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As a flying crew chief in the United States Air Force Reserve and previously on active duty, he traveled the world supporting\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-12-12T11:15:15-07:00\u0022\u003E12\/12\/2025-11:15am\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"When Brandon Garlitos began his academic journey at ASU, he was already balancing a demanding military career with a full slate of responsibilities. That commitment carried through his academic journey. 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As part of the first cohort of the Distinguished Innovation Fellows, Sheffield found fulfillment through a project designed to ease isolation faced by people in retirement or by children in the foster system.","teaser":"Kaden Sheffield was retired, but she wasn\u2019t done.","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2025-12\/20251209%20Kaden%20Sheffield%20514.jpg?h=32924a51\u0026amp;itok=_r6rISzi","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20251211-sun-devil-community-asu-program-empowers-older-adults-create-change-their-community","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"ASU News","contributor-contact-information-name":"Mary Beth Faller","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"480-727-4503","contributor-contact-information-campus":"Tempe campus, ASU Mesa Center for Creative Technology, California","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2025-12\/20251209%20Kaden%20Sheffield%20514.jpg?h=32924a51\u0026amp;itok=_r6rISzi","image_alt":"A woman stands on a staircase","image_caption":"Kaden Sheffield was in the first cohort of the Distinguished Innovation Fellows at ASU. 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That changed when she realized her passion while scrolling through a Wikipedia page about languages.\u201cI didn\u0027t have any real plans to go back to school, but one day I\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-12-10T10:54:36-07:00\u0022\u003E12\/10\/2025-10:54am\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"Judith Guerrero, the School of International Letters and Cultures\u2019 fall 2025 Dean\u2019s Medalist, is taking what she learned in her double majors of Italian and English linguistics into a summer internship at the Biblioteca Classense, housed inside a Camaldolese monastery built in 1512 in Ravenna, Italy.","teaser":"After leaving her previous university, Casa Grande, Arizona, native Judith Guerrero wasn\u2019t sure when she\u2019d return to the classroom. 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But it does a good job of acting like it.It is capable of replicating how we speak, how we write and even how we solve problems.So it\u2019s easy to see why many consider it a threat, or at least a challenge, to our humanity.\u0026nbsp;That challenge is at the heart of a new book titled \u201cAI\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-12-05T17:01:58-07:00\u0022\u003E12\/05\/2025-5:01pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"An ASU professor and Thunderbird alum have teamed up \u2014 with a little help from AI \u2014 to publish \u201cAI and the Art of Being Human,\u201d a practical, optimistic and human-centric guide to navigating the age of artificial intelligence.","teaser":"AI is not human. 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To him, this\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-12-04T16:25:07-07:00\u0022\u003E12\/04\/2025-4:25pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"Richard Lingua, who has been fascinated with history since he was a teenager, says earning his degree is how he will unify his life experiences thus far and move on to the next phase. 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He came alone, the only one of his four siblings eligible for a visa.Gill had dreams for sure; he had begun film school in his native Pakistan but put\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-12-01T16:12:28-07:00\u0022\u003E12\/01\/2025-4:12pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"Originally from Lahore, Pakistan, Simon Gill is graduating from Arizona State University this fall with a Bachelor of Arts in film (film and media studies) that he earned online. He said the flexibility and admissions support he received from from the university made all the difference.","teaser":"When Simon Gill first arrived in the U.S. in 2016, he wasn\u2019t thinking about making art.At the time, the then-26-year-old was focused on survival. 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On that day, more than 50 years ago, Kim Phuc\u0026nbsp;became\u0026nbsp;an unwilling figure of the Vietnam War.\u0026nbsp;In 1972, the 9-year-old was photographed running through the\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-10-31T13:48:33-07:00\u0022\u003E10\/31\/2025-1:48pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"More than 50 years ago, Kim Phuc\u00a0became\u00a0the unwilling figure of the Vietnam War when the 9-year-old was photographed running through her village after a military napalm attack. \u201cI survived because of one unwavering choice: the determination to live,\u201d she told an audience during this year\u0026#039;s\u00a0Wrigley Lecture Series kickoff at ASU.","teaser":"Before she became a symbol of warfare, Kim Phuc was just a little girl from a Vietnamese village \u2014 until fire fell from the sky. 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Sandoval has devoted his career to studying and celebrating D\u00eda de los Muertos\ufeff, the Mexican tradition that honors the dead. 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