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When you\u2019re experiencing life in the foster care system, you seldom stay at one school long enough to create such relationships.But that all changed when the spring 2025 Outstanding Graduate of the School of Community\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-05-06T17:00:03-07:00\u0022\u003E05\/06\/2025-5:00pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"Daniel Maldonado was a quiet teenager who made few friends in high school. When you\u2019re experiencing life in the foster care system, you seldom stay at one school long enough to create such relationships. But that all changed when the spring 2025 Outstanding Graduate of the School of Community Resources and Development entered college.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n","teaser":"Daniel Maldonado was a quiet teenager who made few friends in high school. 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The answer steered the Outstanding Graduate toward exploring the cycle of victimization.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n","teaser":"April Walton\u2019s interest in criminal justice started with a question: Why do prosecutors press weightier charges against some defendants and not others, even if their actions were similar?","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2025-05\/April%20Walton%20photo_crop.jpg?h=c80e494c\u0026amp;itok=6yGBX64q","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20250505-sun-devil-community-grads-experience-observing-brothers-conviction-influenced-her-decision","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions","contributor-contact-information-name":"Mark J. 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CREW Act\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-05-05T12:57:04-07:00\u0022\u003E05\/05\/2025-12:57pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"Deena Khoury lived emergency management long before earning an Arizona State University degree in it. Khoury was a part-time reservist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency in its the Uniformed Services, governed by the Civilian Reservist Emergency Workforce Act. 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Hitchhiking across Canada, Armstrong found himself in the city of Winnipeg in the dead of winter.With nowhere to go, he made his way to the Salvation Army.\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-04-28T14:57:26-07:00\u0022\u003E04\/28\/2025-2:57pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"For National Volunteer Month, we explore the ASU scholarships that incorporate volunteerism, impacting not only the communities they serve but also the students themselves.","teaser":"By MelIt was the 1970s.A young Jim Armstrong was what he calls a \u201chippie.\u201d","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2025-04\/image%20%282%29%201.jpg?itok=ivOSF-Fx","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20250428-university-news-power-purpose-asu-scholarships-emphasize-service-community","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"ASU Enterprise Partners","contributor-contact-information-name":"Melissa Bordow","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"480-965-7737","contributor-contact-information-campus":"","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2025-04\/image%20%282%29%201.jpg?itok=ivOSF-Fx","image_alt":"Two women volunteering.","image_caption":"Amy Armstrong (right) shares a break with scholarship recipient Meg Morgan, a senior nursing student, while volunteering at the Rancho Feliz Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit that serves the community of Agua Prieta, Mexico. After Armstrong lost both parents by the time she was 15, her then-boyfriend\u0026#039;s parents \u2014 now her parents-in-law \u2014 Jim and Jo-Ann Armstrong, were inspired to create a scholarship for students who lack parental support, are wards of the court, are in foster care or live independently.  Volunteering is incorporated into their scholarship. Courtesy photo","related_story":"","news_units":"School of Community Resources and Development|Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering|Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation|ASU Foundation|College of Health Solutions|Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation|W. P. 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Research being conducted at ASU is helping to identify the challenges middle-aged adults face and developing solutions to make midlife better.","teaser":"Adults in midlife comprise a large percentage of the country\u2019s population \u2014 24 percent of Arizonans are between 45 and 65 years old \u2014 and they also make up the\u0026nbsp;","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2025-03\/pexels-olly-3931861.jpg?itok=EUXdcc-c","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20250304-science-and-technology-asu-research-seeks-solutions-challenges-faced-middleaged-adults","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"Psychology Department","contributor-contact-information-name":"Kimberlee D\u2019Ardenne","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"480-965-7598","contributor-contact-information-campus":"Tempe campus","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2025-03\/pexels-olly-3931861.jpg?itok=EUXdcc-c","image_alt":"Four adults sitting in a row, smiling and giving thumbs up next to a large window, with a white brick wall in the background.","image_caption":"Middle-aged adults, who make up a large percentage of the U.S. population and a majority of the workforce, experience worse mental and physical health than older generations of Americans and same-aged peers in other countries. Arizona State University research has identified the challenges middle-aged adults face and is developing solutions to make midlife better. Photo by Andrea Piacquadio\/Pixels","related_story":"","news_units":"Department of Psychology|The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences","interests":"Community service|Healthy Living|Health care|Psychology|Community involvement|Science|Social science|Research","audiences":"Faculty|Community|Policymakers","locations":"Tempe campus","u_n_sustainable_development_goals":"SDG 03 Good Health and Well-Being","field_feed_herberger":"","field_feed_nursing":"","field_feed_knowledge_enterprise":"","content_type":"asu_news_article","field_saf":"Science and technology"}},{"node":{"nid":"104279","title":"Accreditation helps build exacting standards, public trust in law enforcement agencies, ASU professor says","body":"Accreditation is a tool police agencies can use to help assure the public that sworn personnel adhere to high professional standards, says an Arizona State University professor who recently completed nine years as a commissioner of the leading national law enforcement accrediting organization.Yet,\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-02-06T11:07:50-07:00\u0022\u003E02\/06\/2025-11:07am\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"Police agencies can use accreditation to help assure the public that sworn personnel adhere to high professional standards, says an ASU professor who recently completed nine years as a commissioner of the leading national law enforcement accrediting organization.","teaser":"Accreditation is a tool police agencies can use to help assure the public that sworn personnel adhere to high professional standards, says an Arizona State University professor who recently completed nine years as a commissioner of the leading nat","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2025-02\/iStock-2179831474.jpg?itok=xkb4VkLS","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20250206-local-national-and-global-affairs-accreditation-helps-build-exacting-standards-public","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions","contributor-contact-information-name":"Mark J. 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