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The mantra of the 21st century — at least what we’ve seen of it so far — Change can be challenging, but it brings with it great should be opportunity. Members of the Sun Devil nation are discovering opportunities inherent in change every day — as we navigate alterations in The only careers, communities and the world at large. Arizona State University, as it has lived out its destiny as the New American constant University, has reimagined itself as an institution Double-check this that can provide answers and strategies to meet the is the latest cover. The official publication of opportunity and the promise of change. Arizona State University To better reflect the nature of the university’s Fall 2017, Vol. 20, No. 4 transformation, our magazine has been refocused to MANAGING DIRECTOR better serve you, our readers in the ASU community. Jill Andrews 96 BS, 03 MPA Thank you for your constructive input — we couldn’t have SENIOR DIRECTOR Lindsay Kinkade completed this process without the nearly 400 alumni who participated in a readership survey after the March 2017 issue. That input EDITORIAL Penny Walker, Elizabeth Massey, provided crucial insights that guided us as Stephen Des Georges 14 MA, we restructured the content and design of Lori K. Baker 85 BA, is change the publication. Jan Stanley 86 PhD A redesigned ASU magazine, named ASU Thrive, On the cover DESIGN will showcase stories centered on ASU’s work as an Heidi Easudes, David Imes ASU freshmen Medallion Scholars, agent of global change and will help you to access from top left: Sawyer Bland, Joshua PHOTOGRAPHY Freid, Collette Wang Andy DeLisle research from the university that can make your life From middle left: Sedona Saulnier, PRODUCTION easier, more enriched and more impactful. We will also Hannah Chismar, ASU President Cathy Skoglund 96 BS, include plenty of information on how to engage with the Michael Crow, Alisa Murphy, MacKenzie Joel Lobaugh 17 BAS university, an all-new calendar of events, news of the Robb, Kaley Yazzie ADVERTISING SALES university’s local impact and reports on alumni news and From front left: Narda Lizarraga, John Davis 480-965-5051 accomplishments. Trey Leveque, Cora Stevens, ASU Thrive magazine Our goal with the transformation of ASU Thrive Maxim Quint PO Box 875 011 magazine is to celebrate the transformative power of Tempe, AZ 8 5287-5 011 480-727-5440 ASU. Together, the Sun Devil community is creating [email protected] a brighter future … for ourselves, our families, our magazine.asu.edu communities and our world. We look forward to taking this journey with you and ASU Thrive is printed on paper learning from each other as we go along! that is certified to the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) Standards.

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Go Kelsey Wong of Delivering Check out our all-new Happiness is a calendar of events Silicon Valley success story. for ASU’s campuses. 4

Update Catch up on everything ASU, and find news to know. 6

Partnership offers Native students a boost. 8

Venture Sun Devils in Silicon Valley From a poet coder to a culture conductor, 5 alumni share what it takes to get to the startup mecca. 10

ASU’s Jim Bell discusses what life in deep space might look like. 15

Build Tillman Getting gritty statue Women’s golf coach honoring Missy Farr-Kaye shares ASU hero her secrets for cultivating emerges from PETER mental toughness. 18 the mold. 24 Tap into VANDER your inner Success scientist. STOEP; check-in:

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Transform The velocity of change After 15 years at the helm, ASU President Michael M. Crow reflects on how he has led the transformation of the university into a radically reimagined institution. 28 ASU President New blueprint, new places Michael Crow takes a selfie for thinking, learning and more across with students ASU campuses. 38 Chancellor Engage Johnson and Power of sport Inspiration from the sea helps this Emma Lockhart at this year’s A new alliance between ASU tiny robot navigate the desert. 40 Sun Devil Welcome. and adidas explores the power of sport to change lives. 44 Sun Devil contributions to university initiatives ensure that together, our potential is limitless. 42 Get the latest on Sun Devil Athletics sports. 49

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Eat local and fresh at Taste of Paradise Participating in community- supported agriculture can be Learn about space easy and fun! Pre-order a sack rocks with impact full of locally grown fruits and At this year’s Eugene vegetables and meet like-minded Shoemaker Memorial Lecture, Sun Devils at the ASU pickup Sean Gulick of the University site! Confront the nature of Texas Institute for Order prices range from $17 of virtual reality in Geophysics will discuss the to $25 per bag. Oct. 12 (every ‘The Nether’ impact comets and meteorites Thursday), 5–6:30 p.m., ASU In this near-future, sci-fi thriller of a had in shaping — and on SkySong shade structure, play, a young detective faces off occasion temporarily 1475 N. Scottsdale Road, against the creator of a virtual world extinguishing — the Scottsdale. that offers a disturbing brand of development of life on Earth.

Oct. facebook.com/ entertainment. Oct. 17, 7 p.m., at the Marston tasteofparadisecsa Ticket prices $8–16, student/ Exploration Theater, ISTB4, senior/alumni discount pricing ASU Tempe campus. Free available. Oct. 13–14, 19–21 beyond.asu.edu/events at 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 15 and 22 at 2 p.m., at the Lyceum Theatre, ASU Tempe campus. Ticketed Mature Give a toot of musical Preview personalized filmdancetheatre.asu.edu/events tribute to the tuba medicine’s future Enjoy low brass music that’s This panel discussion features experts on sure to rattle your rib cage and personalized medicine from the School of Life delight your ears. ASU tuba and Sciences and the College of Health Solutions, who euphonium students will perform will address where the field stands currently and solos, duos, trios and quartets. how to make personalized medicine breakthroughs Oct. 22, 2:30-4 p.m., at the available to everyone. Recital Hall, ASU Tempe Oct. 23, 11:45 a.m., Life Sciences C, Room 202, campus. ASU Tempe campus. Free Free Family sols.asu.edu/events music.asu.edu/events

Come home to ASU, catch up, watch the game and see what’s new Watch the 2017 homecoming parade, learn about what’s new at ASU during the block party, sample international cultures and No music, see former classmates and See art through a scientist’s eyes their families, and cheer on the At the “Material Beauty” exhibit, guest curator Sun Devils as they take on USC. Nathan Newman, a professor at ASU’s School for Parade and block party free Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, and open to public. Football selected artworks that engage with the chemistry of game tickets available at color, the neurology of facial recognition and the thesundevils.com. Oct. 28, all mathematics of perspective. Nurture your left brain day, ASU Tempe campus. and your right brain to develop a whole-brained Free Ticketed Family perspective. homecoming.asu.edu/game-day Through Dec. 9, ASU Art Museum, ASU Tempe campus. Free asuartmuseum.asu.edu

4 FALL 2017 Celebrate America Dancers, drummers, with ‘Hamilton’ The Broadway smash hit elders, children, “Hamilton” is coming to ASU Gammage. It tells the story students and you of Alexander Hamilton, an Celebrate the culture and immigrant from the West Indies who became George customs of indigenous peoples Washington's right-hand man at the Native American Heritage during the Revolutionary War. It’s the story of America then, Festival, featuring the 17th told by America now. Don’t annual Veterans Day Weekend miss it! Ticket prices vary. Jan. 30– Traditional Pow Wow. Learn Feb. 25, ASU Gammage, more about the symbolism, ASU Tempe campus. Ticketed protocol and spiritual meanings asugammage.com of the dances, regalia and drums. Jan. Sample traditional foods, browse arts and crafts booths, and enjoy the stunning dancing, singing and drumming performances.

Nov. 11, 11 a.m.–10 p.m. (1 p.m. grand entry), Fletcher Library Lawn, ASU West campus. Free Family Spark your passion for outreach.asu.edu/west/pow-wow new ideas Ignite@ASU is the one of the most inspiring speakers’ events in Greater Phoenix, with Sun Devil students, faculty, staff and community members sharing their ideas, stories and Increase your thinking passions through rapid-fire five-minute presentations. Get a power with theater preview of changemakers who ASU's Lyric Opera Theatre presents “A New Brain,” will shape the ASU community Check in at and beyond! composer and lyricist William Finn’s surreal and uplifting events to earn Nov. 2, 6 p.m., at the Student musical about the healing power Pitchforks and Pavilion, ASU Tempe campus. of art. A brilliant songwriter rewards! Free weathers unforeseen challenges Try the Sun changemaker.asu.edu/ to find his voice and opportunities programs/ignite-asu Devil Rewards

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Innovation #1 in the U.S. for third year in a row For the third straight year, U.S. News & World Report has ranked ASU No. 1 on its “Most Innovative Schools” list, ahead of No. 2 Stanford and No. 3 MIT. ASU again topped the list based on a survey of peers: College presidents, provosts and admissions deans around the country nominated up to 10 colleges or universities that are making the most Mayo Clinic School of innovative improvements to curriculum, faculty, Medicine opens in Valley students, campus life The Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University Alliance for Health Care, technology or facilities. aimed at transforming medical education and health care, celebrated an

Relationships important next step this summer, as the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine To work or not to in Scottsdale welcomed its first cohort of 50 students. The school’s work: What Mom curriculum includes courses on the science of health care delivery, wants is best jointly developed by experts at the Mayo Clinic and ASU. CLINIC

The center of a mother’s MAYO life tends to be her family, but if Mom is unhappy Students help about staying home with Fresh water pumps through the newly farmers solve the kids or about working installed solar lift irrigation problem outside the home, then irrigation system. In the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, she may suffer, according approximately 210 million smallholder to new ASU research farmers engage in a practice known published in the Journal as rain-fed agriculture. However, 80 of Family and Economic percent of the annual rainfall in the area COURTESY: INITIATIVES/GLOBALRESOLVE; Issues. The study showed occurs during the annual four-month that the best-adjusted monsoon, so costly infrastructure is SOLUTIONS

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Poetry Study reveals ways to stay healthier on planes ASU professor’s Air travel may be the quickest way to get to poem part of your vacation destination, but it’s also one of U2 tour the speediest ways for infectious diseases to spread between people, cities and countries. Fans who attended So what will minimize your chances of getting shows on U2’s Joshua sick? One ASU team turned to applied math Tree Tour 2017 got a and computing tools for the answer. little taste of Arizona: ASU Regents’ Professor Alberto Rios’ poem, “The Border: A Double Sonnet,” was projected on giant video screens during preshow segments of the Irish rock band’s current world tour. The Arizona Bhavik Patel, State Poet Laureate a mechanical describes the poem as engineering senior The researchers found that a random, “simply 28 ways of and peer mentor two-lengthwise-sections boarding technique at Tooker House, looking at the border wall results in the lowest number of new demonstrates the that don’t get reported in use of an Amazon infections — whereas the commonly used the news.” Find the full Echo Dot. three-sections technique, with passengers poem at poets.org/ boarding by first class, middle zone and back poetsorg/poem/ section, is actually the worst strategy. Plane border-double-sonnet. size matters, too: Planes with fewer than 150 1st-of-its-kind seats are better at reducing new infections. tech program CLINIC

MAYO comes to campus Roundabouts: practical yet polarizing ASU and Amazon are bringing a In the right conditions, traffic roundabouts voice-technology program to the have been known to increase safety, lower Tempe campus that will surround crash severity and reduce traffic delays. But students with the technology at despite their demonstrated safety in other states, they’re a highly polarizing traffic feature home and in class. Engineering in Arizona, which is why ASU engineering students living in the new Tooker professor Mike Mamlouk decided to study House will each have an Amazon INITIATIVES/GLOBALRESOLVE; COURTESY: INITIATIVES/GLOBALRESOLVE; their effects in the Grand Echo Dot, as part of the first voice- Canyon State. His team found that single- enabled, learning-enhanced SOLUTIONS

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Impact Partnership offers Native students a boost Mariah McGhee, a valedictorian on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, dreamed of attending ASU after childhood visits to the state. But she knew her family couldn’t afford out-of-state tuition. Then a miracle dropped in her lap: a full four-year scholarship to ASU. It's thanks to a new initiative between ASU and the True Sioux Hope Foundation, which Mariah is sponsoring a pair of students from Pine McGhee Ridge — considered the most economically (right) and disadvantaged reservation in the U.S. — to Savannah attend ASU. McGhee will study business Jacobs entrepreneurship, and Pine Ridge Indian began their Reservation classmate Savannah Jacobs studies at will pursue political science. ASU this fall. JAROD OPPERMAN/ASU JAROD

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v: to do something, even though it involves risk; to undertake the unknown with courage Venture

TRAILBLAZERS A fresh perspective and looking at challenges from different angles are key skills in Silicon Valley, according to ASU alumna Varsha Iyengar, a Google contractor doing motion-capture analysis.

(Silicon) Valley of the Sun Meet the innovators who call this tech mecca home. 10

Deep- JAROD OPPERMAN/ASU space living Taking apartment hunting to a new level. 15

ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 9 VENTURE Sun Devils in Silicon Valley From a poet coder to a culture conductor, five alumni share what it takes to get to the startup mecca

Story by MARY BETH FALLER Photography by JAROD OPPERMAN

supernova of innovation, Silicon Valley has been drawing the brightest, most creative employees for decades. And increasingly, A those workers include Arizona State University graduates. ASU recently made Business Insider’s list of the top 20 universities for landing a job in the high-tech mecca, and a different analysis, by the online recruiting company HiringSolved, put ASU in the top 10 for sending the most graduates to Silicon Valley. These accolades are not surprising for a university that has been named most innovative in the nation three years in a row, according to a survey of peers published by U.S. News & World Report. So how do Sun Devils get to Silicon Valley? Hard work, talent and a lot of energy, of course, but the journey isn’t always straightforward. What they learn outside the classroom is just as crucial as their coursework. These five ASU alumni who are succeeding in Silicon Valley say it takes curiosity, creativity and even a healthy dose of failure.

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The venture capitalist: Keith Ryu Ryu took advantage of ASU’s support for entrepreneurial students, and one of his projects led directly to the company he now velocity, high-volume recruiting. leads. OnboardIQ is a platform that That was an opportunity to tweak streamlines recruiting and hiring for our software to help.” large companies that need many On finding support at ASU: hourly workers. Ryu is the CEO “Fortunately, while I was at ASU, of the company, which has raised I was in a lot of entrepreneurship nearly $11 million in capital. Even programs. Edson [the Edson with talent, a great idea and hard Student Entrepreneur Initiative] gave work, Ryu admits that first year was us $7,000, and I won some money tough. in a pitch competition at the end How he got to Silicon Valley: of school, and that’s what allowed “From my freshman year I was into me to come out to Silicon Valley. If learning new things, whether web it wasn’t for Edson’s support and programming or how to play the resources, Onvard could have died guitar. In my sophomore and junior before it became OnboardIQ.” years I worked on a project called What the first year was like: Onvard, a self-educational platform. “My co-founder and I were two That evolved in my senior year to be young nonengineering students a learning-management system. who didn’t come from a Stanford “By the time I graduated, I background. For a tech startup, had two choices: I could join a you want to have at least one company in Arizona or I could engineer on your founding team, come out here to Silicon Valley and we didn’t have that. We had a and continue working on Onvard. competitor who was threatening At the time, Onvard had only one to sue us. The first year we were Keith paying customer at $50 a month, so living off of dumplings and boiled Ryu it wasn’t a real company. But it did eggs and pizza pockets. Eventually Bachelor’s give me enough confidence to test we were very fortunate to find an degrees in out the scene. investor who believed in our hustle.” computer “When I was living in Arizona, On putting in the work: information Silicon Valley was a mystical “People always say that I have a systems land where things seemed to be great idea and I’m very driven. That and finance; happening. I wasn’t sure I could isn’t what matters. It’s all about Barrett punch above my weight, but I execution. The idea part is luxury. honors wanted to come out here. It’s about waking up each morning student; “I tried selling Onvard. I got no and grinding and keeping yourself 2014 responses, but I did get a response motivated even when things aren’t that outlined the need for high- going well.”

ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 11 The culture conductor: Kelsey Wong After graduating, Wong was director of operations at CO+HOOTS, a collaborative workspace in Phoenix. In 2014, without a job, she moved to San Francisco. She now works for Delivering Happiness, a consulting firm that helps businesses create productive work cultures. The firm was launched by Tony Hsieh, founder of innovative online retailer Zappos. Wong has perhaps one Joshua of the coolest titles ever: “culture Ziering conductor and coachsulant.” Bachelor’s How she got to Silicon degree in Valley: “I always knew I wanted to English, live and work there, because it’s 2012 such a creative environment. “I found Delivering Happiness through a friend of a friend, and The poet coder: I had been watching them online Joshua Ziering because they’re both a movement Ziering’s path from ASU to around happiness at work and also Silicon Valley was not a straight a sustainable business. I invited shot, and in fact, neither was myself to their all-hands meeting, his path to graduation. But he which they have four times a year. had an unwavering confidence They didn’t have an opening, but in his dream. He knew that they let me come. Three months commercial drone-flying would later I joined the team. be a huge business opportunity, “My lesson-learned is to take and he pursued it. He co-founded risks. It’s genuinely following your kittyhawk.io, a San Francisco passion and curiosity ... and letting company that created a platform that guide your journey.” to help commercial drone pilots On building a creative manage fleets of drones and workplace: “We coach leaders comply with FAA regulations. and teams to create workplaces that On his winding journey to are more emotionally intelligent. It’s a degree: “I started going to not just about business, it’s about ASU for aerospace engineering. creating a place for people to have When I was told that my academic meaningful lives and to learn and to Kelsey record was not going to support grow. We use a lot of the science of Wong my aerospace ambitions, I was happiness and positive psychology. Bachelor’s devastated. [He got a letter stating “You define these values and degree in he was no longer academically embed them into your processes. marketing, eligible to attend ASU.] I was They should permeate and help with 2011 still interested in being at ASU, decisionmaking.” so I went to Mesa Community

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College, I went to Chandler-Gilbert Community College, I went to online community college. “During that time I was learning the things I was good at. I’m awful “I had been very at math. I found I had a knack for close to moving to writing. When it came time to come Singapore for a research back into the university system, the position. It was two answer was clear. I wanted to be a weeks from when I was creative writing major, and in that, I going to book my ticket. wanted to be a poetry major. It felt Then I found someone like coming home.” on LinkedIn and I sent How he got to Silicon Valley: her my thesis work, and “I started a small advertising I got my job through my agency in Tempe, and when it thesis.” came time to graduate, I doubled On the Silicon down on that. I didn’t love it, but Valley culture: “As a it made use of my talents. I made new graduate, it was a the move to San Francisco and huge learning curve. The worked with a startup, and I was pace here is definitely even more unhappy. So I started different. Every week is my own startup. I wanted to deliver something new to work things with drones. In six weeks I on, so I’m constantly on was on Fox News and CNN and my toes.” NPR. This was in 2014. It was a What it takes to great story and everybody wanted Varsha get there: “It takes to hear about it, but nobody wanted Iyengar perseverance to hunt to fund it. Master’s The Google analyst: for a job that you like. The interview “So I started working on degree in Varsha Iyengar process is very different from software. The idea was, if we’re computer Though her job search took a long programming in school, where you going to deliver stuff by drones we’ll science, time, Iyengar landed a position at don’t really know what you’ll face need software. [He and a friend 2016 one of the top companies in the in this environment. This particular launched kittyhawk.io, eventually world, thanks to her thesis work at job is a contractor job, and it’s very going full time.] Last summer ASU. She works at Google as a rigorous. someone said, ‘Yes, I want to put contractor doing motion-capture “The interview was a lot about my money behind this idea.’” analysis for Project Soli, a radar my research work and higher- On success after failure: chip that analyzes hand gestures level thinking. When you get the “For me, it wasn’t a poetry degree. and movement. The project, which interview, if you can show that It was redemption. What I learned is still in the research phase, could you’re interested and you want to from the degree was how to think eventually be used for wearable hear more, it goes a long way.” about problems and solve them in devices, with phones or in cars. On what she learned at ASU: different ways. People aren’t hiring How she got to Silicon “There was a direct relationship poets, but if you have the skill set Valley: “I was in the Arts, Media between my research work at ASU of being able to solve problems and Engineering program at ASU, and what I’m doing now, and I’m creatively, you have an amazing and my thesis was on human lucky to have that. Not everyone opportunity to work on things that movement with a concentration in does. The professors taught us to don’t have established answers. arts media. During my job search, think very differently. For this job You can solve them in ways people I messaged anyone who had the and this team, that’s exactly what haven’t thought of yet.” slightest interest in the field. they were looking for.”

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Entrepreneurship isn’t just for Silicon Valley startups.

And it’s not just for business majors or engineers creating the next hot tech.

It’s a mindset that ASU strives to weave into the fabric of the university and beyond, helping to grow the ideas of both the ASU community and Greater Phoenix area through programs, mentorship, resources and outreach.

It can take funding, know-how and workspace — but most of all inspiration — to bring an idea to fruition, and ASU’s Entrepreneurship + Innovation team works to meet each entrepreneur where they are and help individuals and their ideas make it to the next level.

Learn more at entrepreneurship.asu.edu.

don’t have an ego. There are a lot of transferrable skills from being on a competitive team to working in a technology environment.” Alex King How to get an interview: “Too Bachelor’s many people wait for a job posting. degree The talent finder: get enough clients. It was a good You have to be proactive. You have in inter- Alex King learning experience to see where to put together a list — here’s the top disciplinary King is one of the people who I could improve the next time and 25 companies you want to work for, studies, lure talent to Silicon Valley. He try not to make the same mistakes. whether they’re hiring or not. Send 2006 directs recruiting for hiring firms I decided to move back to Silicon them a tailored cover letter and talk including FlexedHire, Integrate, and Valley, because that’s where the about your experiences in college. Radius Intelligence. He works with up-and-comers were.” Ask a lot of questions. Make sure they We caught technology companies of 50 to On building skills at ASU: know you’re an adaptable person up with King 500 employees. “It’s not so much what you learn who can go with the flow.” during a How he got to Silicon about in the classroom, but it’s what What it takes to make it: “A client visit Valley: “I grew up in Silicon attributes and character you bring to lot of the venture-backed startups in Southern Valley and went to ASU because the table. ASU teaches a lot of good don’t have all the resources of California. I was a big fan of the hot weather people skills, and I’ve seen that larger companies, so employees and year-round golf, and I was a reflected in people hired in sales need to know the full cycle. If you’re walk-on football player. I joined a and business development.” an engineer, you need to know big corporate staffing firm out of What he learned on the field: the back end. If you’re in sales, college for three years. I hated it, “Football taught me a lot about you need to know the process. but I learned a ton. I then joined a commitment, and it was good to be They want agile and adaptable startup that wasn’t even launched part of a team environment. employees, because things change yet, and I still consult with them. “In Silicon Valley, when it comes so quickly. The number one “Before that, I tried to start my to company culture, it’s about thing is finding people who have own staffing firm, but I couldn’t humility and bringing on people who adaptability.”

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Deep-space living presents a number of challenges NASA is taking baby steps toward human exploration of Mars, including the recent announcement of the future construction of the Deep Space Gateway, an outpost orbiting the moon. But life in deep space will be different from what astronauts have experienced living in low Earth orbit. Jim Bell, a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, says there are several challenges humans will have to surmount before venturing out farther into the solar system including: Communication latency. Voice calls, emails, etc., will experience a delay of as long as 40 minutes when Mars is most distant from Earth. “You can’t have real-time communications,” Bell says. Exposure to radiation. Extra shielding must be devised to protect spacecraft and humans working in PRNEWSFOTO/LOCKHEED deep space. Supplies. For missions that last months and even years, astronauts will need to harvest some necessities from the planet they are on. To learn more about ASU’s MARTIN research related to space exploration, visit sese.asu.edu.

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LOOP DE LOOP The future is coming at us fast — 750 mph, to be exact. An ASU-led team of students spent months constructing a pod for SpaceX’s competition for hyperloop, a form of high-speed rail transit. After a final development push that included predawn testing at the Polytechnic campus, the AZLoop team placed in the top eight at the contest in California — and are super-charged with ideas for next year’s competition.

Creating champions Missy Farr- Kaye uses resiliency and grit to power her team to a record title. 18

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No stranger to tough times herself, head coach Missy Farr-Kaye helps the ASU women’s golf team battle through disappointments to win a record 8th crown — and here’s how she did it. ry lond t

Story by MARY BETH FALLER Photography by BLAIR BUNTING, ‘06 a i Great college golfers don’t have bulging biceps or explosive speed, but they do develop a mental toughness that sustains them through thousands of holes over a grueling nine-month season. That ability to grind through bad putts, tough days and disappointing tournaments was key for the Sun Devils women’s golf team this past season. And at the end, they had the strength to come from behind to win the NCAA national championship — the eighth for Arizona State University’s program, the most in NCAA history.

18 FALL 2 017 The path to the national championship wasn't smooth for ASU alumna Missy Farr-Kaye and her team, but the women's golf coach helped them power through with the resiliency she has t learned over a lifetime.

ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 19 Head coach Missy Farr-Kaye (far right) wipes a tear while addressing fans and the media as the ASU women's golf team celebrated their NCAA Division I title “I told the girls that on May 25 at the ASU they will share Karsten something for the Golf Course. rest of their lives that no one else will Cultivating the team’s grit was the her former coaches who continue job of Missy Farr-Kaye, who was in ever understand. to be mentors: Sister Lynn Winsor her second season as head coach of I still see my of Xavier College Preparatory in the Sun Devils. Phoenix, whose teams have won “I realized the most important teammates. the state championship 34 of the thing we needed to do outside of We have a past 37 years, and Linda Vollstedt, learning technique and making sure who was Farr-Kaye’s coach when we practiced the right things was to unique bond she was a Sun Devil. be a team that was mentally strong “They were my role models and gritty,” says Farr-Kaye, who spent that’s very before I knew I was meant to 13 seasons as assistant coach and special because coach. I talk to them both all the then associate head coach before time,” she says. taking over the top job in 2015. you’re in the After graduating from Xavier, So she drew on a wide range of trenches together.” Farr-Kaye played at ASU for resources as she worked to build Vollstedt, winning the national COURTESY: up her team — advice from mentors, — MISSY FARR-KAYE championship in 1990 as a senior. books, her family and her own history That cemented a bond among the of resiliency. team that Farr-Kaye knows her BUSHNELLGOLF.COM; “I like to go outside the box, and a fifth-generation Arizonan, and 2017-18 team will experience. I spend a lot of time reading,” she when she was interviewing for the “I told the girls that they will says. “I like to watch what the good job of head coach, she presented share something for the rest of coaches are doing.” Ray Anderson, ASU’s vice their lives that no one else will ever

The late-May victory was the president for university athletics, understand,” she said. “I still see PING.COM; third time Farr-Kaye held the national her great-grandmother’s 1899 my teammates. We have a unique championship trophy. The first time diploma from Tempe Normal bond that’s very special because was as a player on the ASU team in School of Arizona — what would you’re in the trenches together.” ANGELADUCKWORTH.COM 1990, and the second was when she eventually become ASU. A lot has changed from Farr- was assistant coach, in 2009. “My history at ASU goes back Kaye’s days as a Sun Devil. This one was especially sweet. a very long way,” she says. “I “The thing I try to keep is the

wanted him to see that I was firmly beauty of how we practiced and LEIGHT/ASU 'We were very tough’ entrenched in the state.” competed and played in the 1980s.

Farr-Kaye’s roots run deep. She’s She has stayed close to two of We feel we were very tough. CHARLIE

20 FALL 2 017 We didn’t have push carts. We carried our bags. We walked all ways to build the time and didn’t think twice about it. There were no limitations in practice. We would be out a champion practicing until dark every night. “But I do wish I knew then what Missy Farr-Kaye, now in her second year as head I know now about how to practice, coach of the ASU women’s golf team, draws on and different ways to practice to different techniques to build her winning team. be more efficient, and the different ways we physically train to be 5 stronger and prevent injury.” Use Read A few years after graduating from ASU, Farr-Kaye faced a technology books monumental loss when her sister, The team uses an Farr-Kaye loves to professional golfer Heather Farr, online statistics read about building died of breast cancer in 1993. Then program as well as leadership. Two Farr-Kaye herself battled cancer StrackaLine, a program that charts the of her favorites twice, most recently in 2008. Now slopes and greens on a golf course. are “The Power healthy, she says cancer is no The coaches record the players’ of Positive longer part of her daily life, but she swings in slow motion to pinpoint areas Leadership” by Jon draws on the spirit she developed of improvement. Gordon and “Grit: during that time. The Power of Passion and Perseverance” “I’m grateful for every day I Personalize by Angela Duckworth. have for my kids and that God has your coaching allowed me to still be here and be healthy after losing Heather when What helps one player doesn’t work she was only 28,” Farr-Kaye says. with another. “You have to have those “It definitely changed me, and relationships where you know the silver lining is that it does make who needs a tougher love me tougher and give me the ability — ‘Come on. What are to handle difficult things and be you doing?’ And that resilient.” the other needs to She fully appreciates the time hear, ‘You’re fine. It’s Know that it’s she spends with her three sons: all right.’

