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Members of the Navajo Nation COVID-19 Water Access Coordination Group working outdoors

ASU launches tribal coordination center to battle COVID-19

New ASU engineering research and outreach seeks to equip Native American authorities with data tools to better manage COVID-19.
School or unitSSEBE
graphic depicting six rows of images of sapphire membranes in triangles

Using sapphire for biosensing: A new way to shape the gemstone

ASU researchers create a scalable manufacturing process and demonstrate the first sapphire-supported nanopore membrane for high-performance biosensing.
School or unitECEE
illustration featuring a city with images of smart technology

Design experience challenges students to imagine pandemic-resistant smart cities

Innovative product design could produce high-tech solutions that give major urban regions stronger defenses against potential global health crises.
School or unitFulton Schools
gloved hand holding two blood sample viles

Mothers of children with autism have different metabolite levels

Research shows blood sample analysis of potential mothers could help predict whether they are at a higher risk of having a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
School or unitSEMTE
Benjamin Bartelle on "A" Mountain next to ASU's Tempe campus.

A germ of an idea: Turning a virus into a new tool to help brain disorders

A proposal to engineer the Zika virus into a tool to deliver treatments to the brain for mental illness and neurodegenerative disorders earns a fellowship award.
School or unitSBHSE
Bryan Duarte showing Miss Arizona 2018, Isabel Ticlo a demonstration of haptics technologies.

Sensory setback expands horizons for Fulton Schools PhD engineering grad

Overcoming his own challenges, Bryan Duarte has earned a doctoral degree in computer science and gained expertise to help others with blindness or low vision
School or unitSCAI
inside a lab, someone holding a vile

Cold storage is crucial to COVID-19 vaccine distribution

ASU Associate Professor Kristen Parrish discusses practical aspects of ensuring that vaccine doses stay cold and effective.
School or unitSSEBE
Assistant Professor Sydney Schaefer works in the Motor Rehabilitation and Learning Lab.

Reaching for meaningful mind-body connections

A new functional reaching task developed by ASU researchers can help understand older adults' cognitive abilities and predict future decline in aging brains.
School or unitSBHSE
image of a human hand and computer created hand touching an image of a human brain

Putting people into the engineering equation

As technologies become both more powerful and more autonomous, human psychology becomes a critical factor in engineering and how it will shape the future.
School or unitFulton SchoolsPOLY
A graphic depicting a silhouette of a head with icons related to time, the brain, medication, meditation, performance and health.

From a bundle of nerves to centered calm: Curiosity to creation

ASU research-based startup Hoolest is helping people in the community improve performance and relieve anxiety through applied neuroscience research.
School or unitECEEFulton SchoolsSBHSE
A graphic depicting a pilot and icons related to time, the brain, medication, meditation, performance and health.

From a bundle of nerves to centered calm: Finding clarity and new habits

Two Phoenix metropolitan area residents are benefitting from a device developed by neuroscience-research-based startup Hoolest, led by ASU alumnus Nick Hool.

Storytelling robots set to provide dementia relief

New research funded by the Zimin Foundation explores how storytelling robot technology can support older adults with dementia and their caregivers.
School or unitPOLY
photo of a person holding a tissue to their nose

Plotting droplets: New mathematical tools for more robust simulations

Mohamed Kasbaoui and Marcus Herrmann received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to work on a three-year project modeling complex fluid flows.
School or unitSEMTE
image of someone holding a smartphone with images of coronavirus

Keeping our communities safe one smartphone app at a time

COVID-19 hotspot notifications could soon appear on your mobile device thanks to an NSF RAPID grant for researchers at Arizona State University and Clarkson University.
School or unitECEE
Graphic of a heart made of polygons and interconnected lines.

ASU engineers get to the heart of organs-on-a-chip

Jaime Veldhuizen and Mehdi Nikkhah designed and validated a new heart-on-a-chip platform for use in disease modeling, drug testing and other cardiac research.
School or unitSBHSE

ASU and Zimin Foundation partner for future of urban tech

The new Zimin Institute for Smart, Sustainable Cities supports applied research projects to drive a people-centric vision for the future of cities.
School or unitECEEFulton SchoolsPOLYSCAISSEBE
A student holds a laptop and writes on a dry erase board.

Teens design back-to-school strategies amid COVID-19 pandemic

A tri-university virtual engineering design competition hosted by ASU tasked high school students to develop COVID-19 social distancing solutions for schools.
School or unitFulton Schools
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 unitSEMTE

Date range February 2021 – June 2020