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Recent Features
- Innovative Programs foster STEM education
06/02/2008
From junior high through high school and beyond, a variety of innovative ASU programs foster student interest and excellence in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
- The ASU-Teach For America Partnership
05/19/2008
Key players from the ASU-Teach For America partnership come together for a roundtable exploring how successful community-university partnerships are forged.
- Bridging the Health Information Gap
05/05/2008
Arizona HealthQuery unites university resources with community partners in an unprecedented effort to change the landscape of healthcare information in Arizona.
- Border Town Collaborates with ASU on Winning Project
04/21/2008
ASU partners with the Naco Fire District and other universities in an effort to change the environmental and economic landscape of one tiny border town.
- Fair Trade Ventures
04/07/2008
Three individuals engaged in a variety of fair trade ventures at ASU connect through a roundtable discussion about their diverse projects.
- Unique Journalism Programs Engage Community in Border Issues
03/24/2008
From photo essays to full color magazines, ASU faculty, staff and students prove that journalism is a great way to engage the community in examining complicated border issues.
- Connecting with Seniors Helps Valley Students Learn American History
03/10/2008
What's the solution to getting eighth graders excited about learning American history? Joan Miller's is to have her students talk to the some of the folks who helped shape it.
- Engaging Through Art and Performance
02/25/2008
ASU professor Olga Davis works with local artists and performers to find creative ways to engage the community regarding HIV/AIDS, mental health and substance abuse.
- Best Buddies – Redefining Friendship
02/11/2008
Best Buddies and their community partners are helping to answer the question: What is a friend?
- ASU and MLK: More Than Just a Day
01/28/2008
ASU’s annual MLK Celebration unites campuses, communities, and students of all ages
- ASU Professor Meshes Work and Community Activities for the Benefit of All
01/14/2008
Dr. Madelaine Adelman writes about the advantages of integrating her on-campus and off-campus activities.
- ASU and Teach For America Build Partnership for Greater Impact
12/17/2007
The Community Camera welcomes its first community guest writer, Andrea Stouder, executive director of Teach For America in Phoenix. Andrea shares her perspective on forging a mutually beneficial partnership with ASU.
- Community Members to Work with ASU & UA to Assess Health Care Disparities
12/03/2007
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a two-year grant to ASU College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation to better understand the causes and possible solutions to cancer disparities among minority women with breast cancer. Researchers from ASU and UA will collaborate with Mexican American and African American women from Phoenix and Tucson on this complex study.
- ASU Mentors Kindle Students’ Talents and Get Research Assistance in the Process
11/19/2007
Both sides win when high school students team up with ASU mentors to learn research techniques and provide support for research projects.
- ASU Students Start Community Ventures
11/05/2007
ASU students combine the concepts of entrepreneurship and social embeddedness to launch projects that improve communities both close to home and around the world.
- The Community Camera: A photographic survey
10/22/2007
Community Camera photographer Eliza Gregory shares images and thoughts from her travels documenting socially embedded programs and people who make partnerships happen in this photographic survey.
- Allies reach out to help communities
10/08/2007
Around the Valley, ASU’s Public Allies are making a difference in the diverse organizations they are working with their communities.
- ASU’s Photovoltaic Testing Lab gives “green” light to outreach projects
09/24/2007
ASU’s Photovoltaic Testing Lab at the Polytechnic campus does much more than test solar panels in the searing desert sun. Since its inception, the PTL has been making a difference in our community and around the world by increasing awareness about solar power as an alternative source of energy.
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Education-general
- ACES Provides Faculty with Resources for Creating Socially Embedded Courses
08/27/2007
Dr. Jan Kelly and Deborah Ball reveal how Academic Community Engagement Services (ACES) benefits both ASU and the community by creating socially embedded learning opportunities for students.
- Schools and Parents Work Together to Better Children’s Education
06/18/2007
By working with local schools and ASU in the Parent Institute for Quality Education (PIQE) program, Arizona parents learn to take an active role in their children’s education.
- High-Needs Schools Receive High Quality Teacher Training
04/09/2007
Education students become exceptional teachers by learning and working in high-risk school districts through the Professional Development School program.
- ASU’s Decision Theater Uses Virtual Reality to Plan a Better Future for Arizona
01/29/2007
ASU faculty and staff work with policy makers at ASU’s Decision Theater to create computer models and simulations that help predict the outcomes of future policies and establish more effective plans for the community’s future.
- Law Students Extend Legal Support to Domestic Abuse Victims
12/18/2006
ASU law students work with domestic abuse victims, shelters, and attorneys to make sure victims of domestic violence get the legal help they need through ASU’s Advocacy Program for Battered Women.
