Arizona State University

Arizona State University (commonly referred to as ASU or Arizona State) is a national space-grant institution and public metropolitan research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the U.S. state of Arizona. It is the largest public university in the United States by enrollment.

Founded in 1885 as the Tempe Normal School for the Arizona Territory, the school came under control of the Arizona Board of Regents in 1945 and was renamed Arizona State College. A 1958 statewide ballot measure gave the university its present name.

In 1994 ASU was classified as a Research I institute; thus, making Arizona State one of the newest major research universities (public or private) in the nation. Arizona State’s mission is to create a model of the “New American University” whose efficacy is measured “by those it includes and how they succeed, not by those it excludes”.

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The camera on a robot vacuum cleaner captured this cat. What else did it capture around the house? voorts/Wikimedia Commons

Your robotic vacuum is a witness: What home robots mean for evidence, privacy and the law

Laws against surreptitiously recording someone extend to home devices like robot vacuums, but those recordings can still be used against you in court.
Un tramo de la Ruta 66 en Albuquerque, Nuevo México, fotografiado el 7 de junio de 2026. Los pueblos y ciudades situados a lo largo de la carretera se están preparando para celebrar el centenario de esta emblemática vía. Heather Diehl/Getty Images

La Ruta 66 cumple 100 años: ¿qué estamos celebrando realmente?

La carretera más famosa de Estados Unidos ha simbolizado durante mucho tiempo la libertad y la reinvención. Sin embargo, su historia revela una realidad más compleja.
A fence featuring 20,000 stuffed teddy bears, each representing a Ukrainian child abducted by Russia, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on April 23, 2026. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Russia is trying to force Ukrainian children to become Russian, with reeducation, forcible transfers and camps

Russia is not just moving Ukrainian children. It is taking away their identities. Will the $25 million being spent by the US to locate and rehabilitate forcibly transferred children be enough?
Un tronçon de la Route 66 à Albuquerque (Nouveau-Mexique), photographié le 7 juin 2026. Les villes traversées par cette route emblématique se préparent à célébrer son centenaire. Heather Diehl/Getty Images/AFP

Route 66 : cent ans d’un mythe qui ne raconte pas toute l’histoire

Symbole du rêve américain, de l’aventure et de la liberté, la Route 66 n’a pourtant jamais offert la même expérience à tous. Son histoire raconte aussi l’exclusion des voyageurs noirs et le déclin des petites villes qu’elle faisait vivre.
Simply reducing students’ screen time at school will not prepare them for a world increasingly shaped by data and AI. Klaus Vedfelt/Digital Vision via Getty Images

Schools are rethinking whether every student needs a laptop

Rather than considering how much time students spend on screens, the more useful question is whether they are asking questions and solving problems with the help of technology.
Retrofitting old classrooms with air conditioners, even when necessary to maintain a cool classroom, isn’t always financially possible. RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post

It’s getting hotter in classrooms and on playgrounds – schools aren’t ready to handle extreme temperatures

A rising number of school districts across the country are beginning their new academic years in July or August, raising the likelihood that kids and educators will encounter scorching days.
A stretch of Route 66 in Albuquerque, N.M., pictured on June 7, 2026. Towns and cities located along the highway are gearing up to celebrate the iconic road’s centennial. Heather Diehl/Getty Images

As Route 66 turns 100, what is it that we’re actually celebrating?

The ‘Mother Road’ has long symbolized freedom and reinvention. But its history reveals a more complicated story shaped by migration, segregation and the highways that eventually circumvented it.
Banning students from writing theses and dissertations on sexual orientation and gender identity could be seen as curtailing students’ freedom of speech rights. Malte Mueller/fStop/Getty Images

Texas Tech’s new limits on how faculty teach gender identity and sexual orientation challenge more than free speech

A new memo blocks graduate students from writing theses or dissertations on certain topics, raising questions about academic freedom and the purpose of higher education.
93% of surveyed researchers have negative opinions of federal science policies since January 2025. Cavan Images via Getty Images

Self‑censorship, more stress, tougher recruiting – we asked US researchers how the Trump administration’s science policies have affected them

What do US researchers make of all the Trump administration science-related policy changes? A survey of 280 academic scientists asked them.
Earth draws closer to passing behind the Moon in this image captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby. NASA

Will future missions to the Moon be sustainable? It may depend on whom you ask

Landing on the Moon can disturb its environment – people are discussing how to balance those concerns with political and economic goals.
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What makes a good teacher? Ask a Republican and a Democrat, and they are likely to agree

Most American adults will say that they most valued teachers who really knew them, cared about them and made learning relevant to their lives.
People hold signs during a Grossmont Union High School District board meeting in El Cajon, Calif., in July 2025. Meg McLaughlin/The San Diego Union-Tribune via Getty Images

District school boards have become political hotbeds for book bans and more – here’s what they actually do

School boards have gained attention for taking on controversial issues, such as transgender students participating in sports, but much of their work is administrative.

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