ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 23 NUMBER 2

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Go Calendar of events Elevate Find exciting happenings Hayden Library on ASU’s campuses for entertainment and reopens its doors After a major reinvention, the library personal growth. 4 provides maximum accessibility, Desert WAVE robotics Update in the news engagement and support. 54 Popular Science picks team members adjust ‘MechanicalTree’ as top tech. 11 their underwater vehicle in the lab. ASU-Leonardo Initiative: Scientist honored for her lasting Big questions at the intersection of contributions to physics. 12 Transform art and science. 58 Understanding your dog. 13 Hayden Library, which hosts 2 million Building Founders’ Day: Honoring visitors annually, is reopened after a Advance your career resilience in the champions of innovation. 60 $90 million renovation. May Busch: The power of small wins. 18 silicon desert

ASU, with industry Play like a Sun Devil 6 ways to manage your stress. 22 partners, venture capital Watch the NCAA golf and government backing, is championship in Scottsdale. 61 helping Arizona transform the ‘Unstoppable’: economy. 28 Anthony Robles turns Solving the world’s water crisis adversity into success. 62 drop by drop. 36 2020 Football Schedule. 63 Invent

The future of health care Magnify is wearable Look up: Wilderness Alumni, students and astronomy. 64 researchers create JAROD OPPERMAN Travis Witzke carries his HemaPorter, a medical devices that revolutionize NCAA National Champion and storage container for the medical field. 44 Founders’ Day honoree Anthony challenging environments. Robles, whose story will be captured Power of the pitch. 51 ERIKA GRONEK; JEFF NEWTON in a new movie.

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6 SPRING 2020 ERIKA GRONEK/ASU ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 7 COMPETITION AND BEYOND Desert WAVE team builds robots — and community Update In its second year, the all-women robotics team Desert WAVE, which placed third in the world and first in the country in the 2019 RoboSub competition, is off to an active start. They are building a second robot to communicate with Phoenix, their original underwater vehicle. The team is also working with the Chandler-based all-female high school team Degrees of Freedom. In December, both teams helped make the holidays more accessible for local children who face challenges operating interactive toys.

Top tech in ‘Popular Science’ Klaus Lackner’s MechanicalTree featured. Desert WAVE member Jessica 11 Dirks works on the vehicle during competition in top photo. In group National photo, from back row left: team Academy members Samantha Ehrle, Rebekkah Wagen, Whitney Foster, Bridget of Sciences Koehl and Maria Espinoza. Front row: honoree Samantha Nieto, Paulina Garibay Lindy Elkins- Jaquez, sponsor Shebbie Jacques, Tanton receives Diana Lee Guzman and Andrea major award. Schoonover. 12

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Popular Science picks MechanicalTree as top technology Popular Science magazine has given one of its highest accolades to a device developed by ASU researchers that can pull carbon gas from ambient air. The device, developed by ASU Professor Klaus Lackner and his colleagues ESPN host ‘Demon’ and commercialized by Silicon Kingdom named top Holdings in Dublin, is called MechanicalTree. joins Cronkite physics book It is the world’s first passive direct air capture School’s Hall technology — it does not draw air through with of Fame of 2019 energy-intensive devices but allows the wind to Matt Barrie, an ESPN Physics Professor blow air through the system. SportsCenter anchor Paul Davies’ newest According to the description by Popular and studio host for book, “The Demon in Science: “A forest of 1,200 mechanical ‘trees’ the network’s college the Machine,” takes ... is poised to pull more carbon dioxide out of football coverage, has aim at one of the great the air than any human-made endeavor before been named the newest Improving health outcomes outstanding scientific it. ... A cluster of 12 can suck a metric ton of the member of the Alumni for Medicaid patients enigmas — what is gas out of the atmosphere every day; a full lot, Hall of Fame at ASU’s College of Health Solutions researchers have life, how and why does Prose and purpose for the ’20s like the pilot one SKH is planning to install ... Walter Cronkite School received a $2 million grant from Arizona’s it emerge, and what can remove up to 36,500 metric tons annually. of Journalism and Mass Medicaid agency to evaluate and improve the distinguishes the living Alberto Ríos, a Regents Professor in the Department of English and Arizona’s first poet laureate, That’s nearly 1,844 American households’ Communication. quality of care for thousands of the state’s from the nonliving? was asked by The Arizona Republic to usher in a new decade with a reflective composition on worth of emissions.” Barrie, who also Medicaid patients. The book, which was purpose and resolve in the Grand Canyon State, also known as the Copper State. hosts a podcast and Professors William Riley and George published in October The result is “Copper and Oranges” — 37 lines from a literary witness of Arizona’s horizons calls college football Runger will work with approximately 150 in the U.S., was named of growth in cities and citizenship. The original poem caps an illustrious decade of high-profile games for ESPN, is Arizona clinics, hospitals and criminal justice the top physics book of acknowledgments for Ríos that included a world tour of sorts — rock band U2 included Ríos’ a 2001 graduate of organizations over the next three years to 2019 by Physics World, poem “The Border: A Double Sonnet” on its 2017 stadium tour — and a nod from media mogul the Cronkite School, better integrate primary care and behavioral a publication of the U.K. Oprah Winfrey, who has quoted Ríos’ words for inspiration and affirmation. where he earned his health services. The ASU team will provide Institute of Physics. Read the full poem at AZCentral.com at bit.ly/2RjybDs. bachelor’s degree. timely performance measure reports with the “You might think a goal of improving the care for patients who topic like the emergence are enrolled in the state Medicaid program of life would be quite administered by the Arizona Health Care Cost overwhelming,” says Strides in sustainability Containment System, or AHCCCS. Tushna Commissariat, Participants will review their data regularly the reviews and careers while it’s still possible to improve. “This means editor at Physics that rather than waiting up to a year and a half World. “But Professor to receive feedback on their performance, they TONS Davies’ aim is to lay out 28% 4,000 will receive information within two to three a basic explanation of Reduction in ASU greenhouse Amount of university waste diverted from Keep up with the months,” Riley said. how matter (living and gas emissions since fiscal year landfills in fiscal year 2018, the highest since headlines at ASU This research is part of AHCCCS’ Targeted otherwise), information 2007 ASU began keeping track in 2007 by subscribing to the Investments Program, a $300 million, five-year and entropy interact. For The MechanicalTree is the world’s first ASU Now e-newsletter plan that funds initiatives to make Arizona’s a topic like this, he is the Read more about ASU’s fourth annual sustainability report at passive direct air capture technology. One at asunow.asu.edu/ health care system less fragmented, more cost- ultimate guide.” asunow.asu.edu/20191106-asu-news-asu-makes-strides-sustainability. device accomplishes the equivalent carbon subscribe. effective and focused on quality outcomes. capture of 1,000 natural trees.

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PLANETARY SCIENCE National Academy of Sciences honors ASU professor for major science contributions

The National Academy of Sciences has announced that School of Earth and Space Caring Understanding Exploration Professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton has for family the magic of dogs been awarded the 2020 Arthur L. Day Prize matters most and Lectureship in recognition of her lasting Studies show that people with dogs exercise contributions to the study of the physics of An international team more, stress out less and have better self- Earth and for illuminating the early evolution of of researchers led by esteem. What’s more, dogs offer a special rocky planets and planetesimals. evolutionary and social kind of companionship to humans — love. “Professor Elkins-Tanton is richly psychologists from ASU ASU animal psychologist and Professor Clive deserving of this prestigious recognition. Prediabetics may surveyed more than Wynne’s new book, “Dog is Love: Why and Her groundbreaking research advances our be ‘exercise resistant’ 7,000 people from 27 How Your Dog Loves You,” tells us why dogs’ understanding of space, while her mentorship countries about what capacity to love makes them such suitable inspires the next generation of scientists,” says Obesity is the single largest cause of diabetes. motivates them, and the companions for humans. Sethuraman Panchanathan, the executive vice And the advice to solve it is often the same: findings go against 40 “[My dog Xephos is] so affectionate — and president of ASU’s Knowledge Enterprise Get off the couch. Hit the gym. Run around years of research. this is what makes dogs special, what makes and the university’s chief research and the block. However, for people who are both People surveyed dogs unique. It’s this exaggerated, ebullient innovation officer. prediabetic and obese, exercise may not help consistently rated desire to form strong connections. We’re such The world’s leading figure in her field, them counteract the negative effects of obesity kin care and mate different species. We have such different body Elkins-Tanton heads ASU’s Interplanetary on diabetes, according to a new study by retention as their top shapes; yet, we read each other’s emotional Initiative and the NASA Psyche Mission. School of Life Sciences Associate Professor motivators. Kin care is expressions extremely well,” Wynne said. Christos Katsanos. defined as caring for Wynne changed his research from birds, The problem is in the mitochondria, and supporting family rats and marsupials, noting his interest in the the powerhouse of cells. Previous work in members. Evolutionary human-animal relationship. “I’ve been lucky. Katsanos’ lab found that for people who are psychological research Since I turned to dogs, it’s been magic.” prediabetic and obese, proteins — the building has long focused blocks of mitochondria — are modified in a on how people find way that is not optimal for them to process fats romantic or sexual and glucose. partners and how Another study found that exercise was not a this desire affects solution — certain populations of mitochondria other behaviors, like were impaired in obese individuals after a consumer decisions. 45-minute cycling session. The results show “Exercise did not stimulate the mitochondria that people who ranked of these people to produce enough energy,” mate-seeking as the Katsanos said. “We call these people ‘exercise most important were resistant.’” less satisfied with their Former graduate student Katon Kras lives and were more compared the results to differences that we likely to be depressed might observe in driving a race car versus a or anxious. Those who Yugo. Both contain engines that run the car ranked kin care and Learn more about the NASA Psyche Mission (mitochondria), but the race car responds long-term relationships led by Lindy Elkins-Tanton at psyche.asu.edu. quickly to small changes while a cheaper car as the most important might not. rated their lives as more satisfying. Professor Clive Wynne with dogs from the Arizona Animal Welfare League & SPCA.

