Education

The Phoenix chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses, along with AARP Arizona, held a conference on the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus Saturday to discuss the new health care laws including the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Social Security and more.

The conference, hosted in downtown's Phoenix Biomedical Campus, brought together leaders from medicine fields in the three major state universities to discuss the benefits of interprofessional health care.

In the past year and a half, students at the University of Arizona College of Medicine -- Phoenix have spent more than 4,000 hours volunteering in the community and helping to provide medical care for low-income or uninsured people.

ASU boasts more than 6,500 international students for the fall 2013 semester, but only a small number of those students have majors based on the Downtown campus. As a result, these students often face difficulties in receiving university services.

The city of Phoenix's efforts to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions have proven even more successful than expected. Announced at the Go Green Conference, Phoenix's rates were down by 7.2 percent since 2005, 2.2 percent higher than the original 5 percent goal.

In the first study of its kind, professors and researchers with the College of Public Programs Kristy Holtfreter and Michael Reisig looked into fraudulent scams specifically targeting the elderly. They found that the elderly are not more likely to fall victim, but are more likely to be targeted.

ASU Preparatory Academy got a makeover for its media center last week from the Pacific-12 football conference, which builds technology centers in the community of whichever university hosts the conference's championship game.

STEM education will become stronger and more standardized in Scottsdale, Flagstaff and Pinal County schools with the help of the Arizona Science Center thanks to a grant from the Helios Education Foundation. School officials hope success now will lead to more funding in the future.

Downtown Phoenix Community Encounters, a course offered by Barrett, the Honors College, at the Downtown campus, will welcome the community to a showcase Thursday evening where students enrolled in the course will demonstrate the different facets of the community they have been exposed to over the duration of the course.

Students at ASU’s College of Nursing and Health Innovation say the Phoenix Veterans Affairs program at the school has provided them with valuable practical skills.