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The ASU School of Art in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts was ranked 22nd among graduate schools of fine arts in the U.S. News & World Report annual rating of the nation’s best colleges and universities.

The U.S. News and World Report recently highlighted the best graduate programs in the nation and the ASU School of Public Affairs once again ranked in the top tier. The school that historically has been a premier program in metropolitan governance was ranked 2nd in the country for its city management and urban policy program.

More than 400 years after Galileo’s discovery of Io, the innermost of Jupiter’s largest moons, a team of scientists led by Arizona State University has produced the first complete global geologic map of the Jovian satellite. The map, published by the U. S.

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Jeremy Staat, ASU alumnus and veteran, stopped by ASU during his “Wall to Wall” bicycle ride across the country, which is raising awareness and support for veteran services and causes throughout the nation.

The tour began at the Wall of Valor in Bakersfield, Calif., Feb. 19, and is stretching 4,623 miles over the course of 100 days to the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C.

Faculty and students from ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will help give the gift of hearing to people in Malawi, Africa, this summer, with the help of the “AZ Walk to Silence Tinnitus” 5K sponsored by the American Tinnitus Association on March 24.

In a time when the film industry is rapidly evolving, the School of Theatre and Film in ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts seeks to provide future generations with the knowledge to create a better world via the arts by bringing Hollywood directly to the classroom.

While the Bible is available in many translations and special editions today – Bibles for teens, surfers, women, etc. – The King James Bible, which was first published 400 years ago, endures, and still impacts our culture today.

Poets such as Emily Dickinson alluded to the Bible in their verse:

Separating the world into “in” groups and “out” groups is a long held trait of humans and other species on Earth. It has evolved along with the life forms that harbor it.

Is the reason for xenophobia a competition for resources? Is it based on deep-seated survival instincts? Is it in our genes? Has the time come to change it?

All of these questions will be addressed by ASU’s Origins Project in two public events that will explore “Xenophobia, why do we fear others?” on March 30 and 31.

Achieving carbon neutrality on American college and university campuses is not a matter for science alone. It has to be taught. And, in dealing with budget reductions coupled with enrollment growth, college and university presidents have learned that sustainability is also a good business model.