The piece that has brought me the most joy so far in my artist/maker career was when Thunderbird School of Global Management, where I attended for my graduate studies, asked me to make a 5 foot tall Thunderbird using their international license plate collection inside the Pub at their new headquarters in downtown Phoenix.
Over the last century, the realm of space exploration has shifted from something that was available almost exclusively to the elite of society – governments, militaries, engineers, astronauts – to something that may soon become fair game for everyone, via existing ventures like commercial tourism, and even a pathway for human beings to become an interplanetary species, pending future developments.
Eric Bing, Thunderbird alumnus, chancellor and CEO of The College of Health Care Professions (CHCP) has been named the spring 2022 convocation speaker for the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University.
Bing graduated from Thunderbird in 1994 and has devoted his entire career to expanding health care education, quality health care and workforce development opportunities for communities around the world.