Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable fall 2020 graduates.Olufela Joda graduates this month with a master’s degree in architecture, but he has no plans...
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ASU Art Museum announces 'Restless Balance,' a new exhibition by Boredomresearch
December 4, 2020
From the textbooks of ancient Greek physician Hippocrates to current research on the coronavirus pandemic, we know that human health is impacted by environmental factors. British artists Vicky Isley...
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Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts | Biodesign Institute | ASU Art Museum
New American Film School graduate finds hope in the classroom
December 7, 2020
Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable fall 2020 graduates. Accomplished students are frequently asked about their “aha moments,” when they discovered...
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New American Film School | Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
ASU doctoral student performs concert in international collaboration
December 8, 2020
Astrid Morales Torres, Doctor of Musical Arts student in piano performance, showcased Mexican music in a livestreamed concert this fall as part of an international collaboration between Arizona State...
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School of Music | School of Music, Dance and Theatre | Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
Doctoral graduate's excitement for teaching music spans international borders
December 9, 2020
Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable fall 2020 graduates.Doctoral graduate Soyeon “Sally” Kang always understood that for a performance, practice...
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School of Music | School of Music, Dance and Theatre | Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
ASU alumna awarded two prestigious conducting fellowships
December 10, 2020
During a year with little to no opportunities in the conducting field, Argentinean-born Arizona State University music alumna Michelle Di Russo has been awarded two esteemed conducting fellowships....
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ASU Commencement app offers grads an augmented reality experience
December 14, 2020
In an effort to provide fall 2020 graduates the best virtual ceremony innovation can create, a team of a dozen students from ASU’s Meteor Studio, in coordination with the XR at ASU initiative, ...
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School of Arts, Media and Engineering | Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
Waylaid by pandemic, ASU film students' projects get help from Hollywood
December 16, 2020
When film students at Arizona State University were unable to shoot their capstone projects because of the pandemic, the New American Film School reached out to Hollywood for help.
About two dozen...
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Indigenous writers featured at Queer Poetry Salon
December 17, 2020
It was the viral image of activist Allie Young leading a group of Navajo voters to an Arizona polling station on horseback that really drove it home for Diné poet Jake Skeets.“That to me is...
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Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts | Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
ASU team to create augmented reality memorial to child victims
December 29, 2020
The country’s reckoning with social justice this year has put a spotlight on America’s memorials. Who gets to be remembered forever, and who tells that story?Big monuments are expensive and immovable...
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School of Criminology and Criminal Justice | School of Arts, Media and Engineering | School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering | New American Film School | Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering | Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts | Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions
For the love of dance: Graduate student holds onto dream of career in dance
December 30, 2020
Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable fall 2020 graduates.Sumana Mandala graduated with her Master of Fine Arts in dance this December, two decades...
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ASU graduate lands dream job at gaming division
December 30, 2020
Kaden Hildreth just graduated from Arizona State University, earning a degree in digital culture with a concentration in film, and has already landed their dream job working at Achievement Hunter as...
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First residents move into Mirabella
December 31, 2020
Ruth Jones has found her forever home.It’s 20 stories tall, sits at the edge of the ASU Tempe campus and offers spectacular views of the Valley.“My forever home had to be someplace, and this is it,”...
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School of Music, Dance and Theatre | School of Life Sciences | Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation | Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering | Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts | ASU Gammage | The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | College of Health Solutions
What the audience didn’t see: Lessons learned from a canceled play
December 31, 2020
A play is more than what you see on stage. It’s casting and rehearsals, staging and building sets. It’s developing and learning choreography. It’s figuring out the lighting and any multimedia...
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More news about our talented faculty, students and alumni
ASU architecture professor honored as 2020 Educator of the Year
December 14, 2020
Elena Rocchi, a clinical assistant professor of architecture in The Design School within Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, was recently recognized as the 2020...
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