Celebrating public service
When ASU’s Public Service Academy debuted in 2015, it was one of a kind. Since then, the program has become a model for universities across the country, educating the next generation of public servants and empowering students to change the world through public service. PSA students also have the opportunity to join the Next Generation Service Corp, a four-year leadership development program where students study their chosen major while working on real issues in the public, private and nonprofit sectors — all while pursuing their own chosen social mission. And through the Next Generation Service Partnership (launched by Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions and Volcker Alliance), ASU’s national initiative focuses on expanding public service opportunities throughout higher education, across the country.
The goal of The Rio Reimagined project is to restore and revitalize more than 55 miles along the Salt and Gila Rivers, which wind through six cities, including Phoenix and Tempe, and two Native American communities.
As the most innovative school in the nation, every year, ASU devotes one special week to create a collaborative space for innovators. During Innovation Week this year, ASU will also kick off Innovation Quarter — a five-week long event (Dec. 7–Jan.
NASA's spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, recently collected a sample from the asteroid Bennu with the help of ASU's Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES), which was built on the Tempe campus.