COURTESY: Dalton, 24; Riley, 19; and Cameron, “It takes a lot of time and about more 13. “Coaching’s made me a better intuition to learn what makes than golf parent, and parenting has made me each of them tick,” she says. Farr-Kaye believes that BUSHNELLGOLF.COM; a better coach. There are qualities teaching mental toughness and that go back and forth,” she says. Find the fun grit are life skills that the players “I expect a lot out of my players. will need long after they have a I expect a lot out of my kids. But I Farr-Kaye wanted the players to enjoy bad day on the golf course. work really hard to give them all the the journey. “There are Snapchats of “It will continue to be something

PING.COM; tools they need to be successful me dancing. That’s not something they I’m trying to figure out — how to and find ways to separate always see in me,” she says. “Our song teach those qualities that, after themselves.” was by Shawn Mendes, ‘There’s Nothing doing this for 15 years, I know ANGELADUCKWORTH.COM Holdin’ Me Back.’ We are by far the most important Coaching with intention played it in the cars, things I can teach them.” As the head coach of one of the and they nicknamed the most successful Division I women’s trophy Shawn.”

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ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 21 “ I expect a lot out of my players. I expect a lot out of my kids. But I work really hard to give them all the tools they need to be successful and find ways to separate themselves.”

at the beginning of the 2016-17 Head coach Farr-Kaye season, which she started without advises Monica Vaughn an assistant coach. on the green. “It worked out well to have a couple of months by myself because I really had a chance to connect with my players. When you’re the only resource, they come to you for everything,” she says. Coach In November, Michelle Estill, Farr-Kaye a former professional golfer and has been a teammate of Farr-Kaye at ASU, a part of was hired as the assistant coach. Farr-Kaye says she didn’t want 3 showed what they were made of,” and collected. They need to have to rush the decision, and she she says. that resiliency at an early age,” Sun Devil approached the entire season with national Her players responded. Monica she says. deliberation. titles: Vaughn, who won the NCAA Farr-Kaye was not a fan when “Sometimes the girls don’t individual title as well as the team the NCAA decided to change even know why we do certain As a title two weeks after graduating the format of the championship things. There’s always an intention player: magna cum laude with a degree in tournament two years ago so behind when we go out to eat communications, says that Farr- it could be shown on the Golf together or a certain way we 1990 Kaye is much more than a coach. Channel. But the reaction to the practice,” she says. “She’s a mom away from home, Sun Devils’ thrilling finish in May As an In January, the team had a assistant and she’s a mentor. She’s a doctor changed her mind. retreat in which they plotted out coach: when she needs to be,” Vaughn “I continue to come across the entire season, all the way to says. “She lets us know that she people who say, ‘I was in a bar, the very end — May 24, the final 2009 cares more how we are as people and we stopped and we were day of the NCAA championship than how we are as golfers.” watching it because it was so tournament. As head exciting.’ We thought it was “I wanted them to commit to coach: Recruiting resiliency exciting, but we didn’t think anyone each other, and all of us to commit 2017 Even with the national else was watching,” she says. to each other, until we were done,” championship still fresh on her “It’s been so great for our Farr-Kaye says. mind, Farr-Kaye is always thinking players, and I think it’s going to There were rough patches. of the future. She strategizes about grow our sport. The teammates were bitterly recruiting every day and traveled to “I think about how cool it disappointed in their sixth-place Europe over the summer to watch would be to have a little girl finish in the Pac-12 Women’s Golf young golfers. who was watching the national Championship in Tucson in April, “With junior golfers, I’m not championship with her parents

but Farr-Kaye says that wasn’t a concerned about a bad day and to hear her say in 10 years, STOEP bad thing. on the course. What I want to ‘I watched you in the national

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practiced a little harder and stomping around and not calm play at Arizona State.’” PETE

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Brass ingots are melted to 2,030 degrees and poured into molds. The statue is poured in different sections, which are welded together after they cool. A patina is then applied. DENT/ASU DEANNA PETER A game plan /ASU; VANDER Davenport worked from several photographs of Tillman during the multi-

step process. She started last November and worked straight through LEIGHT STOEP her winter break to make sure the statue was ready to unveil nine months CHARLIE Sulfurated potash, a dark substance, creates definition in the later — a fast turnaround. “I’ve gotten very fast at sculpting, but I’ve been TK

folds of the socks and the veins on the arms of the statue. practicing since I was 6 or 7 years old.” TK

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“I’m an ASU graduate ... I always thought it It’s a great honor would be wonderful to do a sculpture of Pat. to do this sculpture.” — Jeff Carol Davenport, artist Pat Tillman is an ASU icon — and a statue now honors his memory at Sun Devil Stadium. It was created by ASU alumna Jeff Carol Davenport, who wanted to capture the exuberance and commitment of the football player in her sculpture. As she fashioned the life-size bronze statue of Tillman as he’s preparing to run through the stadium tunnel, she designed his hands with only one glove on. “In my mind, he’s so anxious to get onto the field, he didn’t put his glove on.” Tillman played at ASU from 1994 to 1997 and, after graduating, played for the Arizona Cardinals. In 2002, eight months after the Sept. 11 attacks, he left his career to enlist in the Army Rangers. He was killed in Afghanistan in 2004. DENT/ASU DEANNA PETER /ASU; VANDER

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STOEP started a new tradition in the first game of the new season. As they rush onto CHARLIE the football field for each game, they TK

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Your inner scientist

Your inner hero Adapted from a post on ASU’s Adulting 101 blog authored by Aaron Krasnow, a licensed 3 psychologist ways to who is the associate vice build your president of Your inner filter ASU Health resilient life Services and ASU No matter where you are Counseling in life, and no matter where you Services, and want to go in the future, the Michelle Duah. road ahead rarely looks smooth and unvarying. Fortunately, you For more, visit have three “success coaches” adulting.asu. embedded within yourself who can edu. help you surmount any challenge and create solutions where none existed before.

Your inner scientist Your inner filter You may have heard when you Humans experience stress when were at ASU, “Now is the time presented with information that to experiment … to learn about conflicts with what they believe yourself … to get out of your to be true. This is called cognitive comfort zone … to see life from dissonance. We all experience new points of view.” While this at times. The stress can be studying at a New American mild or severe, depending on how Your inner hero University can definitely help much you identify with being right. Remember when you graduated on the “getting out of your But like most things in life, what from college? Interviewed like a comfort zone” part, this inner matters most is what you do with boss and landed that dream job DELISLE/ASU

self is one you don’t have to that discomfort. you’d been chasing? Your inner ANDY shelve after graduation. You really Your inner filter is the part of hero is the part of you that faces do get to be the experimenter in you that seeks truth, is skeptical of your fears, does the hard work and NOW; your own life. easy answers and knows when to makes bold decisions to achieve a ASU That’s why it’s important to listen to your gut. brighter future instead of a pretty explore your life as a scientist Leverage your inner filter by good “right now.” LEIGHT/ would. Your inner scientist is first accepting the fact that nobody The trick with keeping your

the part of you that is curious, knows everything — it’s perfectly inner hero happy is to continue CHARLIE eager to learn and conducts acceptable to not know the answer to challenge him or her with new experiments. By approaching to a question. Second, when adventures. Your challenges will your decisions as a series of making decisions, work toward be unique to you, and that can experiments, you can observe the a balance between relying on seem intimidating at times, but results or natural consequences outside information and relying on you are also uniquely equipped to

with some emotional distance. your gut. You need both. overcome them. OPPERMAN/ASU; JAROD

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The velocity of change How President Crow got us here and what’s next. 28

New blueprint, new places A showcase of campus THE BIG PICTURE construction Building better during the campuses is a bit like Crow era. rethinking education. 38 You bring in the new ideas, inspire the builders and keep trying new things, mapping Nature as out a brighter future. What inspiration comes out of it can be This robot is something entirely new. smart — and pretty cute. 40

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Story by STEVEN BESCHLOSS Photography by JEFF NEWTON

Fifteen years ago, Michael M. Crow brought his idea of the New American University — an agile and radical reimagining of higher education — to ASU. Neither naysayers nor the Great Recession could derail his vision, and he has no plans to slow down anytime soon.

28 F ALL 2017 ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 29 move the university forward. He doesn’t have much patience for platitudes that are not based in reality or N THE FIRST YEARS after arriving won’t lead to clear, productive outcomes. at Arizona State University in 2002, As he moves into his 16th year as president, he remains a man on a mission. And nothing — not Michael Crow began handing out a reaching 100,000 students faster than expected, not Ishort handbook to managers called “High- dramatically improving graduation and retention rates, Velocity Culture Change.” The 44-page book not topping the list as the nation’s most innovative is filled with pithy sayings intended to jolt school, not even frequent calls from recruiters or the public flattery of being called a potential contender as your thinking and motivate action: “You’ll have Harvard’s next president — is likely to shift his focus trouble creating a new culture if you insist on from accelerating ASU’s impact and producing an doing it in ways that are consistent with the educational environment that allows the widest possible old one.” population to reach its potential. More than a decade later, Crow is still An economic blow giving this slim volume to managers, still Crow’s ambitious vision has been severely tested. seeking to spur disruption like he did when he Rewind to 2008 and 2009, when the Great Recession first arrived. Scanning its pages, he reads out coursed through the United States like an unrelenting loud another call to arms: “It’s time for ‘tough tsunami. There was serious reason to doubt that a New American University ambitiously pursuing growth and love.’ Caring harder. Caring enough to take access, excellence and societal impact would endure. the company through the tough, unpopular Bear Sterns collapsed; Lehman Brothers and struggle of culture change so it can survive.” General Motors filed for bankruptcy. The housing market imploded, and home foreclosures skyrocketed. The unemployment rate doubled, and the Dow Jones Crow pauses, reflects on how this resonates to him. suffered an 18 percent drop in a single week, its worst “I am willing to take any amount of abuse. Any ever. And in Arizona, one of the states hardest hit by the amount,” he says. He’s not kidding. “It’s not about me. housing crisis, the budget deficit climbed to $1.5 billion I’m not here for me. Literally, I’m not. I am here to deliver in 2010 and threatened to reach $3.4 billion in 2011. an organizational culture and a set of services to people In quick succession, ASU saw its state funding who can get them in no other way. I’m responsible to plummet, down $87.5 million in fiscal year 2009, down them. I’m an expendable commodity.” an additional $22.6 million in fiscal 2010 and then a This is verbatim Michael Crow. Confident. Straight $95.4 million hit the following year. All told, it was a up. Makes you think. Built for action. In the same brutal blow, by percentage the deepest cuts to higher moment that he tells you he cares about improving lives, education in the nation. Already, by March 2009, the giving people a chance to better themselves, he lets you university eliminated more than 500 jobs, including know that he’s up for a good fight. It’s this bracing style deans and department chairmen and chairwomen; shut that makes an impression instantly. down 48 academic units; and instituted unpaid furlough “He speaks his mind,” says Sybil Francis, his wife days for some 12,000 employees. and executive director of the Center for the Future of Many were asking what would become of Arizona. “I admire that about him. He is who he is. It’s ASU’s plans, including the dramatic expansion of almost like he’s constitutionally unable to do anything transdisciplinary research and the commitment to a differently.” socioeconomically diverse student body. The New For those who don’t know him, they sometimes York Times pointedly questioned whether Crow would need a double take to realize he really is after have to rein in his ambitions. Plenty of faculty members something that’s not about him — that he is willing wondered whether they and their departments to spend nearly every waking hour (he’s fabled for would survive. The State Press, ASU’s student sleeping just four hours a night) doing what he can to paper, was particularly blunt in its assessment: “The

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The past 15 years have July 2002 September 2002 April 2003 been a whirlwind of innovation, paradigm Michael M. Crow ASU establishes its The university breaks becomes Arizona partnership with Mayo ground for the ASU shattering, and rapid Clinic Arizona. Among the State University’s 16th Biodesign Institute, evolution at Arizona State first initiatives was the president and unveils his the country’s first University. Here are a few development of the ASU plan for ASU to become interdisciplinary research of the key moments in the College of Nursing and a “New American Health Innovation-Mayo institute entirely devoted development of ASU as the University.” Clinic Campus program. to the principles of bio- New American University. inspired innovation.

New American University has died; welcome to the Crow doesn’t minimize the hardship of those years, Neutered American University.” the economic and social dislocation that it caused, the Some were also wondering whether Michael Crow pain for individuals and families. But he also recalls those would stick around. But the naysayers sorely misjudged days with great pride and how they demonstrated that the man at the helm. the cultural change was in full swing. By law, those on Here’s how he recalls his mindset at the time: “The unpaid furlough are not expected or obliged to work. Yet country is in deep trouble. I don’t know exactly what all many ASU people chose to work without pay. of the casualties are, but this is the greatest financial “It was amazing,” Crow says. “People just stepped disruption since the Depression — and captains that up. It was really a proud moment for me on leave ships at these moments should behalf of the institution.” And more, “what be executed.” With typical that meant was our culture had shifted, bravado, he told Tamar Lewin I’m willing and had shifted to the point where we of The New York Times, “I were deeply committed to our mission. don’t retreat very easily.” to take any People said, ‘Maybe this can work. When others were Maybe we can come out of this even inclined to manage decline, amount stronger.’ We did.” make across-the-board cuts and simply hold on, Crow of abuse. ‘This guy sounds different’ responded by accelerating In fall 2001, Don Ulrich flew to New the strategic vision. He had his Any amount. York City to meet Michael Crow. eye on the prize: “The last thing Ulrich, a member of the Arizona you want to do in an economic I’m not here Board of Regents and chairman recession is reduce your capacity for me. of the search committee to find to produce more highly trained a new ASU president, had individuals,” he says. already interviewed five sitting That included accelerating plans university presidents and three provosts. He for the Downtown Phoenix campus, was not happy. “You’re giving me the same old, same designing a new set of online initiatives, seeking new old,” he told the headhunters. The way he saw it, “they partners and taking a hard look at which programs and were maintenance people. They weren’t going to change schools should survive. anything. That was not what this place needed.” “We needed to take advantage of the chaos around Then, ASU President Lattie Coor told Ulrich he had us,” he says. a guy he should meet, a guy at Columbia University who

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The university begins the ASU’s Downtown The university launches The ASU SkySong process of creating the Phoenix campus opens, the School of Scottsdale Innovation Decision Theater, a made possible by a Sustainability, the first Center opens, offering a specialized visualization transformative partnership comprehensive degree- unique hub for innovation, environment designed to with the city of Phoenix. granting program of its technology and business help policymakers type in the United States. development. evaluate data-generated scenarios to aid in decision-making.

was neither a president nor a provost. prospects for redesign at such a young university and Ulrich met Crow at 8 a.m. over breakfast at the Ritz- open culture like Arizona. As he puts it today, “The soil Carlton near Central Park. He had a plane to Atlanta was conducive to a new idea.” after the meeting. While he was not already using the phrase “New “I sat down and we just started talking. I thought, American University,” he was thinking deeply and reading ‘This guy sounds different.’ So I listened more closely.” widely about what kind of public university was needed Ulrich was impressed. “He has ideas. He has a track in America. His reading list then — he typically reads record that’s pretty damn different. His delivery was many books simultaneously — was a window unbelievable. I couldn’t ask him a into his evolving vision [See “A reading list for question that he didn’t rethinking education” sidebar on page 38]. have an answer to.” When Crow met with members of the Ulrich, a quick study search committee, he explained his view with a background in Well, you that the status quo in higher education corporate reorganizations, was outdated and that innovation was would later describe Crow guys can needed “across everything: the structure as a creative thinker, a man of the university, the design of the with an iron will and fearless. wish all university, the financial mechanisms for They ended up talking for funding the university.” He shared his 3½ hours and Ulrich missed you want. experience as a lead architect of what his plane. he called knowledge enterprises, The coming months would Why don’t designing “dozens and dozens” of be the first time many members we just research centers and research of the search committee met networks — at Columbia, at his Crow, Columbia’s executive vice do it? alma mater Iowa State University provost, who was also founding and around the world. director of its Earth Institute; founder What Crow had not done, what he wanted of its Consortium for Science, Policy to do, was “architect the whole thing.” He also was clear and Outcomes; and chief strategist for its research about what he did not want to do: “I told them I didn’t enterprise. But he had visited Arizona frequently over the want to manage anything. I don’t want to run anything. I previous decade as an ASU consultant to help design have no interest in being an administrator of anything. If a new research agenda and identify opportunities. He you want some hospital administrator or some academic had formed a picture of what could change and the administrator, there’s thousands of them out there.

