Week in Review: Oct. 19-25
A student rides past the golden geodesic dome, which serves as a pavilion at Vista del Sol residence community.
The dome was part of the Valley National Bank, built in 1962, on the corner of Rural and Apache. ASU acquired the building and it served as the Visitor Center from 1989. The roof was removed before the building was demolished in the winter of 2006 to make room for the construction of the new Barrett Honors College campus.
The dome was recently installed at Vista del Sol. The university worked with the State Office of Historic Preservation to ensure they complied with the statutes governing historic preservation.
Rui Rodrigues, a sophomore, global studies major from California (center), chats with Jennifer Truong, a junior at the W.P. Carey School of Business and Neeraj Gupta, a senior majoring in electrical engineering, near the Starbucks in the Memorial Union on the Tempe campus.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard three cases on Oct. 19, at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at ASU. Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor joined Chief Judge Alex Kozinski and Circuit Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta for the annual session before students, faculty, staff and the public. The court hears appeals of cases decided by federal trial courts in nine western states and two Pacific Island jurisdictions.
Christopher Robinson participates in the National Day on Writing by using the "Smartboard" in the lobby of the Language and Literature building on the Tempe campus. Having just come from his Chinese class, he chooses that language to practice in. The nationwide event was sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English.
Saad Kahn, a freshman mechanical engineering student, gets from assistance with his math homework from Pravin Duseja, a sophomore industrial engineering major.
Chris Koehle, a sustainability major from New York, hands out aluminum water bottles at the 2009 Sustainability Day event in front of Hayden Library at the Tempe campus.
Campus Sustainability Day was an event to celebrate ASU's commitment towards being a more sustainable university and community, as well as to educate students on ways to be more sustainable in their own lives. USG's Green Team provided recycling services in addition to co-hosting the event with Students of Arizona Network for Sustainability.
Brittany Carter, a kinesiology major from El Paso (left) and Logan Dralle, a pre-law student from Wisconsin, select free plants, donated by Bonnie Plants, on the Starlight Terrace of the Memorial Union as part of Sun Devil Dining’s second annual “Eat Well. Live Well.” expo.
Joy Garnaat reads a story during Ollie’s Storybook Adventures at ASU’s Deer Valley Rock Art Center. Activities during the event included art, music and outdoor games at the facility on West Deer Valley Road in Phoenix. The next event will be “Ancient People of the Desert,” Nov. 6. For more information on the Deer Vally Rock Art Center visit: http://dvrac.asu.edu/
Tammy Kwong, a freshman nursing student from Mesa, Ariz., was one of a number of students from ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus and West campus, along with members of Club ASU and representatives of several sororities and fraternities, who spent part of their Saturday morning volunteering at the St. Mary's Food Bank in Phoenix. Teamed with some other volunteers from various church groups, the Sun Devils helped sort and package apples for inclusion in food boxes.
More than 80 students on teams from 10 Arizona high schools competed with "green" doghouses for desert climates that they designed and built. Mike Stanley of Gensler Architects and MK Racine of Mortenson Construction chat with Stephanie Jackson from Estrella Foothill HS about their school’s entry during the judging Oct. 24.
ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration held it’s annual Exploration Day on Oct. 24. The events were centered on the Physical Science complex, but included field trips to various nearby locations to go along with the interactive displays, entertainment and lectures.
Carlton Moore, founding director of ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies, shows Sara Brunwaser and her father, Gary Brunwaser some specimens from the Center's collection during Exploration Day.
Sebastian Cook (left), 8, and Richard Fisher, 10, use joysticks to control robots at the Mars Rover display area during Exploration Day.
Professor Jack Farmer, an astrobiologist from the School of Earth and Space Exploration, talks with visitors to the school’s Exploration Day events.