When Thomas Czerniawski rides his bicycle to work every day among a sea of cars, he wonders if he might be crazy. In Tempe and the larger Phoenix metropolitan area — a region designed around car infrastructure — it sure can seem that way. However, he’s far from alone....
To a colleague who nominated Arizona State University Regents Professor Paul Westerhoff to be among the 2023 cohort of new National Academy of Engineering, or NAE, members, there was no doubt about the outcome. “His election was a slam dunk,” say Pedro J.J. Alvarez,...
As the number of farms in the US declines but the population continues to grow, cities are experimenting with indoor farming as a way to produce locally grown food for their residents. And some cities, like Phoenix, Arizona—the country’s fifth-largest by...
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Dmitry Zimin, a renowned scientist, entrepreneur and philanthropist whose Zimin Foundation helped create the Zimin Institute for Smart and Sustainable Cities at Arizona State University, passed away in December following a battle with cancer. Through his philanthropy,...