Week in pictures
Students descend the stairs in the Student Services Building.
Tyler Eltringham, ASU sophomore studying geographical sciences and urban planning, is the CEO of OneShot, a nonprofit organization that provides meningococcal meningitis vaccinations to college students. Because the funding model of OneShot emulates TOMS Shoes, in a one-for-one fashion – for every meningitis shot purchased on a university campus, they donate a vaccination to the meningitis belt of Africa – Eltringham was chosen to introduce Candice Kislack, TOMS chief strategy and mission officer, at her appearance at ASU’s Polytechnic campus.
Following her talk titled, “One for One: Building Communities One Step at a Time,” Kislack (right) talked with students about their future plans. From left to right, Daki Nawarantne, Juliet Martinez, Yohana Arreguin and Stetson Finch.
Wendy Kopp, CEO and founder of Teach for America, participated in a conversation with ASU President Michael Crow during the Fall 2011 Frank Rhodes Lecture on the Creation of the Future. ASU and Teach For America partner across four key areas: Teach For America Recruitment, Teacher Support and Development, Alumni Leadership and the Phoenix Institute. The ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College also has adopted many of Teach For America’s most successful tools in order to attract, prepare, support and retain more highly effective teachers through the Sanford Education Project.
Astrobiologist Paul Davies, a theoretical physicist at ASU since 2006, returned to Newcastle University in the UK to receive the Robinson Prize in Cosmology. Davies was professor at Newcastle from 1980 to 1990 before moving to the University of Adelaide in Australia. From there he helped establish the NASA-affiliated Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University in Sydney, where he applied his expertise in physics and cosmology to the search for life in the universe.
The leaves of the Chinese Pistachios by the Student Services Building begin to turn their fall colors.
Behind the scenes, the snake exhibits in the Life Sciences building require intensive care and attention. Susan Neill-Eastwood removes a snake to clean its habitat. Neill-Eastwood has been through six months of training to teach how to safely handle the creatures. The snake being removed is a Prairie Rattlesnake, one of the few females snakes on exhibit. Due to her finicky nature, she is called “Princess.” The majority of the snakes exhibited are venomous, but the department has a spotless safety record: no bites and no escapees in its 50-plus-year history.
Melissa Montoya is a costume coordinator in the School of Theatre and Film, part of ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, and is taking her gift wrapping skills acquired in high school to compete in the Scotch Brand Most Gifted Wrapper Contest in New York City, Dec. 2.
The second floor of the University Center on ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus provided a location for students Caitlyn Mitchell, Hillary Badger, Trey Williams and Ben Henderson (left to right) to work on a project for the Masters of Public Administration class.
Mary Margaret Fonow, director of the School of Social Transformation (right), listens as Luis Fernandez, a 2005 ASU doctoral graduate in justice studies who is now an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northern Arizona University, discusses the "Occupy Wall Street" movement and its larger social context.
Brent Landau, assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Oklahoma, gives a lecture on “Christmas from the Wise Men’s Point of View: The Revelation of the Magi, an Early Christian Apocryphal Writing" as part of ASU’s Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies lecture series.
Author Aimee Bender greets fans and signs books following a reading at ASU's Lyceum Theatre as part of the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series presented by The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. Ms. Bender also conducted a public craft Q&A earlier in the day at the Piper Writers House on the Tempe campus.
The nice Thanksgiving weekend weather lured residents outside, some of whom explored the Tempe Town Lake Pedestrian Bridge which was completed in October of this year. The bridge spans the west end of the lake and connects the Tempe Center for the Arts to the north shore of the lake.
Construction is under way for the Villas at Vista del Sol, with the 104 three- and four-bedroom apartments and townhomes ready for the Fall 2012 semester.