Education

Students of the Walter Cronkite School won in three of the seven categories in the 2011 Zenith Awards, a nationally recognized public relations contest for undergraduates.

A group of Walter Cronkite School students have developed a smartphone application designed to help downtown Phoenicians and visitors alike navigate the sixth-largest city in the country.

Two USG-D senators have resigned from their posts due to other commitments, leaving Barrett, the Honors College with no senate representation for the first time since the Downtown campus student government began operating two years ago.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist William K. Marimow will be joining ASU in the fall to lead News21, the multi-university investigative reporting initiative headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School.

The Walter Cronkite School's News21 program, which gives students an opportunity to become involved with in-depth reporting, has been funded for the next decade.

ABC anchor Christiane Amanpour is the newest recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, ASU announced Monday.

Fair Trade Cafe hosted a food tasting last week previewing a vegetarian lunch option available for ASU students next fall.

The dean of the Walter Cronkite School has been named vice provost of ASU Downtown and top-level vacancies in two other Downtown colleges are being filled with interim appointments, the university announced Friday.

A student at the Walter Cronkite School will be staging a silent protest Thursday on Taylor Mall after a recent conversation she held with a college dean concerning the obstacles Muslim students face in professional journalism careers.

Bernadette Melnyk will take on the roles of associate vice president for health promotion, university chief wellness officer and dean of the College of Nursing at OSU in September. Melnyk said she was not looking to leave ASU when OSU reached out to her.