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The university hosts NASA’s Lunar Starting with the fall Researchers at ASU’s President Barack Obama, Reconnaissance Orbiter semester, 100 percent of Flexible Electronics and ASU announces the launches, with ASU ASU’s schools and and Display Center creation of the President planetary geologist Mark colleges are engaged in successfully manufacture Barack Obama Scholars Robinson overseeing the entrepreneurship. the world’s largest program. Michael Crow is Lunar Reconnaissance flexible color organic named one of TIME’s 10 Orbiter Camera, capturing light emitting display Best College Presidents. high-resolution photos of prototype. the moon’s surface.

You should go get one. That’s not me.” The search A young man fueled by ideas committee took notice. In 1968, when he was 13, Crow watched his family’s What struck him first, recalls José Cárdenas, a search brand-new color TV as astronauts from Apollo 8 circled committee member and now ASU general counsel, was the moon. He was gripped by the idea that these people Crow’s attitude: brash, aggressive, intense, someone took off in a rocket and flew to the moon. It led him to who created excitement. Asked how he’d feel about think that you can do anything if your mind is ready, if you a president’s duty to beg for money, Crow offered a work hard enough. less than politic answer, “I don’t beg,” he said, then Earlier that day he had visited a family who lived in proceeded to detail his system for making a case with a shack with a tarpaper roof and a dirt floor. It seemed donors. Then he repeated, “I don’t beg.” It was the kind so unfair, so clear that something must be done. That of moment that galvanized the room, Cárdenas says, and picture, those dual thoughts, stuck with him. Fueled him. it clarified his own assessment. “If we hire this guy, he’ll By the time the 17-year-old was off to Iowa State, either be a spectacular success or a spectacular failure. the first in his family to go to college, he had moved Either way, we’ll be in for a hell of a ride.” 21 times. His father was an enlisted Navy man and To be sure, much of Crow’s passion and urgency his mother passed away when he was only 9. He was fueled by years of experience with education had learned how to manage this peripatetic lifestyle, leaders who longed for change but felt hamstrung from including periods in Maryland, Kentucky, Florida, Illinois taking action: “For decades, people and California. One constant was said, ‘We wish we had universities that the public library. Another was were more connected to the people … his thirst for knowledge and the more responsive … had research with growing awareness that, even in greater impact for social outcomes … tough circumstances, it’s possible that weren’t becoming so elitist.’” His to advance. response: “‘Well, you guys can wish all When he arrived in Ames, you want. Why don’t we just do it?’ No Iowa, after a six-hour drive from other institution had had the opportunity Chicago with his dad, he had to step back and look at every aspect of its entire design and redo that. Why don’t we do it?” Michael Crow during his Soon he would have his chance, college-athlete years at something he had dreamed about since Iowa State University. he was a boy.

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ASU establishes its first-ever ASU is named “No. 1 ASU adds its fourth and fifth ASU embarks on its charter, articulating its Most Innovative School” Nobel winners to its faculty, first-ever comprehensive by U.S. News & World complementing a roster of development campaign, dedication to the inclusion Report (an honor that Pulitzer Prize recipients, Campaign ASU 2020, and success of students, would be granted a MacArthur fellows and designed to raise at least and to a responsibility to the record three times, in hundreds of recognized, $1.5 billion. communities it serves. 2016, 2017 and 2018). highly prestigious teachers.

less than $10 in his pocket; he had cobbled together his concept for the university’s future. Following hundreds a handful of scholarships to cover all four years of of hours of meeting and thinking, Crow considered it college and his expenses. He wanted to do five a design proposal that sought to move away from the majors but had to settle for two, political science and model of increasingly elitist private universities that were environmental science. And he continued to percolate failing to address huge social inequity. on his notion that it’s possible to predict, design and “The New American University will cultivate control the future — and that higher education is the excellence in teaching, research and public service,” he way to get the tools necessary to design what doesn’t stated. It would “embrace the educational needs of the yet exist. This included structures, systems and entire population” and “be measured not by organizations. whom the university excludes, but rather Crow took as many by whom the university includes, and from classes and independent this inclusion will come its contribution to studies as he could. He the advancement of society.” ASU, he was hungry to engage I love asserted, “is uniquely poised to become and synthesize multiple such an institution.” ways of thinking, not just for to have But getting to that promised place knowledge’s own sake, but to required disruption of the status solve problems. And he wanted my idea quo. He expected criticism and got to apply his learning to drive a bellyful. Who was he to come in change and make something new. replaced by and redesign the joint? How could While still a junior, he was somebody he ever pull this off? Besides, the designing and building his own president’s job is to run the trains grant-funded engineering project, else’s idea. on time. He heard it from faculty. a way to increase food production, He heard it from staff and other and landed a job designing energy- administrators. That was OK by him. related projects at Ames National “I love debate. I love argument,” he says. “I love to Laboratory right after graduation. have my idea replaced by somebody else’s idea. Not It wasn’t long before he was envisioning universities everybody thinks that way, and people might not have that work across disciplines and create opportunity for realized that’s the way I am.” as many students as possible. Plenty saw his confidence, his intense drive, as self- serving ego. But he could live with that, too, on the path Altering a culture and reorganizing a university to pursuing the goal. In November 2002, four months after his July start, ASU’s “Basically, I began, just grinding this out,” he says. new president delivered an inaugural address introducing “I’m just a fullback. Give me the ball. I’ll gain three yards,

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17-DC-0140a-ASU-Alumni-Mag-Oct.indd 1 8/24/2017 10:12:20 AM The biology department became part of the School of A reading list for Life Sciences. Geology, astronomy and other sciences rethinking education evolved into the School of Earth and Space Exploration. The School of Sustainability — bringing together During the time Michael Crow was meeting with the search experts in environmental science and renewable energy, committee at ASU and rethinking the idea of an American business and policy and designed around an outcome university, his reading list included the following: much like a medical school aims for a long, healthy life — was the first of its kind in the country. Frank Rhodes’ “The Creation history of science whose Traditional engineering programs — such as of the Future: The Role of the publication was a landmark event civil, mechanical and industrial — were reorganized American University,” which in scientific communities. around Grand Challenges. This was inspired by describes universities as “the most Chuck Vest, the president of MIT and then president significant creation of the second Two works by William of the National Academy of Engineering, who was millennium” and “the decisive Manchester. One, “The Glory advocating creative ways to attract more young catalyst in modern society.” and the Dream,” narrates four people to engineering. “We took a year of arguing to decades of American history and work our way through that,” Crow notes. Today the Herbert Simon’s the workings of democracy starting Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering serve double the “The Sciences of the Artificial,” in 1932. The other, “A World Only number and a far more diverse population of more a classic work on artificial Lit by Fire,” casts back much than 20,000 engineering students. intelligence. farther to the Dark Ages and the And there was more: The push to create extraordinary role of universities one university, for example — one faculty, one Thomas Kuhn’s and education to escape that time accreditation, aligning the campuses to do away with “The Structure of Scientific of squalor, illiteracy, mindlessness the hierarchy of a main campus and branch campuses Revolutions,” a book on the and violence. — led to a single university administration and a growing commitment to online education that equally values students from any location. two yards, four yards, two yards. Throw me a pass every Such moves earned Crow new supporters, but once in a while. Just grind it out, grind it out, grind it out. it also intensified resistance from some academic Day after day after day. And then, people began to see traditionalists and doubters who worried about the we were making progress. We were doing new things.” pace and scale of change. One professor, unhappy New things, indeed, motivated by the desire to do with the redesign of his department, publicly called things better and increase impact, not just replicate Crow “a thug in a suit.” Less thick-skinned than he what had already been done. Rebuild and redesign might seem, Crow did his best to take it in stride. departments, for example, to empower faculty, “There’s been no project that hasn’t been difficult,” he encourage transdisciplinary thinking and research, says without rancor. “But I knew this stuff was going spur new insights, attract more students and produce to work once we found enough people who could be different outcomes. empowered by design. I mean, there’s a lot of really One design team report from 2004 described smart people here and a lot of really smart people that accelerating and institutionalizing “intellectual fusion,” could be here.” to “break out from the confines of traditional academic Consider the case of the Cronkite School of organization” and become more fluid. Journalism and Mass Communication. Before Chris “This was not simply advancing a strategy,” Crow Callahan became its dean in 2005, it was housed says. “We were attempting to alter a culture, and I hope within the School of Social Programs on the Tempe that the faculty here feel like they can advance any idea.” campus. Crow wanted to make it a stand-alone Still, there were skeptics aplenty. One faculty member school and move it to downtown Phoenix as part of asked if Crow was “making this stuff all up.” Crow’s an emerging collection of schools and students in the response was to have his team assemble two 6-inch- city’s urban core. ring binders filled with intellectual arguments for new Although some faculty and deans thought it was academic designs and what they could yield. an awful idea, that it represented exile from the Tempe

36 F ALL 2017 Michael Crow with Medallion Scholars Sawyer Bland (left) and MacKenzie Robb.

implement these new technologies … lower our costs … continue to find resources and partners … successfully reengineer the way the university worked.” In short: “The sky did not fall.”

No slowing down Far from it. ASU is well ahead of the 2020 timetable to grow to 100,000 students, thanks largely to nearly 30,000 online degree-seeking students. It continues to expand the population of first-generation college students and achieve high national rankings for its myriad programs, including 18 transdisciplinary schools. In 15 years, research expenditures have grown from $110 million to more than $500 million, placing ASU in the top 10 of the National Science Foundation’s rankings of institutions without a medical school. (The goal is to reach $700 million by 2020.) Perhaps no ranking has provided more reason for self-congratulation than topping campus and could lead to its early demise, Callahan the U.S. News & World Report list as the nation’s most was excited by the opportunities it would create for innovative university. Crow acknowledges its value, journalism students to engage more closely with the seeing it as part of an American story of advancement. nation’s fifth-largest city. That same thinking influenced “I hear a lot of students, a lot of people, talking the decision to move the law school, nursing school, about it. They see us as this creative, innovative place. social work and public affairs and others that would America’s always been seen as an innovative place, thrive by becoming more embedded in the community. where there are inventors, dreamers, people doing “You can walk outside and cover things that look things in these new ways,” he says. “To be a part of that like the rest of America,” says Callahan. Rather than within this sector is fantastic. That’s the American way.” resist the move, he found it “intoxicating,” a rare But Crow is not about to sit back and rest on laurels. opportunity to design something new. “How often do Or slow the velocity that has gotten ASU this far. you get to do that?” “I’m not interested in finding equilibrium,” he Jazzed by the creative mindset, Callahan has says. “Most universities sit in equilibrium. I think that introduced all kinds of innovations, including modeling equilibrium doesn’t allow you to be adaptive. It doesn’t the journalism school on the teaching-hospital concept allow you to scale.” that allows students to practice the profession virtually And what’s true for ASU remains true for ASU’s from day one. president. Fifteen years on, the last thing he’s looking Crow cites 2011, nearly a decade after he arrived, for is a slower pace. When Crow was still at Columbia, as the point when ASU had turned a corner following recalls Francis, he would pull all-nighters now and then the economic downturn and a series of reorganizations. to get things done. After moving to the desert, he told “I think by 2011 we knew we had cleared,” he says. his wife that he would not keep doing that. “People ask, “We knew that we could make these new ideas work … ‘Does he ever slow down?’” She laughs. “This is slow.”

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TRANSFORM New places for thinking, reading, measuring, experimenting, collaborating,

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ASU’s metro Built with sustainability and smarts in mind BILL TIMMERMAN/FOR Phoenix campuses Cottonwood Canal Arbor, Polytechnic campus Located in a former parking lot, this arbor provides offer places for welcome shade while the adjacent courtyard students and faculty recaptures precious rainfall that irrigates native to grow, stretch riparian trees and plants. Eco-friendly construction has been crucial for recent building additions to the Poly ASU; and imagine. Each campus. Residence halls have integrated photovoltaic LUCY

offers a unique panels, recycled concrete found on site and other Crime scene lab snares WOLSKI; learning experience building materials during their construction and the wrong-doers with science

use of stabilized decomposed granite on walkways Forensics Crime Scene Lab, ANDY and the resources helps reduce the urban heat island effect. A campus West campus DELISLE/ASU; JAROD OPPERMAN/ASU of a Research I community garden helps students understand food Located in West’s CLCC university. systems, waste management, electricity and water building, the crime scene conservation in the desert. lab introduces students to the basics of forensic science and empowers them to examine, solve and prevent crime. NERI/ASU NICOLE

38 F ALL 2017 Bringing the power of the law into the New places for thinking, classroom Beus Center for Law and Society, Downtown Phoenix campus With a civic outreach center, the ASU Alumni Law Group, and several other nonprofits housed within the 280,000-square foot structure, the Beus Center sits just blocks away collaborating, from the Valley’s legal, political and economic powerhouses.

Engineering a better understanding of the universe Interdisciplinary Science and Technology BILL TIMMERMAN/FOR Building 4, Tempe campus ISTB4, the largest single A place to EXPLORE research building at potential and possibilities ASU, uses innovative ASU; Lattie F. Coor Hall, architecture to integrate

LUCY Tempe campus educational, laboratory

WOLSKI; Honoring multiple missions and collaborative spaces within a single space, within the building.

