunews.asu.edu/20130503_OTES_students
Ravi Karad, a master's student in computer science, lines up with other students to grab food for Finals Breakfast at Pitchforks in the Tempe campus Memorial Union. Finals Breakfast helps kick off finals week with food and fun. The breakfast event took place on all four campuses with three locations serving breakfast on the Tempe campus.