The ASU Foundation was among 71 Arizona nonprofit organizations to receive surprise grants from the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust.

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Likening her situation to a new coach taking over an already winning sports team, Kelly Bricker is becoming director of the highly successful Hainan University-Arizona State University International Tourism College (HAITC).

• Read more about New tourism college director looks forward to building on ASU’s successful partnership with China’s Hainan University

More than 220 students will receive bachelor’s degrees this month from Hainan University-Arizona State University International Tourism College (HAITC) in the southern Chinese city of Haikou.

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Two Arizona State University professors have trained the first crime analysts from nine small Caribbean nations.

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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 study: Exposure to violence means less access to health care for Somali women in Arizona

• Read more about ASU grad wondered what it took to be smart — now she’s headed to Harvard

• Read more about Displaced populations can cultivate hope, social work experts find

• Read more about Downtown Phoenix campus opens doors to excitement

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