ANDY Coor Hall houses media- The 250-seat Marston enabled classrooms, hosts Exploration Theater DELISLE/ASU; JAROD OPPERMAN/ASU an expansive Computer provides 3-D planetarium Commons and features Dwelling in beauty, 21st-century style experiences, and a series of text fragments Skyspace: Air Apparent, Tempe campus Artist James engineering students and and letterforms etched on Turrell’s iconic Skyspaces have been called “a spa for researchers can share the building’s glass façade, consciousness.” Visitors to the Tempe campus have 24/7 insights at the third-floor forming one of the largest access to this contemplative architectural environment, atrium, which features a public art projects on which features a 45-foot-square “floating” ceiling plane, unique carpet highlighting NERI/ASU campus. and 480 color-changing light fixtures that illuminate the craters on the Moon, Mars

NICOLE canopy during sunset and sunrise. and Earth.

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A robot teaches itself “We don’t tell it what to navigate the world to do. If we use tricks Machine learning met and fell in love with biology-inspired design in the creation of from nature, it learns C-Turtle, a developmental robot created much faster.” by ASU doctoral students and faculty with – Heni Ben Amor, assistant professor in backgrounds in computer science, mechanical the School of Computing, Informatics engineering and biology. Produced with just and Decision Systems Engineering $70 of materials, the robot took about one hour of crawling to learn how to successfully navigate a desert landscape. Future applications of these types of robots could include actively monitoring conditions in challenging environments such as minefields or other planets.

The C-Turtle, a robot created by ASU faculty and doctoral students, uses an algorithmic LEIGHT/ASU learning process to discover how to move about in diverse types of terrain. CHARLIE

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The transformation of of gifts higher education … made this year made possible by you were Campaign ASU 2020 is rallying the campus % $100 community and beyond to support the or less. university as it continues to redefine higher education. Following the public launch of 92 Campaign ASU 2020 earlier this year, the ASU Foundation announced that donors set Where donors give a one-year fundraising record: $222 million in + by area of support new gifts and commitments. As the campaign 5,000 Wheregains momentum,do gifts here are a few fundraising distinct areas to come from? which an ASU highlights from 2017. donor can choose Alumni, faculty, to contribute staff, parents and community members 40% New areas for gifts Foundations 22% • ASU College of Law 107,000+ O’Connor Justice Prize Corporationsunique donors 30% to ASU in FY2017 endowment Other organizations 8% • C ollege of Nursing and WhereStudent donors aid, give Health Innovation Center byacademic area of support 60% for Mindfulness programs and Where do gifts • C ollege of Liberal Arts educational come from? and Sciences Pathways services to Character Alumni, faculty, • ASU Online digital staff, parents learning research and community members 40% • S cholarships for students who study supply Foundations 22% chain management, for Corporations 30% graduates interested in human origins and for Other organizations 8% ranching families Student aid, academic 60% programs and educationalResearch 19% One day makes a big difference services “All great universities in the United States Athletics 11% are built around 3,587 donors to this year’s Sun Devil Giving Day, philanthropy.” Public service an annual effort that brings together supporters 6% programs – ASU President Michael M. Crow around the world to give to the ASU unit of their choice. Unrestricted 4%

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GET OUT Hugs for days — you might think working out is about heart rates and reps, but for the members of the November Project, it’s all about the hugs. OK, so it’s also about working out and being healthy, but this group shows that sport can be good for your heart in more ways than one.

Power of sport New alliance explores the ability of athletics to change lives. 44

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The power of sport

A new alliance between adidas and ASU aims to change the game by including diversity, sustainability and human potential

Story by BOB YOUNG Photography by JAROD OPPERMAN

44 F ALL 2017 It is 6 a.m. at an amphitheater in Papago ASU’s applied research that he knows it will lead to Park in the East Valley, and capabilities in areas such as discoveries that nobody is almost 60 hardy souls are engineering, nutrition, design, even anticipating. bounding up the stone steps, sustainability, law, business, “What don’t we know?” he pushing through lunges, sociology and personal health. asks. “That’s what we’re after. grunting through pushups and Their shared goal: to unlock And what could we find out exchanging high-fives on a “the power of sport” and that could be great for ASU, swampy summer day. deliver real-world solutions. adidas, athletes, for people in They are members of The ambitious alliance sport or people in general? the Phoenix “tribe” of the emerged from the initial Let’s go see if we can find November Project led by discussions between ASU something that everybody two Arizona State University and adidas that led to a doesn’t know about, and then graduates, Jackie Knoll and uniform deal in 2014. ASU share it.” Trevor Warren. President Michael Crow, To do that, adidas and ASU They come the first time for Executive Vice President will share ideas and assets the workouts. They come back and University Provost Mark — students, researchers, for the hugs. Searle, Vice President for scientists, engineers, The group is a social University Athletics Ray designers, experts in experiment in action. Workouts Anderson and Mark sustainability and are free, noncompetitive, King, president sociologists. They all-inclusive and built around of adidas North aren’t looking fun and positivity. The group’s America, met only for new motto: “Just show up.” during those materials, Members don’t greet each discussions technology or other by shaking hands. and decided designs that They hug. that such will improve “It’s a nonthreatening, open, partnerships performance, supportive community, and I have far more but also for ways think that’s why people keep potential than sport can impact coming back,” says Knoll, simply providing society and build a speech pathologist who uniforms to sports communities. started the local chapter with programs. The King believes that ASU and Warren, a Honeywell engineer, King likes to describe sport November adidas will each benefit, but in 2015. and adidas as “disrupters” that Project’s more importantly, people will And it is just the sort of don’t simply look to improve Phoenix benefit. phenomenon the Global Sport on what they or others are chapter “ASU is looking at the world Alliance wants to explore. doing, but to find completely members through the lens of education,” The alliance combines new solutions. He said the work out at he says. “We have designers the global reach of shoe and most exciting aspect of the Papago Park. and engineers looking at the apparel giant adidas with partnership with ASU is world through the lenses of

ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 45 sport and human performance. Global Sport Alliance “So, is there a way to combine our assets with Through sport, we have the power to change lives their assets to find new and interesting ways to affect the world in a positive way through sport?” adidas and ASU believe the answer is yes. That is the idea on the conceptual level. To put it into practice, ASU tapped Kenneth Shropshire, director of the Wharton School’s Sports Business Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, to serve as ASU’s first adidas Distinguished Professor of Global Sport and chief executive officer of the Global Sport Institute, an endowed position created with a Bringing together education, athletics, research and innovation, contribution from adidas. the Global Sport Alliance will explore topics that include diversity, Shropshire is an expert in race, sustainability and human potential, all through the lens of sports business, sports law sport. The comprehensive partnership between adidas and Arizona and the social impact of sport. State University will harness resources across the entire university In keeping with the Global and leverage adidas’ global reach with the ambition of benefiting Sport Alliance’s model that athletes around the world. With the collective power of two renowned encompasses a wide range innovators, this is an opportunity to change the game. of discovery, Shropshire will hold faculty positions Research in ASU’s Walter Cronkite Education and innovation Knowledge Athletics School of Journalism and Expand access Shape the Change the Enhance Mass Communication, W. P. to education future of sport world through athlete Carey School of Business, the adidas and ASU are Connecting sport potential Sandra Day O’Connor College partnering together students, faculty, Creation and Expand the of Law and the School of to champion employees, dissemination of boundaries of Social Transformation’s African individual potential researchers, research and athletes and and African American Studies by offering 100 engineers, knowledge, humans to program. scholarships to designers, powered by the maximize their “In the end, we want to high-achieving marketers and a Global Sport individual potential. provide greater access to adidas employees global network of Institute. information involving sport to realize their thought leaders and in a way that people can educational goals partners to push understand,” Shropshire says. online. sport forward and There are really no create societal boundaries to where the impact. Global Sport Institute might go, he says. Learn more at adidas.asu.edu. “It might range from: Is

46 F ALL 2017 walking better than running? he did in South Africa with the says. Should I spend money for Royal Bafokeng Nation, a Rick Baker, the cross- Gatorade or just drink tribe that won mineral country coach at Hopi High water? What are “In the end, rights to a platinum School in Keams Canyon, the chances of my deposit below its said that when his team goes kid becoming we want to land in 1999. to the state championship a professional “Their each year, “we have a whole athlete? Should provide greater community had mess of fans there.” Running I spend money access to information not previously is both a source of pride for on these private had sport in the school — 27 consecutive lessons?” ... in a way that their schools state titles and counting — and people can — think about woven into the fabric of their apartheid,” he community. understand.” says. “The king “Running is a big part of — KENNETH asked me, ‘If you could Hopi culture,” Baker says. SHROPSHIRE start all over in the United “Everyone is involved. The States, what role would sport traditional races we have — the play in schools, and how would fans can relate.” you do it the right way?’ Those traditional races take “I thought that was a place throughout the year, fascinating question. This when the males of all ages run tribe’s wealth comes from from the base of a mesa to the world’s largest platinum the village at the top. Think of deposit, which has given them it as a 5K straight uphill, with independence of thought. In something far more significant the U.S. you see something than a runner’s medal at the similar in tribes that have end. Participants run “for wealth from casinos. strength and for moisture Kenneth Shropshire, ASU’s “So there is this idea that — rain. For overall health for first adidas Distinguished you have communities trying everyone,” Baker says. Professor of Global Sport and to retain their identity and Baker himself knows the chief executive officer of the culture, but that also want to motivation that sport can Global Sport Institute participate in broader aspects inspire in a person’s life. After of society, like sport.” he won the state title in the Eric Legg, an assistant mile in 1977, “that changed my He says the institute can professor in ASU’s College of attitude in life. It made me want explore whether there is value Public Service and Community to go to college. At that age, for communities that host Solutions, has lived on the when you don’t look five years the Olympic Games, look at Hopi Reservation in northern down the line … it made me the benefits of professional Arizona and witnessed the hungry.” franchises to communities, impact sport can have there. He sees that continuing or evaluate the importance of The Hopi have long power of achievement in his activity for kids. traditions in running, and students today, and the way it An area of special interest basketball on all of the Indian brings the community together. to Shropshire is the role of nations is wildly popular. Others have seen that, too. sport in Native American “I refereed basketball, and While ASU’s Legg was culture and communities. I’d drive down the main road teaching on the reservation, He compares the and it was bumper-to-bumper Hopi High’s long-struggling potential for research on the for miles with people going football program hired some reservations to research that to the junior varsity game,” he new coaches and had one of

ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 47 shape during their offseason. One friend joined them for the first session. But the next week there were more. Relying only on social media and word-of-mouth recommendations, the group eventually grew into the hundreds. Then it began to spread to other cities. The November Project has flourished in Phoenix with as many as 100 people showing up for some workouts. And there are “tribes” around the U.S., Canada, England, Malaysia, Serbia, Hong Kong, the Netherlands and Iceland. “Physical fitness is not necessarily the reason people want to go,” Legg says. “That’s an added benefit. What they’re getting out of it is a sense of community. They’re getting social support, particularly when you’re talking about the Hopi High School Coach adult recreational space. Rick Baker cheers on his “Yes, they love the son, Steven, at the 2015 its best seasons ever. things about having adidas athletic component, but it state championship. “They got the kids involved. You get this big- is much more about those Baker’s cross-country engaged, and this team went picture approach, two global relationships, the sense of teams have won 27 from being really lousy year enterprises attacking that big community and the social consecutive state titles after year to being really good,” picture a little piece at a time.” support than it is the activity.” (and counting). Steven, Legg says. “The community Legg says the idea that Knoll and Warren agree, now a junior, is still just gravitated to that team. sport has the potential to adding that many of their running. “Native communities have change the world might sound Phoenix workouts include their own set of issues, and cheesy, but he believes it, pairing off with a partner or sport is not a magic elixir by and so do the Global Sport taking part in a team activity, itself. But it has that potential Alliance partners. It is the essentially requiring members to engage people. I haven’t same power that exists to engage with each other. And seen this done, but it could be within the November Project that’s what makes it work. a very simple thing: You get movement. “They’re not alone on a all of these people coming to Brogan Graham and Bojan treadmill at the gym with their basketball games, so maybe Mandaric, Northeastern earbuds in,” Warren says. you have social-service University rowers at the time, “They’re interacting with agencies there. ‘This is where started November Project in people, building relationships, people are, so let’s grab them.’ 2011, sending out a Facebook hugging, encouraging each It’s a way to use sport as a post to their friends to let them other and having actual PHOTOGRAPHY vehicle to connect with the know they were going to be physical interaction while community. at Harvard Stadium to run the getting a killer workout.” COTE

“That’s one of the great stairs once a week to stay in That’s the power of sport. NICK

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In memoriam 2017 Sun Devil team honors legendary ASU Coach Frank Kush This season, the ASU Sun Devils are honoring the memory of the university’s winningest football coach, College Football Hall of Fame inductee Frank Kush, who died June 22 at the age John Humphrey, of 88. a wide receiver, On Sept. 9, the Sun in the new Devils wore the sunburst Tillman Tunnel at the north end logo on their helmets, a of Sun Devil mainstay of uniforms during Stadium the Kush era, during their game against San Diego State. Throughout the Stadium reinvention 2017 season, players are wearing a small sunburst project redefines excellence ASU logo in honor of Kush. Fans and football players alike are experiencing the benefits from the He led the Sun Devils to six victories in seven recently completed second phase of the Sun Devil Stadium reinvention bowl games, including project. The renovated 118,000-plus-square-foot facility now includes a the 1970 Peach Bowl and ultramodern locker room, a wide-open weight room, a world-class 1975 Fiesta Bowl, where sports medicine facility, respective position meeting rooms and the team capped two undefeated seasons. The auditorium, and exclusive player’s lounge. The Tillman Tunnel on the Peach Bowl marked ASU’s north side of the stadium is now highlighted by a statue of Pat Tillman first bowl game in 19 years, where the players enter the field. And towering above the north end and the Fiesta Bowl win zone is a new videoboard that stretches 113 feet by 47 feet. pushed the Sun Devils Following the final home game in 2017, Sun Devil Stadium will enter to second in the national