12 SPRING 2020 DAV I D L I I T T S C H W A G E R NICOLE NERI/ASU; DEANNA DENT/ASU ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 13 “Students ... conducted themselves in an exemplary and professional manner, one that was characterized by civil discourse and respect.”

— ARIZONA REGENT KARRIN TAYLOR ROBSON, ’88 BA IN POLITICAL SCIENCE AND HISTORY, ’94 JD, WHO ENVISIONED THE REGENTS’ CUP EVENT

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT Team wins Problem solving Regents’ Cup for the future for debate Thirty-six students on two-student teams from Arizona’s public universities competed this fall Building skills in: during the daylong Regents’ Cup debate competition, showcasing Leadership, design and technology Arizona’s public universities’ commitment to freedom of expression. Subjects debated included how (if at all) social media sites should regulate speech, free speech on college campuses, and whether the U.S. should have tougher libel, slander and Creative, hands-on problem-solving, defamation laws. ASU students Valielza O’Keefe and Joshua team-based collaboration, critical Pardhe took first place in the thinking, intensive summer internships, event, each winning $16,600 in a and fundamental skills in writing, math, one-time scholarship. and coding prepare graduates to succeed in a wide range of endeavors.

English and communication junior Yumna Samie and her debate peers practice persuasive story- Apply Today telling and Oxford-style debate in preparation for interplanetary.asu.edu the Regents’ Cup.

DEANNA DENT/ASU ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 15 UPDATE Advance ASU @ Mesa City Center your career breaks ground Before you ASU broke ground in mid-January on ASU @ buy that beach Mesa City Center, a state-of-the-art project that will contribute to the revitalization of house, assess downtown Mesa and train students in one its climate risk of the biggest industries in the U.S.: media As the seas rise along State Farm Insurance Chairman and CEO Michael production. the Gulf Coast of the Tipsord, left, ASU Foundation CEO Gretchen The three-story academic building, U.S., thousands of Buhlig and ASU President Michael M. Crow. scheduled to open in spring 2022 at the communities must THE POWER OF NATURE northwest corner of Pepper Place and decide how to adjust to State Farm, ASU announce When most people go out Centennial Way, will offer programs in the a new environment. Two partnership on Pathways and experience nature, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts in ASU professors are part for the Future initiative they usually dictate the digital and sensory technology, experiential of a team developing terms and have an agenda. design, gaming, media arts, film production, a new tool to help The university will prepare learners of all ages “We encounter nature and entrepreneurial development and support. homeowners assess to succeed in a transformed workplace thanks in a technological way ASU @ Mesa City Center will host about their risk and make to a $30 million gift from State Farm that will because we’re delineating, 800 students and will include an exhibition informed decisions. fund new programs and scholarships. calculating, categorizing gallery, screening theaters, production studios, Research Professor The funding will drive the new State a fabrication lab, a cafe that will be open to the Melanie Gall and Farm Pathways for the Future workforce- and classifying,” says public, classrooms and collaborative spaces Associate Professor development initiative, which will target high Sharon Harvey, who for projects with the community and industry. Natasha Mendoza of the school and community college students as well teaches sustainability Watts College of Public as adults in the workforce who need to update courses at ASU at Lake Service and Community their skills on the go. Havasu and directs Solutions are working “I have a concern that the technological the general studies with researchers from advancements that are occurring in today’s degree program. “I try to eight other institutions society have the real risk of leaving segments teach students to open to create a Zillow- behind,” said Michael Tipsord, CEO of themselves up to awe and type app that will tell State Farm. mystery and listen. Once it residents the likelihood “You combat that through this continued captures our attention, our Power of they’ll face a weather upskilling of individuals to deal with whatever it emotions are aroused, and small wins disaster and how much is that the world may present. I want our people Little victories it might cost to avoid it. to have all the opportunities to be able to then it’s transformative.” build big “We want to provide develop skills and learn in a way that continues successes. information to residents to make them relevant and competitive.” to learn more about State Farm’s regional headquarters sits 18 the resilience of their just north of Sun Devil Stadium, and Tipsord Sharon Harvey, professor and general house,” Gall says. said that ASU President Michael M. Crow was Manage studies program director, encourages influential in attracting the corporate campus stress her students to allow nature to to Tempe. Crow said the partnership is a 6 tips from reveal itself to them, through active The new building will house media arts, gaming, film perfect pairing of two entities that are focused ASU experts. observation and meditation. production programs and a digital Innovation Studio on embracing the future of technology while 22 connected to the startup community. supporting families and individuals.

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Doing a little at a time is the best way to reach “When you neglect your big ambitious goals your small wins THE it can feel like you’re not making progress even when you are. Like hiking up a mountain but OF feeling like the power summit is no closer at lunchtime than when you set out.” — MAY BUSCH small wins

BY MAY BUSCH

We often associate “big wins” like closing an important deal for your company or a job promotion you’ve been working toward with career success and satisfaction. But as you focus on the big are. Like hiking up a mountain but wins, it’s easy to lose sight of the feeling like the summit is no closer

small wins along the way that mark at lunchtime than when you set out. May Busch your progress toward achieving Not only is this discouraging, The former COO those big wins. And that’s it can even derail your progress of Morgan Stanley a mistake. toward those bigger goals. Europe is now an executive coach, Big wins take time and hard speaker, adviser, work, so when you neglect your Winning as progress author and executive small wins it can feel like you’re not Instead of waiting until the big in residence in making progress even when you win to celebrate, why not reframe ASU’s Office of the “winning” to mean progress? President. Find her at maybusch.com/ This means looking for asuthrive. milestones that represent progress toward your big win. Celebrating each progress step as a “small win” builds positive momentum, the kind that keeps you (and your team) motivated to move forward. Small wins are everywhere once you learn to spot them. Like finally getting a call back from a client that you’ve been calling and

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6 ways to manage your stress “Please remember in work and in life that you can accept yourself ASU health experts on mindfulness, as you are and heart health, whole foods and more at the same time be inspired to BY EMMA GREGUSKA become a better, more generous The hard part of setting goals isn’t necessarily deciding what resolutions to make — it’s keeping them. Fortunately, or deeper version ASU abounds with experts on everything from heart health of yourself.” to screen time to mindfulness. So if you’re in the market to make some lifestyle changes, here are some suggestions — TERI PIPE, ASU CHIEF WELL-BEING OFFICER AND from experts at ASU’s College of Health Solutions and Edson EDSON COLLEGE PROFESSOR Mayo Clinic Alix College of Nursing and Health Innovation, along with helpful School of Medicine tips for making them stick. student Ryan Smith practices a Be more mindful meditation during Before you start getting down on yourself or dismiss your a four-day course resolutions as a lost cause, ASU’s Chief Well-Being Officer at the ASU Center and Edson College Professor Teri Pipe advises you to take for Mindfulness, a moment and consider self-acceptance as the first step Compassion toward personal growth. and Resilience. “Resolutions often take us to a place of negativity or For mindfulness remedying a perceived weakness,” she says. “Instead, resources, see please remember that you can accept yourself as you are mindfulnesscenter. and at the same time be inspired to become a better, more asu.edu. generous or deeper version of yourself. Self-acceptance

ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 23 * The headline on this page was corrected on 3/6/20 to reflect the number of ways to manage stress in the stor y. After the stor y was trimmed to fit, there are six ways listed. Move faster, even if it’s brief

and strategic initiatives Chris evidence-based and Your screens are eating sedentary at a desk, Buman’s Wharton says the average person we have little evidence all the time you need to be research is focused on developing probably doesn’t need to worry for water.” healthier and happier.” interventions for excessive sitting much about their protein intake. In order to ensure in the workplace. “Chances are, you’re doing just you’re well hydrated, Sit less, stand more “While reducing your sitting fine getting (more than) enough Kavouras recommends Sitting is not the new time at work doesn’t take the protein,” he says. Instead, focus monitoring the number smoking — CHS place of regular exercise, on fiber. Adults should shoot for of times you use the Associate Professor Matt adequate sleep or a healthful diet, 30 to 50 grams daily, primarily restroom throughout Buman and colleagues it’s an important part of an overall from vegetables, whole grains, the day (if it’s been successfully debunked healthy lifestyle,” he says. beans/legumes and fruits for the several hours and you the insidious health myth Consider wearing comfortable best returns on health. haven’t been to the in a paper published in shoes so you’re more likely to You may not be the most bathroom, that’s an September 2018 — but want to move throughout the popular guest at dinner parties, indication you haven’t Stay it can still be detrimental day, breaking up long periods but, he says, “The more gas been drinking enough hydrated to your health. Too much of focused work with a short you have, the healthier your diet water), as well as the sitting, Buman says, can standing or moving break (as an likely is.” color of your urine. lead to health issues such added bonus, the quick break Dark yellow urine indicates as heart disease, diabetes, stroke can improve your focus and and becoming a better person are but not quite), they may even Stay hydrated dehydration. He also suggests his and high blood pressure — all of productivity), using the restroom not mutually exclusive; in fact, they produce more health benefits than Most Arizonans know the own personal habit of keeping a which can be life-threatening. on a different floor or getting up to go hand in hand.” longer, moderate-level bouts. immediate importance of hydration full glass of water in front of him at Because many modern day talk to your coworker face-to-face As the founding director of “Less can be more for a in the desert, but it turns out water all times. jobs require employees to be instead of sending an email. n ASU’s Center for Mindfulness, fitter you,” Angadi says. “Just 10 intake can have effects on long- Compassion and Resilience, minutes of high-intensity interval term health as well. CHS Assistant Reduce your screen time Pipe knows that the practice of training three times a week can Dean of graduate education and If a food-based diet isn’t your mindfulness has benefits for both improve your cardiovascular and Professor of nutrition Stavros speed, Wharton suggests going mind and body. metabolic fitness.” Kavouras directs the Hydration on a screen time diet. He and Science Lab at ASU, where he is colleagues are working to develop Move faster, even if it’s brief Get more fiber studying the impact of water intake more accurate ways to measure Reduce your Strapped for time but still want to Though he recently published on health and performance, as well people’s screen time usage, screen time keep your ticker in tiptop shape? work outlining a new tool that as its effects on chronic disease associated health effects and Have no fear. CHS Assistant allows consumers to weigh both outcomes. potential interventions. Professor Siddhartha Angadi the nutritional quality and the Most recently, Kavouras found According to Wharton, conducts research on the effects environmental impact of protein, that drinking more water could the benefits of logging off are of high-intensity interval training, CHS Assistant Dean of innovation improve the quality of life for exponential. or HIIT — characterized by short patients with Type 2 diabetes “Reducing the time you spend bursts of intense activity — on and potentially help prevent the with screens simultaneously cardiovascular and metabolic disease in others. opens time to plan healthier meals physiology in severe chronic He calls water “the forgotten and cook, be active and spend diseases. nutrient,” and was quoted in a time with family, friends and He has found that not only May 2019 ASU Now story saying, neighbors,” he says. “Because can shorter bouts of physical “People forget to drink water, screen time is one of the greatest activity produce the same benefits forget to study water, they just sources of sedentary time behind as longer bouts, but that if the forget to include water in anything. sleep and work, it is actually a shorter bouts are ramped up from The MyPlate, the USDA’s current gateway behavior. It’s really hard a moderate level (something akin nutrition guide, does not even to be healthier in other areas in life to a brisk walk) to a vigorous level include water because every if you don’t give yourself the gift (where you’re almost out of breath Get more fiber dietary guideline needs to be of time to pursue healthier habits.

24 SPRING 2020 ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 25 Transform

“Everything starts and ends with people. It is the right team that will win in the end. ”

— JEFF COX, CO-FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF RADIUSAI, WHO WORKS OUT OF INDUSTRIOUS COWORKING SPACE IN TEMPE

PARADIGM SHIFT

Changing IP video Making surveillance — for the silicon desert the better Helping to Jeff Cox, ’94 BS in marketing, co-founded RadiusAI create a new economy for in 2017 with the goal of using artificial intelligence Arizona. to help save jobs and improve employee and 28 business efficiency — without collecting personally identifiable information or using facial recognition. Solving the Cox partnered with ASU’s School of Computing, water crisis Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, and Cody hired ASU PhD students to help bring the product Friesen’s into the marketplace. One of the many uses is that company RadiusAI can analyze real-time analytics to help creates clean businesses optimize decisions and improve sales. water from air. 36

26 SPRING 2020 COURTNEY LIVELY AND INDUSTRIOUS/FOR ASU ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 27 TRANSFORM

ASU, together with industry partners, venture capital and government backing, is Building helping Arizona transform the economy resilience in the silicon desert Story by CRAIG GUILLOT

Long before IBM, Apple and Google set up shop in Silicon Valley, the area was home to government-funded research operations that developed electronics and communications devices. While it is now known as a global epicenter of technology, only some of the economic development came about through the muscle of venture capital; the rest came from government funding. Several U.S. cities, from Denver and Seattle to Washington, D.C., have similarly built upon government investment in universities to build thriving economies.

The Phoenix metro area has emerged as a global ASU faculty and students are working with industry hotbed of innovation that can become a new type of partners to solve problems, such as helping to make Silicon Valley — with continued investment, analysts say. the electrical grid safer and more robust, advancing the A key part of creating a resilient economy relies on the 3D printing of metals, improving solar tech, driving new current ASU partnerships with industry in areas such manufacturing technologies — and more. as medical tech, wearables, advanced manufacturing, sustainability and communications. Through innovation centers, the university is supporting research, helping

28 SPRING 2020 ERIKA GRONEK; JESSICA SLATER/ASU ERIKA GRONEK/ASU ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 29 “Hubs of innovation and talent Silicon Valley and the Remaking of business-friendly laws, Phoenix America” and history professor at generation will metro and Arizona are thriving in the University of Washington. feed the local areas like medical tech, the internet Until the 1940s, the California companies and of things (IoT), sensor-enabled valley was largely agricultural. technologies and manufacturing With an influx of federal funds to draw others in. and are poised for additional support Cold War electronics, This in turn drives growth, says Chris Camacho, Stanford University focused the economy president and CEO of the Greater its curriculum on sciences and Phoenix Economic Council. engineering to support federal and spurs further “By fostering an environment research labs developing new reinvestment.” that promotes entrepreneurial communication devices, O’Mara thinking and innovation at scale, — HANS STORK, SENIOR VP OF says. Such government backing R&D, ON SEMICONDUCTOR we have made significant progress eventually helped to pave the in areas that include additive way for Intel, AMD, NVIDIA and manufacturing, solar energy and an entire new economy. In 1971, define what the future might look wearable technologies, among a journalist dubbed it “Silicon like, to push the boundaries of the others,” says Kyle Squires, dean Valley USA.” technologically possible, and to of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Government support can often make money in the process.” That, Engineering at ASU. “With an provide the boost that industry and coupled with tech-friendly tax investment to help establish researchers need to bring distant regulations and business-friendly science and technology centers ideas to market. “[These] are policies, all helped Silicon Valley where faculty, students and things that the market is not going grow large, writes O’Mara. industry collaborators can grow to do by itself,” O’Mara says. ideas, share resources and Students to bring new products to market columnist Dustin McKissen. Real-world impact O’Mara writes that government Creating a resilient economy provide advanced training, the participate in and driving entrepreneurship To that end, the Arizona investment “flowed.. . in ways that With an already established Fulton Schools will be primed to Devils Invent, and industries that benefit the Board of Regents is requesting ASU named gave the men and women of the legacy of mainstay semiconductor catalyze the tech ecosystem in where they entire state. state funding for a new economy one of the nation’s tech world remarkable freedom to companies and talent and the Phoenix metropolitan area and design and build Arizona is home to thousands initiative, including $46 million top universities solutions to real- of tech companies, and a report for ASU in fiscal year 2021 to for tech world problems by the National Academy of enable the state’s transformation submitted by the Inventors ranked ASU in the top 10 by preparing the workforce and commercialization community and universities for patents awarded making metro Phoenix the leading ASU ranks ahead of industry. worldwide in 2018, the most recent U.S. producer of engineering Harvard, Duke, year for which rankings have been talent. Part of the plan is to Johns Hopkins, USC released. With a top engineering better fund K-12, and to increase and UC Berkeley

