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They are living markers of identity \u2014 reminders of generations who built lives in a narrow canyon shaped by copper\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222026-03-27T10:30:46-07:00\u0022\u003E03\/27\/2026-10:30am\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"With help from ASU\u2019s Project Cities, the historical town of Miami is attempting something both ambitious and deeply personal. 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The message was clear: Meaningful progress will require not just new ideas, but unified action across sectors.","teaser":"Hundreds of water experts from across the United States convened at Arizona State University last week to tackle the West\u2019s mounting water challenges, seeking solutions that go beyond scarcity toward coordinated systems, investment and c","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2026-03\/20260320%20Transforming%20Water%20212.jpg?itok=druN9dpa","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20260324-environment-and-sustainability-solving-wests-water-problems-will-require-tapping-multiple","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"ASU News","contributor-contact-information-name":"Marshall Terrill","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"480-727-5176","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\/2026-03\/20260320%20Transforming%20Water%20212.jpg?itok=druN9dpa","image_alt":"Looking down at groups of tables set out for an event in a courtyard","image_caption":"The \u0026quot;Transforming Water, West\u0026quot; conference, held on Friday, March 20, at the Walton Center for Planetary Health on ASU\u2019s Tempe campus, brought together technology leaders, researchers and entrepreneurs to explore water solutions for Arizona and the region. 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Through Indigenous planting workshops, student Chandlee Begay is blending cultural knowledge with sustainable agriculture, encouraging peers to see food as both nourishment and relationship.","teaser":"When Chandlee Begay sits down to eat the foods of his tribe, he isn\u2019t simply satisfying hunger.\u0026nbsp;","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2026-03\/20260304%20Chandlee%20Begay%20661.jpg?itok=s0YaY6cR","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20260316-environment-and-sustainability-seeds-memory-how-navajo-student-planting-culture-and","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"ASU News","contributor-contact-information-name":"Marshall Terrill","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"480-727-5176","contributor-contact-information-campus":"Polytechnic campus, West Valley campus","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2026-03\/20260304%20Chandlee%20Begay%20661.jpg?itok=s0YaY6cR","image_alt":"A young Navajo man stands in front of a garden leading participants in a planting workshop","image_caption":"Third-year Global Futures student Chandlee Begay leads a \u0026quot;Three Sisters\u0026quot; planting on March 4 at the Garden Commons on ASU\u0026#039;s Polytechnic campus. 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It\u2019s the largest source of zero-carbon-emissions power in the U.S., providing about 20% of the nation\u2019s total electricity.\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222026-02-18T10:07:11-07:00\u0022\u003E02\/18\/2026-10:07am\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"ASU researchers are working with communities through constructive and speculative approaches to reimagine how the nation makes decisions about nuclear storage.","teaser":"Nuclear energy is getting another look.","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2026-02\/26%20ASU%20News%20Banner_Nuclear%20Waste_R1.jpg?itok=QMq6PXek","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20260218-science-and-technology-asu-helps-communities-envision-solutions-nuclear-waste","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"Knowledge Enterprise","contributor-contact-information-name":"Alicia Barr\u00f3n","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"","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\/2026-02\/26%20ASU%20News%20Banner_Nuclear%20Waste_R1.jpg?itok=QMq6PXek","image_alt":"Collage with illustrations and photos of landscapes, discussions, and surreal elements.","image_caption":"Arizona State University researchers are empowering communities in efforts to solve the nation\u2019s nuclear waste problem through constructive and speculative approaches to exploring what it means to live near such sites. 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Alex Dymersky (left), EdgeConneX manager of power and sustainability, and Dado Slezak, QTS Data Centers executive vice president for power and energy strategy, listen. Photo by Quinton Kendall\/ASU","related_story":"","news_units":"School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning|Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory|The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences","interests":"Artificial intelligence|Microelectronics|Sustainable Engineering|Water|Water futures|Energy|Environment|Community involvement","audiences":"Faculty|Corporations|Community|Policymakers","locations":"Tempe campus","u_n_sustainable_development_goals":"SDG 09 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure|SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities|SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production","field_feed_herberger":"","field_feed_nursing":"","field_feed_knowledge_enterprise":"","content_type":"asu_news_article","field_saf":"Environment and sustainability"}},{"node":{"nid":"111186","title":" Love, learning and the algorithms