Photo gallery: What's been happening at ASU
Steve Patterson unveils the planned upgrade of Sun Devil Stadium in a press conference, April 4. Learn more about the proposed renovations.
The top 13 Engineering Projects in Community Service teams presented their projects at Project Presentation Palooza held on March 13 at Skysong. The teams also presented posters before the presentations began. The top prize, the Engineering Dean’s Award of Excellence, went to the 33 Buckets Team: (seated) Connor Wiegand, (standing from left to right) Varendra Silva, Mark Huerta, Paul Strong and team leader Pankti Shah. For more information visit http://intheloop.engineering.asu.edu/2012/03/14/epics-project-presentation-palooza/.
Sander van der Leeuw (left), dean of ASU’s School of Sustainability, grapples with the definition of resilience in a discussion with Andres Martinez, co-director of Future Tense – a partnership between ASU, the New America Foundation and Slate magazine. Their conversation was one of many in a daylong event dedicated to “Defining Resilience.” To learn more about the event visit http://newamerica.net/events/2012/defining_resilience. Read Van der Leeuw's interview about resilience on Slate.
A media production team from the School of Human Evolution and Social Change spent spring break on location at Teotihuacan, Mexico, producing video segments for future museum exhibitions, as well as panorama photography elements for online classroom courses. Casandra Hernandez, from the Deer Valley Rock Art Center, and Ken Fagan, from ASU Public Affairs and a graduate student in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, interview Alejandro Sarabia, director of the archaeological site of Teotihuacan, in front of the Pyramid of the Sun.
John Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, discussed how the federal government is working to help the Southwest develop its solar potential during a session of the 2012 Solar Summit at the Arizona Biltmore Resort.
A century plant blooms next to Coor Hall on the Tempe campus.
In a presentation drawn from his forthcoming book, "From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of César Chávez and the United Farmworkers Union," Matthew Garcia explored the key philosophical differences among the leadership regarding the purpose of the union and the strategies it pursued towards the end of the 1970s during a history faculty forum, March 28. Garcia is professor of history and transborder studies, and director of Comparative Border Studies at ASU.
Katy Graves, a freshman journalism major from Tucson, Ariz., studies for her Sociology 101 class while enjoying fresh air on the terrace at Taylor Place, the residence hall for ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus.
Leon Begay, Ulysses Rivera and Elsa Landero prepare for a presentation. Begay is a civil engineering major, Rivera is studying broadcast journalism and Landero is majoring in justice studies.
The Bollinger Atelier Foundry has a tradition of hiring art school graduates from ASU. ASU graduate Perry Gilbert (right) and another employee pour molten bronze into molds at one of the foundries facilities in Tempe, Ariz. Learn more about the partnership.
Sparky, along with students and staff on the West campus, wore jeans as part of Denim Day, an international protest against sexual assault.
Work continues on the new dining, residence and recreation facilities at the West campus. The dorms and dining facility will be open in time for the fall 2012 semester and the recreation center is scheduled to open in January 2013.
The remodeling is finished, the fences are down and the Student Health Center held an open house to show off its new look.
ASU Health Services, the Photographers' Association and the School of Art in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, collaborated to bring wellness and the arts together to enhance the overall client/patient experience at the newly renovated ASU Health Services facility on the Tempe campus. An exhibition of works from the photographic art collection of the Northlight Gallery will be on display in the newly renovated Wellness Care Wing gallery.
Special guest DanYelle Williamson sings "Colored Women" from the show "Memphis" during the preview of the upcoming 2012-2013 Gammage Season. For more details on the landmark season at the landmark venue visit www.asugammage.com.