talent base, an established tech access to higher education — MILKEN INSTITUTE sector and a thriving startup scene, across the state, including in rural economic developers and analysts areas, as well as to improve high say it’s now time for the region to school completion and college double down and create a future in attendance rates. Another focus new disruptive industries. is the creation of additional While Phoenix has many key innovation centers that leverage components to develop a new university expertise to solve innovation economy, it also needs industry-identified problems. state government investment, In Silicon Valley, it was in addition to incoming federal ultimately government funding government grants and private and public policy that fueled Students at ASU work with mentors, faculty members and industry partners to Avnet CEO Bill Amelio presents funding, to create in a “big development, says Margaret solve problems. awards at the ASU Innovation Open. and thoughtful way,” says Inc. O’Mara, author of “The Code:

30 SPRING 2020 ERIKA GRONEK/ASU ERIKA GRONEK; CHARLIE LEIGHT/ASU ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 31 Educating the workforce that industry needs

In September 2019, the ASU is the STEM real-time data analytics as WearTech Applied Research professionals possible,” says Lalitha Sankar, Center opened as a joint venture nation’s needed to grow associate professor of electrical, between the Fulton Schools and computer and energy engineering the economy the Partnership for Economic largest in the Fulton Schools. “We don’t Innovation, a collective dedicated The U.S. will be short want to be doing forensics that to expanding economic potential producer of 1 million STEM determine the cause of problems in Phoenix. (Learn more about professionals by 2025 if only from gathering evidence after medical wearables on page 44.) future the gap is not addressed. the fact. We want to see patterns

Another promising area is — BUREAU OF in the data that help predict what’s in communications. Dan Bliss, engineers L ABOR STATISTICS starting to happen on a grid. ASU associate professor We also need to visualize these and director of the Center for Currently graduating patterns to the operator succinctly Wireless Information Systems 4,500 engineers $1.5B in additional and meaningfully to further aid the and Computational Architectures, and technologist state taxes operator in distinguishing between his team and industry partners students each year collected 20 years normal and abnormal operations.” are striving to improve wireless Instead of trying to compete communications for personal, With state investment, the after the start of in a market of ordinary, mass- machine and IoT systems by number will rise to 5,000 the new economy produced electronics, working creating more sophisticated by 2025. initiative hand-in-hand with industry can protocols and computation — A RIZONA BOARD help identify new high-value engines. “We are actively pursuing 240% increase O F REGENTS technologies that researchers can the commercialization of multiple in student bring to market, Raupp says. Associate help launch companies that will “A big role the state can pieces of this technology,” “If we can focus around enrollment over Professor Dan drive future industries.” play is in providing the Bliss says. 30,000 to 40,000 the idea of a versatile, agile the past 10 years Bliss, along funding that creates While many of us are still new high-wage manufacturing with rapid with students Public-private partnerships an ecosystem where using mobile phones on the 4G jobs in Arizona technology development and and other Using a mix of private money, network and anticipating 5G, 23,903 students platforms that can be built on [industry and academia] by year 20 of the researchers, grants from the National Science George Trichopolous and Ahmed in fall 2019 initiative quickly creating the next version is working on Foundation and the U.S. bring something to the Alkhateeb, assistant professors of whatever we need … that’s the — ARIZONA BOARD making tech in Department of Defense’s Defense table and we work on of electrical engineering in the kind of idea we want to create,” #10 most technology O F REGENTS our devices less Advanced Research Projects relevant problems.” Fulton Schools, are preparing graduates hired Raupp says. expensive, more Agency (DARPA) and other for the implementation of 6G by by top 25 technology energy efficient national government agencies, — DHRUV BHATE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 2030. By exploring the capabilities Funding and fueling companies and more along with venture capital, ASU is of wireless signals in the unused the silicon desert powerful. participating in the establishment of ON Semiconductor, a global range above 100 GHz, they — BUSINESS INSIDER AND Continued growth of the Phoenix various public-private partnership semiconductor supplier based believe they can demonstrate H IRINGSOLVED SURVEY, 2017 area’s innovation economy centers that help local companies in Phoenix. “This in turn drives innovative 6G use cases, such as depends on the ability to get new products onto the market the economy and spurs further better enabling IoT devices. maintain a highly educated and faster. These centers, and the new reinvestment.” At the Manufacturing is testing how such parts may be and academia] bring something to trained workforce. In addition economy they can help create, not The best prospects are Research and Innovation Hub at able to withstand extreme loads the table and we work on relevant to technology jobs, these new only benefit engineers but can also those areas where there is an The Polytechnic School, Dhruv and temperatures for NASA and problems.” industries will also help to create lead to a diverse range of jobs to opportunity to build something Bhate conducts research on the Department of Defense. With a $1.75 million grant mid-level jobs in sales, retail benefit all Arizonans. new, and where industry partners additive manufacturing, including “There are many questions from the NSF, ASU engineers and and production, along with “Hubs of innovation and talent are willing to participate, says how 3D-printed metal parts that have to be answered before other experts are striving to make professional, managerial and generation will feed the local Gregory Raupp, director of may be used in aircraft to save that technology can be inserted electrical grids smarter and safer cybersecurity jobs. companies and draw others in,” the MacroTechnology Works space, time and money. Through in the product,” Bhate says. “A by reducing data losses, outages It’s important to continue explains industry partner Hans Initiative and research director America Makes, a collaborative big role the state can play is in and cybersecurity threats. building, Bliss says, because Stork, senior vice president of of the WearTech Applied organization that supports additive providing the funding that creates “We need electric power disruptive technologies and research and development at Research Center. manufacturing technology, the lab an ecosystem where [industry systems to have as much accurate groundbreaking innovation

32 SPRING 2020 MARCO-ALEXIS CHAIR/ASU ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 33 “People underestimate Building a robust economy can take years of R&D before how long it takes to coming to market. And while ASU graduates more than 4,500 move technology to engineers and technologists market … Open up your per year, that isn’t enough to phone, there are 50 support existing companies, and not enough to help build the new years of research that emerging economy. went into that.” “People underestimate how — DAN BLISS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR long it takes to move technology to market, because they only AZ ranked 7th see the last 2%. If you open up in the nation for your phone, there are 50 years based upon ASU technology of research that went into that,” and spinoffs. “We’re providing startup success Bliss says. the talent that can go into these

