When clients come into the Native Health center — a local clinic that provides health care for urban American Indians, Alaska Natives and other individuals — they often need more than a doctor’s appointment or a prescription.
Some of them need help getting a job, or food, or housing.
With online learning on the rise, more high school students are accessing their education fully online. Although online learning offers great flexibility, some students want more face time with their teachers and peers.
Since 2018, Arizona State University’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences has hosted hundreds of kids and teens at the West campus for SummerUp Camps — day and weeklong camps offering hands-on opportunities to explore everything from crime scene investigation and coding to sports, cybersecurity and more.
The construction industry is poised to grow dramatically during the next decade. In Arizona, there is demand for every type of structure from affordable houses to large industrial complexes, not to mention roadways and bridges needed to serve everyone now calling Arizona home.
In order for those buildings to take shape, there is a connected demand for the skilled trade workers and the construction management personnel who are vital to each project’s success.
The Del E. Webb School of Construction at Arizona State University has seen tremendous growth in the past five years, both in the number of students seeking a career in the construction industry and in the number of professors and instructors who are teaching the next generation of builders and construction professionals.
It started with a dream. Eleven years ago, Nancy Godoy was a graduate student in the University of Arizona’s Knowledge River library and information science program, imagining a way to center the lived experiences and knowledge of marginalized communities.
Visual communicators almost always work in the background as they employ a variety of technologies to generate awareness and interest, evoke emotion and inspire change or action. But while we see the results of their efforts almost everywhere, all the skills and labor that go into the work are rarely apparent.
Unlike those who work in retail or restaurants, tourism professionals not only need to interest people in their product; sometimes they have to convince them to travel a long distance for it.
And if they happen to be Indigenous peoples eager to welcome visitors to tribal lands, they may be further challenged to successfully attract audiences to places that are often more difficult to reach than those near major infrastructure and transportation corridors.
The roads we drive on are made up of crushed and screened aggregates of gravel and sand mixed with a petroleum-based asphalt binder that is a byproduct of the oil refining process.
The asphalt binder, which acts as a glue, is only 5% to 6% of the mixture but is the biggest determining factor of the cost per ton, says Hasan Ozer, an associate professor of civil, environmental and sustainable engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.
Beginning last summer, Arizona State University's Design and Arts Corps co-developed a new partnership with Emerson School, a school in Phoenix that teaches kindergarten through eighth grade.
