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Elizabeth Lightfoot, new director, School of Social Work

Minnesota professor with strong commitment to international collaboration, inclusion named School of Social Work director, begins duties July 1

Elizabeth Lightfoot will become the next director of the ASU School of Social Work (SSW) on July 1, Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions Dean Jonathan Koppell announced today.

Despite fewer people on campus, students in Pastor Center programs registered large numbers of voters in 2020

ASU students overcame the physical challenges of reduced on-campus traffic in 2020 to register large numbers of fellow students to vote and organize other successful voter engagement programs administered by the Congressman Ed Pastor Center for Polit

ASU professor elected to leadership of Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, on track to be its president in 2023

Members of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) elected Arizona State University criminal justice and sociology Professor Anthony Peguero to its leadership.

Koppell to amplify ASU's socially embedded initiatives in new role

Arizona State University’s commitment to the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves is embedded in its charter.

2 School of Social Work centers integrate to strengthen research capacities, community partnerships

Two Arizona State University research centers — the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center and the Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy – are integrating to strengthen their research capacities and thei

ASU part of state consortium that aims to reduce misinformation about COVID-19 in communities of color

Researchers at Arizona State University's Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center, along with colleagues at Arizona’s two other state universities and Mayo Clinic, are working to reduce misinformation and mistrust about the COVID-19 pandemic among peop

ASU-based Legacy Corps adds Hospice of the Valley as its latest partner organization

Legacy Corps, a national organization based at Arizona State University that provides caregiver support services for veterans and military families, has welcomed Phoenix-based Hospice of the Valley as its latest partner organization.

Book designed to help therapists serve cancer patients, survivors better

Book authorship among tenured faculty members is a regular byproduct of their research and scholarship. It’s rarer, although not unheard of, that nontenured instructors are also writing books about topics in their fields.

Garden of Dreams still has longtime professor inspired by what SCRD students, community accomplished there nearly a decade ago

For ASU faculty, milestone employment anniversaries – those numbers of years ending in “0” or “5” – provide special opportunities to reflect on time teaching, researching, learning and contributing toward helping students find their place to work on making a better world.

ASU students support Westward Ho residents during pandemic isolation

The COVID-19 pandemic has been hardest on the most vulnerable people, and Arizona State University students have been working to help one group in downtown Phoenix.