— WALLETHUB Such long-term investments startups, but we’re also teaching can yield an impressive return and training people to be for the state. If new business entrepreneurs,” Raupp says. 300+ tech opportunities increase by as little Camacho believes the state is companies now in as 10%, the 10-year state and in the midst of a historic economic downtown Phoenix local fiscal impact will grow by transition that will not only attract compared with another $700 million with 25,000 new capital in these sectors but 67 in 2012 new jobs created, according to the also give birth to more homegrown Arizona Board of Regents. companies and potentially make In addition to training the Phoenix the next Silicon Valley. 100,000 increase in workforce for tomorrow’s “Just in the past decade Innovators: bioscience jobs opportunities, many of ASU’s we’ve seen massive amounts students, graduate students of entrepreneurial activity and Work with WearTech Center in metro Phoenix from and postdoctorates will likely that will continue to compound 2007 to 2019 go on to form new startups. over the next 20 years. I am to commercialize your research Raupp is personally working with extraordinarily optimistic about seven startups around medical the future of our region and state,” 60% of the technology, half of which were Camacho says. n Phoenix metro WearTech is a demonstration Velocity Applied Working with the Center can Research Center established by the Partnership for accelerate the development of your area workforce technologies and research. Economic Innovation (PEI). is employed The Center will: in advanced Work with experts on your research In response to industry needs and challenges, • Assist you with finding industry WearTech builds project teams of multi-disciplined investors interested in your industries □ Collaborate with expert faculty and □ Use tools at a public makerspace. technologies. such as manufacturing, staff at ASU Core Research Facilities. ASU and the City of Chandler created engineers, business leaders, legal professionals, and regulatory and policy experts. • Provide access to engineering lab business and financial Get access to numerous technologies, the ASU Chandler Innovation Center equipped with rapid prototyping services, technology, such as electron microscopes, (ACIC) + Hub249 Makerspace. The These real-world problems need your expertise and testing capabilities. biosciences and health prototyping, DNA sequencing and more. space offers tools and equipment, from and technologies. Finding solutions and • Provide access to strategic care, up from 48% before Connect with an ASU business 3D printers to woodsaws to pottery kilns, developing new products requires rapid response partnerships with university tech the 2007 recession. concierge: concierge.asu.edu. design software, classes and more. transfer teams for licensing option R&D teams and talent. and commercialization pathways. – FORBES Go to entrepreneurship.asu.edu/ asu-chandler-innovation-center-acic. For more information, please contact [email protected]

34 SPRING 2020 TOM STORY/ASU TRANSFORM Solving the world’s Startup’s award-winning water crisis technology creates sustainable drinking water drop Story by LORNET TURNBULL

An X-ray view of Zero Mass Water’s by SOURCE Hydropanel, which emerged from research at ASU, uses solar power and a small battery to generate drinking water from sunlight and air. drop

36 SPRING 2020 ZERO MASS WATER ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 37 The bead of an idea Michael Cima, faculty director for Friesen says. “So whether we’re the Lemelson-MIT Program. talking about Flint, Michigan, 194 schools in Arizona with lead in their hit Cody Friesen as A global problem pipes, the 750 water main breaks SOURCE Hydropanels are a day across the United States, a teenager hiking essentially solar panels that the one person who dies every 10 produce water instead of electricity seconds from waterborne illness — and require no additional power this is a truly global problem.” mountain trails in source to do it. Hydrophilic Water, the essence of life, membranes inside the panels trap covers more than two-thirds of water vapor from air blown across the earth’s surface, but barely Arizona’s sunbaked them by a solar-powered fan. 3% of it is drinkable. Nearly 1.7 The vapor-turned-water then billion people — one-quarter of Sonoran Desert. flows through mineral cartridges, the world’s population — currently giving the water an ideal taste. live in areas of high water stress, Even in arid desert regions like including Arizona, California, He grew up in the hot, arid challenges: water scarcity. Arizona and soggy, overcast areas Colorado and New Mexico. region but near an area of lush The creation contributed like the Pacific Northwest, each The United Nations projects that cotton fields and citrus orchards to Friesen earning the 2019 Hydropanel can reliably deliver an by 2050 more than 5 billion people fed by irrigation canals Native $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, average of 5 liters of water a day. could suffer water shortages due to Americans built thousands of the largest cash prize for invention Five years after Friesen climate change, increased demand years ago. in the U.S. It honors outstanding launched Zero Mass Water, his and polluted supplies. He was keenly aware of inventors who translate their ideas Hydropanels have been installed in Friesen loves to talk about big the incongruous reality — how into technological inventions that more than 35 countries and across solutions to these kinds of global inhospitable that same desert can have been adopted and bring dozens of applications in hospitals, problems. His voice grows excited be to the landscape and wildlife significant value to society. farms and homes — including two as he describes the “leapfrog” within it. “Here we lived in this “Cody Friesen embodies at Friesen’s home in Scottsdale. technology that allows people in very water abundant area, yet, what it means to be an impact They provide the family of four developing countries with access really, we’re in the middle of the inventor,” says Carol Dahl, humans and two dogs with water to smartphones to easily connect desert,” he says. executive director at the Lemelson for drinking and cooking. via the internet to the rest of the A similar juxtaposition struck Foundation. “His inventions The Hydropanels also can be world. And about how solar energy Friesen years later when visiting are truly improving lives, take found in aboriginal communities is generating electricity in many of countries with abundant annual into account environmental in Australia and an orphanage those areas without the need for rainfall, “and yet there’s nothing considerations and have become for Syrian refugees in northern bulky, expensive infrastructure. to drink.” the basis for companies that Lebanon; in desert regions in the “If we could do for water what The experiences became the impact millions of people around Middle East and sub-Saharan solar does for electricity,” he says, engine for his award-winning the world each year.” Africa, where concerns over a “we could fundamentally shift the technology that absorbs moisture Friesen donated the prize to global water shortage grow more axis of the planet and improve from thin air and converts it into a Zero Mass Water project with intense; and someday in Flint, the human condition with respect clean drinking water. Conservation International to Michigan, where residents are to water.” The founder of Scottsdale- provide Hydropanels to the Bahía still grappling with a five-year-old At Copper King Elementary School in Phoenix, an array based Zero Mass Water and an Hondita community in Colombia. water crisis. ‘Perfect water’ for schools of SOURCE Hydropanels (top) delivers quality drinking associate professor of materials “Cody’s inventive spirit, “Those are not vacation Across the U.S., SOURCE water to students. science and engineering at Arizona fueled by his strong desire to hotspots, but rather places where Hydropanels have been installed State University, Friesen developed help improve the lives of people there’s a tremendous amount of in schools where aging pipes SOURCE Hydropanels to address everywhere, is an inspiring role human capacity limited by all the have leached unsafe levels of one of the globe’s most pressing model for future generations,” says challenges that we know exist,” lead into drinking water, forcing

38 SPRING 2020 NICOLE NERI; ZERO MASS WATER ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 39 Fulton Schools Associate Professor Cody Friesen’s “The most company Zero Mass Water now employs 91 people. valuable water on the planet is the water you put inside your body.”

— CODY FRIESEN

administrators to shut off water “We want to ensure to get water from a SOURCE-fed the Zero Mass Water team to and innovators imagine, and “Most universities think about fountains. A July 2018 report from that the kids have dispenser outside the STEAM lab. monitor their performance. A typical creating and developing “from the how great they are because of the General Accounting Office Principal Janine Ambrose says two-panel array, which costs $4,500 lab bench to the marketplace” to who they exclude,” Friesen says, (GAO) found that 43% of schools perfect water — students get to see real-world including installation, will produce engender global change. borrowing a line from Crow. “ASU test for lead in drinking water and independent of engineering up close through the about 10 liters of water a day. But It’s the reason Friesen returned is very focused on how they create 37% of those that tested showed whatever their partnership. They get a kick knowing hundreds or even thousands of them to ASU 15 years ago, after earning greatness and prominence by who elevated lead levels, a known their water is being drawn from thin have the capacity to supply drinking his BS in engineering and materials they include.” neurotoxin particularly harmful to surroundings are.” air — a new source of fascination water for entire communities — science here in 2000 and a PhD It’s similar, Friesen says, to how young children. with each new school year’s cohort much like an array of solar panels in the same discipline from MIT in he’s developing technologies in his — CODY FRIESEN, It’s a major focus for Friesen and INVENTOR AND CEO, of students. can produce enough electricity to 2004. It’s also, he says, why he stays. research group, focused “not on how his company. “We want to ensure ZERO MASS WATER “It’s definitely a learning power a city. With one of the largest to create a technology for the elite, that the kids have perfect water experience for our kids here, who engineering schools in the country, but rather, how do you take creative — independent of whatever their Mass Water is part of the district’s get to learn about and see these Culture of innovation ASU is the No. 1 school for technology that is inclusive of surroundings are,” he says. “And commitment to sustainability panels work,” Ambrose says. Friesen developed the technology innovation in America according to broader humanity, and use it to solve that’s been a big, big thing for us as programs as well as expansion “We’re always looking for ways to with the backing of an 11-member U.S. News & World Report, with an fundamental problems?” we continue to scale the business. of a robust science, technology, expand the curriculum and how team of researchers at ASU’s Ira environment that inspires inventions The next step, what he calls It’s probably one of the most engineering, art and mathematics we can educate our kids about the A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. like his. Within that nurturing culture, Renewables 2.0, must involve impactful spaces that we operate (STEAM) curriculum. environment and the sustainability of He lauds a culture that continues Friesen developed the world’s first developing and deploying technology in — education.” At Copper King Elementary the environment, especially here in to build and flourish under ASU rechargeable metal-air battery, for the cause of social equity across In Phoenix, for example, the School, where about 10 panels were Arizona with water.” President Michael M. Crow, able to withstand almost limitless the globe. That, he says, “is the Pendergast Elementary School installed two years ago, students The Hydropanels are all advancing high-impact translatable discharges. He sold the company, fundamental underpinning of why I District’s partnership with Zero use their own reusable containers connected to the cloud allowing research, taking what engineers Fluidic Energy Inc., in 2018. founded this company.” n

40 SPRING 2020 ZERO MASS WATER JAROD OPPERMAN/ASU ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 41 “Siva saw a problem and it struck a chord Invent in his heart.”