of the heart","body":"On a quiet day in 2003, a visiting doctoral student from Germany sat down for lunch with a nervous first-year PhD student at an Ethiopian restaurant in Tempe. Neither could have known that the meal would become the first chapter of a partnership spanning continents, careers, classrooms and a\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222026-02-09T14:19:51-07:00\u0022\u003E02\/09\/2026-2:19pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"Two decades ago, an Ethiopian lunch at ASU sparked a partnership that would reshape how scholars understand love, technology and human connection. This Valentine\u2019s Day feature explores how ASU professors Martin Mende and Maura Scott blend a shared life and groundbreaking research studying relationships between people and robots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n","teaser":"On a quiet day in 2003, a visiting doctoral student from Germany sat down for lunch with a nervous first-year PhD student at an Ethiopian restaurant in Tempe.","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2026-02\/20260205%20Mende%20and%20Scott%20334.jpg?itok=Va1ZiFMq","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20260209-business-and-entrepreneurship-love-learning-and-algorithms-heart","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"ASU News","contributor-contact-information-name":"Marshall Terrill","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"480-727-5176","contributor-contact-information-campus":"Tempe campus, Polytechnic campus","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2026-02\/20260205%20Mende%20and%20Scott%20334.jpg?itok=Va1ZiFMq","image_alt":"Martin Mende and Maura Scott laugh as they sit next to each other in a lab.","image_caption":"Professors Maura Scott and Martin Mende discuss their exploration of how humans connect with robots in the robotics lab at ISTB12 on Arizona State University\u2019s Polytechnic campus in Mesa. 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The workshop, co-organized by\u00a0Impact Water \u2013 Arizona, a pillar of the\u00a0Arizona Water Innovation Initiative, a statewide project led by ASU\u2019s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory in collaboration with the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering,\u00a0was designed to address the unique situation in Willcox, where nearly all the water in the region comes from groundwater.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n. 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From the ancestral O\u2019odham\u0026nbsp;canal systems that carried water from the Salt and Gila rivers to today\u2019s cutting-edge community projects that help bring water solutions to\u0026nbsp;rural homes, communities here have adapted and collaborated to sustain\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-12-04T12:43:09-07:00\u0022\u003E12\/04\/2025-12:43pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"From the ancestral O\u2019odham\u00a0canal systems to today\u2019s cutting-edge community projects, water and innovation are inseparable in Arizona. That long legacy of creativity and cooperation is at the heart of\u00a0Arizona Water Innovation, a new exhibit led by\u00a0Arizona Water for All, a pillar of the\u00a0Arizona Water Innovation Initiative at Arizona State University.","teaser":"In Arizona, water and innovation are inseparable.","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2025-12\/ASUNewsHeader.jpg?itok=kJx1n3ZZ","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20251204-environment-and-sustainability-arizona-water-innovation-exhibit-highlights-thousand-years","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"Arizona Water Innovation Initiative","contributor-contact-information-name":"Faith Kearns","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"","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\/2025-12\/ASUNewsHeader.jpg?itok=kJx1n3ZZ","image_alt":"A man stands looking at a sign in a exhibition room with various Arizona water themes.","image_caption":"Visitors explore the Arizona Water Innovation exhibit at ASU\u2019s Innovation Gallery, which highlights more than 1,000 years of water ingenuity across the region. 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Established as a railroad and mining hub in the late 1800s, Patagonia has transformed over time into a community prized for its unique\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-11-19T14:54:37-07:00\u0022\u003E11\/19\/2025-2:54pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"At a recent workshop, community participants discussed the challenges Southern Arizona is facing in sustaining its most vital resource \u2014 water \u2014 and the actions they can take to meet them.","teaser":"In the small town of\u0026nbsp;Patagonia, Arizona, nestled in the rolling hills south of Tucson, water has long been both a defining feature and a pressing concern.","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2025-11\/ASUNewsheader.jpg?itok=XuuRIh6J","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20251119-environment-and-sustainability-charting-shared-groundwater-future-rural-southern-arizona","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"Arizona Water Innovation Initiative","contributor-contact-information-name":"Faith Kearns","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"","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\/2025-11\/ASUNewsheader.jpg?itok=XuuRIh6J","image_alt":"Four people sit at a table talking and listening intently.","image_caption":"Community participants at a rural groundwater workshop in Patagonia, Arizona, listen intently to each other discussing possible actions they can take. 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