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Assistant professor of sustainable horticulture Yujin Park is the recipient of the highly prestigious New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award , which includes funding of $150,000 per year for three years, beginning in July 2024. This award will enable Dr....

Updates on the successes of Homer Farms November 2023 We're incredibly honored to have been chosen as finalists in this year's Arizona Innovation Challenge @azcommerce 2023! It's truly humbling to stand alongside such remarkable companies, being the only farming...

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RJ Dog Park in Phoenix just got a little cooler. The dog park within the city’s Pecos Park — two acres of fenced-in grass and dirt patches with just a few small trees and little shade — is now home to Arizona’s first "Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling Ramada." The...

There are new high-tech cameras installed at 22nd and Alvernon, it's not to try and punish bad drivers but to study traffic behavior at the busy intersection. The project is being led by the company Sensagrate, based in Scottsdale. The company has launched similar...

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The United States uses about 37 million tons of plastic every year, according to management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Almost half is single-use, disposable plastic from the packaging and food service industries that largely ends up in landfills. The...

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The word “farm” might conjure up images of vast swaths of land covered by endless rows of crops. A vertical farm might conjure up images of scientists inside laboratories wearing starch-white lab coats, examining soil samples with microscopes. It’s time to remove...

Dr. Shade Shutters Ph.D. (Arizona State University) and Dr. Bastian Alm Ph.D. (German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action) will be presenting in a seminar through The Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona State University on...

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,...

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ASU has completed its heat test and study in partnership with 3M and the city of Tempe to potentially create cooler, more comfortable bus shelters. The study conducted by David Sailor, a professor at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and the...

Before it was built, the Mirabella at ASU community promised not only a beautiful living space but also the opportunity to take advantage of everything that Arizona State University has to offer. Nine months after moving in, the residents of Mirabella at ASU are fully...

New material being used on the roof of several bus stops in Tempe, Arizona is keeping people waiting underneath cooler. Watch on Accuweather.com

It’s easy to approach the future as a race to solve planetary problems like climate change and environmental destabilization that arise from human-actions–fixing the air we breathe, the ground we rely on, the water we depend on, and the myriad planetary systems that...

TEMPE, Ariz. - The heat in the valley can be unbearable at times, especially when waiting for public transportation. "It's so hot. It would be nice to have some sort of shade." Read more at fox10phoenix.com

TEMPE, AZ — Keeping cool in the Valley can be a huge challenge, especially as climate change drives temperatures higher. Arizona State University has teamed up with the company 3M to try to lower temperatures at Tempe bus shelters. They're using a specific film on top...

Arizona State University is working with 3M on a pilot project to lower the temperatures at bus shelters in Tempe. Ahead of installing new shelters throughout the city, Tempe began researching methods to keep the spaces cooler while riders wait for the bus — and that...

Warmer is the new normal in Phoenix. According to the recently updated average temperatures, we have seen a warming trend in both our daytime and nighttime temperatures. Read more on ABC15.com

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As robotics technology advances, robots will help with a variety of tasks, even supporting people to navigate the challenges of aging. A project led by Troy McDaniel, assistant professor of engineering at The Polytechnic School, one of the six schools in the Ira. A....

Cities generate the vibrant energy of society. However, they’re also the center of some of our most pressing sustainability issues — air and water pollution, urban heat islands, disease or security threats, and an increasing demand for resources. Read more on Full...