— VIVEK KOPPARTHI, ’14 MS IN MANAGEMENT, NEOLIGHT CEO, ON THE INSPIRATION FOR NEOLIGHT

SAVING LIVES Alumni startup fights jaundice Medical Each year, about 60% of newborns are wearables born with jaundice, too much bilirubin ASU and that manifests as a yellowing of the industry baby’s skin. It is usually treated with partners are phototherapy — exposing the newborn transforming health care. to blue light for a few days after birth. But 44 in parts of the developing world that lack access to electricity, tens of thousands The power of infants die or develop brain damage every year from untreated jaundice. of the pitch Teaching Sivakumar Palaniswamy and three fellow student ASU alumni founded NeoLight to provide and alumni phototherapy with LEDs that use 98% entrepreneurs less electricity than a standard incubator, The FDA-approved NeoLight, shown here under the baby, treats newborns for jaundice how to get so the device can be used in more places. in homes or hospitals. The founders won a $25,000 grant from ASU’s Edson Student started. Entrepreneur Initiative and parlayed that into an additional $600,000 seed investment. 51

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Alumni, students The and researchers are creating devices that revolutionize the future o f medical field

Story by DANIEL OBERHAUS health care is Photos by JEFF NEWTON

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TouchPoint Solution CEO and co-founder Vicki Mayo wears the company’s device that helps users cope with stress; it was named best in health and wellness at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show.

44 SPRING 2020 ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 45 “We’ve come to a point in time where you can take It’s a feeling familiar to us all. We sense the rich functionality of it when we’re waiting for the results of microelectronics and a medical exam, preparing to ask our put it in new forms, fits boss for a raise, or rehearsing to ask our and functions.” crush on a date. It’s called stress, and — GREGORY RAUPP, PROFESSOR OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND it’s the body’s natural reaction to a tense, RESEARCH DIRECTOR OF THE WEARTECH uncertain situation. APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER

Nick Hool, a current graduate in the ASU Innovation Open in Wearable tech student in engineering who in 2018. Hoolest is one of the first goes mainstream 2016 completed his BSE in to take up residence at the new Until a few years ago, wearable bioengineering, knows all about it. WearTech Applied Research tech was rarely seen outside a lab Hool has been an avid golfer for Center, which is plotting the future or a clinic, where doctors used the most of his life, but he still feels the of wearable technology at Park devices to gather critical patient rush of nerves when he steps onto Central in midtown Phoenix. data or help with recovery. Some of the green to tee off. But after years A collaboration between these devices tracked the mundane of research, he believes he may the Partnership for Economic ebb and flow of brain waves or finally have a solution — no pills Innovation and the Ira A. glucose levels. Others, like the or weeklong meditation retreats Fulton Schools of Engineering, sophisticated robotic exoskeletons required. WearTech opened its doors last developed by Tom Sugar, a Hool’s solution, developed September to ASU students, professor of engineering, had more with two other ASU engineering faculty and local companies. ASU esoteric medical applications like students, is a small pair of earbuds has long been in the forefront helping the recovery of stroke he calls the P57 ONE. Instead of medical technology, and the victims. These technologies of piping in music, the earbuds center aims to accelerate the improved countless lives, but it deliver a weak electric current to transition of these technologies took the arrival of wearables like the inner ear to stimulate the nerve from the lab to the market by the Apple Watch and Fitbit to truly that regulates our fight-or-flight forging links between industry and catapult wearable tech into the response. As Hool discovered, the academia. mainstream. earbuds produce a rapid decline “We’ve come to a point in Not only could these consumer in the wearer’s stress levels, which time where you can take the rich devices monitor various vital he hopes may one day include functionality of microelectronics statistics like sleep patterns professional athletes, soldiers and and put it in new forms, fits and and heart rhythms, they were anyone who wants to bring a little functions,” says Gregory Raupp, a fashionable and affordable to Grad student Chris Lue Sang wearing more calm to their life. professor of chemical engineering boot. People became obsessed a device by FlexBioTech, co-founded by Hool is currently conducting and research director of the with tracking their health, and Jennifer Blain Christen, Karen Anderson clinical trials under the auspices WearTech Applied Research the so-called “quantified self” and Joseph Smith, that makes electronics of his company, Hoolest Center. “It’s as simple as putting movement was born. Consumer to help diagnose disease. Technologies, which got a big on your clothes to adapt to this wearables quickly grew beyond boost when it won $100,000 new technology.” mere tracking technology, and

46 SPRING 2020 ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 47 Wearable health care keeping tabs on infection. devices by the numbers As a neuropsychologist and founder of Phoenix-based Serin Center, Amy Serin, ’96 BS in psychology, appreciates the $200B challenges of bringing a new 1.3M device to the market. As part of her saved clinical practice, Serin developed lives Estimated global TouchPoint Solution, which makes saved health cost savings a wearable technology that helps from wearable tech users cope with debilitating by wearables by 2020 over the next stress by using two devices that — S WISS FIRM 25 years alternate vibrations. The alternating SOREON RESEARCH — DELOITTE vibrations essentially tell the brain HemaPorter is a smart cold to turn down its stress response. storage container for securely According to Serin, it’s the high- transporting blood and organs tech equivalent of listening to some in environments that lack calming music, but exerts a much access to electricity. more rapid and powerful effect on the brain. 50% When Serin was studying devices for a host of therapeutic find novel commercial applications indicate health problems in users’ get a microprocessor that’s small psychology at ASU as an undergrad reduction in and performance-enhancing uses for their technologies. sweat and provide data analytics to enough to wear on the body.” in the mid-’90s, the first flip phone, hospital visits began to hit the market. Today, Some of the tenants, like Hool, smartphones. Christen and her colleagues the Motorola StarTAC, was the wearable tech is estimated by are relative newcomers to wearable Christen has spent most of were able to surmount the technical hottest mobile device on the Projected reduction in hospitalizations industry analyst CCS Insight to be a tech. Others, like Jennifer Blain her career delving into the tricky challenges involved with creating market, so no one was talking through use of home monitoring devices $25 billion global industry expected Christen, an assistant professor in material problems associated with a device no thicker than a bandage about wearable digital devices that of chronic diseases to double in size within five years. the School of Electrical, Computer wearable devices — how to make that could detect the concentration are also mini-computers. Today, and Energy Engineering, have the electronics smaller, faster of particular molecules and mental health professionals are Taking wearables from been researching digital health and cheaper without sacrificing wirelessly relay that data to a abuzz about her device, which has the lab to the market technology for decades. In the quality of the data or the computer. Yet, finding a commercial proven effective for reducing stress With the WearTech Applied 2016, Christen, along with Mayo user experience. For decades, application proved challenging. in autistic children, those suffering Research Center joint venture, Clinic medical oncologist and hardware limitations were the WearTech helped Christen form from post-traumatic stress disorder, $56.8B ASU is helping to ensure that immunologist Karen Anderson, major bottleneck preventing the a partnership between FlexBioTech and those dealing with the routine Phoenix is at the forefront of the MD, PhD, associate professor widespread adoption of wearable and True Mobile Health, a Phoenix- anxieties of daily life. It recently market value wearables revolution. The center at the Biodesign Institute, and tech. No one wants to look like based medical services provider. was named the best in health and market projection for provides a space for Sun Devils and Joseph Smith, ’14 PhD in electrical they’re wearing a computer. In True Mobile Health was looking for wellness at the 2019 Consumer wearable tech by 2025 local industry partners working on and electronics engineering, this sense, Christen says that the a way to monitor alcohol and illicit Electronics Show by Digital wearables to host meetings and co-founded FlexBioTech, a WearTech center came along at an substances in patients just released Trends, a commercial success — MARKETSANDMARKETS do testing as they prepare their company that makes flexible, ideal time. from addiction treatment centers, that Serin attributes to the device’s products for the market. Raupp and bio-safe electronics for disease “We’re finally able to make small a possible use case that Christen effectiveness and the fact that it was his colleagues at WearTech also diagnostics. The company grew wearable devices, and the cost has hadn’t previously considered. In the the first of its kind to hit the market. help the center’s partners navigate out of Christen’s National Science become so much more accessible,” future, she says the smart patch Serin co-founded TouchPoint the legal hurdles associated with Foundation-funded research on Christen says. “It doesn’t take might also be used as a diagnostic Solution in 2015 and began selling launching new medical devices, and smart patches that could sense the $10,000 to get started making tool for common diseases like the the devices in 2017. Last year, she the team helps industry partners presence of biomarkers that might something; for $30 you can go flu or mono, monitoring stress and says the device was used more than

