In his essay, Happily Ever After: Storytelling and the Long View, Ed Finn argues that changing our frame of reference – taking a longer view of history – can help us change the world. Finn is the founding director of ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination.
Addressing a crowd of nearly 2,000 people in ASU’s Gammage Auditorium at the first Wrigley Lecture of 2015, renowned journalist and author Thomas Friedman contended that maintaining our freedom is going to require a major value adjustment.
The inaugural Morrison-Cronkite Quarterly Poll – which surveyed 754 Arizonan adults statewide to assess opinions on a variety of issues – articulates the top two priorities among Arizona’s residents: education and water.
The latest installment of the “Sustainable Cities” series explores the valuable research conducted by CAP LTER on urban ecosystems, and features insights from Senior Sustainability Scientist and CAP LTER Director Nancy Grimm.
ASU’s new National Sustainability Teachers’ Academy – a program of the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives – aims to bring teams of elementary, middle and high school teachers from across the nation together to establish a task force for sustainability education.
In an effort to improve prospects for generations to come, ASU scholars in the emerging discipline of environmental humanities use a combination of humanistic scholarship and scientific research to address humanity’s struggle to think in the long term.
In anticipation of a Future Tense event on technology and the future taking place in Washington, D.C., Sethuraman Panchanathan discusses why “The best adaptive technologies are designed by, not for, people with disabilities” in Slate magazine.
ASU researchers are exploring new energy storage technology that could give the lithium-ion battery an even longer life, a development that would have a positive effect on technologies such as grid storage and electric vehicles.
Field ecologist and conservation biologist Heather Bateman was recognized for her dedication to the leadership and professional development of her students with the 2015 Award for Professional Service, presented at the annual meeting of the Arizona and New Mexico chapters of The Wildlife Society.
In recognition of his advancement of engineering and science in logistics, sustainability scientist Pitu Mirchandani has earned the Avnet Chair in Supply Chain Networks, a role that positions him to further research in the field using sophisticated modeling technology.
