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Six Arizona State University undergraduates recently received Freeman Awards for Study in Asia to study in China this summer. 

You have an opportunity to win a lunch date with Dr. Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University, or Lisa Love, the vice president of university athletics, by purchasing a raffle ticket that will help fund the establishment of a ground-breaking school for women and girls in Malawi, south central Africa.

Forty highly energized Chinese high school students, racing a deadline, used bagfuls of everyday materials from the dollar store to build models of the first human outpost on Mars. The students, who came from all over China, were competing in the final round of the China Youth Space Academy, an academic challenge joint partnership with Arizona State University, the Chinese government-run Web site, China.com.cn, and Beijing's Flying Spirit advertising agency.

Arizona State University was ranked one of the nation’s “Top 25 Leading Institutions Hosting International Students” in a 2007 Open Doors report published by the Institute of International Education, the leading not-for-profit educational and cultural exchange organization in the U.S.

ASU professor Paul Davies – an acclaimed theoretical physicist, cosmologist and popular author – was recently honored during an investiture ceremony at the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C., for his induction as a Member of the Order of Australia.

Photo from left to right: David Rock, Stephen Feinson, Mariko Silver, Er Meng Hwa, Anthony (Bud) Rock and Sonny Lim pose for a photo during a trip to solidify a partnership between ASU and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

ASU's Homecoming Block Party, held 3-7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, was a huge success. In the photo on the left, President Michael Crow visited the Global Engagement booth on the Old Main lawn and posed with Wai Mei Chan and Yixin Zhao, both exchange students from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

"Studying without thinking leads to confusion; thinking without studying leads to idleness."
— Confucius

The Confucius Institute at Arizona State University was successfully launched at an inaugural ceremony held Mon., Oct. 22 in the ASU Foundation's 6th Floor Boardroom at Fulton Center in Tempe.

Arizona State University recently entered into an agreement with Inner Mongolia University (IMU) located in Hohhot, the capital city of Inner Mongolia, China. The principal aim of this new joint initiative is to promote scholarly exchanges and research collaboration, particularly with respect to sustainability science and practice.