{"id":175755,"date":"2023-06-02T08:05:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T15:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/?p=175755"},"modified":"2023-06-02T08:05:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T15:05:13","slug":"arizona-state-university-joins-prestigious-association-of-american-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/?p=175755","title":{"rendered":"Arizona State University Joins Prestigious Association of American Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arizona State University, on June 1, was selected to join the prestigious\u00a0Association of American Universities,<\/a>\u00a0which comprises the nation\u2019s elite research universities.<\/p>\n

Established in 1900, the AAU\u00a0added Arizona State into its membership,<\/a>\u00a0applauding the university\u2019s academic and research strength and acknowledging its place as a leader in higher education. There now are 71 universities in the association, including two from Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom deep space to deep in the oceans, we are a university designed for discovery, interdisciplinary research and innovation,\u201d\u00a0said ASU\u00a0President Michael Crow.\u00a0\u201cAs\u00a0one of the fastest growing research enterprises in the United States,\u00a0we are\u00a0focused on solving society\u2019s greatest challenges, and we are excited to become part of the AAU.\u201d<\/p>\n

Members of AAU \u2013 which includes stalwart private universities like Harvard, Stanford, MIT and Johns Hopkins and leading public universities like UCLA, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan \u2013 collectively help shape policy for higher education, science and innovation; promote best practices in undergraduate and graduate education; and strengthen the contributions of leading research universities to American society.<\/p>\n

As a group they earn a majority of competitively awarded federal funding for research that improves public health, addresses national challenges and contributes significantly to the nation\u2019s economic strength, while educating and training visionary leaders and innovators.<\/p>\n

ASU\u2019s rapid growth in research<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the last two decades, ASU has increased the scale and scope of its research activity nearly six times over. The university has become an innovation powerhouse of leading researchers and transdisciplinary schools making an impact on local and global communities.<\/p>\n

With $677.7 million in expenditures in fiscal year 2021, ASU ranked sixth among 750 institutions without a medical school, according to the National Science Foundation\u2019s annual\u00a0Higher Education Research and Development rankings<\/a>. ASU also ranked sixth in spending of NASA funding, according to the HERD report<\/p>\n

This year, for the eighth year in a row, U.S. News & World Report named\u00a0ASU the most innovative school in the U.S. ASU also ranks in the top 10 worldwide for U.S. utility patents issued in 2022, and more than 200 companies\u00a0have been launched based on ASU innovations, attracting\u00a0<\/strong>more than\u00a0<\/strong>$1.2 billion\u00a0in external funding.<\/p>\n

In the research labs across ASU\u2019s campuses you can access images coming back from space, you can study the latest data on the health of coral reefs, you can find researchers who quickly pivoted their work to develop a widely used saliva-based COVID-19 test, or you can meet scientists who are working to pull carbon dioxide from the air.<\/p>\n

\u201cASU has achieved a true continuum of research across the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering and technology. From Early Career NSF award winners to pan-university transdisciplinary approaches, we are tackling problems from all dimensions,\u201d said\u00a0Sally C. Morton, executive vice president of Knowledge Enterprise at ASU. \u201cWhat these successes all have in common is the discovery of use-inspired solutions to the most pressing issues of the day, issues that meet the needs of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students play a key role in this research, directly involved as part of teams that work on developing and building instruments for space missions or exploring the new scientific approaches that recently helped land a $90 million\u00a0NSFgrant to build the first\u00a0compact X-ray free electron laser.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The impact of joining AAU<\/strong><\/p>\n

AAU membership signals that ASU is a national leader in research and academics.\u00a0Membership is by invitation only based on an extensive set of quantitative indicators that assess the breadth and quality of a university\u2019s research and education.<\/p>\n

ASU focuses on egalitarian access to higher education, measured not by whom it excludes, but by\u00a0whom it includes\u00a0and\u00a0how they succeed. It also is notable that ASU joins the AAU as a Hispanic-Serving Institution.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are particularly proud that two of our new members \u2013 Arizona State and UC-Riverside \u2013 are designated as\u00a0Hispanic-serving institutions<\/a>\u00a0because significant shares of their student bodies are composed of individuals from Hispanic backgrounds,\u201d AAU President Barbara Snyder said. She added that the association looks forward to working with the new members \u201cto continue advancing higher education and laying the scientific foundation that helps keep our economy strong and our nation healthy and safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an important day for Arizona State University,\u201d Crow said, \u201cand for the maturation of our university.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arizona State University, on June 1, was selected to join the prestigious\u00a0Association of American Universities,\u00a0which comprises the nation\u2019s elite research universities. Established in 1900, the AAU\u00a0added Arizona State into its membership,\u00a0applauding the university\u2019s academic and research strength and acknowledging its place as a leader in higher education. There now are 71 universities in the association, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-175755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-achievements","tag-hot-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}