This month, SHPE de ASU, Arizona State University's student chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, is celebrating 40 years of supporting its members, alumni and the Hispanic engineering community across the Valley.'Our mission is to bridge the gap between Hispanic students and STEM subjects,' says SHPE de ASU President Sergio Lopez, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU. 'To do that, we are providing not only academic resources but professional and research-oriented resources to our students to help them succeed.

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January 27, 2023 Kenja Hassan has been named the 2023 senior fellow of the Arizona State University Foundation for A New American University, a role created to increase diversity and inclusion opportunities in philanthropy while also expanding university leadership and faculty involvement.'Following the inauguration of the position, and the success that came with it, we are happy to announce the naming of Kenja Hassan as this year's senior fellow with the ASU Foundation,' said Suzanne Rinker, vice president of enterprise development at the ASU Foundation.

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September 19, 2022 Arizona State University has announced the appointment of Dr. Sherine Gabriel to the position of University Professor of the Future of Health Outcomes and Medicine, and chair of the ASU Health Outcomes Design Council.Reporting to ASU President Michael Crow, Gabriel will be responsible for facilitating the continuing evolution of a unified health and health outcomes focus at ASU. Sherine Gabriel Download Full Image She will partner with faculty and staff across the university's complete health care portfolio, leveraging existing assets to design new, transdisciplinary approaches to teaching and forming collaborations to tackle some of the most complex medical education challenges and opportunities facing our society today.

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June 15, 2023 The College of Health Solutions has launched a community health worker training program (CHW-TP) to improve community access to health-promoting services throughout Arizona. The online program, funded by a $3 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, will be available through Arizona State University Learning Enterprise and is paired with internship and apprenticeship opportunities in various communities throughout Maricopa County and the state. Participants who successfully complete the program will be eligible for voluntary certification through the Arizona Department of Health Services.

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July 28, 2023 The Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics , housed in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences , is establishing a new lecture series to raise awareness of disability and promote a positive disability culture at Arizona State . The series is named the Lawrence J. and Virginia Devlin Bolmarcich Memorial Lecture, after the parents of Sarah Bolmarcich , an associate teaching professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures. Lawrence J. and Virginia Devlin Bolmarcich.

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