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Homer Farms updates

Homer Farms updates

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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A Solutions-Focused Approach Oct. 9, 2023 We will create value across the water technology sector in Arizona by focusing on identifying un-met stakeholder needs, catalyzing early-phase discoveries of materials, green energy sources and processes for water acquisition...

ASU research makes dog park cooler

ASU research makes dog park cooler

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...

Electrifying landfill plastic

Electrifying landfill plastic

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...

Farms of the future – State Press Magazine

Farms of the future – State Press Magazine

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...

What’s it like to bike in Tempe? ASU researchers want to show you

What’s it like to bike in Tempe? ASU researchers want to show you

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....

Accolade-worthy achievements

Accolade-worthy achievements

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,...

Inside Phoenix’s high-tech plan to grow its own veggies

Inside Phoenix’s high-tech plan to grow its own veggies

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...

Mirabella residents plugged into ASU campus life – news.asu.edu

Mirabella residents plugged into ASU campus life – news.asu.edu

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...

Co-Designing The Future – collegeofglobalfutures.asu.edu

Co-Designing The Future – collegeofglobalfutures.asu.edu

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...

ASU testing new material to make Tempe bus stops cooler – abc15.com

ASU testing new material to make Tempe bus stops cooler – abc15.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...