06/28/23
Empowering Indigenous women
Finding safe spaces for Indigenous women. Hip-hop culture helps steer a young Cree man from gang life and into a decades-long art career. And, a business program is empowering Native women.
06/20/23
Designing the future at Thunderbird Global Headquarters
The world is at the center of the new Thunderbird School of Global Management at ASU in downtown Phoenix. Quite literally, an 8-foot-wide retractable digital globe hangs from the center of a large room, surrounded by LED screens, as part of many interactive components inside the school’s Digital Global Forum.
06/16/23
Instructure and Thunderbird at ASU’s Partnership: A Global Campaign for Accessibility and Equity in Education
Thunderbird School of Global Management has big plans to close educational equity gaps and educate women and girls around the world. In 2022, Thunderbird announced its initiative to provide education for 100 million global learners by 2030. This ambitious goal will be achieved through the Francis and Dionne Najafi 100 Million Learners Global Initiative. Instructure is proud to partner with ASU through our Canvas Learning Management System to fuel this initiative worldwide.
06/08/23
How Arizona is advancing CarbonTech
“Without question, the frontier of carbon removal and reduction is here in our state,” said Sangeev Khagram, dean and director general of Thunderbird School of Global Management at ASU, which in 2021 launched the Global Carbon Removal Partnership. “We are taking our projects and experiences here and saying, ‘This can be done all around the world.’”
06/02/23
ASU retains No. 1 in US and top 10 spot globally in UN Sustainable Development Goals ranking
As a demonstration of Arizona State University’s continued investment in high-impact research that tackles our global needs and challenges, the internationally respected Times Higher Education Impact Rankings recognized the university as the No. 1 institution in the United States and sixth in the world for addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
05/31/23
Thunderbird’s 100 Million Learners Global Initiative honored for excellence in inclusion, community building
The Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University was recently awarded the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) 2023 Inclusion Award for Community Building for its Francis and Dionne Najafi 100 Million Learners Global Initiative.
05/31/23
ASU leaders visit Egypt, United Arab Emirates to explore education opportunities in region
During the trip, Crow and the ASU team met with several universities, reviewed an U.S. Agency for International Development-funded ASU project in Egypt, hosted alumni, had discussions with the minister of education in Egypt and four ministers of the UAE government, and visited the Thunderbird/ASU innovation center in Dubai.
05/29/23
Africa: Pan Africanists shed light on significance of Africa Day
As Africa observed the Africa Day celebrated annually on May 25, Pan Africanists shed light on the significance of the day and its prospective impacts.
05/08/23
Africa’s Seat at the Table
In a time of intensifying great-power rivalry, the Group of 20, or G-20, has become an indispensable forum for urgent global problems. As the West enters an increasingly entrenched conflict with Russia and tensions rise between the United States and China, the G-20—which brings together 19 of the world’s largest economies along with the European Union—provides a crucial way to make progress on shared international concerns ranging from food security and financial stability to climate change.
04/27/23
ASU helps chart a course for Arizona’s space industry
The event rounded out with a dinner reception at the Thunderbird School of Global Management’s new Global Headquarters on ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus. Sanjeev Khagram, director general and dean of Thunderbird, discussed Thunderbird’s Initiative for Space Leadership, Policy and Business and its work to bring space sector leaders together to address global challenges and drive collaboration in commercial space and beyond.