Students settle into campus life during first week of classes

With a freshly painted “A” in the background, students filled ASU's malls and classrooms for the start of the fall semester.

Students crowd around campus maps to determine where their classes are located.

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Sophomore biochemistry student Steven Louge looks for his required organic chemistry books at the Student Book Center in Tempe.

Students head to and from classes along Tempe campus' Palm Walk. In the background is the first phase of construction on the new Student Health Center, which is scheduled to be completed in late September. Medical care for the Tempe campus will move into the brand new building in October and then renovation on the north part of the current Student Health Center building, built in 1968, will begin.

Beneath a piece of art titled "Stars," by Damian Jim, Evelyn Espinoza and Aaron Nicholas share a laptop to watch videos during a break in classes on ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus.

Students leave Taylor Place, the residence hall on ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus, en route to class.

The ASU football team held a public scrimmage in Sun Devil Stadium as part of the annual Select-A-Seat event. Quarterback Brock Osweiler threw for 137 yards and one touchdown.

Eleven new members of the Sun Devil Marching Band tuba section took part in the "tubas in the fountain" tradition, Aug. 20, where they were given their "band names" in Cady Fountain on Tempe campus.

Students pass in front of the Fletcher Lawn on ASU’s West campus.

Psychology major Jaclyn Matli works on her laptop in a breezeway on ASU's West campus.

Students head to class in San Tan Hall on ASU's Polytechnic campus. The building is designed to create indoor and outdoor spaces that take into consideration the desert culture and is a “green” building, built to meet the LEED silver certification standards.

Beck Boven, a junior electrical engineering technology major, finds the Devils Den in the Academic Center a quiet place to work on his technical writing assignment.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the Scottsdale campus of Mayo Clinic, Aug. 25, to signal the move of ASU's Biomedical Informatics Program to the Mayo Clinic's location.From left to right: Wyatt Decker, President of Mayo Clinic, CEO of Mayo Clinic in Arizona; Michael Crow, ASU President; Keith A Frey, M.D. vice chair, Mayo Clinic Executive Operations Team, ASU clinical professor; Sethuraman Panchanathan, ASU chief research officer; Elizabeth Capaldi, ASU Executive Vice President and Provost; Robert A Greenes, Ph.D. chair, ASU Biomedical Informatics Department.