There is a deep history of Black people and African Americans in the Southwest that has been erased and forgotten, explains Meskerem Glegziabher, clinical assistant professor at Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Glegziabher recently published an essay, “Where Are All the Black Folks?
On Dec. 14, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest-achieving students from the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities at the fall 2022 convocation.
Each semester, departments and schools within The College select outstanding students who have demonstrated a steadfast commitment to academic excellence during their time at ASU. These students will be awarded a prestigious Dean’s Medal in honor of their scholastic achievements.
Editor’s note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable fall 2022 graduates.
Communication graduate Chris Green has been fortunate to be able to apply the skills and knowledge he gained from his communication classes at Arizona State University's Hugh Downs School of Human Communication to his student worker job in marketing at ASU.
ASU’s Alexandra Navrotsky has been awarded the Czochralski Medal from the European Materials Research Society, their highest honor for lifetime research achievement in materials science.
The medal was to be given at the society's meeting in Warsaw, Poland, in 2020, but that meeting was canceled due to COVID-19. It was instead presented at the society's recent meeting in Boston by European Materials Research Society President Juan Ramon Morante in a ceremony during a session on modern materials thermodynamics, which was organized by Navrotsky and colleagues.
Due to public health issues like the opioid crisis and the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, innovative cities have turned to new technologies to better understand the risks to their communities.
One of these technologies is wastewater-based epidemiology, an emerging field that can track the types of chemicals and viruses in sewers as a public data tool for municipality-wide public health and safety policies and interventions.
Editor’s note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable fall 2022 graduates.
Thomas Pozsonyi is the recipient of the Department of Economics Dean Medal for Fall 2022, which recognizes the top graduating student in the economics program at The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
For centuries, the darkness of the night sky sparkling with stars and the glow of the moon has been an inspiration and wonderment to scientists, artists, philosophers and the casual observer. Gazing up at the night sky — just how dark is it?
Editor’s note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable fall 2022 graduates.
Originally from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, Nivedita Mahesh says she was encouraged by her family, teachers and mentors to follow her lifelong passion for science.
Jinni Su, an assistant professor in Arizona State University's Department of Psychology, knows the importance of scientific research in the fight against addiction, mental health problems and substance abuse.
Editor’s note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable fall 2022 graduates.
When Tyler Richey-Yowell signed up for physics during high school in her hometown of Chesapeake, Virginia, she didn’t expect to discover how much she loved learning how physics could explain how everything worked, from dropping a pencil to how our universe formed.