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Sun Devil 100 winner shares secrets for vaulting into entrepreneurship

arson Holmquist spent his childhood C dreaming of owning his own business. A 2008 graduate of the W. P. Carey School of Business, he put that vision on the fast track to becoming reality in 2012, when he launched Stream Logistics with a partner. The business was ranked No. 1 in the 2017 class of the Sun Devil 100, a university event Making the leap celebrating the achievements

of ASU alumni who own or love to spend hours riding the a wagon to haul cold drinks variety of invaluable business lead businesses around the tracks and jumping their bikes. and snacks to each of the processes and logistics globe. We caught up with However, I always preferred construction sites. Like many operations. The knowledge Holmquist recently and asked to build and perfect the jumps young kids, my attention span gained from that experience him to share his keys to and trails rather than actually was short and I couldn’t resist gave me the confidence to business success. ride the tracks. eating the inventory, so the make the leap to full-time How did the desire to What was your first venture never took off. entrepreneur. own your own business entrepreneurial venture? manifest itself when you What did you learn from it? How did ASU and your You’ve said in news were younger, and how did My first outlet was a business participation in an stories that “The hardest you channel it? in which I served cold drinks entrepreneurial internship thing was making the I grew up in an entrepreneurial to the construction workers program help prepare you jump — making that household since my parents who were building new homes for launching a business initial commitment to owned a family business. in my subdivision. Next, I as an adult? leave a stable job with a Their entrepreneurial influence talked my parents into fronting The entrepreneurship promising career path to intrigued me, and the process me money to buy snacks and internship put me on the path be an entrepreneur.” of designing systems came drinks in bulk to enhance my that ultimately led to founding Why was that a hard naturally to me and I enjoyed it. small business. Instead of Stream Logistics. ASU hand- decision for you? For example, during elementary limiting our audience to those matched me with a young It was a tough decision

school, riding BMX bikes on who happened to drive by, logistics company with an because of the security I had DENT/ASU dirt tracks in the desert was we converted the drink stand impressive growth trajectory. to give up in order to chase

very popular. Most kids would into a mobile business, using There, I was exposed to a my dream. I was married and DEANNA

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had a mortgage, so financial the financial risk can be stability was important. mitigated with a carefully 2010s and social field methods in Baja, However, my desire to own my crafted plan to limit expenses Windsor Mexico, as part of her graduate path and create opportunity and to reach profitability as Smith ’16 BA education. for others outweighed my quickly as possible. and Madison desire for security. I was Romine ’16 BA Jordan Hibbs ’14 BS, ’15 MSTP confident in our ability to In your opinion, has received received the Congressional Award first-place Gold Medal for public service create a great company, so making the leap into honors for news on June 21 at the U.S. Capitol in we made the leap. entrepreneurship been production at the Broadcast Washington, D.C. The award, which worth it? Is there Education Association Festival of is noncompetitive, recognizes goals Was there any one anything you wish you Media Arts ceremony in Las Vegas accomplished in one of four areas: incident or milestone that had known beforehand? in April. voluntary public service, personal development, physical fitness and told you it was time to go It is worth it. It is rare to find Raymond Patche II ’16 BS, expedition/exploration. into business for yourself an individual who was once formerly assistant boys basketball full time? an entrepreneur and who has coach in the Scottsdale Unified Mark Stephan ’14 MBA accepted When my business partner, now reverted back to being School District, accepted a position a position as vice president and Chad Patton, and I originally an employee. as girls basketball coach at Desert medical director with Equality discussed the idea of starting Vista High School in the Tempe Health in Phoenix. The organization Union High School District. seeks to organize better health care a business, I was mentally What do you think Sun delivery systems for underserved ready for a new challenge and Devils can learn from Jon Rahm ’16 BA, Isagenix and ethnic populations. excited about the possibilities. studying the successes sponsored golfer and former ASU However, I subconsciously of businesses that have student-athlete, won the 2017 PGA Samson Szeto ’13 BS, ’13 BA, needed some reassurance. been ranked in the Sun Tour Farmers Insurance Open on ’15 MS, communications program coordinator of LightWorks at ASU, After I told my wife about Devil 100 list? Jan. 29, becoming the youngest winner of that contest and moving was named to the 2017 GreenBiz the opportunity, she was Sun Devils should recognize from 142nd to 46th in the official 30 Under 30 list of young corporate immediately supportive. She that each person on world golf rankings. sustainability professionals who expressed no doubt in my the list was once just impact their workplace and the ability and fully supported the a student without any Linzie world. move. Her confidence in me expertise or knowledge of Melgreen ’15 MS, formerly William (Billy) J. Barlow ’12 BS gave me the reassurance I entrepreneurship. The skills adoptions is the mayor of Oswego, N.Y., and needed to know I was making required to start and run coordinator for the youngest mayor in that state. His a sound decision. a business can easily be the Department successful efforts to revitalize the obtained. Anyone can do it. of Child Safety city’s downtown area have received What are the biggest The hard part is making the in northern Arizona, accepted the media attention. risks related to making leap and committing to a plan. position of concerns liaison with the Arizona Department of Jordan Hafen the leap from full-time Developmental Disabilities. ’12 JD joined the To see the complete list employment to full-time Phoenix office of entrepreneurship? What of the 2017 class of Sun Megan Dewall the Polsinelli law are the best ways of Devil 100 inductees, visit ’14 BAE, a firm as an alumni.asu.edu/ mitigating those risks? teacher in the associate in the sd100class2017. Stevens Point area of complex Financial risk is scary to most (Wis.) School real estate law.

DENT/ASU people, which keeps would- Liz Massey is managing District, studied be entrepreneurs from making editor for ASU’s Enterprise desert and

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Namath Hussain ’12 MBA joined California governor’s initiative organization he assists through its Ray Padilla ’09 the faculty at Loma Linda University AmeriCorps program. In this annual Man and Woman of the Year BA, founder and in the Department of Neurosurgery at capacity, she assists local fundraising campaign. owner of Ray the School of Medicine. governments’ climate adaptation Padilla Law, a planning, capacity building and 2000s civil litigation and Fares Tarabichi ’11 BS; Karim volunteer engagement programs. Catherine Alonzo ’07 MPA, estate planning Tarabichi ’07 BSE, ’07 MSE; and CEO and co-founder of Javelina; law firm, Omar Tarabichi ’07 BS, brothers Matt Gibson K Royal ’04 JD, senior privacy celebrated the opening of his and co-owners of The Crepe ’10 BS received consultant with TrustArc; and second San Diego office. Club quick-service restaurant, his PhD in Lawdan Shojaee ’04 BS, CEO have expanded from the food cart physics from of Axosoft, were honored among Juan Parodis ’09 BSD accepted business familiar to many on ASU’s Ohio State the Phoenix Business Journal’s 31 a position as project manager Tempe campus to three brick-and- University in Outstanding Women in Business with the Phoenix architecture and mortar locations in Phoenix. December. on April 2. construction firm Form Third.

Susan Demmitt ’11 JD, an attorney Marshall Hunt ’10 BA, an Ed Hermes ’07 BS, ’07 BA, ’13 JD, Scott Root ’09 MS, director of with Gammage and Burnham, was attorney with the Davis Miles an attorney with Quarles and Brady virtual construction for Kitchell, elected to equity membership in the McGuire Gardner law firm in LLP; Cassandra Ayres ’02 BA, received an Innovator Landmark law firm. Her practice focuses on Tempe, was appointed to the ’07 JD, a member with Beus Gilbert Leaders Award from the Phoenix land use, development law and real Tempe Chamber of Commerce PLLC; and Lindsay Schube ’00 Business Journal in recognition estate transactions. Board of Directors. BS, ’05 JD, a partner with Gammage of his commitment, collaboration, and Burnham, were named in the hard work and community service. Caitlin Sheedy Briann January ’10 BIS, member Phoenix Business Journal’s new ’11 BS, of the WNBA’s Indiana Fever regular feature, 20 Names to Know, Todd Wood ’09 MBA, chemistry basketball team and former Sun that highlights the legal industry. entrepreneur, developer and teacher at Devil basketball player, accepted CEO of Christopher Todd McPherson a position as women’s basketball Ken Bonham ’05 BAE, vice Communities, launched the (Kan.) High assistant coach for the Sun Devils. president of business development company’s new-concept, School, studied She will continue to play with with Lucid Agency LLC, and horizontal rental community of emerging models in conservation Indiana as she coaches. Tania Torres ’02 BA, president single story, single family luxury and education and spiritual and CEO of Torres Multicultural homes in Surprise, Ariz. connections to nature in Thailand in Gregory Leet Communications, were included preparation for a master’s degree. ’10 MNPS, in the Phoenix Business Journal’s Andrew Abarca ’08 BSE previously vice list of 20 Names to Know for accepted a position as senior Erik Coover ’10 BA, owner and chancellor for advertising and marketing. systems engineer at Sikorsky senior vice president of global field university Aircraft after earning a second development for Isagenix, was advancement at Erika Flores ’09 BA, the digital bachelor’s degree in computer named to the Direct Selling News the University of journalist for Maricopa County, science from Regis University. annual Forces Under 40 list in California–Irvine, accepted a was added to the Central Arizona recognition of his work in thought position as vice president for College Wall of Success in Mitchel Allen leadership, collaborative interaction advancement with The Jackson recognition of her personal and ’08 BA, vice and good stewardship. Laboratory. professional accomplishments. president of business Sher Downing ’10 MLS, a D. Michael Anne Layne ’09 development for former ASU employee, accepted McCarroll ’10 MBA, senior the Greater a position as vice chancellor of BIS, senior vice manager with Phoenix eLearning at the University of president at McHard Economic Council, received the South Carolina, Palmetto College, Integro Accounting Economic Development Columbia, S.C. Insurance Consulting LLC, Distinguished by Excellence Award Brokers in received the for Economic Developer of the Year, Elektra Woodland Hills, Calif., was New Mexico Society of CPA’s Large Community from the Arizona Fike-Data ’10 appointed to the United Way Women to Watch – Emerging Association for Economic BS, ’10 BA, ’14 Emerging Leaders Board of Leaders Award in recognition of her Development, in recognition of his MAS is a Advisors. Additionally, McCarroll is accomplishments in the profession. significant contributions to the Climate Action among those considered for Man of advancement of the organization fellow with the Year by the Leukemia and and economic growth within the CivicSpark, a Lymphoma Society Los Angeles, an state of Arizona.

54 F ALL 2017 CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE ASU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Ready for action Incoming students welcomed into Sun Devil family with hometown ‘Send-Off’ events

For new students and their international students and families, getting ready to transfer students from start school at ASU can be a community colleges. big and possibly intimidating The events were a change. Luckily, the Alumni cross between a mini pep Association’s Sun Devil rally and a maroon-and-gold Send-Offs, held this summer lovefest, and for many new in nearly 30 cities nationwide, ASU families, they provided all helped smooth the path the confirmation needed that to ASU for a broad cross- they made the right choice “We chose to host because we have lots section of first-year students when their child decided to of Sun Devil pride. We wanted to share our — incoming freshmen, become a Sun Devil. enthusiasm and knowledge of the Tempe area with the families that lived in our area.”

— Jim Shaughnessy ’72 BAE, event host, 2017 Send-Off locations Greater Philadelphia chapter

Albuquerque, NM Austin, TX Alumni Boston, MA participation Charlotte, NC at the Send-Offs Chicago, IL averages 291 Columbus, OH Sun Devils per Dallas / Ft. Worth, TX year. Flagstaff, AZ Houston, TX Indianapolis, IN Kansas City, KS LA / Arcadia, CA LA / Manhattan Beach, CA LA / Westlake Village, CA Las Vegas, NV Minneapolis, MN New York, NY Omaha, NE Orange County, CA Philadelphia, PA Portland, OR Between International Salt Lake City, UT 2013 and 2016, locations for past San Antonio, TX more than 1,546 Sun Devil Send-Offs San Diego, CA students and their include Hong Kong, San Francisco, CA Seoul, Shanghai, Seattle, WA families attended a Send-Off. Bangalore and other St. Louis, MO global cities. Tucson, AZ Washington, D.C.

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Sean Bowie ’08 where she advocates for clients in of directors for the Junior League of District, was named the American BS, ’08 BA, the defense and prosecution of New Orleans. Her responsibilities Association of School faculty member in insurance and business litigation include oversight of the Administrators’ Superintendent of ASU’s College of matters. organization’s thrift shop and related the Year for Arizona and Public Service assets. represented the state at the AASA and Community Mallory Dyer ’07 BA, co-founder National Conference in March Solutions, was and CEO of Graphlock, a cross- Patrick O’Brien ’05 BS, former 2017. She will participate in a elected to the Arizona State Senate platform mobile and web-based Sun Devil water-skier and founder similar role in Washington, D.C., in representing Legislative District 18 scientific and graphing calculator of the Fruit Carving Ninja, travels the November 2017. that covers Ahwatukee, south Tempe, application for smartphones, tablets U.S. to deliver fruit and vegetable west Chandler and southwest Mesa. and laptops, was recognized by the carvings to trade shows, special Timothy Fontes Phoenix Business Journal with its events and culinary competitions. He ’04 BS, an Matt Cicinelli ’08 BS accepted 2017 AZ Top Tech Exec Community also serves as a guest teacher. intellectual a position as technical adviser with Hero Award. property attorney Amazon. Courtney Klein ’05 BIS, ’10 in the Phoenix Andrew Moe ’07 BA, associate MNPS, founder and CEO of Seed office of the Corey Donaldson ’08 BSE was dean of admissions and director Spot, was named to the board of Polsinelli law firm, named a partner at Koppel Patrick of access and programming at directors of Participate, a partner was appointed to serve on the board Heybl and Philpott, an intellectual Swarthmore College, earned a with schools and districts to of directors for Rosie’s House: A property law firm in Westlake Village, doctoral degree (EdD) in higher provide technology, comprehensive Music Academy for Children. Calif. education at the University of framework and support services for Pennsylvania in May 2017. educators. Dana Hooper ’04 JD, a shareholder Mackenzie and attorney at Greenberg Traurig Hopman Pham Mary Myklak- Sara Agne and a professional sports agent, ’08 BA, ’08 BA, Bernardo ’07 ’04 BA was joined ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor ’11 MA teaches MHSM, ’07 elected to join College of Law and W. P. Carey French at the MBA, formerly the partnership School of Business as a faculty University of regional director of Snell and associate. She teaches a three- Rhode Island of physician Wilmer law firm credit course in sports law to and fitness classes at the Pure business in their Phoenix students from both programs. Barre studio. development for Tenet Healthcare, office. Agne practices in the areas Diana Hossack ’08 MBA was promoted to COO of Abrazo of political law, government relations Erin Kinoshita accepted a position as executive Medical Group in Phoenix. and health care. She also serves on ’04 BA, ’05 director of Opera Lafayette, an the Arizona Supreme Court’s MMC, formerly American period instrument Nicole C. Ricker ’06 JD joined the advisory committee on the rules of senior account ensemble focused on the French Gammage and Burnham law firm’s evidence and the State Bar of supervisor, was 18th century opera repertoire and real estate and zoning practice Arizona’s civil practice and promoted to its precursors. The organization is group as a partner. In addition, procedure committee. director of headquartered in Washington, D.C. Ricker was recognized by Best account services with Anthology Lawyers in America in the category Jeremy Alberts Marketing Group in Honolulu. Nora Jones of land use and zoning law. ’04 BS, an ’08 BA, an attorney in the Jeffrey Gardner ’03 BS attorney with Jeff Bardach Las Vegas office received specialty certification in the probate ’05 BA was of Weinberg anesthesiology from the American administration named director Wheeler Board of Anesthesiology and is now and litigation of content for Hudgins Gunn a board-certified anesthesiologist. practice group at KOTV/News and Dial, was selected for the Tiffany and Bosco, was elected to On 6 in Tulsa, Super Lawyers Magazine 2017 Henry Mann shareholder in the firm. Okla. Mountain States Rising Stars list. ’03 BSE was promoted to Michelle Heather Debbi partner at Schiff Buckley ’07 Millican Doyle Burdick ’04 Hardin LLP in BMus joined the ’05 BA was EdD, the law firm’s national law firm appointed superintendent Chicago office, Polsinelli as an business council in the Cave where he practices in the areas associate in the director for the Creek (Ariz.) of mergers and acquisitions, Phoenix office, 2017–18 board Unified School venture capital, commercial

