Professor Garth Paine and his team at ASU need your help recording sounds all around the ASU campuses.
Why? Because sound is a critical environmental indicator.
It is virtually impossible to turn on CNN, read the Wall Street Journal, go to a hospital, attend a university, or browse a bookstore without encountering a sea of Indian names and faces. In her new book Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America, author and journalist Meenakshi Ahamed examines the story of Indian immigration to the United States.
For policy makers, water managers, and others seeking to promote equitable access to municipal drinking water and reduce the environmental impact of bottled water consumption, the presence of unwanted tastes and smells found in municipal drinking water present challenges. In this seminar, Christy Spackman (ASU) and Susheera Pochiraju (Hazen and Sawyer; AWWA Taste and Odor committee) outline approaches to using the presence of environmental tastes and smells in municipal water as a community-engagement opportunity.
The ASU Diagnostics Roundtable: The Future of Testing in Turbulent Times brings together experts from academia, industry and government in Washington, D.C., to address the current issues and opportunities in diagnostics.
Join us to hear from experts discussing:
ASU alumni and friends are invited to attend a reception at the ASU Barrett & O’Connor Center. Join the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory for company and conversation about the integral role our planet’s oceans play in sustaining the Earth’s life-supporting systems and the initiatives underway at ASU to ensure thriving ocean futures. Remarks by Peter Schlosser, vice president and vice provost of global futures; Sally Morton, executive vice president, ASU Knowledge Enterprise; and Bill Curry, president of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. Join us!
In a regressive era, few policymakers seek neutrally competent analysis of technologies. Existing models of technology assessment will have to be rethought for a noisy environment rife with messaging by interested parties that range from armchair pontificators to industry lobbyists to federal agencies pushing internal agendas. To help serious-minded policymakers and policy influencers isolate meaningful signals from the noise—noise that seems likely to grow ever louder and more discordant—technology assessment should probe for points of policy leverage and become more sharply focused.
Does the Law of War Still Work? Reflecting on Gaza, Ukraine, and Current Global Conflicts
Molly O'Toole
O’Toole is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who reported for the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, and the Atlantic’s Defense One, in addition to writing for the Washington Post, the New Republic, and other media, a scholar at the Wilson Center whose work has been recognized by the Livingston Awards, the National Press Club, the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
Vann Newkirk II
Newkirk is senior editor at The Atlantic, and the host and co-creator of narrative podcasts Floodlines and Holy Week, 2022 Andrew Carnegie fellow, winner of a Peabody Award, named Journalist of the Year by the Washington Association of Black Journalists.
Suliman Baldo
Baldo previously directed the Sudan Democracy First Group, former UN Independent Expert on Mali and Independent Commission of Investigations in Côte d’Ivoire, former Africa Director at the International Center for Transitional Justice and the International Crisis Group, and a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch.