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10 Questions All Funders Should Ask Before Supporting Tree-Planting Campaigns

In recent years, as the impacts of climate change have become more pronounced, tree-planting has frequently been touted as a “natural climate solution” to capture and store planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions while also conserving biodiversity and improving quality of life for people.

Lecturer and ASU Alum Gary Cabirac to Retire in June

While wandering Arizona State University’s campus in the late 1970s as a self-professed chemistry nerd, the young Gary Cabirac had no idea he would return and become a beloved lecturer in the School of Molecular Sciences.

ASU Women and Philanthropy Celebrates 20 Years of Making an Impact

In 2002, a small group of women leaders who were passionate about Arizona State University, and the community it serves, set out to make a difference.

3 ASU Faculty Members Awarded Course Redesign Grants

Earlier this semester, three School of International Letters and Cultures faculty members at Arizona State University were selected as winners of the school’s course redesign grant competition.

ASU Professors Use Institute for Humanities Research Funding to Support Research at ASU, Abroad

As the spring semester draws to a close, several School of International Letters and Cultures faculty members are wrapping up research projects they undertook with the support of funding from the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University.

Annual Earth Day Event Clears Trash Out of Rio Salado Riverbed

Over 100 volunteers spend their Earth Day cleaning a section of the Salt River as part of the Rio Reimagined Initiative

Physicists Embark on a Hunt for a Long-Sought Quantum Glow

A new approach could make it possible to detect the elusive Unruh effect in hours, rather than billions of years.

Machine Learning, Harnessed to Extreme Computing, Aids Fusion Energy Development

Linking techniques from machine learning with advanced numerical simulations, MIT researchers take an important step in state-of-the-art predictions for fusion plasmas.

A Smarter Way to Develop New Drugs

A new artificial intelligence technique only proposes candidate molecules that can actually be produced in a lab.

How Can We Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Global Computing?

Workshop hosted by MIT’s Climate and Sustainability Consortium, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing highlights how new approaches to computing can save energy and help the planet.

Researchers Develop a Paper-Thin Loudspeaker

The flexible, thin-film device has the potential to make any surface into a low-power, high-quality audio source.

Given What We Know, How Do We Live Now?

MIT's Council for the Uncertain Human Future convenes small circle groups to reckon with the climate crisis in solidarity.

New Lab, Equipment Offerings Planned at Auburn Will Advance Technology, Space Upgrades

Plans are underway for several new lab and equipment offerings at Auburn University that will advance technology and space upgrades for a wide array of students.

We Can Make Lawn Grass Greener, Says Plant Biologist

‘There is so much awesome biodiversity work going on in the Chicago area,’ Rebecca Barak suggests

Five Diseases Attack Language Areas in Brain

Each condition causes a different type of language impairment in primary progressive aphasia (PPA)

UH Students Participating in Earth Month Event

University of Houston will join 300 other colleges and universities on April 27

University of Houston Joins Consortium to Enhance Cybersecurity

‘Transformational’ Institute Funded by Department of Defense

Researchers Think Soot Can Help with the Energy Transition

Turning environmental pollutants into renewable solar energy while reducing carbon emissions may seem like something plucked out of a science-fiction film