56 F ALL 2017 CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE ASU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Sun Devil 101: The easiest way to teach others the proper pitchfork agreements, intellectual property Kimberly Yee ’01 MPA, an and internet law. Arizona state senator, was named to the legislative leaders advisory Sean J. board for GOPAC, the largest O’Hara ’03 BA Republican state and local political was elected to training organization. membership with Kercsmar and Jason Borges ’00 BIS, has Feltus PLLC, a been appointed by Capstone boutique Collegiate Communities as litigation firm in Scottsdale, Ariz. manager of Fremont Station, an Step 1 Step 2 Make the traditional Raise your pinky to the 814-bed property in Flagstaff, Ariz. Bryan Beseler ’02 BS is co- “Peace” sign. sky. Shake, wiggle or Borges was named Capstone’s founder and president of nSite otherwise move your “Manager of the Year” in January Design and Build, a commercial pitchfork around as you while managing The Cottages in contractor, construction cheer for the Sun Devils. Hattiesburg, Miss. management and design/build firm #ForksUp that emphasizes a collaborative Be sure to KEEP YOUR PITCHFORK UPRIGHT! Nichol Luoma ’00 BS, approach to project completion. Don’t point your fingers to the ground or sideways! ASU’s associate vice president for University Business Services, Lisa Hird Chung ’02 BS, an university sustainability operations attorney in the area of employment outstanding instructional leadership a promotion to executive director of officer and chief procurement law and litigation, has joined the and curriculum development. the organization. officer, was named senior law firm of Schor Vogelzang in San The award includes a $25,000 vice president of the National Diego from Duane Morris LLP. cash prize. Sanderia Faye ’01 MFA, award- Association of Educational winning author and co-founder of Procurement. Scott Leese ’02 MEd, CEO of Ryan Abbott ’01 BS, ’08 “African Diaspora: New Dialogues,” Scott Leese Consulting, LLC in MBA is senior vice president of an ongoing series in Dallas, was the Travis Snell ’00 MPA accepted Austin, Texas, was named among the southwest district for Sundt subject of an article in the Dallas a position as government relations the 25 Most Influential Inside Sales Construction Inc. The company News about her transition from a liaison at the Washington State Leaders of 2017 by the American received a Community Partner successful accounting career to Department of Transportation. Association of Inside Sales Landmark Leaders Award from becoming a writer. Professionals. the Phoenix Business Journal 1990s in recognition of demonstrated Melissa Ho ’01 BA, ’01 BS, a Stephanie Hertzberg ’99 BA, Kathi Lindstrom ’02 MS, ’10 commitment, collaboration, hard shareholder in the Polsinelli law principal and director of business PhD, assistant professor at the work and community service. firm, was selected for inclusion in development with SmithGroupJJR, Vanderbilt University School of the 2017 Southwest Super Lawyers and Sari Roth-Roemer ’92 PhD, Nursing, was named the first Robin Arredondo-Savage Rising Stars in the category of director and medical psychologist executive director of the Institute at ’01 BS, vice mayor for the city Criminal Defense: White Collar. In with Intuitive Psychology PLC, Alive Hospice, an organization that of Tempe, Ariz., and a local addition, Ho was appointed by the were honored among the Phoenix is focused on education, advocacy, small-business owner, received U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Business Journal’s 31 Outstanding innovation and outreach. the 2017 Tempe Chamber of to a four-year term on the Arizona Women in Business in April. Commerce Spirit of Tempe Award State Advisory Committee. Rachel McKinney ’02 BA, an in recognition of her service, Michelle McGinty ’99 BIS, actress and a producer, announced dedication and contribution to the David Jenkins ’01 MM, a gunnery president of DRA Collective; Chris the launch of a website for Scout It community, and quality of life in sergeant and saxophonist in Johnson ’98 BSE, president Out Inc., where she works as chief the city. the United States Marine Band, of LaneTerralever; and Jennifer marketing officer. The site, which played with the band at the 58th Kaplan ’96 BA, founder and owner she helped create, helps artists find Dana Berchman ’01 BA, chief Inauguration of the President of the of Evolve Public Relations and and rent showcase space for their digital officer for Gilbert, Ariz., United States on Jan. 20. Marketing, were included in the projects at creative arts venues in was recognized as a Technology Phoenix Business Journal’s list of New York City. Innovator Finalist by the Phoenix Martin Montorfano ’01 20 Names to Know for advertising Business Journal. BA accepted a position as and marketing. Timothy Thomas ’02 BAE, communications manager for principal at Rogers Ranch School Jaime Dempsey ’01 BA, formerly Easter Seals in Silver Spring, Md. in Laveen, Ariz., received the Milken deputy director of the Arizona The office serves the District of Educator Award that recognizes Commission on the Arts, accepted Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.

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Building an outstanding Using LinkedIn LinkedIn profile for power networking Differentiate yourself with a The Alumni Tool is one great headline, of the biggest secrets on using keywords from your LinkedIn. Just visit linkedin. industry that tell people com/alumni when you’re who you are and where logged in, and you can see you want to go. The Select a photo that represents you professionally. This where graduates live, the headline is one of the most helps humanize your profile and makes you more organizations they work overlooked sections of a approachable. Not having a photo drives the popularity of your for and the types of jobs profile. It’s prime real profile down dramatically — profiles with a photo get 14 times they’ve had. Just click on estate and one of the first more views than profiles without! – Humphrey any bar in the Alumni Tool things people see when to drill down into specific they search your profile. careers, employers, – Katherine Perez, senior locations, majors, skills or career specialist, ASU degree of connection. – Humphrey

When you’re connecting When you reach out to on LinkedIn with people potential new connections, you’ve never met, including always personalize the someone you admire, a note you send them. That recruiter or an alum from way you answer the two your school, finding big questions they’re going common ground to have: 1) Why are you should be your primary connecting with them? goal. Get their attention and 2) What common interests quickly validate yourself. Make your profile come alive with images. might you share? – Rob Humphrey, senior It’s easy to add images to your summary and job experience – Perez account executive, LinkedIn sections. – Humphrey

Two powerful ways to stay top-of-mind with your network: 1) Publish on LinkedIn, including relevant information on 2) Use the LinkedIn app every day. You can get briefed the newsfeed or blog posts using the LinkedIn platform. on industry topics, see what’s happening in your network and learn about new jobs.

58 F ALL 2017 Thom Brooks ’99 MA, professor that uses TheChicSpy.com as a at the University of Minnesota. considered for national honors later of law and government at Durham publishing platform. this year. University (U.K.), was honored as the Mary Collum ASU School of Politics and Global Jason Jantzen ’98 BS, co-owner ’95 BS, has Jeffrey Pruitt ’94 BS, founder Studies’ Distinguished Alumni of Ahipoki Bowl Arizona LLC, joined AZ and CEO of Tallwave and Tallwave Speaker for 2017. In association Bad Dog Concepts and Phoenix Growth Capital, was named a “Tech Titan” with the honor, Brooks presented a Marketing Associates, continues Advisors as a finalist by the Phoenix Business lecture, “Can we test for citizenship? to expand Ahipoki Bowl “coastal C-level strategic Journal. Lessons in what not to do.” kitchen” locations. Jantzen counts advisor after five Valley locations, with six more successful senior roles with Raquel Aldana ’93 BA, ’93 Jason coming soon, as well as restaurants National Bank of Arizona and BA, formerly professor of law Franklin ’99 in California and Washington. Stellar Capital Management. at McGeorge School of Law in BS, an attorney Sacramento, Calif., accepted an in Dallas, was Vispi Karanjia ’98 MS, an Tony Garcia ’95 BSD is co- appointment as associate vice elected architect and partner with Orcutt founder of A Squared Studios, chancellor for academic diversity at president of the | Winslow, received a Community an architecture firm in San Diego the University of California–Davis. Dallas Trial Partner (Individual) Landmark that received the Best Newcomer Lawyers Association. Leaders Award from the Phoenix Award in the “Wine Country” Eric Gichner ’93 BS founded Business Journal in recognition of category at the 2017 California with his wife a Chicago-based, Barbara Lloyd ’99 BA, senior his commitment, collaboration, hard Home and Design Awards prepared-alcohol company, Vitani, vice president of NAI Horizon, was work and community service. presentation — honored for its that produces bottled dirty martinis appointed vice president of the design work on behalf of Mending for distribution in Chicago and Tempe Community Action Agency John R. Lopez IV ’98 JD, Wall Winery. Another of Garcia’s Arizona. board of directors. previously solicitor general for the design projects was featured in state of Arizona in the office of the recent May issue of San Diego George J. Notaras ’93 BA, whose Robert E.M. Smith ’99 BA, 02 Attorney General Mark Brnovich, Home/Lifestyles magazine. comedic writing led to the launch JD, ’11 ML, a senior associate was appointed to the Supreme Court of MotoMan TV in 2009, kicked with Renaud Cook Drury Mesaros, of Arizona by Gov. Doug Ducey. Kevin J. Jackson ’95 BA, ’95 off a seventh season with the P.A., has been invited to join the BA, ’01 MPA accepted a position announcement of partnerships with Claims and Litigation Management Jon Robinson ’98 MS, CIO of as deputy city manager for Long Google, YouTube and GoPro. The Alliance, a nonpartisan alliance Isagenix International, was named Beach, Calif. partnership allows stereoscopic of insurance companies, a “Technology Advocate” finalist by 3-D, 360-degree video technology corporations, corporate counsel, Phoenix Business Journal. Ryan Price ’95 to provide an immersive virtual litigation and risk managers, BS accepted a reality experience. claims professionals and attorneys Leslye Barrett ’96 MM, a master position with who promote and support the sergeant and oboist in the United Molex as director Doug Davis ’92 MBA, senior vice highest standards of litigation States Marine Band, played with of in-vehicle president and general manager of management. the band at the 58th Inauguration networking, the automated driving group at Intel of the President of the United infotainment and Corp., received the 2017 Phoenix Sharma Hammond Torrens States on Jan. 20. high-speed connectivity. He leads Business Journal AZ Top Tech ’99 BS, previously program product management and Exec Technology Innovator Award. director for the Arizona Land and Brandon development activities delivering Water Trust, accepted a position Frazee ’96 BS, solutions for self-driving and Frank McCune ’92 BA, with the Arizona Department a lieutenant connected cars. previously government affairs of Agriculture as a legislative/ colonel and representative for state and local research policy analyst. plans officer in Gregory Byrne ’94 BS, formerly affairs for Arizona Public Service, the United vice president of athletics at the accepted a position as director of Jason Wejnert ’99 MBA, ’04 States Marine University of Arizona, accepted a the Office of Government Relations JD joined Much Shelist as a Corps, graduated from the United position as director of athletics at for the city of Phoenix. principal in the Chicago law States Naval War College in the University of Alabama. firm’s intellectual property and Newport, R.I., in June 2017. Dan Hardesty technology practice group. Michelle Doherty ’94 BAE, ’92 BS, Julie Reuvers Christensen ’99 MEd, a first-grade teacher president of Mignon Gould ’98 BS, founder of ’95 BA, formerly assistant sports at Encanto Elementary School SouthWest the online publication TheChicSpy. information director at ASU, in Phoenix, was named Arizona Professional com, launched Chic Spy Studio, accepted a position as deputy chief Teacher of the Year by the Arizona Insurance a paid, virtual internship program of staff in the Office of the President Educational Foundation and will be Consultants in

