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Two Downtown campus students are part of a local nonprofit organization that trains service dogs and are expected to win a substantial grant to help give dogs to wounded community servants free of charge.

Mitchell Zuckoff, a journalist-turned-author, talked about his book that focuses on the plane crash, “Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II,” and how he put it together as the the speaker at the fifth annual Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture at the Walter Cronkite School Thursday night.

A contest seeking solutions for local and global challenges is inspring students to come up with new ideas for the Downtown campus.

ASU’s Parking and Transit Services center has experienced a dramatic decline in U-Pass sales after almost doubling last year's price.

Tuesday’s Downtown Devil Discussion focused on what the campus offers students and what it needs to do to keep them from leaving for Tempe.

In the 34-minute Senate meeting on Friday, the Downtown student government Senate flew through several funding requests and then appointed the chairs for four of its new committees.

Experts gathered at the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix to discuss the possibility of a massive water shortage as a result of record high temperatures in the state. The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU held the public discussion on Friday. The discussion titled “Will Arizona’s Climate Change Leave Us Thirsty?” included speeches from ASU research professors Nancy Selover and Ray Quay.

Singing, dancing and storytelling will be the tools used this Saturday to showcase diversity at the Arizona Humanities Festival at Civic Space Park.

The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation has awarded a two-year grant to the Walter Cronkite School and the University of Oklahoma to fund students to participate in the national Carnegie-Knight News21 fellowship.

Arizona Vote for Student Equality, a new student organization, strives to allow students on each ASU campus to vote on whether or not they support LGBTQ rights.