- Building Cultural Bridges: Community Outreach & Advocacy for Refugees
11/20/2006
ASU students involved in ASU’s Community Outreach & Advocacy for Refugees (COAR) program expand their knowledge of world cultures by working with refugees who have been resettled in Phoenix.
- Enriching Memories: The Project for Writing and Recording Family History
11/06/2006
Tales of wild birds and tornado encounters spring to life thanks to the Project for Writing and Recording Family History, an ASU program in which faculty and students work with community organizations to enhance skills in writing life stories and preserving family histories.
- Teaching the Business of Education: Leadership for Educational
Entrepreneurs Program
08/28/2006
Public education gains a new ally in the Leadership for Educational Entrepreneurs program – an ASU Master’s program that trains students across the nation in the business and education skills they need to start and sustain innovative charter schools.
- Building Knowledge and Understanding: The Community Learning
Center at ASU
10/09/2006
ASU and partnering university Tecnológico de Monterrey help empower the Arizona community through the Community Learning Center, offering community members online courses that help them learn life skills and further their education.
- Arizona Bullying Prevention Partnership
06/05/2006
This year thousands of children across the state will return to school knowing that bullying is being taken seriously by their entire school community thanks to a partnership involving Arizona schools, ASU, and others who are committed to making schools safe.
- Service at Salado
05/08/2006
Urban students get in touch with nature by exploring a habitat restoration project that takes science education beyond the classroom.
- Homeless Legal Assistance Program
04/10/2006
Each year ASU law students, in partnership with practicing attorneys in the community, provide legal assistance to over 1,200 homeless clients in the Phoenix area.
- Proyecto: La Familia (The Family Project)
03/27/2006
ASU researchers are working with 750 Mexican American families across the Valley in a study that will provide knowledge to benefit students in the future.
- Service Learning Program
03/13/2006
Each year hundreds of ASU college students apply the knowledge and skills they gain in the classroom to real life experiences through Service Learning.
- Arizona Mentor Society
01/17/2006
Founded by seven ASU students, the Arizona Mentor Society provides academic mentoring to local middle school students while emphasizing the value of a college education.
- Leaps and Bounds
12/19/2005
Leaps and Bounds teaches parents how to prepare their children for school success.
- Hunkapi Horse Program
11/29/2005
The Hunkapi Horse Program teaches life skills, personal development, and riding skills to more than 200 children and adolescents each week.
Education-sciences
- Photo Essay: Graduate Partners in Science Education (GPSE)
03/12/2007
Wonder what social embeddedness looks like in action? Check out the new ASU in the Community photo essay highlighting Graduate Partners in Science Education.
- Science Come to Life for Kids
03/12/2007
Science comes alive for junior high students conducting field experiments with ASU graduate students in the Graduate Partners in Science Education program.
- ASU Student Promotes Passion for Alternate Energy
12/04/2006
ASU student and firefighter Roy Miller collaborates with Payson communities to establish the first biomass heating system in Arizona.
- Sharing Stories of Science and Learning from ASU: Chain Reaction
09/11/2006
Get the inside story on Chain Reaction – an ASU science magazine for young readers that is exciting students around the world.
- Arts Leading Learning Model (ALLM)
06/19/2006
Drama activities merge with math and history lessons as ASU and Desert Harbor Elementary School provide students with arts-integrated lessons that improve their academic and social skills.
- Service Learning Program
03/13/2006
Each year hundreds of ASU college students apply the knowledge and skills they gain in the classroom to real life experiences through Service Learning.
- Ask a Biologist
02/13/2006
Since its founding in 1997, the Ask a Biologist web site has answered more than 18,000 life science related question from elementary and students and their teachers.
- Ecology Explorers
01/03/2006
The ASU Ecology Explorers program gives 2,000 students in 75 schools across the Phoenix metropolitan area the opportunity to conduct real scientific research in their own backyards.
Education-arts/performance
Education-social studies
Education-mathematics
- Building Knowledge and Understanding: The Community Learning
Center at ASU
10/09/2006
ASU and partnering university Tecnológico de Monterrey help empower the Arizona community through the Community Learning Center, offering community members online courses that help them learn life skills and further their education.
- Arts Leading Learning Model (ALLM)
06/19/2006
Drama activities merge with math and history lessons as ASU and Desert Harbor Elementary School provide students with arts-integrated lessons that improve their academic and social skills.
Education-language arts
Environment
- Students Build Bright Futures at ASU’s Summer Design Workshop
07/16/2007
Through hands-on projects and eye-opening field trips, high school students discover the possibilities available in the field of design at the Summer Design Workshop.
