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ASU class examines need, solutions for sustainable food communitiesIt’s 72 degrees on a beautiful Thursday morning as the students in Jose-Benito Rosales Chavez’s Urban Food Systems class gather at Spaces of Opportunity, a community garden near 12th Avenue and Baseline Road. The students are given a tour of the 19-acre urban farm… |
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ASU secures top NSF funding in earth sciencesTwo of only five research projects funded from a 2013 National Science Foundation Frontiers in Earth Systems Dynamics (NSF-FESD) grant program are led by, or have primary researchers from ASU. ASU is the lead institution in a project investigating why Earth’s… |
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International music festival showcases ASU faculty, students, alumniTwenty-three music and dance faculty, students and alumni in Arizona State University's School of Music, Dance and Theatre are featured performers at the international Walled City Music Festival’s closing gala virtual concert on March 28. … |
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Amazonian peatlands may soon switch from a carbon sink to a carbon sourceUntil humans can find a way to geoengineer ourselves out of the climate disaster we’ve created, we must rely on natural carbon sinks, such as oceans and forests, to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. These ecosystems are deteriorating at the hand of climate… |
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ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration appoints new directorLindy Elkins-Tanton, an expert in planet formation and evolution, has been named director of Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration. Elkins-Tanton, whose appointment takes effect on July 1, comes to ASU from the Carnegie Institution for… |
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2 ASU experts join national panel to address security risks from climate changeMillions of farmers and their families — from Central America to Southeast Asia to Africa — have fled their homes amid drought and widespread crop failure. Forced to choose between flight or death, their numbers could swell to as many as 143 million by 2050, a U.S.… |
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What’s next for Arctic sea ice?The American Meteorological Society released its annual State of the Climate report Aug. 1. The report, compiled by National… |
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New species of archaeon named after ASU professorA recent manuscript published in The Archives of Microbiology documents the discovery of a hyperthermophilic archaeon in Yellowstone National Park. It is proposed that this archaeon be named in honor of professor Everett L. Shock who pioneered the integrated… |
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Temperatures rising: Current heat spell needed for monsoon, says ASU profWill this week’s high temperatures in Phoenix make it into the record book? Can we top 122 degrees Fahrenheit? We don’t know yet, but as we move through this extreme heat spell, one thing is for certain: The unpredictability of the weather means… |
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Hugh Downs celebrates unveiling of memorabilia collection at ASUHugh Downs was overwhelmed when he was asked to lend his name to the communication school at Arizona State University in 1999. “I about fell over,” Downs said, during a recent event that unveiled a collection of memorabilia at the school. “I have had so much… |