Education

Downtown students with smart phones will soon have a new tool to help them navigate around campus and downtown Phoenix. A mobile application for urban Sun Devils is in the earliest stages of discussion.

Tempers flared during the Downtown student government Senate meeting Friday when members from several ASU M.E.Ch.A. organizations tried to speak while the senate was discussing M.E.Ch.A. de ASU Centro’s funding request.

Emerging scholars at ASU gathered Friday evening at the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory to present 10 five-minute-long presentations on urban issues. PURL Jam is an exhibition that brings together up-and-coming scholars from a variety of schools and disciplines at ASU to showcase innovative urban research that explores all matters of spatial, historical, and theoretical inquiry using visual methodology.

A tunnel of maroon and gold waited at the corner of North Third Avenue and West Washington Street for the flood of pink that engulfed the streets of downtown Phoenix on Sunday. The group of nearly 100 ASU student athletes came out to the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure to volunteer and support their community.

Music from The Blaze competes with the chatter of passing students as they walk down Taylor Mall. Each year it seems like more students find themselves walking the familiar path to class. Classes seem fuller, crowds look larger.

A downtown panelist discussion covered sustainability issues in the year's first installment of an ASU discussion series, focusing mostly on solar power's potential effects on the economy.

Officials from the Federal Communications Commission visited the Cronkite School on Monday to discuss the changing landscape of media with the advent of new technologies.

News21 fellows presented their findings about food safety in the First Amendment Forum as part of the Must See Mondays speaker series, following recent publications in the Washington Post and msnbc.com.

The first Downtown Devil Discussion, a monthly town hall-style event hosted by this publication, was held Thursday in the Walter Cronkite School's First Amendment Forum.

Around 280 decision-makers from Arizona businesses, nonprofits and other sectors, including Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. and the Phoenix Philanthropy Group, will participate in the inaugural Nonprofit Leadership Forum Wednesday at Eight Arizona PBS studios in the Cronkite Building.