The world’s food system faces major issues. Today’s rising climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian war against Ukraine continue to drive food prices, disrupt supply chains, and exacerbate justice and fair trade issues.
During the initial phases of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program, Arizona State University President Michael Crow had a conversation with Mastercard Foundation President and CEO Reeta Roy as they thought through the future of the scholars program and its desired impact.
He asked her some key questions about the alumni strategy for the program:
Two professors in Arizona State University's School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences have earned competitive and prestigious Fulbright Scholar Awards to research and teach in 2022–23.
The Environmental Humanities Initiative in the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University will explore vital lessons about the climate crisis and problems of scale this summer at the Global Humanities Institute.
South Asia — the geographic region composed of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — is home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Though nearly one-third of all Muslims reside in the region, existing scholarship is underdeveloped and often misrepresents and obscures the richness and diversity of Muslim identities and experiences.
In A.D. 400 the city of Teotihuacan, located about 30 miles northeast of Mexico City, was a thriving metropolis, the biggest city in the Western Hemisphere and so influential that the Maya wanted to be, as one previous ASU News article recounted, “Teotihuacan hipsters.”
By A.D. 750, the city had ceased to exist.
With minimal training and a severe lack of resources, teachers in refugee camps are still working to educate children, even as they all deal with violent displacement and a global pandemic.
That monumental task is now a little easier for a group of South Sudanese educators in four refugee camps in Ethiopia, thanks to efforts by Arizona State University.
What happens when something new, something inspiring, becomes — well — routine?
Alberto Rios, director of Arizona State University’s Virginia Piper Center for Creative Writing, began to feel that malaise three years ago.
People who like a good deal look forward to Amazon Prime Day all year long.
The annual deal event exclusively for Amazon Prime members offers two days of bargains on products from small businesses and top name brands.
But this year is going to be a little different.
Instead of offering the usual wide variety of goods, consumers might have to make do with less because of a lag in the world’s supply chain — another byproduct of the pandemic.
Arizona State University professors Valerie Hoekstra and Miki Caul Kittilson have received the C.
