Business, meet Arizona State University’s engineers. This is what we can do for you.
That was the intent behind “Engineering the Future: Entrepreneurship, Partnerships and a Commitment to Innovation,” an event held Tuesday to introduce and promote collaboration between industry and the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
The Phoenix Business Journal co-sponsored the event.
Standing at the front of a large lecture hall as hundreds of college students streamed in with their books, bags and devices, headphones still in their ears, something dawned on William Heywood. They were distracted from the moment they came in the room.
Heywood, assistant director of The Design School at ASU, began starting each class with five minutes of what he called “centering.” Five quiet minutes where students were asked to unplug, breathe deeply and be present in the moment.
Veterans of the U.S. military will share personal stories of service and life after the military in "The Veterans Project," which will be presented at FilmBar in downtown Phoenix on Nov. 9. Currently in its fourth year, "The Veterans Project" is the product of an ongoing initiative at ASU to create space for veteran-civilian community dialogue. Five previous iterations have been performed in Tempe, Phoenix and Tucson since 2013.
Art and public policy.
They might not sound like they go together, but Kade L. Twist is proof to the contrary.
The ASU School of Art alumnus works today as both a multidisciplinary artist and a public-affairs consultant.
“[Art and public policy] feed into each other,” said Twist (pictured above). “It’s really about connecting narratives of indigenous self-determination with the public sphere.”
"The Sky is Falling..." (2016, 13:00), an experimental performance/video by Adriene Jenik, professor in the School of Art, was selected for the 2017 program of the International Video Art Festival in Madrid, Spain.
Curated into the program Video Performance - Memoria, the piece is featured alongside works from Greece, Sudan and Ukraine.
ASU Art Museum is the recipient of a two-year, $330,000 grant from the Windgate Charitable Foundation in support of the establishment of the Windgate Contemporary Craft Initiative. This gift will support a series of contemporary craft exhibitions, visiting artists and scholars, new acquisitions, conservation, public and university programs and student awards in contemporary craft.
ASU Art Museum has a long-standing commitment to this particular area of interest.
Visual LIT is a collaboration between the ASU Library and the ASU Art Museum that brings together visual artists interested in exploring different aspects of the library — from antique books to future modes of communication. The four participating artists are Fiamma Montezemolo, Euan Macdonald, Zhou Tao and Faivovich & Goldberg.
If necessity is the mother of invention, Arizona State University is a hotbed of midwifery.
The university celebrated opening a chapter of the National Academy of Inventors by honoring the 101 faculty and researchers who have earned patents or had their technology licensed by ASU.
Of the top 100 universities in the world for patents, ASU ranks 38th.
Arizona State University engineer Tom Sugar’s wearable robotics enhance human performance or help people overcome disabilities. One reason they’re successful is that they work with the user, not against them.
“We watch the motion of the user and use that motion to make adjustments to exoskeletons or wearable robots or that type of thing,” Sugar said.
The ASU Concert Band and the Harmony Project Phoenix are joining forces to present a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28 in the Evelyn Smith Music Theatre on ASU’s Tempe campus.
The concert features world premieres of commissioned works for Harmony Project Phoenix soloists, all of whom are primary or secondary school students. Music composition majors in the ASU School of Music wrote the concertos for soloists as part of an interdisciplinary project to learn about how to write music for young, developing musicians with advanced band accompaniment.