48 SPRING 2020 ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 49 INVENTFIND “Learning you can actually take an idea and start a company and hire people and bring in revenue and have an impact

1 million times by people around in your community, the world. Serin says she was is such a significant able to get TouchPoints in front of empowerment. ” customers quickly by marketing it as — JI MI CHOI, ASU ASSOCIATE VICE a general purpose wearable rather PRESIDENT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP + than a medical device. INNOVATION Claiming that a device has medical benefits requires the tech to undergo rigorous FDA clinical trials, which can take years. Many of the wearables being tested at the WearTech center, such as Hool’s earbuds and Christen’s smart patches, are being developed as medical devices, which opens them up to markets inaccessible “I live in the world Student researcher Brandon Martin to nonmedical technologies. The (pictured) and Tom Sugar, a professor in lengthy process of getting FDA of a lot of digital the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, approval makes the support of economy stuff designed an exoskeleton that can help WearTech all the more important for that is flashy, warehouse workers beat fatigue. getting these medical products out BIG MONEY of the lab and into the real world. but does it But the wearables revolution solve real-world Power of the pitch doesn’t stop at the doors of the problems? saw in his everyday life. He parlayed Every semester, in classes and extracurricular WearTech center. In April, the first his harrowing experiences on the activities, students have the opportunity to cohort of the MedTech Accelerator, You folks are battlefield into Desert Valley Tech to learn entrepreneurial skills like evidence- a collaboration between ASU solving real-world develop the HemaPorter. It’s a smart based pitching. They pitch their ideas in and Mayo Clinic to foster the problems .” cold storage container for securely competitions such as ASU Launch Days and development of early stage medical transporting blood and organs in biannual Demo Day challenges. Competitors technologies, began a six-to-12- — LEN LANZI, MANAGING war zones and other environments won a total of $150,000 in seed money at the month program. DIRECTOR OF THE lacking access to electricity or most recent Demo Day in December. Some PRECCELERATOR, AT THE Lukas-Karim Merhi is reliable medical facilities. Witzke of these winners go on to the ASU Innovation 2020 ASU INNOVATION OPEN the co-founder and CEO of COMPETITION recently won $10,000 in the Ashton Open held every January, which draws BioInteractive Technologies, one of Family Venture Challenge and was entrepreneurs from around the globe. This six companies that is part of the first one of six firms to receive a $30,000 year’s participants competed for more than MedTech Accelerator cohort. He “We’ve had unparalleled access grant from the Flinn Foundation last $300,000 in cash prizes and other funding to is using his time with the MedTech to stakeholders in the Mayo system,” year to further develop the device. support their ventures. Accelerator to develop TENZR, a Merhi says. “We’ve learned a lot Institutional support from the Alumni and community members can digital wristband that monitors hand, through our conversations with WearTech Applied Research Center apply to be part of ASU Venture Devils wrist and elbow movements to surgeons, administrators, therapists and the MedTech Accelerator, to receive entrepreneurship and pitch help patients recover from a variety and clinicians, and intend to run a combined with the enterprising training, mentorship and access to funding of injuries, ranging from carpal trial at Mayo Clinic for the different spirit of ASU alumni like Witzke, ASU students across opportunities. Every year, ASU awards, tunnel syndrome to golfer’s elbow. indications we assist with.” are rapidly turning Phoenix into a disciplines learn how to pitch with Edson endowment dollars and other Merhi expects TENZR to enter the Like many entrepreneurs, Army wearable tech capital. It’s only a a business idea and gain the philanthropic gifts, more than $1 million for market later this year, and says the veteran Travis Witzke, ’11 BS in matter of time until more of these skills and know-how to start a promising business ideas. MedTech Accelerator is helping him management and ’15 MBA, invented devices will be coming to a wrist successful business. Learn more at entrepreneurship.asu.edu. further refine the device. a product because of the need he near you. n

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Hayden Library reopens BUILT FOR Turbocharged COLLABORATION for the 21st Hayden Library has gone century. through many changes 54 since it opened in 1966, including a time from Honoring 1989–2020 when it could education only be accessed by an Students studying at night in Hayden Library. champs underground entrance. It This photo from 1984 shows the original above- Founders’ Day reopened in 2020 after $90 ground entrance and stained glass windows that winners. million in improvements. were incorporated into the redesign. 60

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For the latest in library resources, including online learning material for study and research from home, see lib.asu.edu. Hayden Library reopens its doors After a major reinvention, the library provides maximum accessibility, engagement and support

Story by BRITT LEWIS Photos by JAROD OPPERMAN

A welcome gift arrived for Sun Devils on the first day of the spring semester — a sleek, new, state-of-the-art library. Originally built in 1966, Hayden Library has been reinvented and reopened for the 21st century, with an eye toward maximum accessibility, engagement and support for the university’s growing student population. The revamped five-story tower at the center of ASU’s Tempe campus features nearly double the student space, more study areas, community-driven book collections, two reading rooms, research services and interdisciplinary learning labs, and an entire floor devoted to innovation. “Hayden Library has been the engine of intellectual discovery for generations of Sun Devils,” says University Librarian Jim O’Donnell, a professor in ASU’s School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. “We just turbocharged it for a new generation.”

54 SPRING 2020 ASU THRIVE MAGAZINE 55 “Hayden Library has been the engine of intellectual discovery for generations. … We just turbocharged it for a new generation. ”

— JIM O’DONNELL, UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN

Perhaps the most obvious indication of the library’s reinvention is its wide plaza and above-ground entryways; an underground entrance was the The renovated library includes nearly 50,000 more square feet of space, sole entrance from 1989-2020. including places for collaboration. It also boasts more than 75 miles of data Although the dust may still be cabling to more effectively support nearly 2 million visitors each year. settling in Hayden Library, one thing is clear: The books are back. It took approximately 20 days, 30 when campus space and digital and in-person browsing in mind, truckloads and 9,000 new shelves resources are in high demand. organized by themes and with — along with four years of careful As a result of this work, ASU lots of eye-catching cover art,” planning for how those books students, faculty and staff will McAllister explains. would best be displayed, curated encounter a series of newly The library also boasts and delivered. Now, the library featured collections, such as sustainability achievements, features more than 30 different “Untold Histories” and “The such as the use of recycled collections. Southwest Before the U.S.” materials — approximately 80% of “Our team employed a Meanwhile, the Future of Print materials used in the renovation community-centered and data- initiative, with support from The were diverted from a landfill. About reduce demand for potable Tomalee Doan, associate The library has open areas informed approach to designing Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 13% of the building’s annual water by 37%, and appropriate university librarian for engagement for students to study, ground- the collections for Hayden Library,” continues to explore the interests, energy expenses are met by plant selection, coupled with and learning services, says, floor special collections and a says Lorrie McAllister, associate needs and expectations of 21st Hayden Library’s highly reflective high-efficiency irrigation systems, “This renovation represents a Makerspace lab where users university librarian for collections century academic library users to rooftop photovoltaic solar power reduce irrigation’s demand for bold step forward in executing can learn to use a 3D printer and services and strategy. reinvent print and library resource system, helping to lower the potable water by 80%. a transformative vision of other tools. The photo on the left In 2017, McAllister co-authored use at ASU. impact of the urban heat island “We’ve greatly benefited the academic library, both in shows how the library’s original a widely shared white paper on “A great example of how effect. Overall, the renovation has from smart, sustainable design maintaining the integrity of what stained glass was incorporated emerging design practices that the ‘Future of Print’ project has reduced the library’s annual energy practices that have come a long a library historically has provided into the design. is now shaping the curation and influenced the Hayden collections costs by 47%. way since the 1960s, when and building a bridge to meet delivery of academic library print design is our new Sun Devil Reads As for water, low-flow fixtures Hayden Library was built,” future demands our students and collections at ASU at a time collection, designed with students installed throughout Hayden O’Donnell says. scholars expect today.” n

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‘How do we become more human and more humane?’

