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Sarah Stabenfeldt with student in lab

Investing in cross-disciplinary innovators

The National Institutes of Health is awarding ASU a $2.1M grant to establish a doctoral regenerative medicine education program.
School or unitEducationHealth
Arizona State University students with a scalable water filtration system in Naki, Kenya.

Student engineers join forces with Kenyan communities for clean water

Fulton Schools students are applying their education to help an African country overcome its water challenges.
School or unitGlobal
Konrad Rykaczewski

The real reason we sweat

ASU Assistant Professor Rykaczewski reveals the key to optimizing cooling in extreme heat in a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
School or unitHealth
Mohamed Houssem Kasbaoui

Accelerating the flow of discovery

ASU’s Mohamed Houssem Kasbaoui is revolutionizing fluid dynamics simulations, cutting computation from months to hours to accelerate innovation.
Jordan Yaron

Uncovering psoriasis’s root cause

ASU researcher Jordan Yaron received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to uncover the root cause of psoriasis.
School or unitHealth
Assistant Professor Sui Yang, a researcher in the ASU School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, working in a laboratory. Wearing a blue lab coat and protective laser safety glasses, he adjusts an optical setup where glowing green laser light is visible.

ASU researcher unlocks novel way to control light at the nanoscale

Assistant Professor Sui Yang discovers a novel method to alter a materials' optical properties at the nanoscale using 3D printing.
School or unitManufacturing
Yi “Max” Ren and Yang Jiao look at a laptop screen.

ASU researchers to unlock materials design efficiency

Two ASU researchers earn an NSF grant to develop an AI model capable of reasoning beyond information published in literature, which has never been done before.
School or unitMaterials science

Tiny chips, big innovations

ASU and Applied Materials charge into the atomic frontier of semiconductor breakthroughs.
School or unitMicroelectronics
Photo of Kailong Jin holding up a petri dish

Unlocking smart polymer composite potential

Fulton Schools Assistant Professor Kailong Jin has received the 2025 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award to uncover the fundamental properties of novel polymer composites.

Spearheading next wave of human flourishing

Sandhya Susarla earns prestigious honors for contributions to the quantum computing field.

ASU alum Jim Lommen nurtures future engineers

ASU chemical engineering alum's generosity is paving a transformative path for future engineers.
Candace Chan holds a device in a lab.

ASU researcher to streamline battery recycling

Professor Candace Chan wins new seed grant to mitigate energy insufficiency.
School or unitBattery technologyEnergy
Two men standing on a stage and holding a laptop.

ASU’s data science dream team

Inaugural master’s degree cohort turns big data into big futures.
School or unitData science
Satheesh Kuppurao, Kyle Squires and Vik Banthia

Silicon dreams: Applied Materials advancing technology for a brighter future

Global giant invests in state-of-the-art facilities, leading-edge research projects and student scholarships at ASU.
School or unitManufacturingMicroelectronics
Brothers and Arizona State University chemical engineering alumni Ron and Stanley Hall.

Flashback to ’82: How ASU paved the way to success for Stanley and Ron Hall

Peter Crozier with students in lab

Intricate movements of tiny pieces of matter hold key to engineering innovation

Enhancing visualization of nanoparticle dynamics on materials’ surfaces opens paths to high-tech progress.
Yang Jiao, a professor in the ASU School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, is smiling and standing at a whiteboard in an office. There are bookshelves in the background.

ASU researcher Yang Jiao discovers special state of matter

ASU professor publishes a paper on a new exotic state of matter in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
School or unitArtificial intelligence
Kathy and Scott King

Alum’s journey to leadership shows the power of lifelong learning

ASU alumna's journey to senior leadership through constant skill acquisition.

Date range October 2025 – January 2025