- Photo Essay: A Lesson in Space
07/16/2007
What is space? How do we create places? How do we mold it to create a sense of arrival and belonging? How we experience places? These questions were posed indirectly by a stack of wingspan-wide sheets of cardboard in the room at the Summer Design Workshop.
- Photo Essay: Graduate Partners in Science Education (GPSE)
03/12/2007
Wonder what social embeddedness looks like in action? Check out the new ASU in the Community photo essay highlighting Graduate Partners in Science Education.
- Science Come to Life for Kids
03/12/2007
Science comes alive for junior high students conducting field experiments with ASU graduate students in the Graduate Partners in Science Education program.
- ASU’s Decision Theater Uses Virtual Reality to Plan a Better Future for Arizona
01/29/2007
ASU faculty and staff work with policy makers at ASU’s Decision Theater to create computer models and simulations that help predict the outcomes of future policies and establish more effective plans for the community’s future.
- ASU Student Promotes Passion for Alternate Energy
12/04/2006
ASU student and firefighter Roy Miller collaborates with Payson communities to establish the first biomass heating system in Arizona.
- Sharing Stories of Science and Learning from ASU: Chain Reaction
09/11/2006
Get the inside story on Chain Reaction – an ASU science magazine for young readers that is exciting students around the world.
- Stardust Guadalupe Build Project
07/03/2006
ASU students and community volunteers take advantage of a unique hands-on experience to build an energy efficient Stardust Center home in Guadalupe.
- Service at Salado
05/08/2006
Urban students get in touch with nature by exploring a habitat restoration project that takes science education beyond the classroom.
- Service Learning Program
03/13/2006
Each year hundreds of ASU college students apply the knowledge and skills they gain in the classroom to real life experiences through Service Learning.
- Ecology Explorers
01/03/2006
The ASU Ecology Explorers program gives 2,000 students in 75 schools across the Phoenix metropolitan area the opportunity to conduct real scientific research in their own backyards.
Health and Wellness
- ASU Departments Team Up to Improve Community Health Care
08/13/2007
ASU’s Escalante Health Center and the Office of University Initiatives team up to discover the difference Escalante is making on Arizona’s quality of life – and how it can improve its services.
- ASU Partners with Guadalupe’s Las Fuentes Clinic to Provide Better Health Care
06/04/2007
By working with patients at Las Fuentes Clinic in the Town of Guadalupe, Dr. Carol Baldwin and her nursing students learn how to develop more culturally-relevant treatments that will improve health care in Arizona.
- Learning and Teaching in the Field: Dr. Sarah Tracy
03/26/2007
For Dr. Sarah Tracy, working with the community creates better university research and helps organizations address problems in the workplace.
- Women Find Answers Through Trauma Intervention Program
02/26/2007
Dr. Dominique Roe-Sepowitz and her students guide former prostitutes through Esuba Arizona, a rehabilitation program that helps prostitutes heal themselves.
- Teaching the Art of Compassion: Herberger College of Fine Arts and Mayo Clinic Partnership
10/23/2006
Performing arts enter the medical field as ASU Herberger College of Fine Arts theatre students enact end-of-life crisis situations with Mayo Clinic nurses to help sensitize nurses to the needs of chronically ill patients.
- Center at ASU
10/09/2006
ASU and partnering university Tecnológico de Monterrey help empower the Arizona community through the Community Learning Center, offering community members online courses that help them learn life skills and further their education.
- Giving Children a Voice: An Interview with Dr. Stephani Woodson
08/14/2006
Wondering how you can make your research benefit the community? Dr. Stephani Woodson explains how she uses her expertise as a theatre artist to help children communicate effectively with adults – and offers suggestions for doing socially embedded work.
- New Beginnings Program
07/17/2006
Psychology research enters the courtroom when ASU’s Prevention Research Center teams up with Superior Court of Arizona to create new programs for divorcing families.
- Arizona Bullying Prevention Partnership
06/05/2006
This year thousands of children across the state will return to school knowing that bullying is being taken seriously by their entire school community thanks to a partnership involving Arizona schools, ASU, and others who are committed to making schools safe.
- Homeless Legal Assistance Program
04/10/2006
Each year ASU law students, in partnership with practicing attorneys in the community, provide legal assistance to over 1,200 homeless clients in the Phoenix area.
- Proyecto: La Familia (The Family Project)
03/27/2006
ASU researchers are working with 750 Mexican American families across the Valley in a study that will provide knowledge to benefit students in the future.
- Breaking the Cycle Community Health Care
12/05/2005
Breaking the Cycle Community Health Care provides free and reduced-cost family planning services to 1,200 uninsured clients per year.
- Hunkapi Horse Program
11/29/2005
The Hunkapi Horse Program teaches life skills, personal development, and riding skills to more than 200 children and adolescents each week.
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Technology
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