Education

Documentary filmmaker discusses climate change film, tips for aspiring filmmakers

Filmmaker Peter Byck presented about climate change and the process of making documentaries at Tuesday's Must See Mondays speaker series.

Community Conversations event brings public, journalists together to discuss politics

The Walter Cronkite School and the Arizona Republic will host an event for members of the public and journalists to discuss political issues that directly affect them.

Knight News Challenge awards eight grants totaling $2.4 million to mobile innovators

The Wikimedia Foundation received a $600,000 grant Friday from the Knight News Challenge competition at the Walter Cronkite School to fund a project that would provide access to Wikipedia from basic mobile phones around the globe.

New ASU laboratory and research facilities open on Phoenix Biomedical Campus

Student and faculty researchers in the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion moved into new laboratory and research facilities on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus Monday.

Local Fox anchor discusses meeting Obama in semester’s first Must See Mondays event

The Walter Cronkite School kicked off the spring 2013 installment of its Must See Mondays series with local news anchor John Hook of FOX 10, who spoke about interviewing President Barack Obama in November 2011.

Combine Studios sunflower art exhibit proves longevity of Valley of the Sunflowers project

ASU graduate students in the Herberger Institute School of Art’s printmaking program took the sunflower stalks grown during the last Valley of the Sunflowers season, turned them into paper and asked local artists to create artwork out of it.

ASU graduate named new Carnegie-Knight News21 program editor

Jacqueline Petchel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and ASU graduate, will be coming to the Walter Cronkite School next month as the new Executive Editor for the Carnegie-Knight News21 reporting program.

USGD appoints new director of administration, approves bylaw revisions

USGD displayed their new post office space, nameplates and polos during their first meeting of the semester on Friday and discussed a vacant Senate seat, a new director of administration and an overhaul of their bylaws.

Proposed committee restructure, new bylaws would simplify USGD operations

The current Senate bylaws are only a couple pages in length, while the document being proposed Friday is roughly 22 pages. The most significant change of policy deals with committees, Senate President Joey Amonett said.

Historic U.S. Post Office now home to finalized ASU Downtown campus student center

After two years of planning and construction, the ASU Downtown campus student center is finally unveiled for students and faculty.