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ASU alum breaks barrier as first female official scorer for Diamondbacks

When Kara Blackstone hears the crack of the ball on a baseball bat, it’s not a moment of fan excitement for her — it’s a judgment call.

Blackstone, an alumna of Arizona State University, is an official scorer for Major League Baseball and the first female official scorer assigned to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The job requires deep knowledge and love of...

2017 homeland security grad surpasses aim to achieve career goal in 10 years

Holding two degrees from Arizona State University, today Robert Campa handles many important responsibilities as emergency manager in the Office of Emergency Management in Mesa, Arizona’s third largest city and the nation’s 37th largest.

To achieve his success, he had much to overcome, starting with a difficult childhood.

Campa was the middle child in a single-parent household in El Paso...

Recent grad helps US Surgeon General’s office engage public with nation’s health concerns

It’s not quite the West Wing — his federal department is headquartered a few blocks away on Independence Avenue — but for an Arizona State University graduate only months out of school, Trey Leveque has succeeded at landing a Washington, D.C., job where he can help address Americans’ health concerns.

Leveque’s position is in an area of keen interest to...

Committed to public service: ASU Watts College alumni elected to public office

Graduates of Arizona State University's Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions fared well in the November general election. One was elected to the U.S. Senate, two to statewide offices in Arizona and others to legislative and local offices. 

Democratic Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema won the race to replace U.S. Senator Jeff Flake, who chose not to run for re-election...

Social Work Month Award recipient supervised contact tracing of COVID-19 cases

Successfully combating the COVID-19 pandemic has depended on the minds, hands and hearts of thousands of individuals in a wide spectrum of fields, from medicine and public health to public affairs and social work.

One important component of the battle of the last two years involves case investigation and contact tracing — public health tools that involve identifying infected individuals and...

ASU alum's varied, accomplished public service career focuses on community health care

Janey Pearl Starks describes what she chose to do in her public service career and how she went about it with confidence and satisfaction.

“One thing I’m most proud of is that I’ve never worked to make anyone money,” said the 2004 graduate from what is now the ASU School of Community Resources and Development. “My entire career has...

Watts College features some of the best schools in the nation

 
#2

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Ahead of Pennsylvania State and University at Albany - SUNY

 
#10

School of Public Affairs

Tied with Princeton

 
#28

School of Social Work

Ranked in the top 10% of graduate programs in social work