Arizona State University (commonly referred to as ASU or Arizona State) is a national space-grant institution and public metropolitan research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the U.S. state of Arizona. It is the largest public university in the United States by enrollment.
Founded in 1885 as the Tempe Normal School for the Arizona Territory, the school came under control of the Arizona Board of Regents in 1945 and was renamed Arizona State College. A 1958 statewide ballot measure gave the university its present name.
In 1994 ASU was classified as a Research I institute; thus, making Arizona State one of the newest major research universities (public or private) in the nation. Arizona State’s mission is to create a model of the “New American University” whose efficacy is measured “by those it includes and how they succeed, not by those it excludes”.
In 1968, the idea of romance between the races was still a controversial proposition. That made it all the more revolutionary when an episode of Star Trek featured a kiss between black and white characters, the first interracial kiss on American TV.
Nervous about how southern television viewers would react, NBC executives closely monitored the filming of the kiss between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.
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The career arc of Nichelle Nichols – the first black woman to have a continuing co-starring role on TV – shows how diverse casting can have as much of an impact off the screen as it does on it.
Prison jobs are always low paid, often difficult, and produce many of the foodstuffs and services many Americans use every day.
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Enslaved workers used to grow cotton and mill flour. Now prisoners grind beef and crate eggs. Here, a historian explores Americans’ troubling habit of consuming the products of slave labor.
A 2002 protest against clergy sex abuse.
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An expert explains how a complex set of canon laws and trials are the major obstacle to holding priests accountable. The power to take action is often vested in the Vatican.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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The financial crisis provoked by the lira’s fall isn’t the true drama in Turkey. The real drama is a democratic transformation threatens the increasingly authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Interested in a juicy burger grown in the lab?
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Cultured meat comes from cells in a lab, not muscles in an animal. While regulatory and technological aspects are being worked out, less is known about whether people are up for eating this stuff.
The Latinoamericana Tower stands amid smog in Mexico City.
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The victory of a Democratic Socialist in a New York primary will not lead to the dictatorship of the proletariat. It’s an incremental addition to the long history of moderate socialism in the US.
Roy Orbison’s hologram performs with an orchestra.
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Critics say hologram tours exploit the dead for a quick buck. But there’s something about Roy Orbison’s ethereal mystique that makes this one a particularly fitting tribute.
The coworking company, WeWork, has banned meat, citing an attempt to reduce its carbon footprint. For centuries, philosophers have made a moral case against meat-eating.
Presidents Trump and Putin in Helsinki.
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Donald Trump admires Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Putin’s track record over his career reveals a serial liar, and presents damning evidence of complicity in multiple critics’ violent deaths.
Donald Trump, taking the presidential oath of office in 2017.
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Donald Trump has lately been called “treasonous” by some; others say he’s violated his oath of office. What are the president’s Constitutional obligations – and who holds the president accountable?
Wildland firefighters, like this crew heading into New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, in 2012, are equipped and operate differently from urban firefighters.
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A historian of wildfires explains the difference between urban and rural fire cultures, and what it means for protecting communities in fire-prone rural areas.
An aerial view of Seligman, Arizona, looking west, dated March 12, 1971. Route 66 bisects the town.
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‘The Mother Road’ is one step closer to becoming a National Historic Trail, which would allocate funds for struggling towns along the original Route 66.
Plaintiff Mark Janus, right, speaks outside the Supreme Court
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The Janus decision by the Supreme Court is a serious legal and financial blow to unions and their hundreds of thousands of members. But it will not kill public-employee unions or teachers’ unions.
Carbon nanotubes are one of the products created from engineering at the nanoscale.
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Companies developing autonomous vehicles are missing out on the local knowledge and values of the people who live where these cars are tested. And that lack of engagement sets up bigger problems.