What if we imagine ASU as an art-science university? What if art was embedded across the university as Leonardo a catalytic ingredient, leading to lifelong learning Leonardo was founded and positive social impact? ASU-Leonardo Initiative in 1968 in Paris by Executive Director Diana Ayton-Shenker is posing big kinetic artist and astronautical pioneer questions at the intersection of art and science. Frank Malina. Published by The MIT ASU and Leonardo/The International Society for the Press, Leonardo is the Arts, Sciences and Technology are embarking on a leading international new initiative led by Ayton-Shenker. The partnership peer-reviewed journal provides leadership for the advancement of ASU’s on the use of work in the area of art-science research, connecting contemporary science it with Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal, both and technology in the published by the MIT Press. arts and music. Since joining the ASU-Leonardo partnership last fall, Ayton-Shenker has been meeting and collaborating Diana Ayton-Shenker with community stakeholders across ASU to get Leonardo CEO of Leonardo/The Music a sense of how the university’s uniqueness and International Society for Journal similarities have created and can create an impact on the Arts, Sciences and 21st-century problems. Technology, she is an Leonardo Music She has begun working with Professor Leland award-winning social Journal, also published entrepreneur and author Hartwell, Nobel Laureate, to develop and co-teach a by The MIT Press, is the of four books, including companion annual new Humanities Lab and is working with faculty and “A New Global Agenda: journal to Leonardo. It students in the School for the Future of Innovation in Priorities, Practices, is devoted to aesthetic Society and the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and Pathways of the and technical issues in in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. International Community”; contemporary music her work has been featured and the sonic arts. in the World Economic To learn more about the ASU-Leonardo Initiative, Forum Agenda, Huffington go to leonardo.asu.edu. Post and on NPR.

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Check for updates: Honoring champions information about event dates and times may have changed since Play the press date. of higher education Please check the provided websites for l i k e a more information. Sun Devil®

Devoney Looser, PhD Richard Herrera, PhD Foundation Professor of English, Associate Professor, School of Politics Department of English, The College and Global Studies, The College of of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Faculty Liberal Arts and Sciences, Faculty Research Achievement Award. Teaching Achievement Award.

HOLE IN ONE For the first time in nearly three decades, you can watch the NCAA tournaments tee up in your own backyard. ASU and Grayhawk Golf Club will host James P. Collins, PhD Anthony Robles, ’11 BIS in the 2020 through 2022 NCAA Division I Men’s Professor of Natural History and the interdisciplinary studies NCAA Wrestling Champion, author and Women’s Golf Championships in Scottsdale, Annette and Leo Beus Environment, School of Life Sciences, and motivational speaker, Young Arizona. It becomes the first time a university and Having enriched ASU through their longtime generosity Faculty Service Achievement Award. Alumni Achievement Award. golf course will host the championships for three and support, the Beuses are honored with the Philanthropists of the Year Award. consecutive seasons. The championships will be contested on Grayhawk Golf Club’s Raptor course, a Tom Fazio design that is listed among the “Best Carrying forward the tradition of Founders’ Day 2020 was held on Feb. Public Golf Courses in Arizona” by Golf Magazine. transforming student lives, the 25 at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix. university and our world The event recognized alumni, faculty and May 22–27 (women) and May 29–June 3 (men) supporters — all leaders of the effort to Grayhawk Golf Club, Scottsdale Founders’ Day has been an Arizona State advance an institution that has become thesundevils.com/ncaagolf University signature event for decades that the nation’s largest public research honors individuals who exemplify the spirit university and holds the unique distinction Boundless Karrin Taylor Robson, ’88 BA in “We are thrilled for the spirit and of the founders of the Territorial Normal of being ranked No. 1 in innovation for political science and history, ’94 JD School, ASU’s predecessor institution. five consecutive years by U.S. News & Founder and President, Arizona opportunity to host the resolve Their groundbreaking research, excellence World Report. Strategies, Alumni Achievement nation’s elite in our own Anthony in teaching, unparalleled success and For more information on Founders’ Award. backyard. ” Robles turns visionary philanthropy is fundamental to the Day 2020, visit alumni.asu.edu/events/ adversity into university’s trajectory toward becoming a founders-day. — RAY ANDERSON, VICE PRESIDENT success New American University. FOR SUN DEVIL ATHLETICS 62 Hosted by the ASU Alumni Association,

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Senior experience Sun Devil seniors take 2020 Football Wrestling in ‘Kings of Harlem’ Schedule

SEPTEMBER Always Sun Devil senior student- time, including a showing of “The athletes along with several other Last Gold,” at Galvin Playhouse 3 (THU) vs. Northern Arizona ‘unstoppable’ special guests were treated to in 2017 followed by unforgettable 12 (SAT) at UNLV a memorable experience with performances of “Hamilton” in With boundless spirit a viewing of “Kings of Harlem,” 2018 and “Wicked” in 2019 at 19 (SAT) vs. Brigham Young and resolve, Anthony courtesy of Vice President for Gammage Auditorium. Robles turns adversity into University Athletics Ray Anderson This years’ experience had a 26 (SAT) at USC and his wife Buffie. familiar feel to several Sun Devils success, on his terms OCTOBER The event, which began in 2016, and was held on the court of Known nationally for his stellar is a tradition the Andersons created Desert Financial Arena. 3 (SAT) vs. Oregon State career as an NCAA Wrestling to expose student-athletes to an The 90-minute show brought 10 (SAT) vs. UCLA Champion, author, motivational educational, cultural, arts-oriented the audience back to Harlem, New speaker and most of all for his evening many have not experienced York, and followed the journey of 24 (SAT) at Colorado ability to conquer adversity, in their young lives. the 1939 Harlem Rens basketball 31 (SAT) at Washington State Anthony Robles makes a habit “The outcome of this experience team, an all-black pro team out of always seeing the bright is to provide something new,” Buffie which was founded several years NOVEMBER side of life. stated. “Being in an environment that before the well-known Harlem Born without his right leg, maybe they’ve never been in before. Globetrotters. 7 (SAT) vs. California Robles knew his dream of We found out after the first year that The play not only provided a becoming a champion wrestler many of the student-athletes have distinctive history lesson to those 13 (FRI) at Oregon would be hard to achieve. never been to theater.” in attendance but life lessons His early wrestling career was That idea has blossomed over through the character portrayals of 21 (SAT) vs. Utah fraught with challenges. Yet he the years and the Anderson’s have each player on the roster and their went from being last in the city of delivered a unique experience each beloved coach. 28 (SAT) at Arizona Mesa to finishing high school as a two-time Arizona State Champion and a high school National Schedule subject to change.

Champion with a 96-0 record. For tickets, please call 480-965-5812 At ASU, Robles was a three-time or visit TheSunDevils.com All-American and the 2011 NCAA National Champion. He served on the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition, is a two-time “My mom raised me with ESPY Award recipient — and was my head in the clouds, so I inducted into the National Wrestling believed I could do anything 500 wins Hall of Fame and the Arizona Sports I set my mind to. This way of for Turner Thorne Hall of Fame. For nine years Robles thinking compelled me to has been the leading wrestling At the end of January, Sun Devil women’s basketball analyst for ESPN and, since 2015, walk onto the wrestling team head coach Charli Turner Thorne captured her for the Pac-12 Network. to prove to them, and the 500th career victory in dramatic fashion as the team Later this year, a film world, anything was scratched and clawed out a 76-75 thriller in triple produced by Dwayne Johnson possible. ” See Anthony overtime over Pac-12 foe USC in Tempe. It was her based on Robles’ 2012 memoir Robles on ASU’s and the program’s first-ever triple overtime game as — ANTHONY ROBLES, ’11 BIS IN “Unstoppable: From Underdog YouTube channel at The Andersons learned years ago that many student-athletes had never been Reili Richardson buried a game-winning 3-pointer INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES, RECIPIENT youtube.com/asu. to Undefeated: How I Became OF THE FOUNDERS’ DAY YOUNG ALUMNI to the theater. They now host student-athlete seniors for a show each year. for a career-high 24 points. Coach Turner Thorne a Champion” will be released in ACHIEVEMENT AWARD This year, “Kings of Harlem” was staged in Desert Financial Arena for the and the Sun Devils are striving for their 15th NCAA theaters. student-athletes. appearance together in her 23 years leading the team.

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