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To encourage environmental awareness and action, Mark Roseland joined several faculty members in an April 17 video ASU produced to mark the worldwide celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. But that’s not the only place the public could learn what he had to say about the future of our planet.

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Richard Berg took over managing a foundation that holds an annual summer camp in the pines for disadvantaged youth, expanding its offerings to include year-round youth programs in Phoenix.

Erik Larson works for Berg as the foundation’s intern, learning and applying fundraising and program evaluation skills that he said led him to choose program development as his career.

• Read more about Alumnus, student Social Work Month awardees each honored for work at Camp Colley Foundation

Kelly Huey’s service to the social work profession has taken her from bedsides to boardrooms.

Social workers are often known to serve the economically disadvantaged, and many of them can be found visiting low-income neighborhoods, giving families tools to cope, to survive and even thrive.

Throughout a more than 30-year career, Huey, who received the 2020 Director’s Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession from ASU’s School of Social Work (SSW) in March, has demonstrated the impact social workers also can have in hospitals and hospice care.

• Read more about Director's Award recipient makes it a priority to involve the community in providing social services

• Read more about ASU’s School of Public Affairs secures 6 top 10 spots in US News and World Report rankings

Karla Chicuate was intellectually acquainted with the morally evil practice of grooming, abducting and selling human beings for labor or sexual exploitation when she traveled in January to west Africa.

After all, she had been working as an educator with the city of Tempe’s Sexual Relationship and Violence Department for about a year and a half when her 10-day excursion began, and she intentionally chose the assignment to work with women and children who had endured human trafficking.

• Read more about Giving aid to African human trafficking victims sharpens student’s career focus toward helping others to be heard

• Read more about ASU students step out of the classroom and into the venue for real-world lessons on event planning

A book co-written by an ASU professor about how inequalities in the criminal justice system have roots in bail and pretrial detention issues has been recognized by the Vera Institute of Justice as one of its best books of 2019.

• Read more about Vera Institute of Justice names book co-written by ASU CCJ professor as one of ‘Best of 2019’

Ten minutes at a time, ASU tourism students learned how to start and build a relationship — with their professional careers — through fast-paced networking with educators and industry professionals.

More than 30 members of ASU’s Tourism Student Association (TSA) met with 20 education and hospitality industry pros Feb. 11 in the TSA’s first-ever “Speed Networking” Fireside event, held at the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Phoenix.

• Read more about Tourism students, industry pros 'speed network' their way to new career connections

• Read more about School of Community Resources and Development celebrates 15 years