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Scottsdale, Ariz., celebrated the ’82 BS, a member of Sherman and too, with his hotelguru.com industry Maria Harper-Marinick ’84 MEd, company’s 10th anniversary in Howard LLC; and Mary O’Grady insights blog, teaching an ASU ’89 PhD, chancellor of the Maricopa August. ’80 BA, ’87 JD, a partner with hospitality entrepreneurship course County Community College Osborn Maledon, were named in and serving on the university’s District, was named the 68th Valley Dan Minton ’92 the Phoenix Business Journal’s new tourism-related boards. Leadership’s Woman of the Year on BA, formerly regular feature, 20 Names to Know, March 30. This honor recognizes director of in an edition that highlighted the Kim Sertich ’86 BS, owner of recipients’ long-term contribution stewardship and legal industry. Valley-based businesses Spectrum and commitment to and leadership development for Video and Film LTD and Page within the metropolitan Phoenix area. St. Patrick Dale Allen Walters ’89 BS One Productions Inc., recently Catholic has joined BeachFleischman PC participated in a listening session on Michael Community in Scottsdale, Ariz., in Phoenix as senior tax manager health care with President Donald J. Patterson ’84 accepted a position as campaign and director of Canada-U.S. tax Trump at the White House. BA, ’95 JD, a manager with the Steier Group, services. shareholder with where he will lead a capital Thomas the Polsinelli law campaign in Sugar Land, Texas. William Hart Awai ’85 BSD, firm, was elected ’88 MA, holder ’93 MEP to the Phoenix Laura Yachimski ’92 BA, is of the Margaret accepted a Committee on foreign Relations managing director at JPMorgan in W. Harmon position as Board of Directors. New York City and offers guidance Chair in director of to students in the ASU W. P. Carey Christian business Rosemary Ybarra-Hernandez School of Business Investment Theology and development with HKS Architects ’84 BS, ’92 MPA, founder and Banking Industry Scholars Program. Culture at Macalester College in Los Angeles. CEO of Aguila Youth Leadership (Saint Paul, Minn.), received tenure Institute was appointed to the board Matthew Barnett ’90 BSE, at the college. Jennifer of directors of Terros Health. Her ’90 MS, radioactive air task lead Quong Chung efforts to prepare youth for college at the Pacific Northwest National Frank Kardasz ’88 MPA was ’85 BS, were recognized as a White House Laboratory in Richland, Wash., was named commander and supervisory assistant Bright Spot and a Best Practice by named the new chair of Accredited special agent of the Internet Crimes manager at the U.S. Department of Education Standards Committee N13, Against Children Task Force for the Honda North and College Greenlight. Radiation Protection. State of Hawaii under the employ America, of the Hawaii Department of the received two Telly Awards, an Alberto L. Esparza ’83 BS is Christopher Passmore ’90 Attorney General. Aurora Award and a MarCom founder, president and CEO of BSE was elected to the National Award for excellence in video the Si Se Puede Foundation that Council on Radiation Protection Karrin Taylor Robson ’88 BA, production. supports the academic success of and Measurements, which was ’88 BA, ’94 JD was appointed by children from low-income families. chartered by Congress as a Arizona Governor Doug Ducey to Debra Stevens Esparza’s foundation recently nonprofit, national resource the Arizona Board of Regents. ’85 BS, formerly sponsored a high school team of on topics related to radiation director of girls in STEM studies at the For protection and radiation quantities, Joe Gaudio ’87 BS, CEO of marketing and Inspiration and Recognition of units and measurements. UnitedHealthCare Community communications Science and Technology robotics Plan of Arizona, was honored by at Phoenix competition in Flagstaff, Ariz. Their 1980s the Arizona chapter of the national Children’s entry, “Degrees of Freedom,” Abbie Fink ’86 BA, vice charity organization Playworks Hospital, accepted a position as won the “Rookie All-Star” award. president/general manager, HMA in recognition of his commitment executive director of marketing and Another foundation-sponsored Public Relations; Lisa Urias ’86 to strengthening schools, communications at Arizona Care team, “Binary Bots,” also BA, president and CEO, Urias empowering teachers, encouraging Network. competed. Communications; and Lisa Noble schoolchildren and supporting the ’83 BS, principal, Noble Media, Playworks mission to make recess Irene Martinez Diaz ’84 BA, David F. Zehr were included in the Phoenix a positive tool in the education of director for student discipline, ’83 BS, a retired Business Journal’s list of 20 all students. safety and security for the Phoenix lieutenant Names to Know for advertising and Union High School District, was colonel and marketing. Robert Rauch ’86 MS, the named to the board of directors for former command “hotel guru” and CEO and president Terros Health. Diaz was a member meteorologist for Michael Hool ’84 BS, ’88 JD, of RAR Hospitality, now counts of the founding committee for the U.S. Air founding partner of Hool Coury seven hotel properties in Arizona ASU’s Hispanic Convocation. Force, is now engineering manager/ Law PLC; Azim Q. Hameed under his guidance. He stays busy, contracting officer representative

60 F ALL 2017 CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE ASU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION On the same page Sun Devil authors discuss why reading matters

We asked four published ASU authors why books still matter in an interconnected and largely digital world, and their answers illuminate how reading creates successful, thriving individuals.

Sandra Bill Conrad Douglas Marinella Konigsberg Storad Egerton “Reading books “Reading books “Children “A good book gives us a great is perhaps truly are our future, and we can take you gift — the gift of knowledge more important than ever in must get them hooked on to a place you can’t get and critical, clear thinking. 2017, because there are so learning via reading as early to anymore. My nighttime Psychologist Keith Oatley many alternatives to that, and as possible. Holding a book in reading is usually historical argues that our stories are none of them involve the level your hands and reading is an fiction. Thanks to CGI ‘the flight simulators of human of inquiry and involvement active process that engages technology, modern films social life.’ When we read that reading does. We need all of the senses. Helping can show you what, say, books, fiction or nonfiction, critical-thinking skills, and kids to hone their reading ancient Rome looked like. we travel through all kinds of when one reads, one develops and communication skills is But if you really want to experiences, in the same way those skills far more than they essential. If a child doesn’t know what it felt like to be that a pilot travels through do when watching TV, or a know how to read and write caught up in the French a flight on a simulator. Our movie, or a YouTube clip. The well, he or she will be left Revolution and its Reign books become our teachers. more we grow critical-thinking behind in our information- of Terror, nobody will ever In today’s world, we need skills as a country, the more based society.” surpass Charles Dickens in them more than ever.” likely we will avoid the pitfalls ‘A Tale of Two Cities.’” of black/white thinking, and Conrad Storad, the author Sandra Marinella received be able to see nuance and of more than 50 children’s Douglas Egerton received two master’s degrees from multiple perspectives.” science and nature books, his bachelor’s degree in ASU (in 1977 and 1995), received his master’s degree history from ASU in 1979. in education and the Bill Konigsberg received in mass communication from He’s a professor of history humanities, respectively. an MFA in creative writing ASU in 1983. His latest book at LaMoyne College in After a bout with breast from ASU in 2005. He has is “The Bat Book Syracuse, New York. His cancer in 2012, she published four young-adult (Afraid of a Bat? What’s Up latest book, “Thunder at researched and wrote novels, the latest of which is With That?).” the Gates: The Black “The Story You Need to “Honestly, Ben.” Konigsberg Civil War Regiments That Tell: Writing to Heal from also teaches in the “Your Redeemed America,” was a Trauma, Illness, or Loss,” Novel Year” online certificate co-winner of the 2017 Gilder and launched The Story You program offered through Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Need to Tell Project. ASU’s Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.

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for NOAA’s Geostationary Development, were honored education community at large. Partridge and Associates was Operational Environmental recently among the Phoenix among the three finalists for the Satellite-R (GOES-R) that was Business Journal’s “31 Outstanding William Allen ’75 BAE, ’87 2017 Shelly Award, named in launched successfully on Nov. 19, Women in Business.” MEd, a retired educator, was added honor of ASU alumna Shelley 2016, and will support more to the Central Arizona College Cohn, and presented to those accurate weather forecasts and Laurie Fagen ’79 BS, is a long-time Wall of Success in recognition who have advanced culture warnings using new, ultra-high- television and print journalist and of his personal and professional and the arts in Arizona through definition technology. artist/musician. A sought-after voice accomplishments. innovative leadership. on the arts and writing circuit, she Christine recently was the featured speaker Shelley Cohn ’75 MA was elected 1950s Newlin Kovach at the Prescott (Ariz.) Center for the chairman of the Arizona Community Don M. Reis ’58 BS retired ’82 BS, Arts docent group and the Desert Foundation’s board of directors. The 26 years ago from 32 years of chairwoman of Rose Writers’ Group/Romance Shelley Award is named in her honor work in the aerospace industry the Desert Writers of America “Desert Dreams” and awarded annually by the Arizona in California, and now enjoys Discovery event in Scottsdale, Ariz. Citizens for the Arts to individuals winters in Bullhead City, Ariz., and Center in who have advanced arts and culture summers in Prescott, Ariz. Scottsdale, Ariz., was inducted into Neil Giuliano ’79 BA, ’83 MEd, through leadership. the Scottsdale History Hall of Fame former four-term mayor of Tempe, Sun Devil marriages in recognition of her advocacy and Ariz., and current president and Connie Harris ’74 BAE, ’76 MAE, Samantha support of Scottsdale’s CEO of Greater Phoenix Leadership, ’07 EdD, previously Arizona director Gardner ’12 preservation effort. recently received the Champion of the education accrediting agency BFA, assistant Award from the People Service AdvancED, was appointed to the director of dance Ed Lundeen ’82 BS, formerly Action Behavioral Health Agency for Yavapai College governing board. and a health executive vice president, business his contributions to the state’s vitality. science teacher at operations for Eclipse Aerospace William Bernard ’73 BS retired Laguna Beach High School, Calif., Inc., accepted an appointment as Bill Lavidge ’78 BS, ’81 MBA, as treasurer of the city of North and Austin Gardner ’12 BA were president of Seeker Aircraft Inc. CEO of the Lavidge Company, Ogden, Utah, and is a former board married in March last year. and managing director of Seabird was listed in the Phoenix Business member and treasurer of the Utah Jamie Michelle Aviation Australia. Journal’s list of 20 Names to Know Association of Public Treasurers. Greene ’08 BS for advertising and marketing. and Celeste Matt Salmon ’81 BA, former state Wayne Gammel were senator and U.S. congressman, Rebecca Lynne Burnham ’77 Headrick ’70 married on participated as the honored guest BS, a shareholder with Greenberg BSE, ’74 MSE, April 23, 2016, in a roast that served as a fundraiser Traurig LLP, was named in the professor in Denver. for Hacienda Healthcare on the Phoenix Business Journal’s list of 20 emeritus of organization’s 50th anniversary. Names to Know that highlights the information Roy Gross ’80 legal industry. systems at New BS and Judy Edward “Joe” Shoen ’81 JD, Mexico State University and a retired Gross celebrated chairman and CEO of Phoenix- Tom Morrissey ’78 MFA, a U.S. Air Force colonel, was inducted their 50th wedding based U-Haul International and veteran of the war in Vietnam, retired into the Industrial and Manufacturing anniversary on head of Amerco, U-Haul’s parent from the college and university Engineering Hall of Fame at the Dec. 10, 2016. corporation, was honored as professorate and focuses now on University of Missouri. This honor Executive of the Year by ASU’s farming, planting more than 60,000 recognizes contributions to the Elizabeth Holly W. P. Carey School of Business pine trees on his property, and career field and highlights ’08 BA and Peter for “contributions significant to his work as a guitar designer and aspirational individuals for graduates Tsinzo, Jr. were the nation and the world, inspired builder. He is the owner of Veteran of the program. married Aug. 20, leadership that has created and Guitar Company and has been 2016, in Ranchos sustained superior organizational recognized widely for the unique Rene Moquin ’70 MSW has Palos Verdes, performance, and achievements that instruments he produces. returned from Africa after several Calif. The couple is at home in exemplify a model for future leaders.” years of work there to supply clean Hermosa Beach, Calif. Karen J. Saewert ’77 BS, ’90 MS, water to small villages. 1970s clinical professor in ASU’s College Lauren Terri Wogan-Calderon ’74 of Nursing and Health Innovation, Joy Partridge ’70 BA is head (Balmer) Jacobs BAE, executive director of Social was named to the NCLEX Program of Partridge and Associates ’11 BA and Venture Partners Arizona, and Reports Panel of Nursing Experts CPAs, a dedicated viola player Joshua Jacobs Ginger Ward ’03 BAE, ’79 that advises the producers of and president and co-founder ’07 BAE were MAE, CEO of Southwest Human the reports and also the nursing of the Scottsdale Philharmonic. married on March

62 F ALL 2017 CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE ASU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 26, 2016, at Venue at the Grove in Sun Devil births Grant David Phoenix. Kingston Barnes Lowis was born to Submitting a and McKenna Jon Lowis ’15 BS class note Maria (Sanson) Barnes were born and Julie Lowis ASU Thrive magazine McClennen ’12 to Kaitlin on March 9, 2016, welcomes class notes BS and Scott (Martin) Barnes in Phoenix. about significant McClennen ’03 ’11 BS and milestones in the lives BS were married Chase Stephen Barnes II ’12 BS in May of ASU alumni. on May 7, 2016, in 2016. The family is at home in McAllister

Tucson, Ariz. Pleasanton, Calif. McLain was born 1. Class notes should to Jenny McLain be submitted by the Erica William Bennett ’03 BA and Nick (Underwood) Couch was born McLain ’09 BLS, alumnus/a himself or Melroy ’16 BSN to Rachael ’12 BS, ’13 MA on June 24, 2016, herself, or an official and Kevin Couch ’12 BS in Mesa, Ariz. representative of an Melroy ’15 BSE and David Couch organization with were married on on Sept. 3, 2016, Hannah Beth which the alumnus/a is June 25, 2016, in Scottsdale, Ariz. in Nashville, Tenn. Montgomery was associated. born Sept. 30, Mackenzie Matthew Reed 2016, to Sarah 2. Class notes submitted Hopman Pham Davidson was (Henkel) ’08 BA, ’08 BA, born to Casey Montgomery ’05 by a private third-party ’11 MA and Tri Davidson ’06 BA BA and Mathew Montgomery ’07 (such as family member) Quoc Pham and Christina BIS and to grandparents Diana will be verified with were married in Davidson in Los (Neff) Montgomery ’65 BAE and the alumnus/a before the fall of 2016 and are at home in Angeles on Dec. 23, 2015. George Montgomery ’74 BS. publication. Rhode Island. Emma Dyan Fee Stella Hana 3. Photos submitted for Lindsay was born to Niemann was inclusion in class notes (Hernquist) Seli Kimberly (Green) born to Petra must be 500 KB to 1 MB ’10 BS and Fee ’03 BA and (Kalinske) Matthew Seli ’12 Chris Fee on Niemann ’12 BS in file size and a JPG or BIS were married Sept. 20, 2016, and Robert John TIFF file. on Oct. 22, 2016, and joins big brother Cannon in Niemann on Oct. 3, 2016. in Scottsdale, Ariz. Seattle. 4. All class notes will run Leo Paul Padilla was born to Paul in all platforms used by Brian Shields Jude Daniel Padilla ’06 BSN, ’15 DNP and ASU Thrive magazine. ’02 BS, ’02 BS Hansen was born Jenifer Padilla on Sept. 12, 2016, and Tricia to Donald in Gilbert, Ariz. He joins brothers (Mercado) Hansen ’03 BSE Jacob and Zachary. 5. I f submitting a Class Shields ’08 BS and Jessica Note via the U.S. Post were married on (Dippold) Nella Marin Office, please do not Oct. 20, 2016, at the Desert Hansen ’03 BS on Nov. 13, 2016, Schneiderman send the originals of any Botanical Garden in Phoenix. in Gilbert, Ariz., and joins big sisters was born to materials you include. Kaia Noelle and Elin Alexandra. Ryan Tracy Henry- Schneiderman Email: [email protected] Stofflet ’86 BS Bianca Elizabeth ’05 BIS and Talia and Robert LeSueur was Schneiderman on April 4, 2017, in Mail: Stofflet ’86 BS born to Afton Tarzana, Calif. ASU Alumni Engagement celebrated their LeSueur ’10 BA 30th wedding and Glenn Brooke and Impact Office anniversary on May 30. LeSueur ’10 BS Katherine Attn: Class Notes, on Oct. 24, 2016, in Gilbert, Ariz. Woods was born P.O. Box 875011, Tempe, to Phil Woods Arizona 85287-5011. ’07 BS and Jenna Woods ’07 BS on Feb. 18, 2016, in San Diego.

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Far out It didn’t matter that Tempe wasn’t in the path of totality of the solar eclipse — thousands turned up on the Tempe campus for the viewing party hosted by the School of Earth and Space Exploration, grabbing a pair of ASU glasses and claiming a spot to watch the first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in 99 years.

Many people came early to get a good JAROD OPPERMAN/ASU seat on the Hayden Lantern to watch the eclipse. The School of Earth and Space Exploration also set up telescopes to observe the phenomenon more closely.

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