Responding to a pandemic
We explore the role being played by Arizona State University’s Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security during the COVID-19 pandemic response. Melanie Gall, a co-director for the center at ASU, created a data dashboard tool during a Florida hurricane that has been replicated for use during the COVID-19 response.
She discusses how this critical tool — see it at https://arcg.is/0XeaWu0 — has become an important part of disaster planning in the state of Arizona. Center co-director Brian Gerber will talk about how we’re using “EmergencyCorps@ASU” for student volunteer engagement.
The effort allows students to serve communities in Arizona and elsewhere through response volunteerism, emergency preparedness exercises, planning support and the like. Both Gall and Gerber also spotlight the active role our students are playing in response to the pandemic.
NASA's LunaH-Map mission is set to launch in fall 2022. The miniature spacecraft, built by an ASU team, is roughly the size of a large cereal box. LunaH-Map will orbit the moon, mapping water-ice in shadowed regions of the lunar south pole.
The Phi Gamma Delta chapter at ASU doubles down on community fundraising efforts after a successful philanthropy event called Shave to Save helped raise more than $63,000 for the Translational Genomics Research Institute’s Center for Rare Childhood Disorders.
Research opportunities are now more easily accessible for ASU Online students through a new seed-funded program dedicated to giving students a competitive edge. Learn more about the OURS program.