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Quest for invention: Data-driven ways to cope with COVID-19

Devils Invent gives ASU students an opportunity to learn and apply skills needed to solve the world’s biggest problems — including a particular pandemic.
School or unitEntrepreneurship
a view of a foot wearing a soft roboticankle-foot orthosis, or SR-AFO, exosuit

Taking steps toward ankle rehabilitation using soft robotics

A soft robotic project designed to assist with rehabilitation of the foot and ankle was awarded the top prize at the WearRA Innovation Challenge.
School or unitHealthRobotics
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program logo on an abstract gold background.

National fellowship supports tomorrow’s engineering leaders

Graduate students passionate about research and innovation take advantage of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program to study at ASU and beyond.
A student in the Grand Challenges Scholars Program at ASU wears a t-shirt that says “Challenge Accepted.”

ASU Grand Challenges Scholars ready to face a changing world

Eight new Grand Challenges Scholars graduated from ASU in Spring 2020 with the skills to address global challenges and become agents of change.
School or unitGlobal
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation device

Technology engineered at ASU 50 years ago helps battle COVID-19 infection

ASU engineers contributed to early design of a medical device to supply oxygen to people with lung and heart problems that is now aiding some COVID-19 patients.
School or unitHealth
Venus and Earth

Turbulent terrain: Peering beneath the Venusian surface

A team of ASU engineers and scientists takes on the challenge of making technology tough enough to probe seismic activity on one of the most forbidding planets.
Sze Zheng Yong writing on a white board

Yong enhancing the real-world safety and security of autonomous systems

Sze Zheng Yong is developing control synthesis tools to make autonomous systems such as self-driving vehicles and drones safe and secure under real-world uncertainties.
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Meet the exceptional graduates of Spring 2020

At the close of the fall and spring semesters, the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering recognizes select members of the graduating class for demonstrating academic excellence, extraordinary leadership and community service.
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Essential Reading: Books that edify, elucidate and enthrall

Fulton Schools faculty and staff members suggest books offering everything from profound insights to practical life lessons and thought-provoking absurdity.

Navrotsky selected for ACerS Distinguished Life Membership Award

ASU Professor Alexandra Navrotsky has been honored with a 2020 Distinguished Life Membership from The American Ceramics Society.
Kristen Eckman

Fulton Schools graduate goes above and beyond to complete four degrees in five years

Kristen Eckman is completing four degrees in five years, and plans to work as a propulsion test engineer in support of spacecraft development.
Jerry Lin

Jerry Lin named NAMS Fellow for achievements in membrane field

Jerry Y.S. Lin, an internationally recognized leader in inorganic membrane science, has been named a North American Membrane Society Fellow.
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ASU researchers provide a golden opportunity to improve cancer treatment accuracy

An interdisciplinary research team is developing a quicker, cheaper and more user-friendly way to measure cancer radiation treatment doses with gold nanoparticles.
School or unitHealth
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Sun-powered nanotechnology could supply clean water and renewable energy

A deeper understanding of the nature of chemical reactions is opening the way to a new method of decontaminating water by using sunlight and an engineered catalyst.
School or unitEnergySustainability
Aditi Chattopadhyay

Resilience in materials and in life

For decades, ASU's Aditi Chattopadhyay has endeavored to create responsive, durable materials.
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EPICS students look to improve usability of an Arizona treasure

Julie Larsen and Arianna Comes are working to develop a faster autonomous alert system for E. coli measurements in the Oak Creek Watershed.
School or unitEnvironment
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Harnessing forces of turbulent flow key to array of tech solutions

Yulia Peet is striving for a deeper understanding of fluid dynamics to spark advances in aerospace, mechanical, biomedical and energy engineering.
man in lab

Decoding design

Brent Nannenga is exploring biomolecular structures to advance nanomaterial synthesis as a 2020 National Science Foundation CAREER Award project.

Date range July 2020 – February 2020